Tag: logistics
Freight traffic: permanent congestion on the rails
Berlin, Frankfurt Jes-Christian Hansen, Managing Director of Habema Futtermittel GmbH in Hamburg, has never seen anything like it. The company has been regularly transporting animal feed by train since 2012…
Supply chain problems in world trade are coming to a head
Container port in the UK In the country, a total of 77 percent of companies would have to adapt their supply chains. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to a DIHK survey,…
Hapag-Lloyd does not see the end of the bottlenecks before February 2022
Dusseldorf Hapag-Lloyd boss Rolf Habben Jansen has bad news for Germany’s importers. “There will be no relaxation in sea transport until the Chinese New Year celebrations at the beginning of…
US corporations take logistics into their own hands
New York, San Francisco The ride over the new, glistening white Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland is an unusual sight these days. Between six and 15 ships, large…
The ports of Hamburg, Bremen & Wilhelmshaven before merger
Hamburg Elbe Harbor The Hanseatic city gives up its resistance to cooperation with Bremen and Wilhelmshaven. (Photo: picture alliance / Hauke-Christian Dittrich) Dusseldorf The merger of the port operators in…
Can robotic warehouses make delivery services profitable?
Geesthacht Red robot trolleys roll over a grid of aluminum rails as if controlled by magic. They almost whiz past each other, one of them seems to have decided to…
Climate policy: Energy prices: AdBlue manufacturers and transporters are sounding the alarm
The exhaust gas cleaning agent AdBlue is running out. Manufacturers, transporters and farmers are warning of a supply collapse and alerting politicians. The Ministry of Economic Affairs waves it away.…
Amazon disappoints with the outlook for the Christmas business
Amazon The eCommerce giant has released its third quarter figures. (Photo: Reuters) Seattle Amazon has disappointed investors: delivery bottlenecks, a lack of workers and massive investments will ruin Amazon’s results…
Amazon disappoints with the outlook for the Christmas business
Amazon The eCommerce giant has released its third quarter figures. (Photo: Reuters) Seattle Delivery bottlenecks and a lack of workers hit the Amazon office. In the current fourth quarter, revenues…
Continental lowers sales and margin outlook due to lack of chips
Continental in Hanover A lack of chips and problems in the supply chain put the Dax group under pressure. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The automotive supplier Continental has to lower its…
Supply bottlenecks: Logisticians are planning an early warning system
Dusseldorf The devastating shortage of semiconductors in the automotive industry is giving rise to plans in logistics to set up an early warning system that works worldwide. “We are working…
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…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Good morning dear readers,A promise is a promise and has not been broken. Since Friday it has been on the table, the paper from the explorers of the SPD, Greens…
Corona strikes due to 3G obligation: Italy threatens logistics collapse
Rome “Let me work,” yells a man in a yellow vest in front of the gate to the port area of Trieste. He stands in front of a car that…
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…
Delivery problems are now also affecting Aldi
Aldi north The discounter has difficulties getting goods from China to Germany on time. (Photo: imago images / CHROMORANGE) Dusseldorf It is not just any promotional product: For the first…
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…