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Specials

ITJ
International
Transport
Journal
01 · 04 | 17 January 2014
www.transportjournal.com
ENGLISH EDITION
(also available in an identical
German and French version)
Specials
Switzerland
31
Africa
36
Prospects for 2014
Fiata New Year’s address
by Francesco Parisi
11
Swiss intermodality
Terminal in Chavornay
on a sound footing
35
African opportunities
Interview with OBT Shipping’s
Christian Overgaard
41
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Contents
International Transport Journal 01-04 2014
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Editorial
6
People & Companies
9
Comment
11
Fiata New Year address
12
Legal & Insurance Matters
13
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19
Shipping & Ports
Mixed annual results from northern ports
Gulftainer eyeing the USA
Perishables shipping in a state of flux
Hapag-Lloyd seeking a new partner
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Aviation
IAG Cargo extending its pharma network
Cathay Pacific shopping spree continues
Qualitair & Sea in the limelight
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24
Forwarding & Logistics
Weiss-Röhlig restructures ownership
XPO continues to grow
25
25
26
Pharma / Life Sciences / Chemical Industry
Complex logistics chains in hospitals
Indian exports to Africa
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27
Rail / Inland Shipping / Road Haulage
Vision 2018 for inland shipping on the Rhine
Truck manufacturers brave wintry conditions
Russian Railways modernising Serbian network
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30
Perishables / Cool Chain
WTR tests a reefer transporter
Barcelona refrigerated warehouse wins prize
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47
Regional Focus
Central and Eastern Europe
Southern Europe
Nordic Countries and the Baltic / Eastern Europe
48
The Americas
49
Miscellaneous
50
A Time for Reflection / Advertisers’ Index
3
Specials in this issue
Switzerland
Africa
31
36
What does 2014 hold?
13
This year sees the start of the sixth year of
the downturn for the international shipping
industry. Analysts are in disagreement about
the prospects and expectations for the coming
months.
Airfreight collusion
20
Now its official – the Swiss competition
commission has ascertained the existence
of a horizontal price agreement between
twelve airlines, and has fined them various
amounts.
Portuguese post office listed 23
Portugal has privatised 70% of its national postal
service provider, as part of an EU and IMF rescue
package. The listing on the stock exchange early
in December resulted in a small rise in the price of
the stock.
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Editorial
Dear readers,
to our special anniversary issue 27-30 / 2014, which
The dawn of a new year is often the time for some fortunetelling. Analysts, market researchers, logistics industry experts (including those who put themselves on that pedestal)
write predictions that compete for space in the media. Some
writers assume that 2014 will bestow an eagerly-awaited
economic upturn on our industry, whilst others dampen expectations and predict – yet another – transition year for the
sector. The last five years have neatly illustrated the popular
will appear on 18 July. In the run-up we’ll be
surprising you with some special features.
In this issue, however, we’re proud to
already present you with a new treat – the
exclusive publication of Fiata’s New
Year address.
All the best in 2014 from the
team at the ITJ!
dictum that first of all, things usually turn out differently, and
secondly than you had expected. You can be certain that
nothing is certain, to quote Bavarian comedian Karl Valentin.
What better advice in these circumstances than to stick to
the tried and tested? We at the ITJ are pleased to be celebrating our 75th anniversary this year. You can look forward
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People & Companies
Europe
Tala president based in Dubai
The Aerospace Logistics Alliance (Tala), an aviation
logistics specialist serving airlines, MROs, helicopter
operators and aircraft manufacturers, was established a
year ago by the logistics service provider Qualitair & Sea
(France), the ILS Cargo Group (Brazil, Mexico, USA)
and shipping, logistics and marine service provider GAC
(UK, Dubai). Patrick Rapinat has now been appointed
Tala’s fulltime managing director, to further expand and
develop Tala’s sales, its partner recruitment as well as its
administration. Rapinat’s professional record includes
spells at Air France Industries and the SDV Group. For
the latter he worked as regional branch director in the
USA and as corporate aerospace director in the UAE.
Rapinat is stationed in Tala’s Dubai office and in Febru
ary will participate in the next Dubai MRO show with
Tala delegates. Tala’s network now covers 100 locations.
Northern Europe director
Andrea Metzger was appointed manag
ing director of Geodis Logistics North
ern Europe at the end of December 2013.
The entity groups the logistics activities
of Geodis in Belgium, Germany, Ireland
and the Netherlands. Metzger previously
worked for Price Waterhouse and Dycker
hoff before joining Geodis in 1999. She
most recently worked as financial director
and then as managing director of Geodis
Logistics in Germany. Geodis Logistics Andrea Metzger
has 20 warehouses and 1,300 employees
Photo: Geodis
in Northern Europe.
NOL takes Simon on board
Two Eurotunnel appointments
Groupe Eurotunnel has selected Emmanuel Moulin
as its deputy CEO and Nicolas Brossier as its direc
tor of rolling stock. Moulin, who was previously chief
financial and corporate activities officer, reports di
rectly to Jacques Gounon, chairman and CEO. Michel
Boudoussier, chief operating officer in charge of the
concession, and Pascal Sainson, chief operating officer
in charge of railfreight, will continue to direct activi
ties in their fields, under Moulin’s control. Before join
ing Groupe Eurotunnel in August 2012, Moulin was
economic advisor to the French president (from 2009
onwards). Brossier, the new director of rolling stock,
will report to concession COO Boudoussier.
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People & Companies
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A team for Captrain
Concentration and change
Birgit Mazur is joining the management
of the firm SNCF Fret Germany (Captrain
Solutions), based in Frankfurt (Germany),
on 1 February. As one of two managing directors she will head the company, together
with Philippe Golder, who has worked for
Captrain Solutions since 2006 and who
became managing director in 2011. In addition, Mazur will take on the sales management position of Captrain Germany on
1 March. Since March 2010 Mazur has Birgit Mazur
held a variety of positions in Captrain
Photo: Captrain Germany
Germany. Her previous post was managing director of the firms TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH,
Captrain Denmark and Captrain Sweden. Her successor
will be Jan Simons. The Captrain group in Germany
transported more than 43 million t of goods and generated a turnover in excess of EUR 240 million in 2012.
DB Schenker Logistics merged its two business regions
Europe North and Europe East at the start of 2014. The
leadership of the new Europe North & East region will
be shouldered by Göran Åberg, the previous Europe East
director. Karsten Keller, the current chief financial officer of the Europe North region, is the CFO of the newlymerged region. Ingvar Nilsson, previously the regional
director of Europe North, retired at the end of 2013.
In this new region Mats Grundius has taken on the
management of the national subsidiary in Sweden, and
Mats Olsson, who is in charge of contract logistics and
supply-chain management in Sweden and in Northern
Europe, has taken charge of overland traffic from him.
Following the consolidation of its Finnish subsidiaries
Jouni Sopula, the present head of the Finnish entity
Schenker Cargo, is expected to take charge of the corporation’s national subsidiary in Finland on 1 May.
From LH Cargo to Champ
Greencarrier’s project activities
Greencarrier Shipping & Logistics has appointed a new
head of its energy and projects unit and has opened an
office in Stavanger (Norway). The firm’s choice of director for global energy and project solutions is Georg
Skivik Moltu, who was previously Panalpina’s head of
oil, gas and project activities in Northern Europe. Moltu
is based in the new Stavanger office. It will be led by
Ronny Johannessen, who has decades of forwarding and
transport experience. The Stavanger office opened on
1 January and is located at Røynebergsletta 33, in the
heart of the Forus / Stavanger business district.
Markus Flacke
Photo: Champ Cargosystems
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Champ Cargosystems, a provider of airfreight IT solutions. On 1 January he took
over from Felix Keck, who was bid farewell by CEO John Johnston. Flacke joined
Champ from Lufthansa Cargo, where he
held a variety of posts, including global
key account manager. He was previously
a senior corporate development consultant
at Traxon Europe and has also completed
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People & Companies
Asia
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a functional one. The functional
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end a new APL leadership team was
formed on 10 February, consisting
of Kenneth Glenn, APL president
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Roberto Moreno took charge of DB Schenker Logistics’
Brazilian subsidiary in December as CEO of Brasil Transportes Internacionais (BTI). Moreno was a member of the
company’s senior management team from 2006 to 2011. Before taking on the role of CEO Moreno worked for Damco,
where he was in charge of activities on the Latin American
east coast and agents in Uruguay and Paraguay. Eric Brenner, Moreno’s predecessor at BTI, is now concentrating on
his task as DB Schenker Logistics’s CEO for Latin America.
Drummond elected
Doug Drummond is the new president of the Long Beach board of
harbor commissioners. The board
in turn voted for Rich Dines as its
vice-president and for Lori Ann
Farrell, another new commissioner (see ITJ 49-52 / 2013, page 9), as
its secretary. The election of new
officers took place following the
departures of former president
Thomas Fields and former vicepresident Nick Sramek in Novem- Doug Drummond
ber last year.
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People & Companies
Comment
Obituary
Not far off the mark
Sad news from the ITJ
We deeply regret to announce the death
of Guido Trevisan, a long-serving director and shareholder of the ITJ. Trevisan
was born in Basel on 23 September
1924 and died in Riehen (Switzerland) Guido Trevisan
on 27 December 2013. After working
Photo: Tobias Trevisan
in Geneva he transferred to Rittmann,
the former publisher of the ITJ, in the 1970s. In the
40 years he spent with the firm Guido Trevisan made
a lasting impression on its customers and was highly
appreciated by its employees.
Mourning a founding father
Hans Heinrich, the founder of SAL Heavy Lift, died
unexpectedly on 25 December at the age of only 67.
Together with his brother Claus, Hans Heinrich founded
the heavylift shipping company Schiffahrtskontor Altes
Land (SAL), headquartered in Steinkirchen (Germany),
in 1980. In 2007 Hans Heinrich’s company formed a
joint venture with Japan’s K Line Group, which then
purchased the two brother’s shares in 2011. A year later,
SAL Heavy Lift moved from Steinkirchen to Hamburg.
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I dared to make some – admittedly tongue-in-cheek –
observations concerning future developments in this
column last year (see ITJ 01-04 / 2013, page 13). Looking
back now I have noticed that some of my
predictions weren’t so far out at all. But
first things first:
The re-elected US president did in fact
dispense with the services of his transport
minister of the time. Ray LaHood has
found another strongman with whom
to collaborate in future (see ITJ Daily of
14 January 2014). The same happened in Andreas Haug,
Germany – the head of government was ITJ editor
confirmed in office, and a new transport
minister put in place. But we’re still
awaiting the opening of the German capital’s new airport.
At the beginning of 2014 the mayor of Berlin at least
made it clear that there’s nothing to look forward to on
that front this year.
The opening of Doha airport (Qatar) was also severally postponed, most recently on 1 April – an unfortunate
date in this context. Eight months later the handling of the
first freight consignment was celebrated, and it even looks
as if Abu Dhabi and Dubai’s new competitor (OK, so I
invented a third Emirati hub) will soon commence regular
operations.
How – and if – the project for a new airport in the
western French city of Nantes proceeds remains written
in the stars. Particularly violent confrontations between
opponents and the forces of law and order were few and
far between on the day of the storming of the Bastille, but
in a land where the political climate remains tense across
the country, and where destroying stationary police speed
checks has become a general protest against «Paris», work
is due to commence in spring.
PS – What could the new year hold in store? Only the
best, I hope, which is what I wish you.
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People & Companies
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Fiata president Francesco Parisi launches 2014 with an address to all freight forwarders
Have a good start to the year!
Fiata is the world’s leading NGO in the field of freight forwarding and logistics. It is also one of the largest, representing approximately
40,000 companies, which employ some 10 million people in over 160 countries. Considering Fiata’s long-standing relationship with the
Being a federation of associations, specific to their countries and territories, as well
as individual firms, makes our membership base as widespread as possible. This
makes the governance of Fiata democratic and relevant. Fiata is not trying to magnify its numbers, but the communication
of the scope of our constituency is what
defines our role in public advocacy and is
key to our successful initiatives.
Fiata’s constituents’ representation at
all levels of the industry is crucial: smaller
companies, regional players and big multinationals all unite in Fiata. Similarly the
Fiata Presidency and Extended Board are
comprised of practitioners of all nationalities and roles. Marvellously this works
by the mere adherence to Fiata’s statutes.
Such is the power of good business.
By its very nature our industry has always been a proponent of free markets
and competition as main instruments of
good business. Freight forwarders have
been seen as champions of facilitation in
globalised markets.
«The industry should combine
growth with sustainability.»
Logistics grew faster and stronger than
their respective domestic economies
(GDP) in many countries for decades.
