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3International Transport Journal 07-08 2013 Contents

5 Editorial

7 People & Companies / Job Market

9 Shipping & Ports

9 Port of Kiel registers growth in 2012

10 G6 Alliance expanding into the Pacific

11 Marseille: record container throughput

13 Forwarding & Logistics

13 New centres for DB Schenker Logistics

14 UPS registers sharp drop in fourth quarter 2012

17 DSV settles US class action law suit

18 Aviation

18 Swiss WorldCargo with higher volumes

CCO Oliver Evans in an Interview with the ITJ

19 Europe’s airfreight hubs just made it in 2012

20 Intermodal /Road Haulage

20 Orphee Beinoglou joins System Alliance Europe

20 Dautel optimising truck loading platforms

21 Packaging

21 Notbox banking on US market with coolbox

21 Railways terminate cooperation with Epal

28 Regional Focus

28 Central Europe

29 Nordic Countries and the Baltic States

30 Eastern Europe and the Balkan States

34 Miscellaneous /Masthead

35 A Time for Reflection /Advertisers’ Index

Africa 22

Special in this issue

Heading north and south 10

Finnlines, a subsidiary of the Grimaldi Group,is establishing services to and from its hubin Rostock, including a shuttle to Helsinkiand a connection to Zeebrugge andBilbao.

Green logistics – but really 16

Environment-protection measures – and commu-nication thereon – have to be considered care-fully. «Just an attempt to greenwash a firm» maybe an accusation arising therefrom, according toDr Krell of «CO2lutions».

Advancement for Africa 24

Africa’s transport infrastructure is the key tothe continent’s economic upswing and itsintegration into the world economy. SouthAfrica’s Standard Bank has picked outsome of the essential points.

Cover: A truck on the road Photo: thinkstock

With rapidly growing consumer markets

and a growing number of raw material

suppliers, African countries are becom-

ing steadily more interesting. 16% of the

surveyed experts in the Agility Emerg-

ing Markets Index 2013 concluded that

Asian–African trade would experience

strong growth in the short term. Chinese

investments in Africa alone, inter alia in

Congo, Zambia and Angola, amounted

to more than USD 45 billion in the pe-

riod up to 2012. Opening up these mar-

kets of the future, however, remains risky.

The costs of trading with and in Af-

rica are disproportionately high. Accord-

ing to the World Bank, an international

importer must spend around USD 20,000

weekly on customs duties and licenses in

order to import and distribute his goods

in an African country, and 1,600 docu-

ments are needed on average to send a

truck with cargo across the border into a

neighbouring country. This factor alone

provides intra-African trade with plenty

of untapped potential.

As far as the central issue of transport

infrastructure is concerned, work is go-

ing on in many places. It is nevertheless

the key obstacle to economic growth in

Africa, according to the African Develop-

ment Bank. The South African govern-

ment’s Transnet has allocated ZAR 52 bil-

lion (approximately EUR 4.3 billion) to

the expansion of railfreight activities and

the acquisition of rolling stock in its five-

year plan. Angola is counting on Chinese

investments for its Benguela railway line,

as is Nigeria, for the modernisation of the

Lagos–Ibadan railway. In July 2012 Nige-

ria signed an agreement with the China

Civil Engineering Construction Com-

pany valued at USD 1.5 billion for the

modernisation of the railway line, which

is expected to be completed in three

years. In November 2012 the Nigerian

minister of construction, Mike Onoleme-

men, entrusted the work of rebuilding the

Lagos–Ibadan road expressway to Julius

Berger Nigeria and RCC Nigeria.

There is thus some evidence that it

continues to be worthwhile to pay atten-

tion to the African renaissance. On 1 Feb-

ruary Maersk and CMA CGM increased

their freight rates from India to West

African ports. Africa’s potential remains

undiminished.Christian Doepgen

Africa as a growth market and a place to invest

Markets of tomorrowSub-Saharan Africa is booming. The International Monetary Fund has forecast average

GDP growth of 5% annually for the years up to 2016 for many countries. The lack of

logistics infrastructure is the continent’s Achilles heel, however.

Nigeria is just one of the African states currently upgrading its transport infrastructure.

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24 Standard Bank on

Africa’s infrastructure

24 New Gefco national

branch in South Africa

26 Africa’s airfreight sector

grew strongly in 2012

27 Port of Mombasa improves

figures over 2011

27 Coyne Airways serves 30

destinations in Africa

AFRICA

5International Transport Journal 07-08 2013 Editorial

Dear readers,The new year is relatively young, and the world remains

in the same state of upheaval as ever. A virulent civil war

whose end no one would dare to predict is keeping people

from progress and development in Syria, there is continuing

unrest in Egypt and Tunisia, and war in the multi-ethnic state

of Mali may yet turn out to be another powder keg with a

short fuse.

What have been the momentous events of 2013 in the big

wide world of transport and logistics? The most notable oc-

currence – and simultaneously the biggest surprise – was the

calling off by the EU’s directorate general for competition of

what would probably have been the biggest industry merger

ever between the world’s largest parcel service provider UPS

and its competitor TNT Express. Of course, there were sub-

stantial concerns raised about this union of giants from the

beginning, but no one earnestly banked on the merger of

the two heavyweights not coming about in the end.

In the aviation sector the mishaps encountered by the

most modern and energy-efficient aircraft ever to have been

built – Boeing’s Dreamliner – has been the talking point of

the year so far. There hasn’t been a long-haul B787 aircraft

plying its trade in the skies since 17 January, on account of

serious safety concerns. There is a silver lining for the US

aircraft maker, however – test flights have resumed.

The maritime shipping industry continues to hold its

breath about the on/off merger between the two German

lines Hamburg Süd and Hapag-Lloyd. There is positive news

in the maritime sector too, with the port of Marseille, for

example, reporting a record result in its container segment,

and the Taiwanese shipping line Evergreen launching a new

Mediterranean service in these hardly promising times.

The bottom line, however, is this – even if the prospects

for the logistics industry aren’t exactly rosy these days, as

uncertain economic developments and low margins are

depressing the business, it nevertheless does not need to

be all too concerned in the long term, thanks

to its fabled flexibility. The industry is

an indispensable cog in the economic

wheel, for without transportation

and the distribution of sup-

plies the modern world would

stand still.

In these turbulent times,

above all, forwarders and

logisticians are the flexible

and creative guarantors of

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6 People & Companies International Transport Journal 07-08 2013

EuropeNew CEO for CargotecThe Finnish goods flow optimiser Cargo-tec, the parent firm of MacGregor, Kalmarand Hiab, has appointed Mika Vehviläinenas its president and CEO from 1 March.Tapio Hakakari will remain on the boardas interim president and CEO until then. Vehviläinenis currently the president of Finnair, and previouslyheld senior managerial positions with Nokia and NokiaSiemens Networks in the USA and Asia. nauticus

PKP Cargo loses pilotOn 28 January Wojciech Balczun, chairman of the Pol-ish railfreight carrier PKP Cargo, stepped down unex-pectedly. Balczun took charge in 2008, and is the manbehind the successful turnaround of the company,which published a profit of PLN 340 million (aroundEUR 82 million) last year, as well as the driving forcebehind its planned IPO. The rumour mill has it thatBalczun is joining a private company. PKP chairmanJakub Karnowski said that a successor is being sought.

Jongepier to head APL in EuropeAPL, a unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines(NOL), has selected Peter Jongepier as its regional presi-dent in Europe. Jongepier will be responsible for all ofAPL’s commercial activities in Europe, the former So-viet Union and Turkey. He will be based in Uxbridge(England) and will report directly to APL presidentKenneth Glenn. Since joining APL in 1995, Jongepierhas been managing director of APL’s office in France,vice-president of sales for Europe, and most recentlymanaging director of APL’s Benelux office.

Bifa policy group chairJohn Stubbings, the group director andcompany secretary of the WoodlandGroup, has been appointed chairman ofthe British International Freight Associa-tion’s legal and insurance policy group.Before joining Woodland in 1995 Stub-bings worked for numerous Bifa members,including International Express, KelleherForwarding and Uniserve. As group chair-man Stubbings also takes a place on theBifa council, the body in charge of govern-ing the association.

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7International Transport Journal 07-08 2013 People & Companies

Two SBB appointmentsSwitzerland’s state railwaySBB has selected MartinStutz as its new chief pressofficer. Stutz is a journal-ist who worked for variousnewspapers before assum-ing communications roles.He is currently head ofcommunications for theenergy firm Alpiq. WhenStutz starts work interimpress officer ChristophRytz will return to Baselas SBB Cargo’s head of communications. SBB has alsocompleted its media team for the German-speaking partof Switzerland by appointing Franziska Frey as its cor-porate media spokesperson, based at headquarters inBern. She will look after corporate media matters withChristian Ginsig.

Turkish freight body chairmanCetin Nuhoglu has been elected as the chairman ofUluslararasi Nakliyeciler Dernegi (UND), the Turkishfreight transporters’ association. UND’s outgoing com-mittee, headed by Ruhi Engin Özmen, did not stand forre-election. Nuhoglu, who already held the same posi-tion from 2001 to 2007, stipulated that he would onlyassume the role as the unanimous candidate without acontested vote. schlote

New HR manager for DB SchenkerDB Schenker Rail has chosen Dr Ursula Biernert as itshuman resources director with effect from 1 April. Shewill sit on the board and become personnel and labourrelations director. Biernert is moving to the transportprovider from the German company Thales, where sheserved as vice-president of human resources and commu-nications from 2009. Biernert was a personnel managerfor Porsche and Volkswagen earlier in her career. She willsucceed Rudolf Müller, who is leaving at his own requestand moving to the German association of mobility andtransport service providers.

Agility CFO for Central EuropeThe logistics provider Agility recently chose Dirk Hoch-mann as its new chief financial officer. He replacedAchim Schlüsener, who left the company in December2012. Hochmann will now manage all finance, admin-istration and IT affairs in the company’s Central Euro-pean region. Hochmann was previously with WalleniusWilhelmsen Logistics Germany, where he was financedirector and in charge of stakes the company held abroad.

Wtransnet France sales managerWtransnet France has chosen Gregory Joubert as its salesmanager in place of Anna Esteve, who held the post fromthe establishment of Wtransnet in France. Joubert joinedthe firm in 2007 and was first in charge of companygroups. His mission now is to develop and manage theFrench market and the sales team. France is considered akey strategic market with the largest trade volume of allthe countries where Wtransnet is active. The freight andtruck exchange Wtransnet was founded on the IberianPeninsula in 1996. It currently has more than 9,000 cus-tomers in 23 countries in Europe and Latin America.

