Tag: Freight transport
The federal government purchases thousands of tons of road salt – by truck
Berlin The winter can come: the motorway maintenance depots from Flensburg to Rosenheim are storing a good 400,000 tons of road salt these days in order to be prepared for…
The federal government purchases thousands of tons of road salt – by truck
Berlin The winter can come: the motorway maintenance depots from Flensburg to Rosenheim are storing a good 400,000 tons of road salt these days in order to be prepared for…
Now only digitization can help
Truck platooning in Indiana, USA Dusseldorf So far, it has resembled a playground for nerdy tinkerers. In April 2016, pairs of trucks from the manufacturers MAN, Scania, DAF, Iveco, Volvo…
Truck drivers run out of Germany – “Supply collapse threatens”
Convoys of trucks on the A40 motorway According to the industry association, there is already a shortage of 60,000 professional drivers in Germany. (Photo: imago images / Jochen Tack) Dusseldorf…
What is Wolfram Simon-Schröter’s plans for Rostock Airport?
Zeitfracht board member Wolfram Simon-Schröter with his wife Jasmin Schröter The family company wants to take over Rostock-Laage Airport and expand it into a logistics hub. (Photo: Marcus Reichmann) Frankfurt…
Challenging times for logisticians
The “attunement” for Christmas came unusually early this year. As early as August, the head of the port of Los Angeles said that consumers should bring their Christmas shopping significantly…
ITS Mobility Congress in Hamburg: What makes trucks superfluous?
Hamburg The large project of the Hamburg port operator HHLA has shrunk to the size of a model railway: the container station for the Hyperloop tube railway only exists as…
Port of Los Angeles is in continuous operation
Los Angeles Harbor In front of the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, ships with around 500,000 containers are waiting for permission to enter. (Photo: Reuters) Los Angeles In…
The containers are stuck in the EU
Containers at the port of Hamburg After the temporary partial stop, the freighters are now arriving in bulk – and the containers are piling up on the coast. (Photo: dpa)…
Delivery bottlenecks also endanger German growth
British military fills gas station Before Christmas at the latest, there is a risk of supply shortages in Germany. (Photo: Reuters) With the television pictures from Great Britain, some Germans…
Logistics companies are gearing up for a permanent corona vaccine boom
Dry ice container Special containers for the transport of vaccines: Cooling should be guaranteed for at least five days. (Photo: Kuehne + Nagel) Dusseldorf No company logo, no fluttering flags…
Disrupted supply chains: Britain is desperately looking for truck drivers
Truck driver The shortage of drivers is due to the fact that around 25,000 truckers returned to the European continent after Brexit. (Photo: Reuters) London The British government has announced…
How the industry wants to make the railways fit
Berlin, Frankfurt The warning from Ben Möbius is unmistakable: “If we continue at this slow pace, we will miss the climate targets by a huge amount. Faster – that is…