However, we are aware that this trend
cannot hold, and in the last two years
some significant rebalancing took place.
To counteract this decline, the industry
should combine growth with sustainability. Containing the environmental impact
of the transport industry is the challenge
for modern logistics and an opportunity
to start growing again. In this light, our
2012 position paper on transport emissions also includes words of warning for
possible distortions. There is no trade of
goods without logistics and this is the
reason why Fiata has launched an all-out
campaign on logistics connectivity within the framework of the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals.
Photo: Francesco Parisi Group
ITJ, president Francesco Parisi and director general Marco Sorgetti have chosen this journal for Fiata’s New Year address.
Francesco Parisi, who has been Fiata’s
president since October 2013.
Another area where a clear message is required is security, the principles of which
are fully supported by our industry. However, we do not support an inconsistent
legislative approach, and we would certainly be happier to see greater coordination between aviation and customs.
We fully embrace the idea of achieving
greater simplification by embracing a
programme of bilateral and multilateral
mutual-recognition agreements.
Fiata has had the distinction of proposing to the global market simple and effective contractual solutions (Fiata documents) that have acted as true facilitators
of trade. Fiata is now working to promote
a gradual step-up of these solutions in the
form of e-freight. It is time for our constituents to wake up to reality and abandon
last doubts. A vast number of large and
small businesses will benefit from a platform for increased productivity through
faster transactions and reduced waste.
To our satisfaction, several prominent
international organizations seem to have
realized that the field of transport and logistics, as well as investment in transportation infrastructure, are the prerequisites
for the growth of the global economy. In
the framework of these facilitation-related
initiatives, Fiata and Iata have jointly been
in favour of the ratification of the 1999
Montreal Convention, without which the
implementation of e-commerce could be
hampered. Most notably, the results of
the recent meetings of the WTO go in
the direction desired by Fiata. Not only
does it make significant advances in trade
facilitation, the ‘Bali deal’ is a binding instrument and a game changer which did
not exist before.
Another challenge we are facing is
insufficient logistics training across the
globe. We recognise that the human element will always factor into our business,
and forwarding and logistics are still services made by people. Their skills matter.
Fiata pours more and more resources into
the area of training of freight forwarders.
Fiata aims to create a consistent, portable
level of training across the globe.
«Fiata aims to create a consistent, portable level of training across the globe.»
Progress has been made, but improvements are always possible to meet the appropriate level of human resources that
future challenges will impose. It must be
noted that creating a world-level vocation
training initiative is not easy. Thus, Fiata
covers about half of the world with its
programmes. All those who wish participate and meet the standards are welcome.
Is Fiata only there for the big thing? Not
at all. There is an enormous and largely
imperceptible amount of work done to
increase the dignity and compliance of
our sector and our firms, to show them
how to deal with better business rules,
and resolve their issues and disputes. Fiata
has provided standards in multimodal
documents, our model agreements and
our members’ trading conditions have
been tested and found robust enough to
conduct business. It is important to know
our instruments, and use them.
Let me conclude by wishing colleagues
and friends a good start for 2014. May
this year be prosperous, with decent business and reasonable success for all of you.
Francesco Parisi
President of Fiata
www.fiata.com
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Legal & Insurance Matters
European Court of Justice sees limited liability for transporters
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A no to unlimited liability
On 19 December 2013 in Luxembourg, the European Court of Justice decided that there
was a limited liability for transporters, in a case between a shipper and a transporter
concerning damages for stolen cameras.
The judgement of the European Court of
Justice (ECJ) was handed down in case
C-452/12, concerning a wrangle between
the Nipponkoa Insurance Co (Europe)
and Inter-Zuid Transport. In 2007 four
consignments of cameras were transported under CMR terms (Convention on the
Contract for the International Carriage
of Goods by Road) from a warehouse at
Schiphol airport (Netherlands) to Willich
(Germany). The company DTC Surhuisterveen handled the transport as a subcontractor for Nippon Nederland and
Nippon Express Euro Cargo. The goods
were partly discharged on arrival, with
the rest left in the trailer for discharge the
next day. It was then discovered, however,
that they had been stolen.
Theft is not only the transporter’s risk
The carriers had obtained a judgment
from a Dutch court, stating that carriers
down the contractual chain were only liable up to the CMR limit of EUR 50,000.
Clearly in favour of the transporter
There was then another judicial settlement, arrived at before a court in Krefeld (Germany), between shipper Canon
and Nippon Nederland as well as Nippon
Express Euro Cargo, in which the latter
agreed to pay damages amounting to
EUR 500,000. They then tried to recover
this amount in the German court from
the carriers further down the contractual
chain, Inter-Zuid Transport/DTC. The
German court then referred the dispute
to the ECJ.
On 19 December 2013 the ECJ ruled
that the negative declaratory judgement
arrived at by the Dutch court, which
had entered into effect in 2010, was valid
without any reservations. It criticised the
German court’s action and pointed to the
binding nature of the CMR.
DTC was represented by Jos van der
Meché, a partner at AKD, who concluded
that «you could say Germany is a country
of cargo interests, while the Netherlands
is primarily a country of carrier and logistics interests, to put it simply.» On the
basis of this European ruling DTC was
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Shipping & Ports
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Peering into the crystal ball
When will the tide turn?
2013 will certainly not enter the annals of the container shipping industry as a great business year. Liner shipping companies again had
2013 is history – but an end to the crisis
besetting the shipping industry is not in
sight yet. The sector is now battling lower
margins and overcapacities for the sixth
year in succession.
The freight rates that liner shipping
companies were able to charge frequent
ly remained below the level attained in
the previous year. This development
even surprised industry insiders. Michael
Behrendt, the president of the German
Shipowners’ Association (Verband Deu
tscher Reeder VDR) and the outgoing
chairman of the executive board of the
shipping line HapagLloyd, did not mince
his words at the VDR’s annual press con
ference in December: «Nobody consid
ered this possible, because the rates were
already at such a low level a year ago.»
2014 could be a record year...
It remains open as to whether the rela
tion between demand and supply will
stabilise this year. The analyst Alphaliner
believes that 2014 will turn out to be a
record year in terms of the new delivery
of containerships. 17 out of the world’s
20 largest container shipping lines are set
to receive new vessels with a total capac
ity of 1.28 million teu in the next twelve
months. Only NYK, K Line and ZIM
are having a breather this year. Over and
above this, the analyst has assessed that a
further 315,700 teu owned by nonoper
ating owners (NOO) are currently open
or without known charter assignment.
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to face lower freight rates and a tonnage overcapacity. The mood lightened somewhat towards the end of the year.
Alphaliner estimates that more than 1.6 million teu will enter the market this year.
The lion’s share thereof is likely to join
the top carriers. Alphaliner stated that
the 20 largest liner shipping companies
added about 972,000 teu in net capacity
increases in 2013, making for a gain of
7% over the last twelve months.
Wither the industry?
Anyone who can reliably answer this
question would probably be a made man.
Alphaliner, for example, expects that the
numerous deliveries of newbuildings will
continue in 2015 and 2016. The mood
in the market is nevertheless more opti
mistic in many quarters than it was just a
few months ago. The consultancy Moore
Stephens compiles an index that seeks to
measure the business confidence of ship
ping firms. After the end of November
this figure reached the highest level for
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n
500
Source: World Container Index / Drewry
3,000
three years. The optimism was based
mainly on a strong rise in freight rates to
wards the end of the month and renewed
interest in investment. The WCI under
scores this assessment (see box below).
RWI, a German economic research
institute, in turn recently predicted con
sistently weak growth in world trade for
the next few years. The reason why the
latter significantly lost momentum in
the past two years was down above all
to weak worldwide growth in the wake
of the massive financial and economic
downturn. The RWI assumes that cycli
cal factors will become less relevant as a
brake on economic growth in the coming
years, however. It simultaneously warned
its audience though protectionism has
once again increased as a result of the
economic and financial crisis and that
the liberalisation of world trade is cur
rently not proceeding as smoothly as was
previously the case.
So trying to read the future in a crystal
ball has once again yielded some rather
opaque results for 2014. More concrete
insights into the seafreight industry and
the developments to be expected in that
market in the near future will be on of
fer at the Swiss Shippers’ Council’s 16th
Seafreight Symposium, which is taking
place in Interlaken (Switzerland) from
22–24 January.
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Annual results from northern range ports
Declines in
two ports...
Photo: HHM / M. Lindner
...mean Hamburg is even more pleased about its growth.
Container throughput sank in Rotterdam and Antwerp in
2013. Is there any optimism for 2014?
The two ports of Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Antwerp
(Belgium) did not register any great success last year in
terms of container throughput. Volumes in Antwerp,
currently Europe’s third-largest container port when
measured in throughput, sank by 0.7% to 8.57 million teu. Despite this small setback the port is looking
to the future optimistically, as a recent announcement
by the P3 Network stated that the alliance will call more
frequently at the Belgian hub in future. Antwerp is thus
confident that it will once again increase its market
share. The provisional figures for 2013 predict that total
throughput in the maritime centre came to 184.1 million t last year, or 3.5% more than the figure for 2012.
Rotterdam also lost ground
The situation is similar in Rotterdam. Total throughput
in 2013 came to 442 million t, on a par with the previous year’s figure. Europe’s uncontested no 1 in the container segment lost 1.7% in this field, however, handling
11.66 million teu last year. Hans Smits, the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s CEO who left his charge at the top
of the organisation at the end of the year, told the media
that the continuing economic doldrums represented the
main reason for the lack of growth. This was exacerbated
by industrial unrest, which caused some vessels to choose
other ports of call. Over and above this the port of Hamburg siphoned off cargo from Rotterdam, and some large
ships from Asia increasingly sail directly to the Baltic Sea,
instead of calling at Rotterdam first for transhipment to
feeder services. The hub’s feeder volume thus also declined by 11.5%, whilst its deep-sea quantities slipped by
3.4%. Shortsea traffic grew by 13.2%.
Hamburg makes gains
The port of Hamburg did not present any official figures in time for the ITJ’s editorial deadline. Analysts assume that it will emerge as the winner amongst the three
largest European container ports, however. Hamburg’s
economics senator Frank Horch said in December that
the city’s port expects to have handled a total of 9.3 million teu in total in 2013. This would represent an increase
of 4.5% vis-à-vis the previous year’s result.
But not all is rosy in Hamburg. In its latest Dynaliners report the Dutch analyst Dynamar corrected its
throughput prediction for 2025 (made in 2010) from
25 to 15 million teu. There seems to be room for cau-
Hamburg was one of the northern European maritime winners in 2013.
tious optimism, however. A container throughput index, published by
RWI, a German economic research institute, and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL), improved by 0.4 points to 117.4
in November 2013. This means that the index, based on information
from 73 ports, has risen for five successive months. This is one of many
signals that seem to point to the end of stagnation for the international
exchange of goods. Analysts have sounded a note of caution, however,
as the positive trend does not look to be very strong.
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Emirati terminal operator eyeing the USA
All new on the western front
Gulftainer, a port operator from the UAE, is planning to strongly
Photo: Gulftainer
increase both the number of terminals it runs as well as its
throughput by 2020. Activities in the USA are amongst the key
measures to this end. Competitor DP World will not remain
unaffected by the initiative.
The Sharjah-based Emirati terminal operator Gulftainer recently became the
first corporation from the United Arab
Emirates since 2006 to be given the green
light to do business in the USA. In that
year the US Congress, in a move that
prompted fierce controversy, had cited security considerations to prevent terminal
operator DP World, which is also headquartered in the UAE, from taking over
the operation of six US maritime ports.
Now Gulftainer appears to have been
given the green light to collaborate with
a US terminal operator. The media has
reported that the company currently has
Khor Fakkan is one of the most important Emirati transhipment hubs.
two acquisitions in the pipeline for the
first quarter of 2014 – including one on
the east coast of the USA. A final decision on the matter is expected soon. Over
and above this Gulftainer expects to add
more than 20 new facilities to its worldwide portfolio by 2020.
Gulftainer runs hubs in Jeddah, Jubail
(both Saudi Arabia), Al Ruwais and Sharjah (both UAE), as well as in Khor Fakkan, the only container terminal on the
United Arab Emirates’ east coast. The
corporation also manages terminals in
Recife (Brazil), Tripolis (Lebanon), Umm
Qasr (Iraq) and Ust-Luga (Russia).
Gulftainer expects to handle approximately 6 million teu this year, with
projections anticipating a tripling of
the corporation’s throughput to about
18 million teu by 2020. Gulftainer says
that it wants to become one of the six
largest terminal operators worldwide in
the course of the next few years.
Competitor DP World, in turn, is also
aiming high. Throughput in its flagship
hub in Jebel Ali (UAE) has been pencilled
in at 19 million teu in 2014 (see also ITJ
21-22/2013, page 27).
