Tag: Freight transport
Goods ship blocks the Middle Rhine
The Middle Rhine near St. Goar A container ship near the bottleneck at St. Goar. (archive image) (Photo: Reuters) St Goar, Oberwesel Shipping on the Middle Rhine was suspended on…
Bahn fails as a savior against delivery bottlenecks
Low water on the Middle Rhine Because of the low water levels on the rivers, transport capacities are becoming scarce. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Germany’s freight rail logisticians currently see little…
Europe’s largest food logistics company is struggling for capacity
Hamburg In the corona crisis, frugality saved the Nagel-Group freight forwarding group from an impending business slump. In the middle of the pandemic, the family company even managed to improve…
Truck builder cannot deliver trucks because there are no drivers
Daimler trucks The manufacturer’s sales increased, but there are problems with free cash flow. (Photo: Bloomberg) Munich Logistical problems, of all things, are clouding Daimler Truck’s business. In concrete terms,…
Azerbaijan’s rise in the shadow of war
Logistics hub Baku on the Caspian Sea The war in Ukraine gave Azerbaijan’s capital a leading role in international trade. (Photo: Felix Zimmermann) Baku The new milestone on the Silk…
Azerbaijan’s rise in the shadow of war
Logistics hub Baku on the Caspian Sea The war in Ukraine gave Azerbaijan’s capital a leading role in international trade. (Photo: Felix Zimmermann) Baku The new milestone on the Silk…
Turkish start-up wants to stir up the logistics market
Yolda founder Murad Özsert (left) and Volkan Özkan want to simplify logistics for small loads. (Photo: press photo) Istanbul The shipping of small quantities of goods in particular can only…
DB boss Richard Lutz expects higher profits and more unpunctuality
Richard Lutz The head of Deutsche Bahn is preparing passengers and corporate customers for additional delays because major construction sites will hinder operations. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Bahn boss Richard Lutz…
On your own across the Atlantic
Loading the Arnelong in Hamburg The cargo ship took machines and production parts in the tens of millions on board for Trumpf. (Photo: Trumpf / Lucas Wahl) Stuttgart, Dusseldorf First…
On your own across the Atlantic
Stuttgart, Dusseldorf First it was China, then Europe, now the USA – the ocean container giants are damming up everywhere in front of the most important seaports. Corona, strikes and…
Bahn subsidiary Schenker brings the group into the profit zone
freight train Only a billion profit from the logistics subsidiary Schenker brings Deutsche Bahn into the black. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt A billion-dollar profit by the rail logistics subsidiary Schenker has…
CEO says goodbye with a jump in profits
Kuehne + Nagel logistics center in Germany The designated CEO Stefan Paul trimmed the truck freight division for profit. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Zurich Kuehne+Nagel benefits from global logistics chaos. The…
Low Rhine water level jeopardizes industrial business
Dusseldorf The heat wave has its first consequences for goods transport on the Rhine. Its water levels have fallen in the past few days. In Cologne, the river currently only…
Another warning strike in German ports on Thursday
warning strike German ports are to be struck again. (Photo: dpa) Hamburg In the German ports there is a strike for the third time within a few weeks. According to…
Deutsche Bahn stops criticized sale of station buildings
Train station in Frankfurt Deutsche Bahn has sold many train stations in recent years. (Photo: imago images/Jan Huebner) Frankfurt Deutsche Bahn is stopping the sale of its own station building,…
Deutsche Bahn stops criticized sale of station buildings
Train station in Frankfurt Deutsche Bahn has sold many train stations in recent years. (Photo: imago images/Jan Huebner) Frankfurt Deutsche Bahn is stopping the sale of its own station building,…
How new models lead out of crisis mode
The picture went around the world: Hundreds of ships were backed up in front of the Suez Canal after the Ever Given accident. The incident was a lesson: It only…
Hapag-Lloyd equips three million containers with sensors
Container loading in the seaport of Rotterdam Hapag-Lloyd wants to equip all of its own containers with sensors. (Photo: IMAGO/Jochen Tack) Dusseldorf Hamburg-based Hapag-Lloyd will be the first shipping company…
Federal government pushes Getreidebrücke forward with guarantees and subsidies
Berlin The German agricultural traders are calling for concerted action by politicians and business to organize grain exports from the Ukraine at the beginning of the harvest season and to…
Hundreds of container ships are dammed up in the North Sea
Dusseldorf The traffic jams in container shipping, which have been causing massive delivery bottlenecks in world trade since autumn 2021, are increasingly shifting from the port cities of the USA…