AmericasIT specialist for Globe Express

The logistics serviceproviderGlobeExpressServices has appointed Steve Hankins as itsnew executive vice-president, chief finan-cial officer and chief information officer.Hankins, who will report directly to presi-dent and chief executive officer MichaelC. Hughes, previously managed all aspectsof finance and information technology atTyson Foods, one of the world’s largestfood producers. Prior to becoming CFOof Tyson Foods, Hankins served the samecompany as CIO, managing its IT strategyand leading its global implementation ofthe SAP software.

Martin Stutz, Franziska FreyPhotos: SBB

Steve HankinsPhoto: Globe Express Services

8 People & Companies International Transport Journal 07-08 2013

For WCA in the AmericasReha Erman joined the WCA Family,which represents 4,700 forwarding offic-es in 187 countries around the world, asa regional manager for the Americas on1 February. Erman is an airfreight industryspecialist who previously spent seven yearswith The International Air Cargo Associa-tion, working as director of sales, amongstother things. The WCA Family now em-ploys more than 90 people, working inseven regional service offices around theworld.

Middle EastNew Emirates SkyCargo managerEmirates SkyCargo has selected Moaza AlFalahi as its new vice-president for cargobusiness and product development. Shehas been with Emirates since 2003, whenshe joined a graduate training programmein the IT department. Al Falahi thenworked as a flight analyst before assumingher new role of performance developmentmanager at SkyCargo. Ram Menen, Emir-ates’ divisional senior vice-president forcargo – who has announced his decisionto retire in mid-2013 – said that «Al Falahiwill manage the growth of the SkyCargoproduct line as we continue to invest inour fleet and expand our route network.»

AsiaNew Liscr executive in TokyoThe Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registry(Liscr), the US-based manager of the Liberian registry,has named Takeshi Okamoto as the president and man-aging executive officer of its Tokyo office. He succeededShigeki Fukuda, who became chairman of Liscr Japan.Okamoto joined Liscr from the classification societyClassNK in 2012, having served the latter as a technicalrulemaker as well as as a field surveyor and auditor forshipbuilding and ship operations.

K Line managerial appointmentsThe Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kai-sha (K Line) is making some executive officer changeson 1 April. Executive officer Takashi Yamaguchi willretire from his position and become president of K Line(Japan), whilst his colleague Mitsuru Kochi will becomevice-president of Nitto Total Logistics. Three other ex-ecutive officers have been given new appointments, withformer managing executive officer Tsuyoshi Yamauchibecoming managing director of Taiyo Nippon Kisen Co,Yutaka Nakagawa being named as president of Kawa-saki (Australia) and Akira Misaki set to become generalmanager of the LNG Group. Kazutaka Imaizumi will bepromoted to senior managing executive officer and EijiKadono, Kazuhiko Harigai and Shunichi Arisaka willbecome managing executive officers on 1 April.

Ceva head of Chinese operationsCeva Logistics appointed Jaap Bruining as its new headof operations in China on 1 February. Having workedin the operational field for Ceva in the Netherlands andThailand for eight years, Bruining will now move to thecompany’s Shanghai offices. He started as a so-calledglobal lean director and later took on his current roleas vice-president of operations for contract logistics inThailand.

CongratulationsICTSI Gdynia wins innovation prizeICTSI Gdynia’s Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) re-cently won Polish gold and bronze awards for innovationin the transport and logistics industry. BCT designed across-beam for heavy and large cargo to win gold, whileTopik, ICTSI’s terminal work planning and managementIT system, won bronze.

Veteran beating a new pathThe Beirut-based Lebanese Gezairi Trans-port Group has reported that MohyGhannoum, who held the position ofmanaging director of the internationalfreight forwarding division, is leaving thecompany after a total of 35 years of dedi-cated service. Mona Barwashi, Gezairi’spresident and CEO, praised Ghannoum’ssterling service for the corporation overthe years. Ghannoum has been presidentof the Lebanese Management Association(LMA) since 2011. He is currently pursuinga doctoral programme at Grenoble Univer-sity (France).

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Reha ErmanPhoto: WCA Family

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9International Transport Journal 07-08 2013 Shipping & Ports

Dr Dirk Claus, managing director of theport of Kiel, told the media recently that«more than 6.3 million t of cargo wereturned around last year – an increase of0.3%. In the passenger sector more than1.9 million travellers (+2.2% over theprevious year) boarded or disembarked.We’re very pleased, as the financial as-pects of the result were also positive.»

The lion’s share came from the threelocal ferry firms Color Line, whichhandled about 11,000 load units, StenaLine, with around 80,000 freight unitsand DFDS, which operates liner servicesto Klaipeda, St Petersburg and Ust-Luga.They accounted for almost 80% of totalhandling. All three lines improved theircargo and passenger throughput, and allthree also expect to again improve their

results in 2013. Color Line is already ex-pecting to reach the limits of its freightcapacities in 2013, and is planning todeploy another freighter ferry betweenKiel and Oslo.

Investing in expansionClaus pointed out that «we’re investingmore than EUR 12 million in expand-ing and renovating the Ostuferhafensection.» The expansion of Kiel’s ship/rail intermodal capacities in 2012 wasof outstanding significance for the port.Twice-weekly blocktrains have operatedbetween Kiel and Verona since October,along with a daily intermodal blocktrainto and from Hamburg. Claus said that«these blocktrain services have strength-ened our ability to compete in hinterland

transport options. If this positive devel-opment continues, then we’ll look at theintroduction of further direct links, forexample with Duisburg.» Claus expectsa similarly positive result for the port in2013, but he did not cite any concrete fig-ures in this context. nauticus

www.portofkiel.com

Investing in expansion

Lots of traffic thanks to ferry linesAll ferry lines operating in the port of Kiel managed to improve their freight and their

passenger figures last year. Further improvement is again expected for 2013.

Kiel’s Ostuferhafen is set to be expanded.

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Finnlines’ service between Rostock,Gdynia and Helsinki has been runningsince the end of 2009. «After more thanthree years of indirect services it will nowbe operated as a direct link between Hel-sinki and Rostock,» Finnlines presidentand CEO Uwe Bakosch said recently. Headded that «the schedule is integrated in-to that of the European railway networkin the hinterlands of Rostock and Berlin,

combining with the passenger segment.»Finnlines has additionally started provid-ing a new weekly service from Rostock toBilbao via Zeebrugge. The link aims tooffer a safer, more economical and moreenvironment-friendly alternative to theoverland route from Rostock to destina-tions in Belgium, the Netherlands, Lux-embourg and northern Spain. it

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New direct Helsinki–Rostock service

Finnlines upgrades RostockFinnlines, a member of the Naples-based Grimaldi Group, has launched a direct connection

between Helsinki and Rostock. It also started a new link from Rostock via Zeebrugge to

Bilbao recently. The measures have been designed to reinforce Finnlines’ Rostock strategy.

The «Finnsun» will be deployed on the route to and from Bilbao.

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G6 Alliance expanding into the PacificThe six member lines in the G6 Alliancehave agreed, one year after the alliancewas formed, to expand their cooperationto the Asia–North American east coasttrade. They will deploy more than 50ships in the transpacific trade, calling atjust under 30 ports in Asia, on the NorthAmerican east coast, in Canada, CentralAmerica, the Caribbean, the Indian Sub-continent, the Mediterranean region andthe Middle East.

The six member carriers said in a state-ment that «our cooperation in the Asia–Europe market has provided customerswith comprehensive service coverage aswell as operational efficiency. This newtranspacific arrangement will bring thesame winning formula to the Asia–North

American east coast trade and serve ship-pers trading there.»

The partnership will begin in May,with six services. Three of them will tran-sit the Suez Canal, while the remainingthree will sail via the Panama Canal. Thepartners APL, Hapag-Lloyd, HyundaiMerchant Marine, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines,Nippon Yusen Kaisha and OOCL point-ed out that «from May the coordinatedservices will offer better sailing frequen-cies in the trade’s main ports comparedto what is currently on offer from bothThe New World Alliance and the GrandAlliance combined.» it

www.apl.com; www.hapag-lloyd.comwww.hmm.com; www.mol.co.jp

www.nyk.com; www.oocl.com

In briefCollaboration extended. The Antwerp portauthority and the Panama Canal authorityhave renewed a collaboration agreemententered into in 2010, with the new deal dueto run for five years. The purpose of the pactis to promote trade through the PanamaCanal between the port of Antwerp and thewest coast of South America, by engagingin joint marketing initiatives, the exchangeof market studies and other information,as well as by establishing joint trainingprogrammes. Trade between South Americaand Antwerp through the Panama Canalamounts to approximately 4.7 million t ofgoods annually. These volumes are expectedto grow in the medium-term future, as thecanal is being deepened and widened tohandle larger vessels. www.pancanal.com

www.portofantwerp.com

Rickmers Shipmanagement. RickmersShipmanagement has been awarded ISO50001 certification for both of its offices, inHamburg and Singapore, as well as for tenvessels in its fleet, by GL Systems Certifica-tion. The certificates were handed over toRickmers in Hamburg on 10 January. An-other nine ships are to be certified early in2013. ISO 50001 is a voluntary internationalstandard that provides firms with a frame-work to implement guidelines to improveenergy efficiency, the quality of services andcut emissions.

www.rickmers-shipmanagement.com

Enhanced transit times. The Japanesecarrier K Line is reorganising its two-slingintra-Asia Jabco services, which were oper-ated with SITC as the slot-charterer, fromthe end of February, offering better transittimes between Japan and Thailand. Seven1,300 to 1,700 teu vessels will be deployedon the two loops, with one ship supplied bySITC. The Jabco 1’s port rotation will start inShimizu and proceed to Tokyo, Yokohama,Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Laem Chabang,Bangkok, Laem Chabang and Ho Chi MinhCity before returning to Shimizu. The Jabco2 will call at Tokyo, Yokohama, Hitachinaka,Shanghai, Ningbo, Ho Chi Minh City, Bang-kok, Laem Chabang, Manila and Shanghaiand then return to Tokyo. www.kline.co.jp

New Evergreen service. In January theTaiwanese line Evergreen started a servicelinking Greece, Turkey and Malta, with sail-ings every ten days. The GTM service will beoperated by the 600 teu Kirsten and will callat Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Gebze, Marsaxlokkand Piraeus. www.evergreen-marine.com

11International Transport Journal 07-08 2013 Shipping & Ports

A total of 85.8 million t of goods werehandled in Marseille in 2012, as the vol-ume of cargo slipped by 3%. This wasdue mainly to an 11% drop in oil and gasvolumes, which came in at 52.74 t.

Container throughput at Marseille Fosrose by 13% to 1.062 million teu, with Foscontributing 827,346 teu, a 16% increaseover the previous year. The Marseille sec-tor of the port improved its figures by 1%to 235,062 teu. General cargo volumes in-creased by 11% to 17.22 t, whilst reducedtrade with North Africa saw ro-ro trafficdown by 2% to 180,734 units.