Antje Veregge
www.gulftainer.com
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Shipping perishables
Standard sets the trend
Whilst the operators of conventional reefer units recorded a mixed assessment of last
year, container shipping lines continue to enjoy growing market shares in the special
Fruit into boxes
The seaborne transportation of fresh produce in conventional reefer ships and in refrigerated boxes amounted to
an estimated 95 million t in 2013, according to Dynamar.
This equals around 14,800 loaded conventional reefer
ships with average capacities of 500,000 cbft or, to put it
in yet other terms, 3.1 million full 40 ft high-cube reefer
containers. Impressive figures indeed, particularly in the
light of the fact that the transport of fresh produce accounts for just 2.5% of worldwide seaborne trade of dry
cargo of all kinds.
The assessment of last year’s results is not thoroughly positive for everyone, however. In 2013 fruit traders
banked less on conventional haulage in reefer ships, and
opted rather more for carriage in reefer boxes on containerships. In 2013 some specialist fruit transport operators
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The previous year started well for the operators of conventional reefer ships transporting fresh produce. All
in all they were happy to register very high capacityutilisation rates for their vessels, as well as high freight
rates. As the Dutch analyst Dynamar states in its latest
report «Dynamar (2013) Reefer Analysis: Market Structure, Conventional, Containers», some rates registered
65% higher than in 2012.
Three events contributed to increased demand for
specialist reefer tonnage, according to the analyst.
Firstly, there were sharply-decreased capacities, caused
by abundant scrapping (more than 230 ships in the last
five years). Secondly, there were not many newbuildings
delivered, with less than 20 vessels received in the same
period. And thirdly, container liner operators introduced
rate increases of up to USD 1,500 for 40 ft reefer boxes,
a development which also affected conventional vessel
operations.
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requirements segment. The specialist fleet is declining in this connection.
Chiquita is increasingly banking on shipping its bananas in reefer boxes.
made a whole or part switch to containers for the transportation of
goods. Dynamar said that these included Isabella Shipping (Uniban), for
example, which converted its conventional Colombia / Costa Rica–US
Gulf service to containers. Chiquita’s Great White Fleet terminated its
Ecuador / Guatemala–Hueneme CA (USA) container service in favour
of slots on a CCNI / CSAV / Hamburg Süd box service operated on
that route. Dynamar expects conventional reefer capacity to halve to
100 million cbft and 230 vessels by the year 2023.
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Hapag-Lloyd and CSAV start negotiations
In brief
A transatlantic merger?
Grimaldi expanding. Italy’s Grimaldi Group
has launched a new direct ro-pax service
between the ports of Ravenna (Italy),
Igoumenitsa and Patras (both Greece), as
part of the European Motorways of the Seas
project.
www.grimaldi.napoli.it
A consolidation of the liner shipping industry is not proceeding apace these days, despite
the ongoing poor market conditions. The shipping line Hapag-Lloyd makes no bones
about the fact that it is seeking a partner – who could be from Chile after all.
Photo: Hapag-Lloyd
Ecu-Line with new partner. The Belgian
LCL service provider Ecu-Line, a member of
the Indian Avvashya Group, has extended
its services by teaming up with FCL Marine
Agencies Rotterdam, a neutral NVO service
provider in the FCL segment. FCL Marine,
which specialises in full-container-load
services, operates in Europe, the USA and
Canada. Ecu-Line’s network covers 200
offices in 90 countries. www.eculine.net
Hapag-Lloyd is looking west in its search for a potential partner.
The Hamburg-based liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has launched another
attempt to join forces with a competitor.
By standing united with a partner the
company hopes to be in a better position to master the rough seas ruling the
industry. Five successive years of heavy
seas have proved enough for the Hanseatic corporation.
After talks with its local rival Hamburg Süd collapsed in spring 2013, the
shipping line with a long tradition started looking across the Atlantic to South
America for a new attempt. Early in December it emerged that it was talking to
Chile’s Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) about «a possible combination of our businesses, or other forms of
collaboration.»
The two corporations expect a tie-up
to provide them with a better position
to succeed in the market, enable them
to implement freight rate increases more
easily and gain market shares. The analyst
Alphaliner places Hapag-Lloyd – whose
fleet encompasses 151 vessels and has the
capacity to carry 725,306 teu – sixth in
its ranking of shipping lines worldwide.
CSAV, which deploys a total of 54 ships
with a capacity amounting to 273,008 teu,
is placed 20th. Together the two entities
would be placed fourth in the global
rankings, and thus be in a better position to compete with the P3 Network envisaged by Maersk Line, MSC and CMA
CGM. The two firms’ main trade lanes
augment each other well. Whilst CSAV is
active primarily in Latin America, HapagLloyd’s strengths lie mainly in the trade
between Asia and Europe.
Analysts believe that the likelihood
of a merger is small, however, as both
companies have influential shareholders.
The Luksic family owns 46% of CSAV
through its Quiñenco holding. The German state of Hamburg is the main stakeholder in Hapag-Lloyd (37%).
Earlier talks about a merger of HL
and Hamburg Süd also collapsed on account of very differing concepts between
the various shareholders concerning the
future course of the new entity. The German travel corporation TUI, which owns
22% of the Hanseatic line, has welcomed
the talks with CSAV in the meantime.
Thus close cooperation between the two
lines, at least, could be realistic. The option of listing HL on the stock exchange
is also not off the agenda. Antje Veregge
www.alphaliner.com
www.csav.com
www.hapag-lloyd.de
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Arkas in Africa. The Turkish carrier Arkas
Line / Emes and the Taiwanese line Yang
Ming have entered into a cooperation deal
to serve Turkish and Egyptian ports. Arkas
has also increased its capacities in the West
Africa trade by deploying its own tonnage
there. In collaboration with Spain’s Marguisa
Line Arkas now serves Lagos, Tema, Abidjan
and Bata/Malabo, operating through the
hub of Algeciras.
www.arkasline.com.tr
Haropa freezes fees. The Haropa ports of
Le Havre, Rouen and Paris (all France) have
frozen their harbour dues for containerships
and car transporters in 2014. Furthermore,
the Haropa association is maintaining its
special tariff rebate system for transhipments, which offers vessels of less than
3,500 teu a 60% discount and larger vessels
a 50% deduction. www.haropaports.com
EMS joins network. The German company
EMS Chartering, a charterer and provider of
comprehensive logistics solutions, joined the
Short Sea Shipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center (SPC), based in Bonn (Germany),
on 1 January 2014. The number of premium
members in the SPC has now risen to 50.
www.ems-fehn-group.de
www.shortseashipping.de
K Line orders ships. The Japanese carrier
K Line has ordered four car carriers from the
shipbuilders Shin Kurushima Dockyard and
the Japan Marine United Corporation. Thus
K Line now has eight identical vessels on
order, which are due for delivery between
2015 and 2017. The ships will offer greater
stability and better fuel efficiency. Besides
being designed for the transportation of
cars, the ships will also be able to handle
general ro-ro cargo.
www.kline.co.jp
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Aviation
In brief
Finnair loses freight volume. The cargo
division of Finnair has contracted Swissport
Cargo Services Germany as its new handling
partner at Düsseldorf airport. The hub is
served twice week from Helsinki and is
one of those European destinations where
Finnair Cargo grew particularly strongly in
2013. Its throughput there rose by 11.7%
in comparison with the same period last
year, to 23,346 t. The airline’s global freight
volume declined by 1% to 146,654 t in 2013,
whilst its performance improved by 2.6% to
3.1 billion rtk.
www.finnaircargo.com
Swiss competition authority finds old collusion by airlines
Some fined, some forgiven
Between 2000 and 2005 several airlines agreed on certain elements of prices for airfreight transport services. The Swiss competition commission has now fined some of
these airlines CHF 11 million (EUR 8.9 million) in connection with the agreement.
A record and a partner. In November 2013
Cargolux transported 74,000 t of freight
(+27% vis-à-vis November 2012), thus setting a corporate record for a month. Then
on 13 December the company’s board gave
the green light for the potential entry of the
Henan Civil Aviation and Investment Co. The
Luxembourgian employees are still sceptical,
and the Chinese authorities have not yet
given their assent.
www.cargolux.com
Desperately seeking pilots. On 10 January
the Filipino carrier Cebu Pacific Air took over
its LCC competitor Tigerair Philippines. It is
simultaneously seeking to expand its longhaul services, which are much more interesting for cargo activities. Having launched its
first such route to Dubai (UAE) last October
it now hopes to add to its network links to
the USA, Australia and Europe – where it is
still unwanted at the moment, however. In
order to be able to deploy its new aircraft (it
has two Airbus A330-300s in service and six
more on order), the airline is now employing
foreign pilots on a massive scale.
www.cebupacificair.com
Coyne in Canada. The London-based
scheduled and charter air cargo operator
Coyne Airways has recruited Montreal-based
Exp-Air as its new GSA in Canada. Exp-Air
took over from Airline Network Services
(ANS), which continues to represent Coyne
in the USA.
www.coyneair.com
www.expaircargo.com; www.ansgsa.com
Photo: Andreas Haug
Baltic fraternal strife. Estonian Air and Air
Lituanica, which the former had initially supported when it was launched a few months
ago, are already going their separate ways
again. They first cooperated in operating
flights between Vilnius and Amsterdam and
Berlin, but at the end of last year accused
each other of not making outstanding payments.
www.airlituanica.com
www.estonian-air.com
As a subsidiary of the Lufthansa corporation Swiss will emerge unscathed from the collusion scandal.
The competition commission’s investigation of price-fixing revealed that the airlines had agreed amongst each other on
freight rates, fuel and war risk surcharges,
customs clearance surcharges for the USA
and on the commissioning of surcharges.
All these elements are part of the airfreight transport price, thus making this
a horizontal price agreement case.
The commission thus fined Korean Air Lines (CHF 41,000), Atlas Air
Worldwide Holdings with Polar Air Cargo Worldwide (CHF 62,000), the AMR
Corporation with American Airlines
(CHF 2.25 million), United Continental Holdings (CHF 2.1 million), SAS
Scandinavian Airlines (CHF 96,000),
Japan Airlines (CHF 39,000), Singapore
Airlines (CHF 1.7 million), Cathay Pacific Airways (CHF 52,000), Cargolux
Airlines International (CHF 444,000),
British Airways (CHF 1 million) and Air
France-KLM (CHF 4.9 million).
The firm Deutsche Lufthansa, a part
of the cartel, triggered the legal proceedings by reporting itself. It thus benefited
from complete immunity. As a subsidiary of Lufthansa, Swiss International Air
Lines also received full immunity from
the sanction. Some carriers which had
submitted leniency applications after the
legal proceedings had been initiated were
granted substantial reductions in the fine.
They were British Airways (50% of the
fine remitted), Cathay Pacific Airways
(50% remitted), Japan Airlines (30%),
Air France-KLM (20%) and Cargolux
Airlines International (10% remitted).
The investigation was characterised
by a high degree of complexity of the
proceedings, which arose partially on account of the large number of air transport agreements with third-party states
involved. Of the existing air transport
agreements the one with the European
Union is particularly important. Switzerland signed this agreement in the
framework of its bilateral treaties with the
EU. For Switzerland the agreement represents a partial integration in the field of
air transport. In addition to applying the
Swiss cartels and other restraints of competition act (known as the cartel act), the
competition commission therefore had to
take European competition rules into account too, because they form an integral
part of the agreement.
Horizontal price agreements of this
type are serious infringements of article 5
paragraph 3 of the cartel act. Besides the
competition commission, the EU Commission and the US department of justice, amongst others, also investigated
and sanctioned the business behaviour
of various airlines.
www.weko.admin.ch
Aviation
IAG Cargo expanding
pharmaceuticals network
Photos: Andreas Haug, IAG Cargo
Cathay Pacific goes
Christmas shopping
Another B747 full-freighter for Cathay Pacific.
IAG Cargo now has 91 pharmaceuticals stations.
Cathay Pacific, which only just ordered
three Boeing B747-8Fs in March 2013,
again placed large orders with the US
aircraft manufacturer just before and just
after Christmas.
On 20 December Hong Kong’s flag
carrier ordered 21 Boeing B777-9Xs (at a
list price of USD 7 billion), the future’s
largest twin-engined civil aeroplane in
the world. The planes are due for delivery
between 2021 and 2024.
Cathay Pacific also ordered three units
of the largest triple seven available today,
the B777-300ER (USD 1 billion at list
prices) a week later, and another Jumbo
freighter. These units are due for delivery
in 2015 and 2016.
www.boeing.com
IAG Cargo has enlarged its so-called constant climate network, which specialises
in the temperature-controlled transportation of pharmaceutical products.
