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Slow revolution Logisticians have to offer new solutions for e-commerce trend 18

In the black and red Airfreight volumes up in Latin America but stagnant in North America 31 SpringboardtoAsia, Connectingthe World... International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 Contents 3

Specials in this issue 5 Editorial NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA North and Latin America 26 6 People & Companies

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New study on the business mood in the transport and logistics industry in the USA

Slow growth, high costs Council of Supply Chain Management

The 24th annual State of Logistics report states that the US logistics market will be confronted by slow growth, higher costs as well as 11 Peak season not what it used to be strong freight volume fluctuations in the medium term. The report is published every year by the Professionals (CSCMP), a trade organisation for logisticians and supply chain experts. still very reluctant to make decisions to shift their supply chain. Now we’re seeing On the occasion of the presentation more of them make these changes and of the latest – the 24th – edition of taking their business to 3PLs.» the annual State of Logistics report in He was speaking during a panel dis- WashingtonDC, author Rosalyn Wilson cussion held at the National Press Club 12 No improvement in the western ports declared that in 2012, the year under re- in Washington DC, which was also at- view, the transport and logistics industry tended by other industry executives, for in the USA had initially done rather well. example from the railfreight operator Economic developments were dynamic BNSF, the logistics service provider Pacer at first, but then lost steam quite signifi- International and the office materials cantly in the third quarter, the member manufacturer Office Depot.

of the Council of Supply Chain Manage- Photo: BNSF ment Professionals (CSCMP) continued. Rising logistics costs 13 UAL celebrating in the Netherlands Wilson explained that «we have to put Wilson said that the total logistics costs Railfreight activities have grown strongly in the our expectations where they belong» and for US businesses rose to USD 1.33 tril- USA over the past few years. accept the idea of a new normality. «If lion in 2012, a 3.4% increase over the pre- we expect slow, sustained growth, then vious year. This figure remains at 8.5% of The CSCMP believes that the railways we’ll all be happy.» Wilson’s new normal- the USA’s gross domestic product. In ad- will manage to gain additional market ity includes slow economic growth, above dition, she said, pure transportation costs shares in the USA, at the expense of road all, as well as consistently high unemploy- have increased relatively modestly, grow- haulage and shipping. The shipping in- ment and high costs in almost every seg- ing by 3%, largely on account of weak dustry is the only sector in which costs ment of the industry. t shipment volumes and and inconsisten declined, namely by 0.9%. This was said strong pressures to hold rates. to be primarily due to the fact that the Realisation replacing reluctance Warehousing costs were also on the segment has significant overcapacities, as Marc Althen, the president of the US rise, increasing by 7.6% in 2012. Expendi- well as due to ongoing price warsRobert over Altermatt 15 Aviation corporation Penske Logistics, which sup- ture on national railfreight activities in freight rates. www.cscmp.org ports the CSCMP analysis every year and 2012 rose by 4.9%. In 2011 railfreight op- which ted presen the 24th edition, proved erating costs had risen by a rather heftier to be rather more optimistic about 2013 16% vis-à-vis 2010. than the author of the document herself. Althen said that «in 2012, shippers were 17 EADS more successful than perceived 17 Ongoing aviation industry «recession» Inefficiency in logistics? 10 18 Forwarding & Logistics 20 Charting a way through a hazardous jungle Low margins are not exactly a new problem in the 21 Panalpina improves quarterly figures logistics industry. What is new, however, is the 22 Logistics for Switzerland’s highest skyscraper fact that logisticians themselves are now com- plaining about a lack of efficiency in the industry. 23 Rail/Inland Waterways/Road Haulage A comment by editor-in-chief Christian Doepgen. 23 Renault Trucks renews range 24 EU’s Marco Polo programmes get poor marks 24 Milestones for German rail links Glimpse of the inner chamber 15 26 North and Latin America Special In its network operations centre in Chicago 26 US logistics market facing problems United Airlines keeps an eye on the 5,600 flights 28 Colombia’s development could be better it operates daily around the world. The ITJ recent- 32 Gefco eyeing Latin America ly gained an insight into one of the most modern flight control centres in the world. 34 Regional Focus 34 Central Europe 35 Eastern Europe Counting down to 2015 30 36 Africa

The renewed Panama Canal is due to open in 38 Miscellaneous/Masthead 2015. The new widths and depths of the channels 39 A Time for Reflection/Advertisers’ Index and locks will cause a significant shift in market shares between US ports, with US west coast ports facing strong headwinds.