Word from Marseille has it that theleading French cargo port’s good resultsbenefited primarily from the first fullyear of operation after the national port

reforms, the return of client confidence,and additional logistics activities as wellas the two private Fos 2XL container ter-minals coming fully on stream. it

www.marseille-port.fr

DP World to build fourthterminal in Nhava ShevaIndia’s maritime ports are congested,particularly the largest container port inthe country, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port(or port of Nhava Sheva) near Mumbai.Vessels heading for the hub regularly hav-ing to wait offshore for a berth. Thus theJawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, the hub’soperator, has now mandated DP Worldto build a new terminal there, in orderto relieve the situation at least partially.

The Dubai-based terminal operator isset to invest USD 200 million in a newcontainer terminal, which is expected tocommence operations in 2015 and willadd annual capacity of approximately800,000 teu to the port. His excellencySultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, chairmanof DP World, said at a ceremony heldto mark the awarding of the contract tohis company that «we’re very pleased tohave the opportunity to further developJawaharlal Nehru Port and to contributeto the growth of India’s economy by im-proving the efficiency of the supply chainfor importers and exporters.»

17-year concession for a 17 ha yardThe plans envisage the fourth containerterminal being built directly adjacent tothe three existing DP World facilities inthe hub. It will offer a quay length of 330m, will be able to handle ships with adraught of 13.5 m and will have a 17 habox yard. The Jawaharlal Nehru PortTrust has awarded DP World a 17-yearconcession to run the facility.

India is an important market for DPWorld. The corporation has said that theAsia-Pacific region in general, and theIndian Subcontinent in particular, are thetwo most important engines driving thegroup’s throughput volumes. In the firsthalf of 2012 DP World’s overall volumeshandled rose by more than 12% to 13.3million teu. DP World operates five con-tainer handling facilities in India, namelyin Chennai and Visakhapatnam on theeast coast and in Mundra, Nhava Shevaand Cochin on the west coast.

The limits of the hubs’ capacities arebeing reached. The Indian planning com-mission assumes that the country’s portswill need to almost double their capaci-ties in the next five years in order to beable to cope with ever increasing through-put volumes. ahv

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Another year of instability for ocean freightDrewry Maritime Research has predictedthat the global container shipping marketwill absorb another 1.6 million teu of newship deliveries this year, leading to a netincrease of about 7.5% in the global cel-lular fleet capacity. On the demand side,Drewry forecasts muted growth of 4.6%in 2013. In another year of excess supplygrowth, Drewry believes that the cost ofshipping will be affected by freight ratesthat will remain highly volatile in 2013,with a modest increase of around 2% inaverage east–west freight rates.

These developments will also be reflect-ed in the contract renewal context. Con-tract rates that took effect in early 2012,during a price war between ocean carriers,are due to expire soon. These very low con-tract rates will then be replaced by slightlyhigher, but still relatively low ones. Thequestion many people in the industry are

now asking concerns whether carriers willgo back to controlling capacity in order toprotect their cash flows. This is what hap-pened in 2010, when capacity was slashed,freight rates ratcheted up and agreed con-tracts renegotiated by carriers.

Professional behaviour requiredIn this context, Drewry advises shippersto develop close relationships with a coregroup of preferred carriers. It also sug-gests running detailed professional ten-ders, rather than trying to capitalise on at-tractive short-term price reductions fromunfamiliar or opportunistic carriers.

The WCI reported that the rates inthe Shanghai–Rotterdam trade declinedfrom USD 2,727/feu (on 10 January) toUSD 2,472/feu (on 7 February).

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Cuxport registered high growth rates last

year, above all in automobile logistics,

but the port operator said that it had also

expanded its activities in the wind energy

industry and in trailer handling.

The port operator Cuxport, in which theGerman firms Rhenus and HHLA Con-tainer Terminals hold 74.9% and 25.1%respectively, is pleased with its results infinancial 2012. It handled around 1.6million t of goods in maritime opera-tions. The number of employees work-ing in the multipurpose terminal rose tomore than 200, and the number of callsfrom ships also increased by about onethird. Now the centre needs to build ad-ditional handling areas to cater for theexpected further growth.

Cuxport increased the number of carsand commercial vehicles handled lastyear by 6.4% in comparison with 2011,to reach about 240,000 units. Cuxport’smanaging director Hans-Peter Zint ex-plained that «last year we invested exten-sively in the automobile logistics field,adding an automated washing facility andalso expanding our workshop for the un-dercarriage conservation of cars.»

Wind energy a good prospectThe project segment wind energy has alsogrown into an important field. The load-ing of no less than 30 monopiles and 180tower segments, as well as handling ro-tor blades for onshore wind farms, weresome of the tasks carried out in this sec-tor last year. The division also supportedthe maritime cable logistics activities ofthe German company Offshore MarineManagement, handling 280 t of com-munications cables to link the HelWinoffshore platform, amongst other things.

Managing director Michael de Reesesees developments in the North Sea hubpositively, elaborating that «our multi-purpose service strategy is bearing fruit.Today we’re in great demand in the auto-mobile logistics segment, in the originalequipment manufacturer field, as well asby manufacturers and service provider inthe wind energy industry, thanks to theexpansion of our services and our intensi-fied customer relations.»

The setbacks suffered by the port logisti-cian are owed to declining rates of growthin container and roll-trailer throughputin the United Kingdom, which the com-

pany was at least partially able to com-pensate for thanks to growth in the trailersegment. it

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Duisport again handles more boxesThe duisport group handled 63.3 mil-lion t of goods in all of its ports in2012, which is 1.3% down on in its re-cord 2011 results of 64.1 million t. Totalturnover from combined transport againincreased. Container cargo by ship, railand truck grew by 4% to 2.6 million teu,compared to 2.5 million teu in 2011, thussetting another new record. The duisportgroup expects total turnover for the en-tire inland port of Duisburg, including

private commercial hubs, to reach 110million t for the year under review, whichis a 12% decline on the prior year, when125.6 million t were registered. ErichStaake, the chief executive officer of thecompany Duisburger Hafen (duisport),said that «the most noticeable effectshere are from a downturn in coal andsteel volumes handled, due to the overalleconomic situation.» it

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27% increase for Swiss inland ports on the RhineThe Port of Switzerland, operator ofthe Swiss Rhine ports in Basel, regis-tered a total throughput of 7.2 milliont in 2012, or growth of just under 27%.Import volumes developed particularlywell. Imports in the oil sector were themain cause for this development. The102,240 teu handled in the containersegment represented a 10% improvementand the second-best result ever posted bythe Swiss inland ports on the Rhine. Thetrend towards improvements in the con-tainer sector was thus confirmed. Of the

approximately 7.2 million t handled in2012 (compared to almost 5.7 million in2011), 6.3 million t were accounted forby imports (compared to 4.87 million tin 2011) and 1 million t by exports (com-pared to 964,000 t in 2011). Imports thusimproved by 31.5%, whilst exports grewby a relatively modest 4.9%. The Portof Switzerland said that the comparisonwith 2011 is characterised by the fact thatthat year was an extraordinarily poor onefor inland shipping on the Rhine. it

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airport, will offer a shared warehouse for customers from various indus-tries (including the healthcare, electronics and automotive sectors). TheEUR 41 million facility will have a floor area of nigh-on 55,000 sqmon three floors. The DB Schenker centre will feature highly-effectivethermal insulation and a rainwater management system, amongst oth-ers. The integrated building management system has been designed tocreate a green and sustainable environment. ra

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Expandingacross the boardThe German service provider DB Schenker Logistics is

currently constructing three new logistics centres

in Czechia, Germany and Singapore. They are due to

commence operations in autumn 2013 and in 2014.

DB Schenker Logistics recently commenced construc-tion work on a new logistics centre in Rudná u Prahy,close to the Czech capital Prague. The terminal has beendesigned to meet most advanced technological, safetyand environmental requirements. DB Schenker is set toinvest a total of approximately EUR 23.5 million in theproject, the corporation has announced. The total areaof the new centre covers almost 91,000 sqm, and it willbe the workplace for 320 employees. It is scheduled tostart operations this autumn.

The logistics centre will consist of a 8,000 sqm hall,featuring 92 loading bays, including six jumbo platforms,and a 4,700 sqm office building. It will be equippedwith an intelligent lighting system and a top-of-the-rangeheating, ventilation and air conditioning system. Thesecurity system has been designed to ensure the high-est standards. DB Schenker will apply for Tapa A levelcertification. Customers will also benefit from a bondedwarehouse and a storage centre dedicated to hazardousand flammable substances (ADR).

Both the office building and the warehouse have beendesigned to ensure that their impact on the environmentis minimised. An in-house photovoltaic power stationand a system for the solar heating of hot service water area part of the project. A heat pump has also been planned.The architects also intend to include a compressed natu-ral gas pumping station. Over and above this the moderncentre will also feature a café and a canteen. There willbe 178 parking spaces for cars and 90 for trucks. Greenareas will cover approximately 37,000 sqm.

New terminals in Nuremberg and Singapore tooThe German service provider has also held a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of constructionwork on a new state-of-the-art logistics centre at theinland port of Nuremberg (Germany). Around 380 em-ployees will provide extensive one-stop logistics serviceson the 54,000 sqm plot of land from the beginning of2014. Schenker Deutschland is set to bundle all of thevarious Nuremberg branch offices’ logistics activities(including domestic and international road haulage,ocean and airfreight) at the new location.

In Singapore, in turn, the corporation is also buildinga new integrated logistics centre. The facility, located inthe Tampines LogisPark close to Changi international

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stopover for their products. The facility,which covers three storeys and offers atotal area of 4,000 sqm, includes highbay warehouses, commissioning stations,and a special area for fashion and lifestyleproducts, where both hanging garmentsas well as boxed goods can be storedsafely.

The logistics centre has modern cam-era systems that monitor all areas aroundthe clock. Of course it is also integratedinto Logwin’s worldwide IT system. Log-win has been present in Australia since1978. www.logwin-logistics.com

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New facilityin SydneyThe international logistics service provider

Logwin, which is based in Grevenmacher

(Luxembourg), recently commenced opera-

tions in a new warehouse in Sydney.

Logwin’s new warehouse in Sydney wasdesigned to cater to customers with prod-ucts from a variety of industries, who willall benefit from a wide range of air andocean freight options, as well as otherlogistics services. Logwin thus offerscomplete supply chain solutions in thenewly-built modern centre, where it hasbundled existing projects that were previ-ously handled at various other sites.