The addition of five Latin American destinations to the system (see ITJ
39-40 / 2013, page 31) was followed in
the course of the year by the additional
pharmaceuticals destinations of Basel,
Zurich (both Switzerland), Las Palmas
(Spain), Prague (Czechia) and Vienna
(Austria).
Overseas exports are shipped from
there via the IAG hubs in Madrid and
London. Over and above this the corporation also offers road feeder services to
Frankfurt (Germany).
www.cathaypacificcargo.com
www.iagcargo.com
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Qualitair&Sea sitting
in the first row
The French logistics service provider
Qualitair & Sea took the limelight twice
at the end of last year. On 29 November
it received a customs quality and performance award from the Paris chamber of
commerce and from Moci, a French international business newsmagazine. The
prize highlights Qualitair & Sea’s «ability
to build and maintain strong partnerships
with French customs authorities, and to
prioritise innovation,» as Jean-Michel
Thillier, a vice-president of the French
customs department and a member of
the jury, underlined.
Two weeks after accepting the award
Joël Glusman, Qualitair & Sea’s and the
Crystal group’s president, accompanied
French president François Hollande on a
trip to Brazil. He was the only member
of the delegation from trade and industry
encompassing 42 people who represented
a company from the international transport and logistics industry.
He took the opportunity to announce
that his firm would be buying 35% of its
local partner ILS Cargo in the next few
weeks. ILS has offices at all of the country’s most important air and sea ports.
www.crystalgroup.fr
www.qualitairsea.com
European airfreight hubs register yet more growth in November
The upswing in the volume of cargo handled at the European airports in October
(+4.6%) was confirmed by the November
figures. The airports association ACI Eu-
rope established a rise of 5.4% in comparison with the previous month. Almost all
of the leading service providers benefited
from the surge in business at the end of
Freight throughput at leading European airports in November 2013
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
(November 2012)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(7)
(6)
(8)
(9)
Airport
Frankfurt
Paris (CDG)
Amsterdam
London (LHR)
Leipzig-Halle
Luxembourg
Cologne-Bonn
Istanbul (IST)
Liège
Country
DE
FR
NL
GB
DE
LU
DE
TR
BE
Airfreight in t
186,600
169,500
140,896
133,376
75,954
64,616
64,138
57,853
51,004
±%
+4.4
+3.1
+10.3
+7.5
–1.2
+20.7
+2.4
+18.9
+8.1
Freight throughput at leading Swiss airports in November 2013
1
2
3
(1)
(2)
(3)
Source: ACI Europe, ADP, ADV
Zurich
Geneva
Basel
CH
CH
CH
25,369
4,383
3,696
+3.7
+16.9
+7.3
the year. Only Leipzig-Halle, which was
the front-runner for most of last year, was
the negative exception this time.
Cologne-Bonn, which was the only
top ten hub to slip down by one rank,
trading places with Luxembourg, its reinvigorated regional neighbour, did relatively better and is now making concrete
plans for the future.
Airport boss Michael Garvens said in
December that of his hub that «we want
to greatly expand our general cargo activities. Growing demand means we will
have to make substantial investments in
the expansion of our infrastructure.» He
believes this will amount to about EUR
15–20 million, with an investor yet to be
found. The latter is expected to have «the
requisite know-how and air cargo experience, as well as an international logistics
network.»
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www.aci-europe.org
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M + R Spedag Group
opens new Asian offices
The Swiss forwarding and logistics firm
M+R Spedag Group, which is based in
Muttenz near Basel, is expanding its activities in Asia. The service provider recently
opened two new offices there – one in
Subang, near the Malaysian capital Kuala
Lumpur, and the other one in the Chinese
city of Wuhan. The opening of M+R’s second Malaysian centre, located about 30 km
from Kuala Lumpur, comes a year after it
inaugurated its first branch there, in the
southern state of Johor. The new office is in
the thriving SS15 commercial area, in close
proximity to Kuala Lumpur’s international
airport and Subang Skypark. The move
underlines M+R’s aim of substantially expanding its airfreight activities in Malaysia.
The office in the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan, in the landlocked eastern
province of Hubei, approximately 700 km
west of Shanghai, will report directly to
M + R’s branch office in Shanghai, which
acts as company headquarters in central
and northern China.
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News from the Weiss-Röhlig consortium
Restructuring
the alliance
The logistics companies Röhlig and Gebrüder Weiss recently embarked on a
reorganisation process for the structure of the jointly-operated Weiss-Röhlig
companies in their partnership.
www.mrspedag.com
Yusen in Moscow. The service provider
Yusen Logistics is having a 24,000 sqm
warehouse built in Pokrov, approximately
20 km south of Moscow (Russia). It is its
second storage platform in the country,
the first being a 10,000 sqm warehouse in
St Petersburg. Thus Yusen now offers more
than 34,000 sqm of warehouse space in the
country.
www.yusen-logistics.com
F.S. Mackenzie. The UK forwarder and
NVOCC F.S. Mackenzie has opened its sixth
office in Russia, moving into new premises
in Vladivostok. F.S. Mackenzie’s other bases
in Russia are located in Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and
Novorossiysk.
www.fsmac.com
JF Hillebrand buys in bulk. The JF Hillebrand Group, a global beverage logistics
provider from Mainz (Germany), has acquired the Houston-based Satellite Logistics
Group (SLG). SLG, which was founded in
1984, specialises in services for beer distributors in North America, Latin America
and Europe, and offers the industry a broad
range of supply-chain solutions.
www.jfhillebrand.com
www.slg.com
Photo: Gebrüder Weiss
In brief
The Weiss-Röhlig joint venture’s offices worldwide offer seafreight services, amongst other things.
Röhlig, which is based in Bremen (Germany), has fully acquired the joint ventures
in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and
India. At the same time, the Lauterachbased Austrian firm Gebrüder Weiss has
increased its shares in the joint ventures
in China, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Canada and the UAE to 100%. Each of the
two companies still holds a 50% interest
in Weiss-Röhlig USA. The two corporations have stated that all of the affected
companies will continue to do business
in their respective markets in unchanged
form under the name Weiss-Röhlig.
«We’ve restructured our alliance, while
at the same time bolstering the strength
of the global cooperation between
Gebrüder Weiss and Röhlig. Each partner
now has full control of the companies entrusted to its leadership. The organisation
is now better aligned to make the most
of current market conditions, as well as
serving the needs of both companies,»
said Thomas W. Herwig, the managing
shareholder of Röhlig.
Heinz Senger-Weiss, a member of
the management board of the Gebrüder
Weiss Group, added that «our customers,
partners and employees won’t see any
changes at all to the services they are used
to. We’ll continue our successful partnership as before, and will continue to offer
the full portfolio of proven services that
Weiss-Röhlig has always offered.»
The alliance between the two European logistics services companies has been
in existence since 1999. Together, Röhlig
and Gebrüder Weiss are particularly active in the Asian and North American
markets.
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Portuguese postal service market in flux
Happily listed
Portugal’s national postal service provider Correios de Portugal (CTT), 70% of
which was privatised by the state recently, made a good start to its new life as
After it debuted on the stock exchange at
the end of last year CTT managed to take
a small plus past the close of trading on
5 December. CTT’s shares had reached
7% above the issue price of EUR 5.52 during trading in Lisbon that day, registering
at just over EUR 5.90 at one point. At the
end of trading the corporation registered
a plus of EUR 0.02 (2 cents). The issuing
price for shares in the postal service provider had been placed at the upper end of
the envisaged band.
According to information from the
493-year-old company the privatisation
of the state-owned post office, which was
founded by King Manuel I in 1520, fed
EUR 579 million into the ailing state’s
In brief
FedEx tables favourable results. In the
second quarter of financial 2013/2014, which
ends on 30 November 2014, the US CEP service
provider and integrator FedEx improved its
turnover to USD 11.4 billion. This result is 3%
higher than the USD 11.1 billion recorded in the
same period last year. FedEx’s operating result,
in turn, rose by 15%, from USD 718 million to
USD 827 million, whilst its net profits increased
by 14%, namely from USD 438 to 500 million.
www.fedex.com
I n t e r n a t i o n a l Tr a n s p o r t
coffers. The corporation said that 56% of
CTT’s capital was snapped up by institutional investors, whilst small investors
now own 12.62% of CTT and its employees 1.38% of the shares. Portugal retained
30% of CTT’s shares. CTT reported a
turnover of EUR 520 million in the first
nine months of 2013, and made a profit
of EUR 45.2 million in the same period.
CTT employees and the trade unions
concerned held rallies and strikes, protesting against the government’s privatisation plans and contesting the restructuring process. This has resulted in the
closure of more than 100 local post offices so far. The number of CTT employees
declined by 939 to 13,156 between mid-
Photo: Wikipedia
a stock-exchange-listed entity early in December 2013.
A CTT delivery vehicle in action.
2012 and mid-2013. The privatisation of
the formerly state-owned Portuguese post
office is part of a rescue package agreed
with the country’s partners in the EU and
the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Portugal wants to quit the so-called euro
rescue fund in mid-2014 and once again
become financially independent.
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for its offices there. AEO is a supply-chain
security programme developed by the EU. In
Thailand, the AEO certification is issued by the
country’s customs authority, which follows the
strict controls established by the World Customs Organization.
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Azkar in Córdoba. Azkar, a Spanish transport
and logistics service provider that belongs to
Germany’s Dachser Group, established a new
logistics terminal in the Andalusian city of Córdoba at the beginning of 2014. The 2,000 sqm
facility is located on an 8,300 sqm plot of land.
It has 20 loading/unloading bays.
www.azkar.com
Luís Simões in Madrid. The Portuguese transport and logistics enterprise Luís Simões, which
is headquartered Loures, in greater Lisbon, has
commenced operations in a new transport service centre in Getafe (south of Madrid, Spain).
www.luis-simoes.pt
BDP in Thailand. The US transport and logistics company BDP International was recently
awarded authorised economic operator certification (AEO) by the Thai customs authorities
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Major acquisition in the USA
XPO taking over Pacer
The ambitious US 3PL service provider XPO Logistics, which is headquartered in Greenwich CT, has made another successful foray into the market. XPO has purchased Pacer
XPO Logistics already swallowed up
a whole series of logistics enterprises
last year, including the companies 3PD
Holding (see ITJ 31-34 / 2013, page 32),
Optima Service Solutions and NLM. The
US service provider’s shopping spree is
continuing apace in 2014.
Under the aegis of chairman and chief
executive officer Bradley Jacobs XPO has
been expanding strongly recently. Now
the 3PL service provider has taken over
the transport and logistics enterprise
Pacer International, one if its key US
competitors, for a total of USD 335 million. The transaction is expected to be
completed in the second quarter of this
year. It has been estimated that it will re-
Photo: Pacer International
International, one of its notable competitors in North America.
sult in XPO looking after around 12,000
customers and generating total sales of
approximately USD 2 billion.
Ambitious plans
Pacer International, which is headquartered in Dublin OH (USA) and which
was founded in 1997, is one of the largest
intermodal transport service providers
in North America. The corporation has
been led until now by CEO Daniel Abramovich, a transport industry expert with
36 years of professional experience under
his belt. Pacer generates annual sales of
approximately USD 1 billion, manages
30 of its own centres and has around 950
employees. Abramovich will head XPO
A Pacer International double-decker container
freight train en route in the USA.
Logistics’ new intermodal division as its
CEO. Media reports from the USA have
it that XPO CEO Jacobs expects to make
three or four acquisitions annually in the
coming years, which should drive the corporation’s overall sales up to USD 5 billion by 2017.
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Hospital and pharmaceutical logistics at the Basel university hospital in Switzerland
Scalpels in the right place at the right time
Just how complex a supply chain for a hospital can be, and the fact that it has to flow as smoothly as possible, were the issues that
a well-attended event organised by the regional Basel logistics cluster attempted to illuminate. It takes an enormous logistics effort
At the recent event, participants and guests
with an interest in the topic of hospital
and pharmaceutical logistics at the University Hospital of Basel (USB, to give it
its German abbreviation) were inundated
with impressive figures, information and
thought-provoking impressions.
Under the title «How do drugs reach
patients?» visitors were offered the opportunity to take a guided tour through a
veritable labyrinth of underground passages in the belly of the hospital, where
you neither see doctors performing operations nor patients recovering from
accidents or illnesses. This is the place
where the logistics department, with its
transport routes and storage depots, ensures that the supply of goods and food
keeps coming.
100 t of goods a day
In the subterranean cellars of the University Hospital of Basel, three different conveyance systems transport large amounts
of goods every day. They are handled at
the central warehouse and forwarded to a
diverse range of destinations in the USB.