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PORT 2000 BERTHS 11 AND 12 ASIA AND OSAKA BERTHS AND RELATED AREAS AND RELATED AREAS

The Grand Port Maritime du Havre (GPMH), a State-owned The Grand Port Maritime du Havre (GPMH), a State-owned public corporation, is the leading French port for foreign public corporation is the leading French port for foreign trade and containers and the 5th biggest North-European trade and containers and the 5th biggest North-European port. port.

The port of Le Havre is part of the HAROPA (Havre-Rouen- The port of Le Havre is part of the HAROPA (Havre-Rouen- Paris) network of ports on the Seine artery which was crea- Paris) network of ports on the Seine artery which was created in 2012, in particular to reinforce its position as lead ted in 2012, in particular to reinforce its position as lead port on the largest French market (the Paris region focuses port on the largest French market (the Paris region focuses 1/3 of the country‘s GDP and is the second largest market 1/3 of the country‘s GDP and is the second largest market in Europe). In addition, owing to its unique location at the in Europe). In addition, owing to its unique location at the entrance to Northern Europe, the port of Le Havre is also a entrance to Northern Europe, the port of Le Havre is also a hub serving the ports of the Atlantic Arc, as evidenced by hub serving the ports of the Atlantic Arc, as evidenced by the development of feeder lines in recent years. The port of the development of feeder lines in recent years. The port of Le Havre is a 21st century port, in terms of its accessibility, Le Havre is a 21st century port, in terms of its accessibility, modern design in line with the development of the latest modern design in line with the development of the latest generation of megaships, investments designed to develop generation of megaships, investments designed to develop mass transport, Cargo Community System, efficiency of mass transport, Cargo Community System, efficiency of Customs and productivity of its container terminals, which Customs and productivity of its container terminals, which has increased by 20% since 2011. has increased by 20% since 2011.

More than 40 shipping companies use the port of Le Havre More than forty shipping companies use the port of Le Hav- for their Liner business, and 3 have made direct investments re for their Liner business, and three have made direct in- in the port’s terminals. vestments in the port’s terminals.

As part of one of its main assignments consisting in mana- As part of one of its main assignments consisting in managing and enhancing the public domain for which it is res- ging and enhancing the public domain for which it is responsible or which it owns, the GPMH intends to continue ponsible or which it owns, the GPMH intends to continue to expand container traffic through the Port of Le Havre on to expand container traffic through the Port of Le Havre on its terminals. its terminals. With this aim in view, the GPMH has land to offer on a tidal Candidates interested in this business opportunity and basin on which a container business has already been in wishing to develop a container terminal on berths 11 and operation. 12 of Port 2000 are invited to come forward. Candidates interested in this business opportunity and The full text of this call for expressions of interest is publis- wishing to develop a container terminal are invited to come hed on the website of the GPMH (link) www.havre-port.fr forward. puis Marchés. The full text of this call for expressions of interest is publis- The date of delivery of applications(candidacies) is hed on the website of the GPMH (link) fixed on 01/10/2013 at 5.00p.m. www.havre-port.fr puis Marchés.

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Summer has finally reached our little ever. You can read about these and patch of Europe north of the Alps. other hot topics in this issue of the ITJ. al Everyday activities seem to have slowed Besides this positive news there is a down somewhat in the holiday period, sad note clouding my heart too. David

and the sun isn’t only shining out Cheslin, founder and managing director rn there in the world, but in our hearts a of Dunelm Public Relations in London, bit too. The news that the economic passed away on 5 August. It is prob- climate in the euro area has improved ably not an exaggeration to describe