The majority of customers in the newcentre come from the electronics, me-chanical engineering, fashion, consumergoods and project logistics industries.The new location is especially interest-ing for companies that see Sydney as a

In briefITX Cargo and Yekas Logistics. TheMilan-based Italian forwarder ITX Cargo hasbecome an official partner of Yekas Logis-tics, headquartered in Istanbul (Turkey).The latter is one of Turkey’s biggest freightforwarders and specialises in traffic to andfrom Italy. www.itxcargo.com

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Ipsen Logistics. The Bremen-based Germantransport and logistics service provider IpsenLogistics, which manages international op-erations, has opened a new office at KualaLumpur airport (Malaysia).

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Norbert Dentressangle. The French trans-port and logistics service provider NorbertDentressangle boosted its turnover to EUR3.88 billion in financial 2012, 8.5% morethan the EUR 3.58 billion generated in 2011.ND’s transport division once again made thestrongest contribution in 2012, bringing inEUR 2.038 billion, followed by logistics (EUR1.783 billion) and the forwarding sector(EUR 143 million).

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Dietrich-Honold. The topping-out ceremonyfor a new logistics centre for the Dietrich-Honold joint venture was recently held inTimisoara (Romania). The facility, whichtook a year to build, has added 10,000 sqmof logistics areas to the 50,000 sqm alreadyavailable at the Timisoara location. Thepartners have already made further plansto expand the logistics centre by another10,000 sqm this year. The Dietrich-Honoldfirm is a joint venture between the two Ger-man service providers Dietrich Logistik andHonold Logistik. www.honold.net

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ID Logistics. In financial 2012 the Frenchservice provider ID Logistics improved itssales figure by 21% in comparison withlast year, with sales coming in at EUR 560million compared to EUR 462 million in theprevious year. www.id-logistics.com

Singapore Post. The mail service providerSingapore Post has spent SGD 60 million(about EUR 37 million) on the acquisitionof a 62.5% stake in the Singapore-basedfreight forwarding company Famous Hold-ings, which was founded in 1998. Bothcompanies have also agreed on an option tosell the remaining 37.5% stake at the end of2015, at a price to be agreed on.

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Troubled fourth quarterfor UPS in 2012

The US parcel service provider and inte-grator UPS posted a net loss of USD 1.7billion in the fourth quarter of financial2012. In the same quarter of 2011 thecompany had generated a profit of USD725 million. UPS’s operational resultcollapsed dramatically to hit USD –2.8billion in the quarter. The main reasonfor these poor figures was the fact thatUPS had to create a USD 3 billion reservefor its pension fund. On a more prom-ising note, UPS succeeded in raising itsturnover by nearly 3% in the period un-der review, bringing in USD 14.6 billion.The corporation’s volume of shipmentsincreased by 2.9% compared to the samethree months a year earlier.

Slipping into the red in the latest quar-ter is a second recent bitter pill for the cor-poration, after its planned merger withTNT Express was definitely buried by theEU’s directorate general for competitionin January. ra

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SBS Worldwide entersinto Swiss partnership

The supply chain solutions provider SBSWorldwide, based in Dartford (England),and the Swiss company Tibbett & BrittenUnique, from Kloten near Zurich, haveentered into an agency agreement.

The contract sees Tibbett & BrittenUnique carrying out logistics services forSBS Worldwide in all of Switzerland. Tib-bett & Britten Unique operates 3,500 sqmof bonded and non-bonded warehousingfacilities in and around Zurich’s inter-national airport. The company providesa full range of services to handle goodsquickly, efficiently, and economically, of-fering LCL and FCL cargo, air and oceanfreight, customs brokerage, warehousingand distribution options.

ThecompanyTibbett&BrittenUniqueis a member of Iata, Fiata, Spedlogswiss(the Swiss forwarders’ association) as wellas of the forwarders’ networks WCA andIGLN. ra

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Transport and logistics companies that take up the cause of environ-mental protection should rein in their communications on this topic.Exaggerated advertising campaigns are potential business risks. Theycould invite damage to a company’s image, if circumstances were con-troversial. If, for example, you hope that installing a few solar collectorswill «greenwash» your enterprise, you must assume that this vain hopewill be exposed at some point.

Even scandals involving contractors, suppliers or busi-ness partners can cast a shadow on a company’s cred-ibility with regard to its ecological and ethical claims.There is no lack of such examples. If a company is linkedto the cutting down of rain forests or child labour, topick just two examples, it must assume that damage toits image – that is, negative market response to its greenambitions – will follow.

Green logistics as part of a company’s cultureThis appeal comes from someone who knows what heis talking about – Dr Gunther Krell, managing directorof the Swiss consultancy CO2lutions, which specialisesin helping companies optimise their fleets on land, onwater and in the air for both economics and ecology.The core of his supply chain mantra is to minimise cost,fuel consumption and emissions. Even customers whothink they are in a good position are surprised afterwards«that they are able to achieve so much more,» Krell said.

Based on his experience – Krell does not doubt thefinal triumph of green logistics – the industry’s playerscan be divided into three groups.• Group number one, the largest, has no specific plans.

It initially collects information about inherent possi-bilities, perspectives, opportunities, risks and possiblelegal problems. Based on the consultation, it wants tolay the cornerstone for its own strategy.

• In the second group intensive measures to protect theenvironment are already an issue. It eyes measureswhich cost little, can be implemented quickly andachieve the most wide-spread effect. Such possibilitieslurk, for example, in moving from air to sea freight,which performs better in terms of CO2 emissions.

• Group number three uses green logistics to push forinternal innovation and organisational change. Forthis group green logistics is not a means in itself, buta framework for introducing new products, processesand structures – to which end they try to persuadeemployees, suppliers and customers.

«Even five years ago,» Krell, whose company’s headquar-ters are in Schindellegi (Switzerland), sums up, «therewere no companies in the third category, as far as I know.Today there are many.» In these companies green logis-tics has become an integral part of company culture.Others are actively involved in the transition to ecologi-cal logistics processes.

In the past relatively few transport and logistics cus-tomers showed willingness to include, in addition toprice, environmental aspects in their buying decisions.

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Now the tide has turned. While the ques-tion of cost remains the primary decidingfactor in the process, more and more cus-tomers grapple with the question whetherthey can award a specific contract with aclear conscience. «Ecological considera-tions will become an ever more impor-tant criterion,» Krell predicted.

Moral imperativeThe trend is due to social and politicalpressures, if nothing else. Keywords arearticles in newspapers, magazines andtrade publications, TV and radio shows,trade events, as well as organisations thatseek to help to protect the environment.Over and above this European truckclasses, CO2 fees and credits, tolls andlow emission zones in city centres arealso important.

In addition, the transport and logisticsindustry’s hand in terms of morality isbeing forced by its customers. Krell com-pares the fundamental change of heart

with «millions of consumers who arewilling to dig deeper into their walletsfor regional organic products.» Thus inthe supply chain the focus is increasinglyplaced on local content, especially since13% of pan-European CO2 emissions arecaused by freight traffic. «Politics cannotignore this fact.»

For your children and your walletEven less so when in the old world all oth-er carbon dioxide emissions shrank whilefreight volume and its emissions surged.This fact makes increased pressure at alllevels – from the top (legislature) to themiddle (transport/logistics customers)and the bottom (population) – unavoid-able, Krell said.

Under these circumstances, he enjoinscompany directors to use change manage-ment within a green framework to mini-mise the CO2 footprint. «Your childrenand your wallet will thank you.»

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DSV settles USclass action lawsuitABX Logistics Worldwide, which hasbeen a subsidiary of the Danish trans-port and logistics corporation DSV since2008, has entered into an agreement tosettle a US class action lawsuit alleginganti-competitive practices in relation tocertain surcharges for freight forwardingservices. The settlement, which is subjectto US court approval, provides that ABXLogistics Worldwide will pay a fine ofUSD 3.5 million. DSV intends to seekreimbursement of the financial loss fromthe previous owners of ABX Logistics, inaccordance with agreements made withthese parties. ABX Logistics Worldwide,which was originally a subsidiary of theBelgian state railway enterprise SNCB,has been making heavy losses. In 2006it was sold to the British investment fund3i and was then sold by the latter to theDSV group in 2008. ra

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Dr Gunther Krell. A supply chain simulation diagram he uses in his work as a logistics lecturer canbe seen in the background.

Dr Gunther Krell, who, in addition to his native language German speaks fluent English andadvanced Japanese, worked in key logistics positions in global corporations such as IBM, DHL andKuehne + Nagel, where he developed special projects, among other things, before founding hisown company, called Supply Chain Innovations. He acquired his professional tools at the Techni-cal University of Berlin (bachelor of science in industrial engineering), the Georgia Institute ofTechnology in Atlanta (master of science in industrial engineering) and the University of St Gallen(Switzerland, Ph.D. in business administration – innovation and technology management). Inaddition to running his company, which operates in the environmental sector under the brandname CO2lutions, the 46-year-old regularly lectures at the Swiss Technical University in Zurich (inthe ETH’s SCM MBA programme) and at Lucerne University. His teaching focuses on supply chainmanagement and cooperation between partners, as well as on green and returns logistics. Krell,who has lived and worked in Switzerland for 17 years, became self-employed in mid-2009. Sincethen he has created a network of cooperation partners all over Europe.

Director and lecturer in one

New System Alliancepartner in SerbiaThe general cargo collaboration SystemAlliance Europe has added a new part-ner member in Serbia to its system. Thecompany Gebrüder Weiss d.o.o., based inDobanovci (near Belgrade), strengthenedthe alliance in January. Thus System Al-liance now has 52 partners with 183 cen-tres in 26 European countries. GebrüderWeiss d.o.o. is a member of the Austrianforwarding and logistics firm GebrüderWeiss. www.gw-world.com

GLS adjusting pricesin GermanyOn 1 April 2013 GLS Germany, partof the pan-European parcel allianceGLS, will raise its prices by an averageof 5.8%. The measures will apply to thedispatch of business customers’ domesticand international parcels. The prices forprivate consignees will remain the same,both in the firm’s parcel shops as well asfor online business. www.gls-group.eu

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Swiss WorldCargo, the freight unit of Swiss, a subsidiary of the German national airline

Lufthansa, remains on a solid growth path in its eleventh year of operations. The full-

freighter operator’s chief pilot recently talked to the ITJ about the latest developments.

Swiss strengthened its Geneva station atthe end of last year. Might new long-haulservices be in the pipeline there too?Swiss WorldCargo has a small team atGeneva airport, which will continue to re-port to Adolfo Liguori, our senior directorfor Switzerland. French-speaking Switzer-land is a very important catchment area forSwiss WorldCargo, with many producersof high value goods (watches, machinery,speciality chemicals, etc.). We’re delightedthat Swiss has made a commitment to theGeneva base, so our customers can rely ondaily long-haul flights to New York, manyEuropean connections and truck and flightlinks to the hub in Zurich and from thereto our worldwide long-haul network. Long-haul operations can only be sustained fromthe Zurich hub, or be based on very strongpoint-to-point traffic, as is the case withGeneva–New York, with the UN, manybanks and other institutions providing regu-lar custom in terms of both passengers andcargo. Therefore Zurich will remain the fo-cus of our future long-haul expansion plans.