For internal transport in the building itself, several conveyance systems are
available. Driverless automated vehicles,
loaded with containers which are fitted
with sensors linking them via wireless signals to reflectors along the walls, move
through the wide network of corridors,
carrying 100 t a day along marked thoroughfares in containers as well as rollcontainers.
Laundry and meal containers are
transferred at their own separate loading stations. Every day, goods are first
divided up into 2,000 individual shipments weighing up to 20 kg each, and
then loaded into containers for distribution through a 5 km conveyor belt system. Finally, documents and other lightweight goods are delivered by means of a
pneumatic tube system.
Sieglinde Breinbauer, the head of logistics at USB, told her audience that hospital
logistics is a special field, because when
Photo: Robert Altermatt
to get hospital supplies – ranging from surgical instruments to a meal – to the right recipient.
A part of the central storage facility in Basel’s university hospital. Stations in the centre as well as in
other hospitals in the Basel area are supplied with all types of goods from here.
an emergency such as a pandemic occurs, services are «difficult to plan». Bottlenecks and quality problems could then
be life-threatening for patients, she said.
She went on to explain «patient satisfaction is the essential element of our logistics activities. Specifically, this means
that we need the right product with the
right quality in the right place at the right
time. Patients don’t want to wait until the
knee prosthesis gets there; they want to
have it available when they actually need
it. We also have to meet the expectations
of our patients, who are paying, after all,
and one of their key concerns is for economic efficiency. We don’t just need good
products; what we need above all is the
right product at the right price. The role
of logistics is to ensure that this process
runs smoothly.»
Switzerland, the USB is specially important. With around 186,500 outpatients
and 32,500 inpatients in 2012, as well as
5,200 employees, the hospital is also a
logistics centre.
A hospital is also a logistics centre
It takes a sophisticated logistics system
to ensure that the right scalpel actually
arrives in the right operating room at
the right time, and that bandages, heart
valves, prosthetic knees, toothbrushes,
cleaning supplies, patient records, meals
and loads of laundry (8 t every day) reach
their destination efficiently and swiftly.
As a central hospital in northwestern
rest was spent on food, textiles, household items and computer equipment.
Pharmaceutical products are explicitly
excluded from the logistics department’s
charge. The hospital’s pharmacy handles
these. Every year the USB uses around
14,000 pharmaceutical products, and
2,200 of the items are kept in stock.
Robert Altermatt
Planning not always easy
The purchasing volume of the USB’s materials logistics department was slightly
more than CHF 127 million in 2012.
Of that total, the hospital spent about
CHF 40 million on medical consumables
and CHF 29 million on implants. The
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Indian strategies for the African pharmaceuticals market
Photos: Pharmexcil, Thinkstock
From India to Africa
Indian companies’ activities in Africa are frequently underestimated, especially in the
light of a focus on Chinese business there. India is now subsidising its supply chain, in
order to boost the export of nationally-produced pharmaceutical products to Nigeria.
Indian pharma firms are seeking new markets.
Africa is a very important pharmaceuticals market for India, the country with
the third-largest pharmaceuticals manufacturing industry in the world. According to the management consultancy
McKinsey, the pharmaceuticals industry
accounts for more than 11% of Indian
exports to Africa. South
Africa and
Algeria are
the
most
impor tant
markets, and
behind them
comes Nigeria.
In January 2014
the industry certainly welcomed the development, especially as Nigeria is considered a key pharmaceuticals hub for its
neighbours too.
The council said that SMEs will benefit from advanced security provisions in
the warehouse, power back-up, internal
logistics as well as additional services,
such as insurance and bank remittance
options. Doshi believes that access to
such a warehouse can reduce costs by
up to 50% for the companies involved.
Should the project prove successful,
then Pharmexcil plans to establish further centres in other African and Latin
American countries. Christian Doepgen
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the ministry of commerce and industry’s Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion
Council of India (Pharmexcil) said that
it was setting up a state-funded warehouse in Lagos (Nigeria). Pharmexcil
collected data from exporters before deciding where to locate the facility. Doshi
Chirag, the chairman of the Gujarat
state board of the Indian Drug Manufacturers Association (IDMA), said that
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Shipping on the Rhine
Swedish specialists
Modernising Serbia
The 5th congress of the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR)
took place in Strasbourg (France) early
in December 2013. It was hosted by the
French presidency.
In Strasbourg the CCNR presented its
Vision 2018, a programme which defines
the organisation’s strategic guidelines for
the next five years. Taking these ambitious but feasible guidelines into account
should contribute to the sustainable development of inland navigation in ecological, social and economic terms, the
CCNR believes. The purpose of this initiative supporting navigation on the Rhine
and elsewhere in Europe is to help the
implementation of the European Commission’s Naiades II action programme.
The individual issues addressed include safety, reliability, security, training,
qualifications, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, noxious emissions
into the air and waters, changing environmental conditions, logistics chains
and the social framework.
Even the most skilled drivers of trucks
with conventional drawbar trailers face a
particularly tough challenge on slippery
winter roads and downhill gradients.
There is always the risk of the combination becoming unstable and, in the worst
case, starting to jack-knife. In order to
minimise the risk of this type of situation
and improve safety, Volvo Trucks has
developed a system known as a stretch
brake, which automatically brakes the
trailer and straightens up the combination on slippery roads.
Scania, the second major truck manufacturer from the North European country, recently invited Annie Lööf, Sweden’s
minister for enterprise, energy and communications, to inaugurate what it called
Europe’s most advanced climate-test facility, with a wind-tunnel for full-size trucks
and buses, in its main technical centre in
Sweden. The EUR 44 million facility can
simulate temperatures between –35 and
+50°C, as well as humidity of 5–95%.ah
The Russian Railways RZD is offering
its services to help Serbia reconstruct
the country’s rail network. A contract
worth USD 941 million (USD 800 million of which is a state export credit provided by Russia) to finance the project
was signed by Russia and Serbia on 11
January 2013. Works include the construction and electrification of a second
track on the Belgrade–Pancevo line, and
the reconstruction of six sections covering 112 km of pan-European corridor X,
which connects Austria and Greece. The
Serbian section of the Belgrade–Bar line
(200 km) will also be reconstructed, as
will 44 km of track linking Stara Pazova
and Novi Sad.
In January Russian Railways International (a subsidiary of Russian Railways)
will begin mobilising workers and equipment in Serbia, to implement the infrastructure project from March onwards.
The supply of diesel trains manufactured
by Russia’s Metrovagonmash also forms
a part of the deal.
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Wilms Transport tests XF Euro 6
Reefer freight forwarder warms to DAF
WTR, a specialist for the transportation and distribution of
temperature-controlled foodstuffs, has been given an
Wilms Transport (WTR), a company that
originated from the reefer freight business Wilms Tiefkühl Service in 2010,
has used road-trains based on the German manufacturer DAF’s XF truck for
domestic long-distance transport before.
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Now the logistics specialist for refrigerated general cargo, serving customers
including airlines, caterers, supermarkets, wholesalers and large corporations, has been allowed to thoroughly
test the new top-of-the-line model DAF
XF Euro under real-life
conditions. The simultaneous transportation
of food requiring different temperatures,
such as refrigerated
or ultra-fresh goods,
as well as configurations between –25 and
+18°C, are considered
a particular challenge
for the industry.
DAF’s new truck, with a Schmitz Cargobull reefer trailer, convinced the
The truck, equipped testers at WTR, a cool chain service provider.
with a Schmitz Cargobull multi-temperature trailer, met the driver’s cab all impressed not only our
expectations of WTR, which is based fleet manager, but also our drivers and
in Wildau, just outside Berlin. «The fuel myself,» said WTR managing director
consumption data, the unit’s long service Torsten Dietrich. «Today we almost exlife, low repair and breakdown costs and clusively use only DAF vehicles.»
ah
not least the ergonomic design of the
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Photo: Wilms Transport
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Active reefer control by Asiana Cargo
Canadian lobsters land in Brussels
The South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines has obtained approval from the country’s transport ministry to deploy active
temperature-control containers. In May 2012 Asiana Cargo, the
freight division of the airline, started improving its services in
the perishables segment by launching a service called cool plus,
in collaboration with the reefer box lessor Envirotainer. Now the
cool plus service has received written approval to use Envirotainer’s active temperature-control containers, called RKN e1
and RAP e2. The authorisation applies to all Asiana wide-body
aircraft, including Asiana Cargo’s eleven full-freighters (ten
Boeing B747-400Fs and a B767-300F). The firm thus hopes to
further develop its share of Asian pharmaceuticals and cold
chain markets.
www.asianacargo.com
Fresh lobster on the dinner menu remains a top choice for many
Europeans at Christmas and over the new year, which is why
about 3,700 t of live lobsters left the Canadian coast of Nova
Scotia destined for Europe recently. About 2,000 t, or 55% of
these exports to Europe, pass from Halifax (Canada) through
Brussels airport. From there the Canadian lobsters are exported
mainly to the Benelux countries, France and Germany. After
one full Boeing B747-400, carrying 85 t of lobsters, landed at
the Belgian airport, the cargo was unloaded from the Cargolux
aircraft in less than four hours by Adelantex, a service provider
specialising in uninterrupted cold-chain options. This means
the lobsters spent less than 18 hours in transit.
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Sainsbury’s making its
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Sainsbury’s CEO Justin King recently
called fresh food a key strength of the
firm, highlighting its position as one of
the country’s leading retailers. In 2013
the second-largest UK retailer commanded a market share of almost 17%, placing it just behind Tesco and just ahead
of Asda. Despite its corresponding reefer
transportation needs, Sainsbury’s plans
to cut the carbon emissions created by
its distribution logistics by 35% by 2030.
Sainsbury’s recently equipped its refrigerated depots with coolants that are
HFC-free, and in 2014 more than 250
supermarkets will follow in the same
programme. The firm is also running a
cool-chain pilot project with a modified
version of Carrier Transicold’s Naturaline
HFC-free refrigeration system, initially
developed for maritime containers. Sainsbury’s recently also added 51 vehicles to
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Barcelona reefer container depot wins award
First amongst 154 competitors
The refrigerated free trade warehouse Depot Zona Franca in Barcelona has been lauded
for its good workshop practices in 2013 by its client Carrier Transicold.
Carrier Transicold, a provider of cooling
technology, cooperates with a grand total
of 154 warehouses worldwide. Every year
it gives the leader amongst these facilities
a prize as the best service provider in the
field. In 2013 the refrigerated free trade
warehouse Depot Zona Franca (DZF) in
Barcelona took the award. Jaume Vilardebó, the managing director of the depot,
was handed the good workshop practices
award 2013 by Shaun Bretherton, Carrier
Transicold’s regional service manager for
the Emea region.
Depot Zona Franca is a reefer-only
depot that started operations in June
2012. Its facilities include a 15,000 sqm
yard for its main depot activities, as well
as for container repairs. The firm is currently an official service partner of leading reefer container manufacturers such
Photo: Carrier Transicold
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Jaume Vilardebó and Shaun Bretherton.
as Daikin, Thermo King, Star Cool and
of course Carrier Transicold.
In January 2013 the firm Grupo Fruport, which is based in the port of Tarragona, purchased DZF, which offers a capacity of 2,200 teu, from Cimat.
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Swiss logistics award for
SkyCell’s reefer container
Zurich logistics colloquium
on «Lighthouse Projects»
Third site for Winkler
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Chavornay container terminal
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Figures point to economic recovery in Switzerland
The ice is melting
Various studies published by the OECD, as well as the most recent edition of the Swiss
logistics market study, seem to suggest that the national economy is recovering.
The Swiss logistics market seems to have
its nose in front again. After the OECD
revised its economic forecasts for Switzerland upwards to 1.9% in 2013 and 2.2%
for 2014, the experts at St Gallen university’s department of logistics management,
having examined the survey for 2012, also
concluded that the overall results for the
year under review were positive. In the seventh edition of the Swiss logistics market
study, published by GS1 in Bern, there was
further confirmation that the worth of the
logistics market in the country has grown
to a total of CHF 37.8 billion, a result of
the hard work put in by a total of around
175,000 employees in logistics and shipping companies.
RAlpin is one company in the Alpine
republic that has achieved impressive
growth. In 2013 it operated 5,500 trains,
and transported 109,000 trucks by rail
across the Alps on its rolling motorway,
an increase of 9% compared to 2011.
Further corporate growth will depend on
whether the Swiss vote for the expansion
of the 4 m corridor in the Lötschberg–
Simplon and Gotthard tunnels. We will
know more after 9 February.