slightly in the third quarter, fits this David as a pioneer of communications ou upbeat mood quite well. Expectations in the shipping industry. From the for the next six months are also sub- 1970s onwards, he shaped it strongly, tj stantially more positive than they thanks to his extensive knowledge of were in the last quarter, according to the trade and his keen sense for hitting the research institute Ifo’s economic the right note.I wasn’t the only one to indicator. learn tremendously from him – we’ll all The health of the transport and miss him. logistics industry is said to be one por of the key indicators of the global economic trend. The latest quarterly figures published by various shipping ns lines, for example, indeed point towards positive developments. Not everything in the garden is rosy, how- ra .t www Antje Veregge Head of shipping and ports 6People & Companies International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 Americas Interim executive for Long Beach The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has selected Dr Noel Hacegaba, its executive officer, to serve as the acting deputy executive director of the port of Long Nominations made Beach. Hacegaba will support newly-selected acting executive director Al Moro until leading positions are perfor aviation merger manently filled (see ITJ 23-26/2013, page 9). Hacegaba Jim Butler, Kenji Hashimoto has been the board’s executive officer since 2010. American Airlines has an- Photos: American Airlines Cargo nounced its cargo leadership team for the time after the merger with US Airways. New US regional VP for SBS Suzanne Boda, who currently serves as US Airways’ senior vice-president for airport customer services, international SBS Worldwide has appointed Chris Paulz as its regional and cargo, will be American’s new senior vice-president for VP for southeastern USA. Paulz, who will be based in Asia, Canada, Europe and cargo. Kenji Hashimoto, who Atlanta GA and report to Christian Marz, director of has been American Airlines’ cargo president since May US operations, has 30 years of industry experience. He 2012, will be promoted to senior vice-president for regional worked for Panalpina, K+N and Agility Global Logistics. carriers. Jim Butler, who currently serves as American’s managing director of commercial planning and performance, will replace Hashimoto as cargo president and Changes for Intermarine report to board member Boda. After the merger the two airlines will continue to market and manage cargo opera- Intermarine has requested Ask Munck, interim MD of its tions separately. The nominations will take effect once the worldwide chartering services, to take on the position on merger with US Airways is completed and are also subject a permanent basis, following Lars Juhl’s decision to step to confirmation by the new board of directors. down due to lingering health issues. Munck was previously Intermarine’s CFO and HR director for Europe. New global lead for New president for WPG UTi’s project logistics The World Project Group elected Efsun Bruce Hulings is UTi Worldwide’s new project logistics Sarac as its new president at its recent an- manager, having been named the firm’s global lead for nual general meeting. She has more than projects, mining and energy at the end of July. He will be 23 years of experience in the transport based in Houston TX (USA) and report to Ed Feitzinger, and logistics industry and has headed SNS UTi’s executive vice president in charge of global oper- International Transport, an Istanbul-based ations. Prior to joining UTi Hulings was vice-president Turkish member company of WPG, since for the energy sector in the Americas for Ceva Logistics. 2008. Michel Fuchs, who had driven the Before that he worked for McLean Cargo Specialists, an development of the successful internation- oil and gas logistics enterprise, for twelve years. He was al project logistics network as president for in charge of global sales and marketing and coordinated Efsun Sarac many years, did not stand for re-election McLean’s logistics business, amongst other things. Photo: World Project Group to the post.

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Geodis names New La Poste CEO designated two to the top The board of the French state-owned mail service provider Rene Bach-Larsen, Leif Voelcker La Poste has started the process leading to the succession of Geodis Wilson has named Rene Photos: Geodis Wilson president Jean-Paul Bailly by nominating Philippe Wahl, Bach-Larsen as its cluster man- head of the country’s Postbank, as a new member of the aging director for Singapore and Southeast Asia, which board. Bailly had previously declared that he did not wish includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. to complete his full term of office to November 2014, but Bach-Larsen started his career with DSV Samson Trans- would rather leave early. Wahl has headed the Postbank port. He joined Geodis Calberson Denmark in 1995, directorate since 2011, a post which brings the position prior to becoming MD of Geodis Wilson Indonesia in of deputy general director of the La Poste group with it. 2003. From 2008 he was MD for Geodis in India. Leif Voelcker will succeed Bach-Larsen as MD of Geodis India, where he will also be in charge of Geodis’ Schenker Logistics chair in Spain South Asian organisation. Geodis, which has a network of 15 offices in India, aims to double business there in Lluis Gay, who has been the head of overland trans- five years. Voelcker was previously Rohde & Liesenfeld’s port operations for DB Schenker Logistics in Spain managing director for Colombia, amongst other things. since 2007, is taking over as chairman of the board of Schenker Logistics in Spain on 1 September. He will succeed Jaume Ballester, who will remain as the head Changing the guard at Yang Ming of overland transport for the Western Europe region. Ballester is a former owner of Spain-Tir, which later Hermann Yu has unanimously been elected as the Yang became a part of the Schenker network, and Gay is Ming Marine Transport Corporation’s new president the son of Lluís Gay i Mundó, a former president of and COO by the company’s board. He succeeded Rob- Spain-Tir. The Spanish company was taken over by DB ert Ho, who reached the maximum age limit. Yu joined Schenker in 2007, with the complete merger completed Yang Ming in 1984 and became executive VP in 2010. in November 2012.