Lufthansa Technik may be quitting Ba-sel, and there are rumours that Luft-hansa Cargo may also want to with-draw from Switzerland. What is yourcomment on these developments?Switzerland is obviously a very importantcatchment area for Lufthansa Cargo andits teams, together with Swiss World-Cargo’s, help the group to maintain avery strong market leadership. LufthansaCargo is here to stay.

How happy are you, in the light of theDreamliner disaster, that you don’thave any Boeing aircraft in your fleet?I am happy that Swiss hasn’t orderedDreamliners and is not living the night-mare which is currently engulfing thosecarriers. Boeing nevertheless remains ahighly reputable manufacturer of first-class aircraft. Its products may feature infleet expansion or replacement optionswe have. www.swissworldcargo.com

In conversation with Oliver Evans, Swiss WorldCargo’s CCO

Geneva and Boeing on our agenda

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Mr Evans, can you tell us about SwissWorldCargo’s latest financial and op-erative data?We don’t publish divisional results (forSwiss WorldCargo, for example), and inany case are bound to non-disclosure untilthe announcement of the 2012 results ofLufthansa and Swiss are made (which willbe in March – ed.).

However, our traffic figures for 2012have been published. We increased ourcargo load factor by 0.8% to 79.3% in2012, while the load factor in Decemberwas more or less unchanged at 82.3%. Theftk figure, by contrast, was up by 8.9%for the full year, and rose by 10% for themonth of December.

Swiss is set to commence operations ona new long-haul route to Singapore inMay. Last year you spoke about launch-ing a further destination in 2013. Wherewill it be – in Asia or in North America?Singapore will be our only new long-hauldestination in 2013.

In briefChinese to Geneva. Air China, one of theworld’s largest airlines, with a fleet of morethan 400 aircraft, will link Beijing up withGeneva four times a week from 7 May. Thecarrier’s first Swiss destination will see anAirbus A330-200 deployed, which has afreight capacity of 45 t. www.gva.chwww.airchina.com; www.airchinacargo.com

New alliance. The Transportation Alliance &Logistics Association (Tala) was founded inJanuary. The alliance, which will be headquar-tered in Miami FL (USA), same as Tiaca, hasexperienced members in more than 100 loca-tions worldwide. Tala aims to provide logisticssolutions for airlines, helicopter operators,aircraft manufacturers and maintenance andrepair organisations working in the aviationand space flight sectors. www.tala.aero

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with 168,209 t handled(+1.5%), whilst MoscowSheremetyevo, the secondhub in the Russian capital,came 22nd with 153,896 t(+25%). Germany’s Hahnairport registered a greatloss, similar to airports inmany other regions, suchas Latin Europe’s Milanand Madrid, Western Eu-rope’s Liege and CentralEurope’s Vienna hub.

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European airfreight hubs in 2012

Frankfurt slips but retains leadThough a few more tonnes of airfreight were handled in Paris than in Frankfurt in the last month of last year, the German hub neverthe-

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ACI Europe, the association of Europeanairports, recently reported an airfreightvolume decline of approximately 2.8%vis-à-vis the previous like-for-like periodacross the continent, both for Decemberand for all of 2012. Switzerland registeredless fluctuation last year. Zurich was ableto continue its promising autumnal trendin December, recording a rise of 3.4%vis-à-vis the like-for-like period last yearto 25,000 t of airfreight. It thus closedthe whole year 2% better than 2011,which was also reflected in the Europe-an ranking. Geneva in contrast (–10.1%to 3,790 t handled) and Basel (–13.9%to 3,072 t) were less pleased with theirprogress in the last month of the year.At least the former reported growth forthe whole year (+1.4% to 46,479 t). Baselfared worse than the industry average,however, losing 5.2% of its 2011 volumeto hit 39,120 t for the whole year. It nev-ertheless expects its airfreight business togrow by around 4% in 2013.

Leipzig Halle vs HahnThe big four airfreight hubs retained thetop slots last year, despite losses. Frank-furt retook the top slot from Paris again.But the true winners and losers were to befound a bit lower down the rankings. Thelist of winners is topped by Leipzig Halle,which stoutly defended its fifth placefrom 2011 with a double-digit growthrate. Istanbul (Atatürk) also gainedground, but less so than Copenhagen,London Stansted, Helsinki and Sheremet-yevo. Moscow Domodedovo came 21st

South Korea’s Asiana Airlines switched itshandling partner from WFS to Fraport CargoServices (FCS) at Frankfurt airport on 1 Feb-ruary. Asiana, which operates a daily B747Combi and five B747 full-freighter flights aweek to Frankfurt and which has 28 interna-tional cargo destinations, will have its own5,000 sqm storage facility at the hub.

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Dautel, a Ger-man manu-facturer ofloading equip-ment, hydrau-lic platformsand swap-bodysystems forlorries whichwas establish-ed in 1922,has optimisedits hydraulicplatforms forh e a v y - d u t y

distribution tasks. It can now deliver twomodels with aluminium platforms and astable aluminium chassis with immediateeffect. Managing director Rutger Dautelsaid that «the combination of aluminiumon both sides makes the units particu-larly suitable for demanding professionaltasks.» Dautel said that the unit’s non-corrosive qualities, low weight and robust-ness as well as their attractive aestheticswere some of the arguments in favour ofthe new equipment. Surfaces with anti-slip qualities can also be supplied if re-quired. www.dautel.de

The basis for the Czech-Polish coopera-tion deal was a decision taken by CDCargo to establish a link between its ownsingle-wagon network and that of DBSchenker Rail’s scheduled train servicein Poland called Schlesien (Silesia). Thusthree pairs of trains a week have been run-ning under the name of Moravia sincethen, connecting the largest Czech shunt-ing yard in Ostrava to the Polish railwaystation in Sławecice.

The scheduled train Schlesien has carriedsingle and groups of wagons to a series ofstations in the industrial region of Silesiasince 2010. Its continuation now to Po-land’s southern neighbour will strength-en single-wagon operations in the entireregion. Growing demand for the service«proves that these options can hold theirown in the market,» according to DBSchenker Rail. The offering is aimedmainly at customers from the chemicaland iron and steel industries, where thecall for single-wagon options is extensive.

Christian Schreyer, DB Schenker RailPolska’s CEO, pointed out that «the newconnection is the result of a strategy thathas been implemented consistently. It notonly benefits from Poland’s geographi-

cally advantageous position, but alsochannels goods into corridors and opensup a broad range of high-value and in-novative services for small wagon groupsas well as for single-wagon traffic for ourcustomers.» www.dbschenker.com

DB Schenker Rail Polska and CD Cargo launch single-wagon traffic option

Improving through «Moravia»The Polish firm DB Schenker Rail Polska and the Czech entity CD Cargo have linked the

largest shunting yard in Czechia to Poland several times a week since the start of the year.

The «Moravia» train links CD Cargo’s and DBSchenker Rail Polska’s single-wagon traffic.

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System Alliance Europenow in Greece

The Greek firm Orphee BeinoglouInternational Forwarders has strength-ened the System Alliance Europe part-nership network with its branches inAthens and Thessaloniki. This meansthat the groupage alliance now has 53partners with 185 branches in 27 coun-tries. Orphee Beinoglou was foundedin 1923 and has since developed into aleading national forwarder. The firm isalso represented in the Balkans and theeastern Mediterranean region.

Uwe Meyer, the managing director ofSystem Alliance Europe, told the mediathat «I’m confident that we’ve respondedto the current difficult market environ-ment with a bull’s eye. Orphee Beino-glou has all the requisite commercial andbusiness expertise.» Orphee Beinogloumanages high-quality processing in alllogistics fields, thanks to a total of 600experienced employees, 380 of whomwork in Greece. The company has estab-lished quite a reputation as a specialist inthe global transportation of works of art,taking all the safety and quality standardsinto account. www.beinoglou.gr

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Bridge superstructuresfor cross-country trucks

A consortium consisting of the Swisscompanies Frech-Hoch Estech and GKGrünenfelder has been awarded a con-tract by the Swiss army’s procurement di-vision to manufacture 400 bridge super-structures for cross-country trucks. BothFrech-Hoch Estech, based in Sissach,and GK Grünenfelder, headquartered inKriessern, have many years of experiencein producing military vehicles and othermobility solutions. They were awardedthis latest contract on the basis of the factthat the offer they had submitted to carryout the tender, which involves a great dealof high-tech know-how, was the most eco-nomical submission.

The vehicles involved include 150 unitsof 6x6 and 250 units of 4x4 Iveco trucks, acompany that forms a part of the ItalianFiat corporation. They will be equippedwith torsion-free loading bridges with tar-paulins, ensuring the best-possible cross-country characteristics. The vehicles willbe used for universal transport jobs andwill additionally also be deployed attimes as tractors for various units. Thefirst of the 400 vehicles will be deliveredin May. www.gk-gruenenfelder.com

The new platform type isalso available in variouscolours.

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An error crept into our article entitled «Abreakthrough?». The first block containertrain from Chengdu to Lodz did not carry4,140 boxes, but 41 feu (41 40’ containers.)

Corrigendum ITJ 05-06/2013, page 19

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The market for temperature-controlled freight and the appropri-

ate packaging is a hotly-contested field. The English company

Notbox is following up its success in serving the 2012 London

Olympic Games and expanding to North America, as well as

developing new options for the healthcare supply chain.

managing direc-tor of «The Notbox Company», said that «we’ve held discussions with various cold chain specialists since then, in order to satisfy the industry’s strict requirements.» Now the company is in the process of develop-ing a foldable product which will allow healthcare corporations to carry sensitive goods at 8°C over short distances.

The last mile in the distribution chain is also an important segment of the North American market, which Notbox entered in the new year. «Cardboard is used to ship 90% of all products in the USA,» according to Thomas Hellman, chairman and president of Notbox North America. «We see a great market potential for Not-

box in the healthcare sector, as there is a growing interest in sustainable opera-tions by businesses and consumers alike.» Hellman added that the global packaging industry is worth around USD 424 bil-lion, with North America accounting for around 28% thereof. ah

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New solutions to keep your cool

If Notbox’s reusable and multi-faceted units were to replace cardboard packaging, then European customers alone could cut costs by more than USD 10 million and prevent more than 15,000 t of CO2 emissions. Photo: Notbox

The Notbox company from England has launched a new eco-friendly reusable transportation coolbox suitable for use by the healthcare industry, amongst oth-ers. It is based on a model successfully used during the London Olympic Games. Notbox supported Olympic logistics op-erations as a supplier of coolboxes for more than 6,000 urine and blood samples taken from athletes competing in Lon-don during the 19 days of the Olympics.