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Special Switzerland
Swiss logistics award for a new type of self-cooling container
Stability for sensitive goods
The 18th Swiss Logistics Award, presented by GS1 Switzerland, a national industry
association, was won in 2013 by the young company SkyCell, for its development of
According to the GS1 jury, the SkyCell
container ensures an intact cool chain, reduces costs and is environment-friendly.
Thanks to its components, the 100% recyclable and self-cooling receptacle keeps
temperatures stable and fulfils the pharmaceutical industry’s increasing need
for suitable transport units and logistics
solutions. In addition, the system complies with the EU’s new good distribution
practices (GDP), the jury said.
With dimensions of 100 x 120 x 149 cm,
the empty weight of the SkyCell container is 270 kg. It permits a maximum cargo
volume of 770 l. Compared to conventional refrigerated containers weighing
up to 750 kg, the new pharmaceutical
container improves volumetric efficiency
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and CO2 emissions by 50%. Since the
container is entirely made of PET plastic,
and therefore can be completely recycled
through the worldwide PET recycling
network, the product completely avoids
the cost of returning the unit to its point
of origin.
A prize for the Swiss Alpine Club
This year’s Swiss Logistics Public Award
went to the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC),
for the logistics to supply its alpine huts.
The not-for-profit organisation has been
actively lobbying for on environmentfriendly and natural use of the country’s
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firm Biotronik, headquartered in Berlin, explained that the manufacture of
medical catheters in the past had often
involved production capacity overloads
in peak periods.
Zurich logistics colloquium
Optimisation vs service wasteland
The 30th Zurich logistics colloquium was recently held at the Technopark in Zurich
(Switzerland). The motto for this year’s event was «Lighthouse Projects». The focus
Restructuring production
Ota, general manager for production
management at DMG Mori Seiki, spoke
about the strategic decisions taken by
the newly-merged entity and their effects. One such decision was to shift production of a DMG tool machine from
Photo: Robert Altermatt
was therefore first and foremost on innovative logistics ideas.
It has already become a tradition that
during the course of the afternoon participants in the colloquium first hear short
presentations by speakers (35 minutes each
plus five minutes for discussion) on a variety of topics. The event was organised
by the management consultancy Dr. Acél
& Partners, in cooperation with the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology’s Institute
of Machine Tools and Manufacturing.
Keiichi Ota of Japan gave the first talk,
and he discussed the latest developments
in DMG Mori Seiki, one of the world’s
leading construction industry corporations. During the course of the merger
of the Japanese firm Mori Seiki and the
German company DMG Gildemeister, to
form DMG Mori Seiki last year, measures
were implemented to shorten lead times,
utilise synergies and reduce costs.
Marcel Dieck, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics’
head of hospital logistics project management.
Europe to Japan, thus shortening the
lead time by two months as the result of
the reduced transportation needs. In addition, the restructuring of production to
a one based on cells decreased the time
required by half.
In the second presentation Jean Phillippe Burkhalter, of the Swiss subsidiary
of the international medical technical
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Cell-based manufacturing
Burkhalter explained how the firm transitioned to consumer-oriented, cell-based
manufacturing, which led to more stable
production. As a result, the previously
oft-required Saturday work disappeared.
Today, Burkhalter elaborated, the production teams – now called cells in Biotronik – discuss and resolve forthcoming
production matters and pending issues in
a daily so-called standard meeting.
Marcel Dieck, chief project manager for
hospital logistics at the German logistics
service provider Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, was the third speaker. He addressed
outsourced hospital logistics. Patient flows
shape the logistics processes for hospitals.
According to the experiences that Dieck
has gathered in this field, nursing staff frequently carry out too many non-nursing
duties, at least in Germany. Therefore such
tasks have been increasingly outsourced to
logistics companies.
These companies are often subcontractors to the hospitals. For this reason, the
Charité hospital in Berlin has founded
a company called Charité CFM Facility
Management, of which it owns 51%. The
remainder was opened up to public tender
and awarded to logistics firms, which also
provide services for third parties.
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Third centre for commercial vehicle parts specialist
Keeping eastern Switzer
land on the map
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The company Winkler Fahrzeugteile, a subsidiary of a leading European
commercial vehicle parts wholesaler, opened its third location in Switzerland on 20 January. The facility, in Eschlikon, is half an hour’s drive from
St Gallen and Winterthur, the major metropolises in eastern Switzerland.
Winkler’s third Swiss location serves eastern Switzerland.
«The establishment of this new centre in Eschlikon is a result of our successful development in the Zurich/eastern Switzerland region,» Marco
Furfaro, managing director of the new hub, said. The Winkler corporation, which is headquartered in Stuttgart (Germany), has been active in
the Swiss market for more than 20 years. It has more than 50 employees, who all worked in centres in Lausanne and Egerkingen so far. A
sophisticated logistics concept will enable rapid deliveries to customers
needing anything from a screw to an 800 l petrol tank. The items are
reach Eschlikon from one of the largest European commercial vehicle
spare parts warehouses, in Ulm, which holds more than 100,000 parts.
Eschlikon’s good links to the transport network were key in the decision-making process. «We can serve the region around Zurich and east-
ern Switzerland even faster and even more reliably from
here,» Furfaro explained. Clients can chose between a
parcel, forwarding and overnight express service. The
last-cited option guarantees that an order submitted by
18.00 reaches a customer by 08.00 next day. Over and
above this, an on-site shop has small items, such as light
bulbs, cleansers and the like, in stock.
The Eschlikon warehouse covers 1,200 sqm and has
about 8,000 articles in stock. The centre also has an integrated training centre, where courses on a broad range
of commercial vehicle subjects will be on offer.
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Servisair now a Swissport firm
On 2 August 2013 Swissport announced the signing of
a definite agreement to acquire Servisair, a competitor
active in the United Kingdom and Spain, amongst other
places (see ITJ 31-34/2013, page 17). That acquisition
from the Derichebourg group has now been completed.
The move brings Swissport’s staff to more than 55,000,
working in a network covering 255 stations in 44 countries. Thus Swissport’s newly-expanded and comprehensive offering now serves more than 700 customers. The
corporation handles more than 3.9 million flights annually. Swissport estimates that every year it moves approximately 4 million t of cargo through its worldwide
network, which includes 120 warehouses.
Integration due for completion this year
Per H. Utnegaard, group president and CEO of Swissport International, told the media that «this acquisition
represents an essential element in Swissport’s growth
strategy. Our customers will benefit from our enlarged
network, improved portfolio of value-adding services,
combined operations and the consistent quality of Swissport’s worldwide services. We’re really looking forward
to welcoming Servisair’s employees into our corporation
and to combining the strengths of Servisair and Swissport to the advantage of our customers.» The integration
of Servisair into Swissport started at the beginning of
January, and is expected to be completed this year. ah
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Intermodal transport in western Switzerland
An auspicious new year for Terco
Operations in a container terminal in Chavornay, in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland), can continue, as the company Terminal Combiné
Chavornay’s recent extraordinary annual general meeting approved a new remediation plan for the hub. This ensures that the facility
A new financial remediation plan for
the Swiss company Terminal Combiné
Chavornay (Terco) has been in place
since mid-December. Thus Terco’s three
shareholders – SBB Cargo, Contargo (a
Rhenus subsidiary) and Pesa (a Planzer
subsidiary) – can now set about implementing the plan, which was first presented in November. It focuses on a capital
increase and the concomitant takeover of
a majority stake in the terminal. Terco
has been the owner and operator of the
container terminal so far. Establishing
an efficient major terminal has not been
easy recently, on account of the difficult
financial situation. This encumbered the
linking up of decentralised facilities such
as the one in Chavornay, thus damaging its ability to compete in the market
and preventing it from handling its full
throughput capacity.
By bundling their efforts the three
partners want to be able to offer customers in western Switzerland more efficient
intermodal rail/road solutions and simultaneously increase the volume of goods
handled in Chavornay. The opening of a
larger terminal is on the drawing board
for the medium term, but until it is a reality the three partners want to continue to
offer users the Chavornay option.
Good links to maritime ports
The 30,000 sqm terminal has four railway
tracks. It is located between Lausanne
and Yverdon-les-Bains, which enables
shippers from the region to link up to the
Photo: Terco / Railcare
will remain an important railfreight node in western Switzerland in future too, which is good news for intermodal transport in the area.
Terco has been a distribution hub for Railcare cargo to and from western Switzerland since August.
Swiss and international railway networks.
The terminal is located directly on the
main railway line between Lausanne and
Basel, for instance. A shuttle train called
the RRS runs back and forth between the
inland port of Kleinhüningen, in Basel,
and the Chavornay hub twice a week.
A container service operated on the
Rhine valley railway by Contargo connects Basel with the maritime ports of
Antwerp and Rotterdam twice a week, for
example. Other connections are offered
by SBB Cargo, by TFG Transfracht, by
Hupac as well as by the service provider
ACTS (for dry bulk commodities). The
service provider IMS (formerly Intercontainer) also ties Terco’s network up with
Rotterdam, and it also offers a new con-
nection recently between Frenkendorf
(near Basel, Switzerland) and Melzo (Italy), and from there to the Italian deep-sea
ports of Genoa, Livorno and La Spezia.
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Some shipping lines, including CMA
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and OOCL, for example, run their own
empty box centres in the terminal, thus
offering shippers more flexible options
for the presentation of goods to the customs authorities. Over and above this the
compound is also home to companies
providing added-value options, such as
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Hartmann Project Lines
serves new destinations
TC2 in the port of Abidjan
Expansion now more concrete
CMA CGM goes inland
Steder Group carries heavylift
consignments to East Africa
Great opportunities in
East Africa for OBT Shipping
Focus on the aviation industry
Photo: Thinkstock
Great growth potential
Africa and its partners
There is no contesting the fact that the African logistics sector has a great growth
potential. The volumes of goods transported and the extraction of mineral resources
The focus of many investors has recently
turned to Africa, after Asian and Middle
Eastern highs. There is no doubt that
funds are flowing into Africa, with some
of them earmarked for the construction
of terminals (such as the TC2 facility in
the port of Abidjan (Ivory Coast), see
page 37), and others for the extraction of
mineral resources, which are in plentiful
supply across the continent.
Unfortunately, there are many African
countries with an equally plentiful supply
of problems, so that there are other less
favourable developments to line up too.
Government officers, managers as well
as potential investors agree that besides
the frequently poor health of the population and the high bureaucratic hurdles
facing entrepreneurs, it is people’s lack
of training that gives primary cause for
worry. Solving these problems has proved
too sluggish, so that Africans have only
benefited marginally from increasing raw
materials exports and a generally growing
economy.
Let us take Malawi, for example, where
Paladin (Africa) mines uranium/ore in
the Kayelekera mine, around 600 km
north of the capital Lilongwe. Malawi
only holds 15% of the shares, and even
this small stake in the undertaking’s profits is in danger of amounting to nothing,
as the firm is apparently operating at a
loss. It has to be assumed that the citizens
of Malawi will have to write off their investment. Despite such setbacks Africans
continue to depend on partnership with
the rest of the world to prevent the selling
off of their home and hearth.
This is the focus which many people
in many different parts of the continent
are working on. The shipping company
Hartmann Project Lines is expanding its
services between West Africa and Northern Europe, whilst CMA CGM is adding
links between Europe and the Mediter-
Photo: Otal
are both rising strongly. But the question remains: Cui bono? Who benefits?
The port of Abidjan is being expanded.
ranean and West Africa (page 37). In
the heavylift and project cargo sector
the Steder Group is active in Djibouti,
Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan, and
OBT Shipping is making waves in Sierra
Leone and Liberia (pages 39 and 41).
There is no dearth of enterprises that
have shown their faith in Africa. One
silver lining for the region is that the financial crisis did not hit it too heavily
and the fact that economic growth has
registered at more than 5% annually over
the last few years. The number of people
living below the poverty line continues to
decrease, and the demand for improved
infrastructure is expected to attract further investment.
Jutta Iten
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New Hartmann service
Abidjan terminal project
CMA CGM goes inland
The shipping company Hartmann Project
Lines is expanding its liner services between West Africa and Northern Europe.
In February the firm, which is a part of
the Hartmann Group, will add destinations in Mauritania, Nigeria, Ghana and
Ivory Coast to its network.
The new service will be operated by
modern 17,500–25,000 dwt tween-deck
box-shape geared vessels. The activities
will be performed under the trade name
Hartmann Project Lines and be operated
by MTL – Maritime Transport + Logistik, which is based in Duisburg and is
also a member of the Hartmann Group.