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The Geneva-based Swiss enterprise NV Logistics has named Philippe Le Corre as its business development From Asia back to Europe manager for services to the healthcare industry. He will be in charge of developing the vital logistics division, Agility, a logistics provider based in Basel created two years ago by founder Thierry Moreno. Le (Switzerland), appointed Thomas Blank as Corre has worked for Marken (a carrier dedicated to its managing director for Central Europe in the pharmaceuticals industry) for nine years. In other July. He replaced Thomas Peikert, who de- news, NV Logistics appointed Belgium’s Ariane Vlérick, cided in March to leave the company after a life sciences specialist, as its head of communications 23 years. Blank, who will define strategies in March. and development in Germany, the Benelux states and Poland, also became a member of Agility GIL Europe’s management board. Cargo 2000 executive reshuffle Blank brings plenty of industry expertise to the post, having recently held manage- K+N’s Max Sauberschwarz has taken over as chairman ment positions with logistics firms such as of the Iata interest group Cargo 2000. He will act as Panalpina and UTi. He last worked for Geo- chairman up to Cargo 2000’s AGM in Los Angeles in Thomas Blank dis Wilson as VP and managing director for March 2014, when the board of directors elects a new Photo: Agility the Asia-Pacific region. After eight years in chair and vice-chair. He succeeded Mattijs ten Brink, Asia he is now returning to Germany. who stepped down after moving from his post as Air France-KLM Cargo’s senior vice-president for sales and distribution to become CEO of the Dutch airline New head for Ceva in Germany Transavia. Air France-KLM Cargo has said that Gijsbert Woelders, its operations vice-president, will take over as Ceva Logistics has named Christian Wurst as the new the airline’s representative to the Cargo 2000 initiative. managing director of its German activities. Wurst started his logistics career with DB Schenker and held various Robinson eyeing Europe management positions with Wincanton and Schenker in the subsequent 15 years. In this time he was also Win- C.H. Robinson Worldwide, one of the canton’s managing director for Germany for four years. world’s largest produce sourcing and logistics companies, has named Gary York to its newly-created position of director AAE slimming down management of sourcing for Europe. York will focus on demand in Europe for the supply of The AAE group is cutting its management positions fresh fruits and vegetables. York started his from six to four people on 1 October. The sales and career with C.H. Robinson, a Fortune 500 business development units will be merged and managed company headquartered in Eden Prairie by Jakob Öhrström from October. The executive board MN, in 1992. Previously, he was GM of members Karsten Sachsenröder (CEO), Mark Steven- the sourcing and transportation business son (CFO) and Dr Christof Selden (COO) will retain for FoodSource, a C.H. Robinson com- their charges. Sachsenröder and Selden will additionally pany, and transportation manager of the Gary York divide up responsibility for the phased out technology, C.H. Robinson northeast sourcing team. Photo: C.H. Robinson safety and associations divisions. ©2 1 ..Robinson C.H. 013 Wo lwd,Ic l ihsReserved. Rights All Inc. rldwide,