The Notbox coolbox proved its cre-dentials, with 400 samples a day being transported to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s accredited laboratory in Har-low, Essex. The Notbox used during the Olympics protected the integrity of blood samples for six hours in a 2–12°C temperature range. Jonathan Cobb, the

UIC ends collaboration with EpalAfter the European Pallet Association (Epal) decided, after a tender process, to have its quality control carried out by the audit organisation Bureau Veritas, the International Union of Railways (UIC) withdrew the status of authorised pallet organisation from the latter. Epal said that it «regrets the decision», but added that it «intends to remain the lead-

ing organisation for the free exchange of quality-assured timber pallets and boxpallets even after the end of co-operation.» Epal has been operating since 1995 and has 1,500 licensed members. In 2012 approximately 67 mil-lion Epal Europallets were produced under Epal’s quality assurance terms. Around 450 million Epal Europallets are in the exchange system. www.epal-pallets.org

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With rapidly growing consumer marketsand a growing number of raw materialsuppliers, African countries are becom-ing steadily more interesting. 16% of thesurveyed experts in the Agility Emerg-ing Markets Index 2013 concluded thatAsian–African trade would experiencestrong growth in the short term. Chineseinvestments in Africa alone, inter alia inCongo, Zambia and Angola, amountedto more than USD 45 billion in the pe-riod up to 2012. Opening up these mar-kets of the future, however, remains risky.

The costs of trading with and in Af-rica are disproportionately high. Accord-ing to the World Bank, an internationalimporter must spend around USD 20,000weekly on customs duties and licenses inorder to import and distribute his goodsin an African country, and 1,600 docu-ments are needed on average to send atruck with cargo across the border into a

neighbouring country. This factor aloneprovides intra-African trade with plentyof untapped potential.

As far as the central issue of transportinfrastructure is concerned, work is go-ing on in many places. It is neverthelessthe key obstacle to economic growth inAfrica, according to the African Develop-ment Bank. The South African govern-ment’s Transnet has allocated ZAR 52 bil-lion (approximately EUR 4.3 billion) tothe expansion of railfreight activities and

the acquisition of rolling stock in its five-year plan. Angola is counting on Chineseinvestments for its Benguela railway line,as is Nigeria, for the modernisation of theLagos–Ibadan railway. In July 2012 Nige-ria signed an agreement with the ChinaCivil Engineering Construction Com-pany valued at USD 1.5 billion for themodernisation of the railway line, whichis expected to be completed in threeyears. In November 2012 the Nigerianminister of construction, Mike Onoleme-men, entrusted the work of rebuilding theLagos–Ibadan road expressway to JuliusBerger Nigeria and RCC Nigeria.

There is thus some evidence that itcontinues to be worthwhile to pay atten-tion to the African renaissance. On 1 Feb-ruary Maersk and CMA CGM increasedtheir freight rates from India to WestAfrican ports. Africa’s potential remainsundiminished.

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Africa as a growth market and a place to invest

Markets of tomorrowSub-Saharan Africa is booming. The International Monetary Fund has forecast average

GDP growth of 5% annually for the years up to 2016 for many countries. The lack of

logistics infrastructure is the continent’s Achilles heel, however.

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26 Africa’s airfreight sectorgrew strongly in 2012

27 Port of Mombasa improvesfigures over 2011

27 Coyne Airways serves 30destinations in Africa

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David Humphrey, the head of StandardBank’s power and infrastructure division,did not mince his words when he said inJanuary that «African nations will needto spend more than USD 50 billion onnew rail networks over the next ten years,to meet growing demand for mineral re-source transportation.» This relates bothto the export of minerals, as well as to bulkoperations in mining regions. Distributionnetworks to ship consumer goods to grow-ing markets have to be improved too.

The bank estimates that about 4,000km of new rail infrastructure is requiredto unlock the continent’s mineral re-source potential. The infrastructure hasnot kept up with mineral exports of ironore, manganese and coal. Mining outputhas started to exceed rail capacities, de-spite efforts to upgrade and maintain raillinks, above all in West Africa and Mo-

zambique. A USD 3 billion write off oncoal mines in Mozambique – due to inad-equate transport capacities – is one factorthat led to the departure of Tom Albaneseas CEO of Rio Tinto, the world’s largestmining corporation in January.

At the same time, bottlenecks may emergein African coastal shipping. The AfricanUnion and the Association of AfricanShipowners (Asos) may be planning to in-troduce new cabotage laws that could barnon-African-owned vessels from carryingcargo between African countries.

However, the move contradicts recentcabotage research. A World EconomicForum report entitled «Enabling trade –valuing growth opportunities», compiledwith Bain & Company and the WorldBank, concluded that in the two cabo-tage jurisdictions China and the USAsuch barriers damage the economy andcreate costs. Lack of competition leads toinefficient shipping. It remains to be seenwhether and how quickly the states of theAU will ratify an African maritime trans-port charter, which would reorganise thecabotage regulations. Christian Doepgen

Africa’s largest bank analyses the continents transport routes

Infrastructure investment requiredTransport is considered a crucial element for growing import and export volumes in Africa. South Africa’s Standard Bank, the continent’s

largest banking institute, estimates that African railways need investments of around USD 50 billion just to meet demand. The fact that

Africans want to remain an island unto themselves in the cabotage transport field does not fit the picture.

The railways are the key to economicdevelopment in Africa.

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New national branch forGefco in South AfricaThe French transport and logistics group Gefco recently openeda national branch in South Africa. Gefco, which has been rep-resented in Johannesburg since 2009, can thus now offer clientslogistics services across the entire country. Gefco’s new opera-tion will mainly provide customers from the industrial segmentand other fields with overseas transportation options for importand export goods. These will include house-to-house services,customs clearance options, warehousing, quality control anddistribution services. www.gefco.net

Kuehne+Nagel lands Agco spareparts contract in JohannesburgThe global service provider Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) has beenawarded a contract by the US farm machinery manufacturer Agcoto manage its aftermarket parts distribution centre in Johannes-burg. The new centre, from where parts are distributed in SouthAfrica and to neighbouring countries, can store 40,000 parts.The built-to-suit facility, near O.R. Tambo international airport,commenced operations in December 2012. K+N’s services in-clude receiving, inventory control, dangerous goods handling,pre-packaging and returns handling. www.kn-portal.com

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Cargo Africa trade fair and conference will be held from20 to 22 February. But the growth deserves to be lauded,as every other region of the world developed badly lastyear. The average drop amounted to 1.9%, according tofigures published by Iata at the end of January.

Unfortunately, Africa also retains the red lantern inthe security segment – but there are signs of improve-ment here, also in politically rather unstable West Africa.Thus Nigeria, the continent’s most populous countrywhich repeatedly makes the headlines on account ofaviation accidents and incidents, has now announcedthat it will dismantle more than 60 aircraft abandonedby their owners. www.iata.org; www.icao.int

The pan-continental airfreight situation

Africa evermore attractiveAfrica was the region of the world that registered the second-strongest

growth rate in 2012, after the Middle East but ahead of Latin America.

In Interlaken last month Ram Menen, Emirates’ senior divisional vice-president for cargo, said of the realignment of airfreight flows that«China is the world’s workbench, and Africa is the next frontier for theairfreight world.» Emirates has followed up his words, echoing state-ments made to the ITJ two years ago (ITJ 13-14/2011, page 10) withaction, opening new links to the continent and thus taking a slice ofthe growth registered in African air cargo volumes.

And African growth was very substantial last year – despite insuf-ficient infrastructure. Africa recorded the second-highest growth of allworld regions in 2012, registering a 6.1% rise in freight tonne kilometres(ftk) for the year. The Middle East, whose airlines benefit from theirhubs’ geographically favourable position between the Far Eastern powerhouses and their global markets, registered an almost 15% improvementin its ftk figure. The total volume of goods handled in Africa remainsrelatively low, however, and there will once again not be an Africanrepresentative in the world’s 30 leading airfreight hubs this year – noteven the South African metropolis Johannesburg, where this year’s Air

SkyCargo introduced Boeing B777F full-freighter flights to Harareand Lusaka (pictured above) in 2011, as well as B747-400F linksto Accra (below).

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In briefGabon 97th country for Turkish. Turkish Airlines extendedits links to Douala (Cameroon), which were only launched inDecember 2012, to Libreville, the capital city of Gabon, on 31January. Turkish now serves the Central African country thricea week. The addition of Gabon to its network means TurkishAirlines is now represented in 97 nations, more than any otherEuropean airline. www.turkishcargo.com.tr

Asia services reduced. The southern African carrier AirMadagascar cut its services to Asia on 14 February, when itreduced its Antananarivo–Bangkok–Guangzhou operationfrom three to two a week. Between 20 and 28 February theairline will also temporarily suspend its only link to the conti-nent, due to low demand. www.airmadagascarna.com

Changes to schedule. Air Namibia is seeking to improve itsprofitability, and thus reduced the number of its weekly Air-bus A340-300 flights between Windhoek and Frankfurt fromseven to four on 27 January. This frequency will be retaineduntil 24 June. www.airnamibia.com.na

Overflight rights. Switzerland has given states engaged inMali the right to fly over Swiss territory. The right also appliesto aircraft carrying weapons and munitions. The governmentsaid that the clearance is in line with Switzerland’s policy ofneutrality, as the military mission is being carried out at theinvitation of the government of Mali. The French interven-tion is also sanctioned by a UN Security Council resolution.Switzerland last granted similar rights in the context of the UNmission to Libya in 2011. www.bazl.admin.ch

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High winds in MombasaThe management of the hub in Mom-basa, the largest port in Kenya, has re-ported that the volume of containershandled in 2011 rose from 771,000 to903,000 teu last year. The executives saidthat the good news was a result of the cen-tre’s expansion projects (including a newdeepsea berth) amongst other things. Atotal of 21.92 million t were loaded or dis-charged, compared to 19.95 million t in2011. Imports accounted for 86% thereofand consisted mainly of consumer goods,some of which were destined for neigh-bouring countries, especially land-lockedUganda. The main exports were tea andcoffee from the region. it

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Coyne’s key connectionsThe English carrier Coyne Airways, whichis celebrating its 20th anniversary this year,now offers services to more than 30 desti-nations in Africa. It operates through threeof the continent’s main hubs, in Lagos(Nigeria), Nairobi (Kenya) and Johannes-burg (South Africa), offering comprehen-sive international and pan-African services.Michael Clements, Coyne’s Dubai-basedcommercial director, said that his company«always works closely with customers, of-fers superior services at competitive pricesand gives forwarders the peace of mindthey require.» CEO Larry Coyne addedthat «we offer a customer-service approachthat is sometimes lacking in Africa.» ah

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New agent for LibyaIn January the Venice-based Italian ship-ping company Med Cross Lines (MXL)named the Hamburg-based German firmEurabia-Schiffahrts-Agentur as its agentfor the German market to Libya. MXLoffers two departures a month from Ven-ice, Koper, Istanbul (Haydarpasa) andIzmir to Benghazi, Misurata and Tripoli.Smaller maritime hubs, including To-bruk, Derna and Marsa el Brega, can beserved upon inducement. The 154.5 mlong and 22.7 m wide con-ro unit BirkaExpress, which can carry 336 teu and has1,775 lane metres of ro-ro capacity and atop speed of 20 knots, will be deployedfrom February onwards. itwww.medcrosslines.com; www.eurabia.de

SAA flies Toyota to «Dakar» in South AmericaSAA Cargo, the airfreight unit of South African Airways, teamed upwith Toyota South Africa Motors to carry the official South Africanteam’s vehicles to the Dakar Rally, which took place in Peru, Argentinaand Chile this year – not in Senegal, West Africa. Tleli Makhetha,

SAA Cargo’s general manager, told the media that hiscompany is «very proud to be associated with the event.Interesting jobs such as these strengthen SAA Cargo’sposition as a global enterprise.» SAA is the leading Afri-can carrier, serving 26 pan-African destinations from itsJohannesburg hub. www.f lysaa.com

a separate area for the storage and handling of medicalequipment was established in the new manufacturingarea.