Hartmann Project Lines is represented
by a network of liner agents in Germany,
Belgium, the Netherlands, the United
Kingdom, France, Portugal, Spain, Ivory
Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. Commercial activities in Portugal and Spain
are managed by the company HPL Portugal e Espanha.
www.mtl-duisburg.de
Plans for the construction of and subsequent operation of a new terminal in the
port of Abidjan (Ivory Coast) are taking
shape. In December the government of
the West African state signed an agreement with a consortium, consisting of
APM Terminals, Bolloré Africa Logistics
and the French construction firm Bouygues Travaux Publics, for the building
of the so-called TC2 facility.
The state will be responsible for the
establishment and financing of the preliminary basic infrastructure required,
including dredging, canal expansion,
land reclamation and a quay wall, at an
estimated cost of up to USD 800 million
(EUR 586 million). The three partners
will then design and build the new TC2
terminal which, when completed, will be
equipped with 26 rubber-tyred gantry
cranes (RTGs) and nine ship-to-shore
cranes (STS). The annual throughput capacity of the centre, which is scheduled to
begin operations by early 2018, will stand
at 2.1 million teu.
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The French shipping line CMA CGM reshuffled its services from Europe and the
Mediterranean to West Africa in the middle of last month. The measure has ensured better links for landlocked African
countries, thanks to the improvement in
the corporation’s network and the adoption of through bills of lading (TBLs).
Thus CMA CGM now offers its customers five connections to the region,
with the goods being shipped through the
firm’s hub in Tangier (Morocco). Its PC
Weekly service calls at Dakar (Senegal),
Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Lomé (Togo) and
Tin Can Lagos (Nigeria). Its PC Center
option sails to Conakry (Guinea), Tema
(Ghana), Cotonou (Benin) and Douala
(Cameroon). CMA CGM’s PC North
service covers links to Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia and its
PC South service to the Republic of the
Congo and Gabon.
The corporation’s Angola Shuttle
service, finally sails to and fro between
Angola and Portugal.
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The Steder Group’s project logistics ambitions bank on foreigners and locals
Heavylift services in East Africa
The enterprise Steder Group FZCO, a subsidiary of the Rhoon-based Dutch freight forwarding and logistics service enterprise Steder
Photo: Steder Group
Group BV, specialises in heavylift and project cargo activities in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan.
The Steder Group recently transported rotor blades for an Ethiopian wind farm.
The subsidiary Steder Group FZCO was
founded early in 2011. Gerben Langstraat,
director of the still-young service provider,
told the ITJ recently that «after two years
of conducting intense research, we decided
that the time had come to take action and
to found an independent company. The
firm started out with seven combinations,
which were based at its headquarters in
Djibouti. Within a year this number had
increased to 20 units. Because the equipment that we deploy was not previously
available in the regional market there was
also no local knowledge on how to operate
it. So we started to train drivers, crane drivers, riggers and the like intensely.»
Challenges
The Steder Group has a fleet of vehicles
that is able to move individual pieces up
to 50 m long, as well as units weighing
more than 300 t. The infrastructure challenges the corporation faces are considerable, however, according to Langstraat.
The resources available in East Africa are
sometimes rather basic.
The specialist Steder Group FZCO is
based in Djibouti, and is active mainly
in Ethiopia. Its European staff teams
up with numerous local Djiboutian and
Ethiopian operations and maintenance
staff. «We bring know-how and at the
same time we transfer knowledge,» Langstraat said. A lot of the Dutch company’s
projects come from China, making for
what he calls an interesting mix of cultures.
Steder Group FZCO’s heavylift specialists
recently completed the transportation of
parts for a 54 turbine wind farm in Ethiopia. The consignments included blades,
nacelles, tower sections, foundation rings
and numerous containers with smaller
parts.
The 800 km round-trip from Djibouti
to the final destination in Ethiopia and
back took about nine days. The route
included Ethiopia’s highlands, with a lot
of mountain passes. Climbing inclines
with more than 12% gradients makes the
equipment suffer and maintenance thus
becomes an even bigger problem.
«Traffic is a big issue here in these
parts of Africa. It is rather dangerous
and plenty of accidents happen. We have
to be very careful. The main obstacles
are things that happen every day on the
road, The conditions vary from day to
day, and of course the rainy season has a
big influence on our operations. But it’s
fantastic, on the other hand, to face such
interesting challenges. It’s sort of pioneering work here,» Langstraat elaborated.
Gigantic dam project
Steder is involved in many large project
cargo undertakings in East Africa, including the huge so-called Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam project. Steder
has already transported large pieces of
earth-moving equipment from the port of
Djibouti to the construction site, which is
approximately 1,800 km away, on the Blue
Nile close to South Sudan (approximately
40 km east of the border) in Ethiopia’s
Benishangul-Gumuz region. The undertaking’s 5,250 MW hydro-electric power
station is expected to become Africa’s largest such facility when it comes on stream
in 2017, which is what the plan currently
foresees.
Steder also specialises in placing heavy
machines on foundations by jacking and
sliding. The availability of cranes in the
region is a major issue, Langstraat added,
so by using this method Steder can operate safely and independently without
needing the perfect equipment, and can
nevertheless place heavy machines on
their foundations at the constructions
sites or sub-stations involved.
A one-stop shop
Amongst Steder’s numerous advantages
is the fact that the company knows the
country very well. It also has its own project forwarding and heavylift handling
equipment. The Steder Group is keen to
make sure that it has everything in its own
hands. Thus the company makes sure that
it is in charge of the loading and unloading
of the heavylift vessels it serves in the port
of Djibouti itself. It hires and trains local
people, operates its own maintenance and
repair workshops, and keeps everything
under its own control. As for the current
outlook, Langstraat is pretty optimistic
about the coming year. «The order book
is positive.»
Robert Altermatt
www.stedergroup.nl
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New opportunities in West Africa
Overcoming the final frontier
All the experts believe that Africa has a great potential. Developments in countries that have been severely scarred by civil war, such as
Sierra Leone and Liberia, show that the upwards trend can kick in rapidly. After a decade of building up his firm Christian Overgaard,
who founded OBT Shipping in Sierra Leone in 2004, told the ITJ’s editor-in-chief Christian Doepgen how well business is running.
How has the market developed?
From 2004 onwards there was major interest in iron ore and minerals and in
2010 an export boom in Sierra Leone.
Since then we’ve been building up our
know-how and have supported shipping
activities in this field, and are a certified
entity today. The same applies to project
logistics, where we work for major oil and
gas firms that are exploiting Liberia’s potential in this sector. Then there is our
business in Guinea, which is the most
important bauxite supplier in the world.
Was OBT Shipping always active in the
raw materials and offshore segments?
No, we started out as an agent. This lead
to us working for a ro-ro line in Liberia
in 2004. In 2009 we gathered experience
in the container shipping industry as an
agent for MSC in Sierra Leone, Liberia
and Gambia. But we separated OBT’s activities from MSC’s in 2011. We remain
connected, however, as I’m a member of
the board of MSC West Africa.
Photos: OBT Shipping
Sierra Leone isn’t the first location that
comes to mind when we think of shipping in Africa, Mr Overgaard. Why did
you found OBT Shipping there?
I worked for Bolloré in West Africa from
1999 to 2003, after already gathering a
lot of experience in the shipping industry
before that. I soon really got to know the
Sierra Leonean market. OBT Shipping
started out with five employees, and now
there are 270 in the entire group.
Growing external trade and improved infrastructure in Sierra
Leone and Liberia broadens the spectrum for logisticians too.
work. There is a great potential for us to
act as a transmission belt for the region
for Chinese lines and shippers.
Africa still has the unfortunate reputation of being a security risk.
Luckily OBT Shipping hasn’t had any
negative experiences concerning the
frequently-addressed issue of piracy. This
may well be related to West Africa’s civil
war trauma – people are keen on peace.
Concerning the security of our consignments we work to very strict guidelines,
which we have successfully had certified.
What does OBT Shipping hope to gain
from its office in Beijing?
China is very active in Africa. It’s strong
in the infrastructure and mining sector
in the West African countries where we
How great is Africa’s potential?
Some analysts call the continent the «last
frontier» in terms of its economy. I expect
to observe substantial growth both in the
raw materials segment as well as in the
various national markets.
What is your corporate philosophy?
We’ll keep our old clients and win plenty
of new customers by offering services in
Africa at Scandinavian standards, and by
continuing to focus on those West African markets that we know so well. Good
work always makes its way around the
markets by word of mouth.
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Africa’s Janus-faced aviation industry
Dangers and benefits
Contradictions are a key characteristic of
African aviation in the new year too.
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The crash of an Embraer 190 operated by
the Mozambican airline LAM on 29 November 2013 (see ITJ Daily of 3 December 2013) was probably deliberate. The
initial results of a Mozambican aviation
Africa still lags behind other continents in
terms of security.
authority investigation point to the captain deliberately flying the plane – which
was on its way from Maputo to Luanda,
was only a year old and which had just
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Even if this crash of a western-built
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operators from three countries on the
equivalent US list.
And yet the world aviation body believes that the continent has an extraordi-
In brief
Further reduction. Just before Christmas Air Namibia got rid of its two Airbus
A340-300s. The airline already had two
A330-200s lined up to take their place,
which means that the cargo space available between Windhoek and Frankfurt has
slipped from 163 to 136 cbm per flight. The
carrier previously deployed Boeing B747s on
the route.
www.airnamibia.aero
Still waiting. Air Burundi is still waiting
for the resumption of services that were
discontinued in 2009. The Central African
country’s aviation authority appears to lack
qualified staff to certify the carrier’s only
aeroplane, an MA-60. The Chinese aircraft
has a freight capacity of 10 cbm.
www.flyairburundi.com
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airfreight segment. In its recent industry
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Central Europe
Automobile logistics
Major order
from Audi
The company DSV Solutions, which is part of the Brøndby-based Danish
relations with Audi in Germany. From March the contract logistician will
take over plant logistics in the Neckarsulm facility in the south of the
country for the German car manufacturer.
Photo: DSV
transport and logistics enterprise DSV, is further expanding its business
Managing Audi’s plant logistics needs is a lucrative order for DSV.
The assumption of the plant logistics activities in Neckarsulm represents a significant expansion of DSV Solutions’ collaboration with
Audi. Approximately 150 employees will be in charge of ensuring justin-time deliveries in the 38,000 sqm Audi factory from spring onwards.
They will work three shifts and handle approximately 180 in-bound
full truck-loads carrying around 5,700 pallets every day. The parts will
be delivered directly to Audi A4, A5, A6, A7, A8 and R8 production
lines on demand.
This new Audi order is the largest contract DSV Solutions has won
since 2008. Harald Schefft, DSV Solutions’ managing director, told the
media that his company has «collaborated very successfully with Audi in the last few years. We convinced Audi
with our consistent quality and flexibility.»
40 DSV employees have already started working for
Audi in a 17,700 sqm facility in Neckarsulm. The logistics service provider will manage a consolidations centre
for the delivery-related bundling of goods and consignments for Audi in Heilbronn. This hub also includes a
small external warehouse.
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V. Alexander becomes
Alexander Global Logistics
Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Aktiengesellschaft
The Bremen-based logistics service provider V. Alexander International Logistics GmbH renamed itself
Alexander Global Logistics GmbH on 1 January. To
this end the partners Carsten Hellmers (managing
director/CEO) and Monique Geisler (authorised signatory/vice-president) re-purchased all shares from the
US company V. Alexander Inc. Now Alexander Global
Logistics continues to cooperate with V. Alexander Inc
in North America. Besides its Bremen headquarters
Alexander Global Logistics has branch offices in São
Paulo, St Petersburg, India, Mongolia and China.
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JH Logistik GmbH, which is based in Delmenhorst near
Bremen, renamed itself JH Logistik-Gruppe from 1 January 2014. The service provider, which was founded in
2007, now has three specialised subsidiaries. JH Projekt
offers transport solutions for out-of-gauge and heavy
loads as well as plant machinery, JH Spedition provides
transport and logistics services, whilst JH Ferry concentrates on consultancy and neutral agency activities for
ferry transportation requirements. www.jh-logistik.de
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Italian railfreight operations
Photo: Contship
An intermodal
roller coaster
Joy and sorrow in the new year. While Contship celebrated a milestone in La Spezia and improved the intermodal
Ship / rail transfers are important elements of the port of La Spezia’s strategy.
transport route from Verona to the Baltic Sea, an Italian
en hours earlier than was previously the case. Instead of being available
on Fridays at 13.00, the containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers will
now be available for pick up in Verona at 02.00. This means that shipments, which usually could not be delivered until after the weekend,
can now be delivered on the same day in northern Italy.
