Tag: Ports
Date announced for iPhones with USB-C ports
Technology companies have been specially designing the charging connections of the devices they have produced for a long time. Many companies are implementing this design both to sell their products…
Climate protectors are critical of Habeck’s LNG plans
DUH Managing Director Sascha Müller-Kraenner told the Handelsblatt: “In our opinion, Climate Protection Minister Habeck must deal even more intensively with the question of whether there are alternatives.” The question…
Amazon enters the forwarding business with discount prices
Dusseldorf Amazon disputes the business of German freight forwarders and surprisingly launches an aggressively priced freight service from overseas. Upon request, the German subsidiary of Amazon confirmed the relevant information…
Amazon bets against recovery in supply shortages
Containers of the shipping company Maersk Dusseldorf The new business model, with which Amazon attracts additional dealers to the group’s own marketplace, is like a bet: The US group is…
Amazon enters the forwarding business with discount prices
Amazon goods distribution center in Brandenburg The US online mail order company is now getting into the procurement of goods for its marketplace partners. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Amazon disputes the…
Container bottlenecks are getting worse – 564 ships are waiting in front of ports
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
China’s response to Omicron threatens international trade
Berlin, Beijing An opaque fence several meters high, barbed wire, security forces, a police car – when you see the Kunlun Hotel in the heart of Beijing, you might think…
China’s response to Omicron threatens international trade
Berlin, Beijing An opaque fence several meters high, barbed wire, security forces, a police car – when you see the Kunlun Hotel in the heart of Beijing, you might think…
Maritime coordinator: lobbying against German interests
Claudia Müller The Greens politician has a good reputation, but is now confronted with a massive conflict of interests. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Right at the beginning of her term of…
The world is out of step
The scarcity of goods makes economic action necessary. In a market economy, prices are the most important control instruments for ensuring that scarce goods are used in the best possible…
Container port that nobody wants to go to: Shipping companies ignore Oakland
San Francisco The slump comes as a surprise: While container shipping in the USA experienced a great boom in the run-up to Christmas and there was a shortage of goods…
Bitcoin is primarily an object of speculation
Bitcoin and US dollars Because Bitcoin fluctuates strongly and is therefore itself highly risky, it fails as a hedging instrument. (Photo: Reuters) That Bitcoin does not serve as a safe…
Emergency merger of the German North Sea ports threatens the port of Hamburg
Hamburg 114,000 jobs in the metropolitan region depend directly on the port industry. (Photo: ddp, Getty Images, Hapag-Lloyd (M)) Wilhelmshaven On this gloomy November day in the Jade-Weser-Port there is…
Emergency merger of the German North Sea ports threatens the port of Hamburg
Hamburg 114,000 jobs in the metropolitan region depend directly on the port industry. (Photo: ddp, Getty Images, Hapag-Lloyd (M)) Wilhelmshaven On this gloomy November day in the Jade-Weser-Port there is…
Bitcoin fails as a “safe haven” – these are the reasons
Bitcoin In order for Bitcoin to establish itself as a safe haven, it would have to cushion sales on the stock market. But he does not. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf In…
Rail bundles freight traffic to and from China in a new company
Freight wagons Traffic between Asia and Europe is currently being handled on ten routes. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The freight transport subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, DB Cargo, is bundling transport to…
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…