Thomas Creuzberger, the managing director of Mo-vianto Germany, said that «with the expansion of ourstorage capacity by 6,000 pallet spaces and the expansionof our delivery area, the rate of export growth can nowbe further accelerated.»

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Pharmaceuticals logistics • Movianto

Plenty morespace availableThe logistics company Movianto, which specialises in pharmaceutical

logistics and healthcare services, is expanding its temperature-controlled

logistics activities by expanding its storage capacities in Saarland.

Moviantohas further expanded itswarehousingcapacity inNeunkirchenby adding 10,000 sqm of available space. The site in Saarland now hasa total capacity of more than 32,000 pallet positions for temperature-controlled storage (15–25ºC), 2,400 positions for refrigerated storage (at2–8ºC) and 600 positions for anaesthetics.

The warehousing operations are carried out using latest technology.The hall is equipped with wifi routers, and wireless barcode scannerscarry out the order picking operations too. For country-specific repack-aging and relabelling the new building now has nine production lineson nearly 1,000 sqm for manufacturing with direct access to high baystorage.

It became available for operations in December 2012, when the com-pany was given a wholesaling and manufacturing licence. Furthermore,

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In briefGoodman and Zalando. Goodman, an international de-veloper of, investor in and manager of logistics properties,recently began construction of a 78,000 sqm logistics centrefor online trader Zalando in the Mönchengladbach Regiopark(Germany). The first warehouse will be handed over in April,with the project expected to be completed in July.

www.goodman.com

New name. The Basel freight forwarders’ and logisticians’training association was renamed the training federation ofSpedlogswiss Northwestern Switzerland at the beginning ofFebruary. http://abv.spedlogswiss.com

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DPD modernising Slovakian depot. The European CEPservice provider DPD is modernising and upgrading its exist-ing depot in Trnava (Slovakia). DPD’s central Slovakian hubis located in Žilina, and over and above this DPD, which hasbeen operating in Slovakia since 2002, has 13 branch officesin the central European country. www.dpd.com

Noerpel replaces K+N. The Ulm-based German freightforwarder C.E. Noerpel is acquiring the overland transportactivities of the Kuehne + Nagel branch in Villingen-Schwen-ningen (southern Germany) on 1 March. C.E. Noerpel will takeover around 75 employees from Kuehne + Nagel in Villingen-Schwenningen. www.noerpel.de; www.kn-portal.com

Cargo-Partner. The Austrian logistics firm Cargo-Partner hasopened its first Indonesian branch office in Jakarta.

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The container terminal in Frihamnenhandled 28% more freight in 2012, com-pared to the previous year. In total, theterminal handled almost 36,000 teu.«We’re pleased with the increase in 2012,and are hoping for strong growth in 2013,»explained Henrik Widerståhl, marketingdirector and deputy managing directorof the port of Stockholm. The numberof shipping companies which serve Fri-hamnen has increased. In October 2012,another shipping heavyweight decidedto start serving Frihamnen, namely theMediterranean Shipping Company MSC.

Seeking to increase the utilisation rateThis is considered an encouraging signby the port of Stockholm, as well as bythe region as a whole. Four shipping linesnow offer weekly services to and from thecontainer terminal, namely Unifeeder,Team Lines, the Mediterranean Ship-ping Company and SCA Transforest.Thanks to these shipping lines, weeklyservices now operate between Stockholmand Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg andBremerhaven, as well as Gothenburg,

Helsingborg and even as far as St Peters-burg and Rauma in the Nordic region.

The volumes handled by the terminalhave increased in the past, albeit to a lim-ited extent. Traffic had already increasedby 18% from 2010 to 2011. New impetusis now expected to be provided by TMRail’s new shuttle service between Goth-enburg and Stockholm Årsta, which start-ed operating at the end of August 2012.Hutchison Ports, which operates theFrihamnen terminal in Sweden, needs to

gain more customers in order to increasethe utilisation rate.

New 500,000 teu container portAn even greater challenge lies ahead forStockholm. A concession has been grant-ed to build a new container port in nearbyNorvikudden in Nynäshamn, with a ca-pacity of 500,000 teu. Sweden’s supremecourt has rejected submitted objectionsconcerning the construction project. cd

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Increased throughput for Stockholm’s container terminal in Frihamnen

Strong growth from a small scaleThe increase in the number of containers handled in the Stockholm terminal in Frihamnen (Sweden) might be proportionally large, but

is still small in absolute terms. Stockholm is hoping that TM Rail’s shuttle service to the deep-sea port will bring more customers. In the

long term a new container port is expected to be built at Norvikudden in Nynäshamn, with a capacity of 500,000 teu.

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mFocusing on KlaipedaFrom September to December 2012 Nurminen Logistics, amember of the Cargo Equipment Experts network CEE, trans-ported several hydroelectric power station modules from theport of Klaipeda in Lithuania to Belarus. The project consistedof two destinations in Belarus, including Novolukoml, approxi-mately 180 km north east of Minsk. A total of 19 units weretransported, which each weighed between 119 and 137 t. Thesize of the modules ranged from a length of 18 to 26 m, with amaximum width of 3.65 m and height of 3.60 m.

As well as organising the overall transport operation, Nur-minen Logistics was also in charge of the demanding task ofcustoms clearance in Belarus, a market in which the Finnishcompany has been operating for some time. The entire transportoperation was completed in the planned four-month timeframe.The truck and escort drivers ensured that the heavylift cargowas smoothly transported using four-axled and modular 15-axletrailers, and reached its destination in one piece.

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From Muuga to Kaluga21 January saw the official commencement of Mitsubishi’s regu-lar container train service from the Estonian port of Muuga,part of the port of Tallinn complex, to the Russian automo-tive manufacturing hub of Kaluga on the Oka river. Peugeot,Citroen and Mitsubishi operate a vehicle assembly plant at thislocation. Over 700 containers had already been handled at thisdestination during a pilot transport phase. Three containertrains a week are now planned, carrying a total of 200 teu ofassembly parts for Mitsubishi vehicles. The port of Tallinn, theTransiidikeskuse container terminal in Muuga, the Estoniantrain operator EVR Cargo and the Russian train operator RZDare all involved in the transport chain from Muuga to Kaluga.

It takes a total of 45 days for the assembly parts to completethe entire journey from the production site in Japan to the as-sembly plant in Kaluga, using various modes of transport. Thetrain journey from Muuga to Kaluga accounted for just twodays. The sea freight is transhipped in Hamburg or Rotterdam.

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Just 3.5 million passengers and less than20,000 t of airfreight are handled annu­ally at Sofia airport. In addition to theground handling service department ofthe airport authority itself, Swissportfrom Switzerland and Goldair Handlingfrom Greece vie for the attention of theairlines that manage this traffic. The na­tional carrier Bulgaria Air recently startedcarrying out its own handling activities,but another company, Jet 1, which hashad a licence since the end of 2011, hasnot so far begun operations.

According to Swissport Bulgaria CEOFernand Stauffer three ground handlingservice providers are too much of a goodthing at this small hub. «The infrastruc­ture is limited, there is just not enoughspace for more than two handlers to workefficiently and in accordance with safetyrequirements,» he told the ITJ. Due to theinternational economic uncertainty manyairlines have reduced their services or eveneliminated them altogether to Sofia, andso the business volume for those offeringground handling services has also reduced,he added.

Swissport threatening to leaveLast autumn Swissport Bulgaria filedtwo complaints with the Bulgarian com­petition commission (KSK). In one com­plaint the company stated that the airportauthority’s own ground handling depart­ment has an unfair advantage, which hasa distorting effect on competition.

The company also accused GoldairHandling Bulgaria of engaging in unfaircompetition and in price dumping. Ac­cording to the complaint the two com­panies together created an unhealthy,unsustainable competitive environment.Swissport Europe manager Mark Skinneroutlined the possible consequences. «Ifour complaints are not acted upon and theunfair competition continues, we mightbe forced to withdraw from operations inthe Bulgarian market.»

Swissport has been active in Sofia since2007 and has also handled freight heresince summer 2011. The proceeds in this

segment are negligible, Stauffer explained,explaining that passenger and aircraft han­dling are his core business activities in So­fia. In recent years EUR 5 million has beeninvested in the operations.

Swissport’s market share is around30%, behind the airport authority’s ownshare of 40%. Since the beginning of itsoperations in 2010 Goldair Handling cap­tured around one quarter of the total mar­ket through an aggressive pricing policy.Swissport Bulgaria’s customers includeLufthansa. Goldair Handling services air­lines such as Qatar Airways and Aeroflot.«For every euro it earns, Goldair spends

two, as is evident from the figures in thecompany trade registry.» Stauffer is onthe offensive, and demands that his com­petitor abide by Bulgaria’s laws governingground handling service providers, whichrequire absolute financial stability. «Theseaccusations come as a surprise ti us,» saidGoldair CEO Dimitris Papamichail, coun­tering the attacks of the competition inthe Bulgarian business newspaper Kapital.

Goldair surprisedHe denied offering services at less thanthe cost of operation, and accused Swiss­port of having «begun a defamation waragainst us.» Papamichail’s position is that«our prices are low, but economically at­tractive – this is what competition is allabout.»

The airport authorities are obliged tocomply with EU regulations regarding lib­eralisation, and it is true that prices havefallen by 20–25% since Goldair Handlingbegan its operations in Sofia. «We’vehanded over all the required documents tothe KSK and have no reason for concern,»Goldair Bulgaria’s head said.