The port of La Spezia also had good news. On Friday 13 December
2013 – of all days – the local terminal operator Contship transhipped
its 100,000th railcar of the year, setting a record which pushed the
proportion of rail-based shipments in the Ligurian port up to the 35%
mark. Over the next few years the company plans to increase this figure further, to 50%. «Since our founding in 1969 we’ve had trains in
our DNA,» Marco Simonetti, the vice-president of the Contship Italia
Group, beamed confidently.
ah
railfreight company discontinued a transalpine car train.
On 15 January 2007 the railfreight operator Rail Traction Company (RTC), based in Bolzano (Italy), in cooperation with its partner Lokomotion, opened a new
connection from Munich (Germany) to the Arena Po,
an important facility for automobile manufacturer
Volkswagen. «For nearly seven years RTC, together with
Lokomotion, has provided punctual and reliable freight
services, which were responsive to customer needs and
professional. But now the crisis in Italy, and consequently in the automobile industry too, has unfortunately put
an end to the relationship in this form,» the South Tyrolean company announced in December. Thanks to the
rapid acquisition of new routes, however, the firm has
been able to compensate for its crisis-related downturn
«partially at least,» according to RTC’s Bolzano headquarters and its operational control centre in Verona.
Effective immediately, the northern Italian transport
hub of Verona will have a better connection to the German Baltic Sea port of Kiel. The intermodal transport
operator RTC announced that an optimised schedule
will enable companies to pick up deliveries in Italy elev-
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EUR 50 million in finance. In related news the Abu Dhabibased Emirati carrier Etihad Airways has confirmed its interest
in taking a stake in Alitalia.
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Further privatisation steps in Portugal. The privatisation
of the state-owned airline TAP Portugal could be back on the
agenda in the first quarter of this year, according to the chairman of the carrier’s executive board of directors, Fernando
Abs da Cruz Souza Pinto, who was speaking at a meeting of
the Star Alliance aviation association in December. The last
privatisation move failed in 2012.
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Whilst the container sector is going from
strength to strength in Russia, the bulk
freight segment is in a less healthy state.
The two largest cargo handling firms in
the port of St Petersburg, Petrolesport
and Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg, have
corrected their profit forecasts. Stagnation in the maritime shipping market
and growing competition were cited as
the reasons. Analysts thus expect the
companies’ profits to continue to de-
GP has finalised its
takeover of NCC
The Russian port operator Global Ports
(GP) has completed the takeover of the
National Container Company (NCC), a
major domestic rival (see ITJ 37-38/2013
page 15). The transaction was said to be
worth close to USD 1.6 billion (EUR 1.17
billion). The addition not only makes
Global Ports the largest terminal operator in Russia, but additionally lifts it into
the ranks of the world’s top 20 container
hub operators. APM Terminals bought a
37.5% stake in GP around a year ago.
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cline in future. The net profit for the
first three quarters of financial 2013 of
the firm Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg, a
large dry cargo transhipment operator in
the port of St Petersburg that is a part of
Vladimir Lisin’s UCL Holding, was 19%
below the corresponding figure for the
previous year. Petrolesport’s profit in the
same period crashed by 60%.
At the same time Petrolesport has
announced plans to invest around
USD 1 billion (EUR 733 million) in the
comprehensive restructuring and expan-
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Russian port service providers’
market stagnating
2013 was not an easy year for cargo handlers
operating in the port of St Petersburg.
sion of its port operations activities over
the next ten years. The measures will include reclaiming 13.5 ha of land.
Christine Kulke-Fiedler
www.seaport.spb.ru
www.petrolesport.ru
SCA Logistics extends its liner network
The transport company SCA Logistics,
from Sweden, is set to improve its links
between St Petersburg (Russia) and Oxelösund (Sweden) from the end of January. SCA Logistics’ sailings will now call
at the two ports weekly. Its ro-ro service
from London (England) to Rotterdam
(Netherlands), Sundsvall, Husum and
Umeå will now also call at Helsingborg
(all Sweden) as well as Oxelösund on a
weekly basis.
The new options enable fast and efficient transport for containers and ro-ro
freight from London and Rotterdam
to the Stockholm-Mälaren region and
southeastern Sweden. At the same time
SCA Logistics has expanded its container
traffic capacities between Rotterdam and
St Petersburg and can offer customers
a direct link between the two cities. A
steady rise in the flow of containerised
goods to St Petersburg lead to the move,
according to Magnus Svensson, president
of SCA Logistics.
SCA Logistics is a member of the SCA
Group, which is headquartered in Stockholm and which focuses on the manufacturing paper and timber products.
Antje Veregge
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DGX enhances
US–Latin America services
Dependable Global Express Inc (DGX),
a global ocean freight forwarder and
NVOCC (non-vessel operating common carrier), has improved its maritime
links from the west coast of the USA to
ports in South and Central America. The
company launched a less-than-container
load (LCL) consolidated service from
Los Angeles CA (USA) to Buenaventura
(Colombia) in January. It will sail every
two weeks, whilst another new direct LCL
service, this one to Guatemala City, will
be offered on a weekly basis.
Increasing frequencies
Antonio Bellido, DGX’s trade lane manager for Latin America, told the media
that «DGX will continue to add new services and increase frequencies to Latin
American destinations. Our weekly service network already includes Guatemala
and Costa Rica in Central America. In
South America we serve Guayaquil (Ecuador), Callao (Peru) and Valparaiso (Chile)
weekly. Our every-other-week links connect clients to El Salvador, Panama City
and Buenaventura.» Over and above this
DGX also has a weekly Caribbean service
to San Juan (Puerto Rico).
Global network
Besides the USA and Latin America
DGX’s Global network of offices also
includes branches in Asia and Australia.
The company has a special focus on traffic between points on the Pacific Rim.
In December 2013 Raj Dias, who previously worked for Phoenix International (later purchased by C.H. Robinson),
joined DGX as vice-president of global
business development. He will focus primarily on South Asia as well as on intraAsian trade, and will also establish South
Asia–Europe and Middle East–Africa options and develop the USA’s import/export trade to and from South Asia.
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Hard times for Brazilian automobile logistics
Logistics by helicopter
Economic growth is slowing in Brazil. In November 2013 the OECD predicted a 1.5%
slower growth rate than previously expected. Car sales plummeted by a record 23% in
August. These developments have not left the automobile logistics segment unscathed.
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Airfreight can reach its destination by various means – sometimes even by helicopter.
When shippers’ market returns start to
fall, then the fallout for logisticians in
the form of a decline in orders is not far
behind. The large corporations working
in this segment levelled unusually open
criticism at the continued extensive structural lacunae in the country’s infrastructure at the fifth conference for automobile logistics in São Paulo in November.
Not many options
Even though a PwC study published early
in 2013 estimated that international investment in the sector alone amounted
to USD 63 billion, there is still a dearth
in transport solutions for logisticians in
the field. The railways, which the World
Bank has said measure but a tenth of the
US railway network, are a negligeable factor in the equation, as is the underdeveloped inland waterway network. The key
road haulage industry is hampered by the
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has a complicated customs structure, and
its congested ports also cause high costs.
Potential and improvisation
The 3.77 million cars sold in the country
in 2013 make it the fourth-largest automobile market worldwide, but the figure
slipped vis-à-vis the previous year for the
first time in a decade. Ford is adding two
more spare parts warehouses to its two
existing facilities, however. They will be
managed by external 3PL providers.
The distribution of spare parts is a major challenge in the country. Improvisation is of the essence. Fabiana Nakia, UTi
Brazil’s director of automobile logistics,
said on the fringes of the above-mentioned conference that up to a container
full of spare parts sometimes has to be
delivered to its final destination by helicopter.
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Nighthawks and other aviator watches
Turning the clock back
Aviator watches are rarely simple chronometers, as many a reader will be able to
confirm with a quick glance at his wrist. They are frequently genuine eye-catchers.
At least two rather special new models hit the market last year.
Lockheed’s F-117 Nighthawk, which entered operations in 1983, was the first
military aircraft to make use of stealth
technology. The edgy, faceted form of the
aircraft deflected almost all radar signals.
Its dark paintwork made the aeroplane almost invisible in the night sky. Besides its
unusual form the materials used to manufacture the 64 aeroplanes built, a mixture
of aluminium and titanium parts, also
contributed to it becoming a myth. This
is now being revived, more than five years
after the aircraft was retired by the US
Air Force.
The HM4 Thunderbolt final edition
wrist watch, manufactured by the Swiss
company Maximilian Büsser & Friends
(MB & F), comes dressed in the same
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A Time for Reflection / Advertisers’ Index
Who will guard the guardians
«Someone who participates in a crime is quite likely to pardon the accomplices.»
Mariano José Pereira da Fonseca (1773–1848), Brazilian writer, philosopher and politician
Nothing works without rules. Those who
did not learn this basic truth in their childhood will have learnt it at the latest on
the sports field – and that too the hard
way. The late comedian Dieter Hildebrandt once put it very succinctly. «Contradicting the referee is like getting up in
church and demanding a debate.» If that
seems too archaic for you, then you may
prefer instead to use an example from
outside the world of behaviour governed
by the herd instinct. Even in the seclusion
of a computer game or on the internet, no
one escapes the rules – called netiquette
in this realm. So it is apparent that even
if it does not take physical form, the presence of the ordering hand is ubiquitous.
So far, so good. Given that referees
frequently make mistakes and that such
decisions are difficult to accept – even
though we are all at their mercy – many if
us will be left with a nagging doubt that
is best expressed by this key question.
Who will guard the guardians? Human
beings have struggled with their choice
and the incorruptibility of such personalities from time immemorial. Joseph
Fouché, who was minister of police under
Napoleon and himself affected by the
answer to this question, drew the following
conclusion. «If a person has a reputation
for incorruptibility, I immediately ask myself
whether he has been offered enough.»
This particular chief of police himself had
few scruples. At his death in 1820 he left
his family a fortune estimated at 14 million
French francs.
Of course, the general suspicion often
unjustly implicates brave judges, auditors
and financial controllers. And yet corruption
is not an infrequent occurrence. According to
surveys conducted by Transparency International it is estimated that the Mexican police
illegally collects approximately USD 100 million per month! Venezuela’s home minister,
who had to tackle the same types of crimes,
resorted to drastic measures. In September
2013 he dismissed the entire police force.
Anti-corruption struggles can also take courage from cases like Simon Eryok’s, a teacher
from Papua New Guinea. When an official
wanted to make the release of public funds
for his new school building conditional on
a bribe, Eryok enlisted the police to set the
man a trap. He was caught red-handed
at the place where the money was to be
handed over. The school is now under construction.
There is now a gratifying global trend
against these illegal practices. Since 1977
the USA’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
has prohibited the giving of payments
or valuable gifts to foreign officials. It is
equally punishable to publish false accounts in order to hide such bribes. And
according to a study by the law firm CMS,
41% of all countries in Europe and the
BRIC states have tightened their anticorruption laws in the past two years.
According to the survey, only two states
in the world do not have a law against
bribery in the private sector – India and
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
But it does not always have to be the
police and the judiciary who chase the
bad guys – there are also modern and
original methods of preventing corruption. Years ago China started to sensitise
its citizens to the problem of corruption,
and used a computer game to drive home
the point. «Incorruptible Fighter» uses
deterrence as its main tool. The player’s
mission is to track down corrupt officials
and bring them to justice. The game was
developed and financed largely by the
country’s ruling – and corrupt – Communist Party.
Christian Doepgen
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Emirates Sky Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Euroexpo Messe + Kongress GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
FISCHER Kaderselektion GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
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Furness Shipping Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Genel Transport Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Grimaldi Cia di Navigazione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Grupolis Transitarios Lda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Kifa AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
KOG Transport AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
LPL Lamprecht Pharma Logistics AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
LKW WALTER Internat. Transportorganisation AG . . . . . . . .9
M+R Spedag Group AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Manaco, International Forwarders Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Messe Berlin GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Moor Transport AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
NAVIS Schiffahrts- u. Speditions AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
OBT Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Planet International Freight F and Foreign Trade Co. Ltd. . .29
Port of Amsterdam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Quality Cargo Networks Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
SATI SA de Transports Internationaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Schweizerische Rheinhäfen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
S.I.T.T.A.M. S.r.l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Steder Group B.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Swiss World Cargo Swiss Internat. Air Lines Ltd. . .25, 26, 29
Transnatur S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Turkish Airlines Inc. Türk Hava Yollari A.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Turnpoint (France) s.a.r.l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Ultra-Brag AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
WWL ALS Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics
Abnormal Load Services UK International Limited . . . . . . .37
Zeeland Seaports NV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Ziegler (Schweiz) AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
In 1925, Marcel Breuer designed
this chair, now famous.
The same year, our company
was founded.
Since then, we both are...
... AHEAD OF THE TIMES.
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ULTRA-BRAG AG
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CH 4019 Basel
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