Tag: Freight transport
How the family business became a profit champion
Shipping company CMA CGM Rodolphe Saadé, Tanya Saade Zeenny and Jacques Saadé at the inauguration of a container ship in 2018. (Photo: Bloomberg) Marseilles The Tour CMA CGM glitters in…
How the family business became a profit champion
CMA CGM container ship The family-run shipping company CMA CGM is the most profitable company in France. (Photo: dpa) Marseilles The Tour CMA CGM glitters in the Marseille sunlight. The…
Auditors advise breaking up Deutsche Bahn AG
Volker Wissing The Federal Transport Minister at the presentation of new ICE trains. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin With drastic words, the President of the Federal Court of Auditors, Kay Scheller, calls…
P&R investors can keep their distributions
Container ship in Norway Investors in the insolvent container distributor P&R will be happy. The insolvency administrator may no longer contest payments made by the group before the bankruptcy. This…
Deutsche Bahn boss Lutz invites you to slack off
DB CEO Richard Lutz Economic operation only plays a “subordinate role” for the railway boss. (Photo: dpa) As head of group controlling, today’s head of rail, Richard Lutz, made a…
Boss Stefan Paul wants to secure profits from the pandemic in the long term
Zurich Stefan Paul started to make the state of emergency normal. When the manager became head of the Swiss logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel in August 2022, high rates in…
Rhenus becomes Germany’s largest private transport company
Duisburg Indiscriminately, at least that’s what it seemed at first, the Westphalian transport company Rhenus has made several purchases in recent weeks. The shopping spree with the Danish forwarding and…
The end of the container cartels – Why Maersk and MSC are breaking their alliance
MSC and Maersk The two shipping giants end their alliance. (Photo: Bloomberg, Montage) Singapore The steel box of the Swiss shipping company MSC floats almost silently over the deck of…
According to the report, the EU wants to reduce CO2 emissions from trucks and buses by 90 percent
Truck under toll bridge Previously, it had been planned that CO2 emissions from trucks and buses would fall by 30 percent by 2030. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to the EU…
European industry promotes e-fuels
truck traffic The EU is considering phasing out diesel trucks by 2040 or earlier and not recognizing synthetic fuels. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In a joint declaration to EU Commission President…
Antwerp is arming itself against cocaine smugglers
Antwerp The port of Antwerp lies on the Scheldt like a giant octopus. The numerous side arms allow incoming container ships to be processed at the same time. At 150…
Otto Group makes Erfurt the carpet capital
Erfurt 1200 natural white synthetic fiber flokati are stacked up at the incoming goods gate, they were delivered by truck from Turkey. The sender printed the name of the fashion…
More and more companies rely on remote control
Dusseldorf The Hamburg port operator HHLA is joining the start-up Fernride with its innovation unit and wants to operate trucks remotely in the future. With the technology of the Munich…
German ports are to become Europe’s leading energy and raw materials hubs
Port of Hamburg There were heated debates just last year when the state-owned Chinese shipping company Cosco wanted to acquire shares in a terminal in the port of Hamburg. (Photo:…
Norway relies on the electric revolution on the water
“Yara Birkeland” The world’s first fully electric container freighter should also be able to drive fully autonomously in the future. (Photo: Yara) Stockholm Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store could…
The fat years in air freight are over
Frankfurt Air freight traditionally also benefits from the boost in the Christmas business. Companies stock warehouses and shelves with goods and parts that often have to be brought in by…
Klaus-Michael Kühne: Strategist 2022
Klaus Michael Kuehne The entrepreneur is the majority owner of the logistics service provider Kühne + Nagel International AG as well as holdings in Hapag-Lloyd AG, Lufthansa AG and HSV…
Richard Lutz receives significant salary increase
Richard Lutz 90,000 euros more: Bahn boss Richard Lutz waves a significant salary increase. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Blockages, delayed or canceled trains: the anger at Deutsche Bahn has never been…
Everstox helps small online retailers with logistics from the cloud
Boris Bösch, Johannes Tress and Felix Haberland (from left) The founders want to make Everstox a unicorn in the long term. (Photo: Everstox) Berlin Delivery bottlenecks, high fuel prices, shortage…
Logistics software company Transporeon sold for billions
Freeway Transporeon connects logistics companies, suppliers, shippers and retailers. (Photo: dpa) Munich The Ulm logistics software company Transporeon is sold to the USA for 1.88 billion euros. The industrial technology…