Meanwhile the airport authority, whichis part of the transport ministry, has askedthe ministry to limit the number of suppli­ers to two. This would make it necessaryto invite tenders. If it comes to that bothSwissport and Goldair have declared thatthey will submit offers.

Frank Stier

Swissport and Goldair at Sofia airport

Price competition in BulgariaWith a manageable volume of traffic, the airport in the Bulgarian capital Sofia is one of the smaller airports in Europe. Yet there is fierce

competition over its ground handling services market. Five companies are fighting it out in the this sector.

Appearances are deceptive. There are fierce fights going on behind the idyllic scene in Sofia.

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The Russian airline Aeroflot has criticisedthe reliability of the Sukhoi Superjet 100.Aviation security reports have stated thatthere were 95 incidents in 2012 when theRussian regional aircraft was in service.Aeroflot is the largest customer for theaircraft, having taken on ten units sincesummer 2011.

Aeroflot also experienced some trou-ble recently with an aircraft made in theUSA. It was not the Dreamliner in thiscase, however, but the same manufac-turer’s Boeing B777. Having taken deliv-ery of its first B777-300ER in Seattle on31 January, the carrier wanted to deploythe new unit on the Moscow Shereme-tyevo to Bangkok route on the followingday. But the inter-state aviation commit-

tee, an organisation of current and for-mer members of the CIS with powers inthe field of civil aviation and air spaceregulation, initially refused to certify thenew aircraft. After some problem-solvingmeasures the unit was finally deployedon its scheduled service on 5 February.

Restructuring GSA networkIn other news, Aeroflot annoyed its air-freight agents in all of Europe at the be-ginning of the year. Aeroflot Cargo with-drew from its contract with every GSAin the continent, and offered every onea new deal under new conditions. Thiswas not accepted by all of the airline’spartners, however.

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Aircraft types and freight spell trouble for Aeroflot

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In briefGermany–Russia. The German airline Luft-hansa is cancelling its weekly link betweenFrankfurt and Kazan and Perm on 1 April.Services to Nizhny Novgorod and Samaraare being increased from four to six a weekinstead. www.uwww.aero

www.airportnn.ruwww.lufthansa-cargo.com

Russia–Balkans. Ural Airlines, based inYekaterinburg, is introducing several newdestinations in Southeastern Europe at theend of May, including Burgas (Bulgaria),Podgorica (Kosovo), Pula (Croatia) and Tivat(Montenegro). www.uralairlines.ru

Germany–Balkans. Air Berlin started con-necting Berlin Tegel airport with Sofia andBucharest on 28 January. The Bulgarian andRomanian capitals will both be served on adaily basis. www.airberlin.com

www.sofia-airport.bgwww.bucharestairports.ro

Truck ban. The Moscow local council hasextended the periods in which trucks arenot allowed into the city. Vehicles weigh-ing more than 12 t will not be allowed onthe orbital motorway and city roads insidethat circle between the times of 06.00 and22.00, with effect from 1 March. The regimeapplies until midnight on Sundays andholidays. The transport department said thatit will assist affected companies with theimplementation of the regulations.

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Vanino, located on the Strait of Tartarybetween the seas of Japan and Okhotsk,is one of the most important Russianports in the Pacific region, with an an-nual throughput of 5.9 million t of goods.It is strategically important for trade withChina and Southeast Asia and is con-nected to the Trans-Siberian Railway.Clay for the manufacture of aluminiumis shipped, as well as coal, wood and ores.

Ten times the amount of the first bidOn the 7th of December 2012, the auc-tion of the state’s majority holding inthe port developed into a competitionbetween Russian oligarchs. 73% of theshares with voting rights were to beauctioned off (corresponding to 55% ofthe authorised capital). The steel baronVladimir Lissin with his transport hold-ing UCL, which controls the maritimeport of St Petersburg and the rail wagonoperator First Freight, had submitted thehighest bid, EUR 137 million, in the firstround of bidding.

In the second round billionaire IgorSyusin’s ore and coal company Mechel(MTL) secured acceptance of a RUB 15.5billion (EUR 390 million) bid – ten timesthe amount of the first bid (RUB 1.5 bil-lion or EUR 37.5 million).

Mechel’s success surprised observers.The aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaskahad been considered the favourite forthe equity stake. The oligarch, who al-ready owns 28.12% of the ordinary capi-tal through his holding company En+,wanted to ship his aluminium to China

through Vanino. In the end Deripaskahad bid approximately EUR 260 million,double the market price, but still a thirdless than what Mechel was prepared topay. One of the results of winning theauction was that Mechel has to offer tobuy out all of the minority stockholdersin the port. «We won with a consortiumof international investors,» Mechel gen-eral director Yevgeny Michel added.

Anonymous investorsMechel promptly announced its firststep on 19 January, namely that 71.83%of the newly-acquired shares in the portof Vanino would be sold. After consultingwith the new owners it was agreed, how-ever, that operational control of the portwould remain with Mechel. Respondingto a request from the authorities concern-ing the new owners’ identity, it was re-vealed that three firms based in Cyprushad each acquired 23.68% of the sharesThe owners of these companies (SedminoInvestment, Opern Trade and TravineTrade) were not disclosed, however.

According to Russian law purchasesof equity stakes of less than 25% do notrequire the authorisation of the FederalAntimonopoly Service or the govern-ment commission for foreign investment.

Completion of the takeoverOn 1 February Mechel and En+ jointlyannounced that Deripaska’s holding com-pany En+ had sold the ordinary sharesin the port in its possession to Mechel-Trans, a Mechel subsidiary. When asked,

Mechel indicated a purchase price ofRUB 4.57 billion (EUR 112 million).

En+ plans to continue transhipmentin the port of Vanino until further notice,but is simultaneously looking for addi-tional throughput capacity in the Pacific.

Expansion of capacityThe throughput capacity of the port ofVanino is estimated at approximately 8.8million t. Mechel has ambitious expan-sion plans, intending to handle 20 to25 million t of coal per year. Accordingto the estimates of the Russian businessnewspaper Kommersant, handling capaci-ties could be expanded to as much as 50million t annually but such a move wouldrequire additional investment of approxi-mately EUR 660 million, however.

The disputes between Russian politi-cians and the public concerning currentdevelopments with regard to the port ofVanino are continuing. Although eventhe government considers the transactionlegal, this opinion contradicts its statedstrategy of attempting to limit offshoreactivities.

Andre Ballin andChristine Kulke-Fiedler

Privatisation of the Russian Pacific port of Vanino

New owners – in stagesThe privatisation of the state’s majority share in the port of Vanino on the Pacific Ocean

has led to a bidding competition between various Russian raw material magnates. The

Mechel company was the ultimate winner – with the help of anonymous investors.

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Ninth editionThe new«Handbuch fürdas Verkehrsge-werbe» (in Ger-man, hand-book for thetransport in-dustry), whichincludes infor-mation from Afor autoroutesthrough to P

for professional HGV driver qualifica-tions and Z for zero tolerance, has beenup-dated. This ninth edition can be pur-chased from the publisher, the Strassen-verkehrsgenossenschaft (the German roadtraffic association SVG). The EU’s regu-lations on the establishment of rules forbecoming a professional road transportoperator for company founders have beenadded. This edition also takes account ofchanges to labour protection regulationsand to health measures.

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Not many truck drivers have seen a photoof their rig from the air – and received acopy thereof free of charge. But this isthe service that Horst Pierdolla, from theGerman city of Iserlohn, offers throughhis agency, called Luftbilder (aerial pic-tures). He already has about 1,000 lor-ries on file. The service will be expanded,Pierdolla said, so that every driver has thechance of being seen in the internet. Rec-ognisable advertising on the tarpaulin oftrucks can be made into an active but-ton that links anyone who clicks on itdirectly to the web site of the companyconcerned. www.trucks-from-the-air.de

New safety filmA new 54-minute German DVD entitled«Ladungssicherung» (securing of loads)gives a comprehensive and practical in-troduction to the EU’s professional HGVdriver training. The producer says that thefilm is suitable for use in other courses too,as well as as a synopsis at the end of a

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35International Transport Journal 07-08 2013 A Time for Reflection / Advertisers’ Index

Conscience for sale«Control is good, responsibility is better.»Peter Hohl, German journalist

«Ultimately, we have to shoulder theresponsibilities.» This is one of the mostfrequent arguments advanced to justifydifferences in earnings and top-level sal-aries. But who is expected to understandthat? Wouldn’t it be better to compen-sate the victims instead of rewardingthose in charge? «Anyone can assumeresponsibility, but who bears the conse-quences?», the Swiss cultural editor andwriter, Aurel Schmidt, rightly asks.

Anyone who believes their responsibil-ity can or should be paid in money hasalready misunderstood a fundamentalaspect of the issue anyway. In many in-stances, what this person is really look-ing for is power, and not responsibility.Your performance is what will actuallybe paid, as well as the conscientiousnessand diligence with which it is rendered.However, conscience itself cannot bepaid with money. It is not bindinglystipulated in any employment contractwhatsoever. Who is held legally liable isan entirely different question altogether.

«Shying away from responsibility is oneof the maladies of our time,» said FürstOtto von Bismarck (1815–1898) already

said in his day. Perhaps it is thus false tocomplain that the same timidity is typicalfor our time too. Yet a steadily growing im-personality also appears to be another rea-son why people often hide behind their pro-fessional role or practical constraints whenit has to do with assuming responsibility.

The personal sense of responsibility can-not be replaced by one single employmentcontract. We need people who can assumeresponsibility at every level – but especiallyin executive positions. We need top-levelmanagers who are aware of their responsi-bility themselves – with no ifs or buts. Afterall, how can you be taken seriously by youremployees if you don’t stand up for whatyou do?

Lip service is usually detected very quickly.However, anyone who enjoys actively shap-ing their environment and wants to delivertheir contribution must feel responsibletoo. At the end of the day it ultimatelyboils down to creating the world in whichwe want to live. You will get nowhere inthis respect with excuses and diversionarymanoeuvres. Instead, there is seldom a lackof criticism and advice from know-it-allsonce a mistake has happened, when things

have gone wrong. But why didn’t theyexpressed their concerns in time? Isn’tsomeone who sees a mistake but saysnothing about it also jointly to blame aswell?

We aren’t just responsible for what wedo, but also for what we fail to do. Al-ways just criticising what can no longerbe changed does not translate into as-suming responsibility. Pointing the fingerat the scapegoat from a safe position ismore like a sign of cowardice.

Mutual finger-pointing is a popular so-cial parlour game, and how much timeis senselessly wasted on that? Everyoneshould make their own responsibilityclear themselves and act accordingly.But if the mistake has already happenedonce, then it is time to tackle it togetherand put things back on track again.

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