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Twice 25 years Inefficiency in the industry? The authorised signatories Optimisation, as you know, is an age-old Niels Riedel and André process in which the optimum (the Latin Gernhardt both celebrated superlative of good) is sought. Nobody their 25th anniversaries of will contest the fact that this journey can working for the Hamburg- never end, neither for an enterprise nor based transport service pro- for an industry as a whole. That logisti- vider Eurogate Intermodal André Gernhardt (on the left) and cians take their courage in their hands (Egim) recently. Today Rie- Niels Riedel. Photo: Bonum news+marketing and publicly lament numerous lacunae Christian del is Egim’s sales manager, in their own industry is a rather new Doepgen and was instrumental in establishing a cooperation deal phenomenon, in contrast. We witnessed Editor-in-chief with I.C.E. Transport, a Budapest-based Hungarian agency it recently when Damco’s Rolf Habben- for container transportation, and the company’s successful Jansen visited our editorial offices in Basel for a frank collaboration with the freight forwarders K+N, Panalpina exchange of views. and Schenker, amongst other things. Gernhardt, who start- Mind you, we’re not talking about basic criticism of ed his career as a sea freight inspector, is now the firm’s head inadequate infrastructure, which makes logistics a massive of railway dispatch operations. It was thanks to his efforts hurdle for trade, especially in many land-locked African that Egim was able to launch the first nonstop container countries, according to a World Bank analysis. Nor are train from Hamburg to Budapest in 2006. we talking about the USD 45 billion that a McKinsey study has established that India loses annually on account of its inadequate modal split. We’re not addressing the Forwarders of the future 25–30% of GDP that Indonesia needs to invest in its freight transportation industry, either, far above the Asean The regional winners of Fiata’s Young average of 15%. Forwarder of the Year award have been No, we’re talking about benchmarking in the logistics named. Mohamed Samy from Egypt won industry in comparison with other sectors, such as the con- in the Africa/Middle East region, whilst sumer goods industry. Besides many operational details Canada’s Kaloyan Petrov took the honours the criticism is essentially aimed at the poor margins in in the Americas. The Asia-Pacific region our industry. These won’t change so soon, if one looks at will be represented by Prabhjot Singh from the current upswing (modest) and capacities (excessive). India, and Europe by Germany’s Janna van The US analyst Rosalyn Wilson believes that we may Burgeler. She won last year’s young Ger- have to get used to this situation as the new normality. man forwarder and logistician prize, and Janna van Burgeler What is to be done? The substantial losses result- was trained in the Hamburg-based freight Photo: Fiata ing from inefficiency, which can arise on account of the forwarder Fenthol & Sandtmann. Fiata’s inadequate integration of the various links in the supply global up-and-coming forwarding star of the year will chain, are easily identified. They are old weaknesses, such be named from the four regional winners at the world as losing time, duplicating activities, using unsuitable or body’s annual congress in Singapore on 15 October. under-utilised means of transport, holding excessive stocks, late error recognition and elimination, as well as a general lack of information. The remedies that are in fashion these Obituary days include centralisation, the outsourcing of services to regions where the work can be done more cheaply, cost cut- Sten Allan Olsson, Stena Line founder ting measures, economies of scale and of course a compre- hensive IT structure. Sten Allan Olsson (1916–2013), shipowner, entrepreneur The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s reformula- and the founder of Stena, has died at the age of 96. tion of an old insight hits the nail on the head. «People are Olsson, who was born near Gothenburg in 1916, bought the one factor that never completely fits into the equation.» a schooner when he was 27 years old. In 1946 he bought The employees involved should never be forgotten when an his first ferry. His shipping line was launched in 1948 optimisation process is attempted – but all too often this is and in the 1950s it operated twelve owned and twelve the case. Millions are invested in IT at the drop of a hat, chartered freighters. Today Stena Line operates 37 ferries whilst the further training of employees is largely neglected. on 23 routes. Olsson also built up other businesses in his A logistics consultancy from New Zealand has started group, including Sweden’s largest tanker shipping busi- calling further training «upgrading human resource soft- ness, recycling firms and drilling activities. The family- ware». When this message reaches its intended audience, owned group has more than 20,000 employees today. then the logistics industry will be able to be doubly proud Olsson always lived by the motto «don’t let setbacks get of the fact that it is a «people business». you down – fly low and far.» International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 Shipping & Ports 11

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The third quarter of the year is traditionally the most somewhat, as retailers increasingly stock up before summer, for ex- lucrative one for shipping lines. Imports from Asia, ample with garden furniture or grill equipment. Drewry believes that especially, tend to run high in this period, as busi- it could become crucial for lines to increase their capacities from nesses seek to fill their shelves in time for the shop- as early as March in future, and not only from the third quarter ping people do for the start of the new school year, for onwards. One of the results thereof could be that it will become Thanksgiving or for Christmas. 2013 will probably see increasingly difficult to implement peak season surcharges. General the continuation of a trend that started three years ago rate increases could then become an alternative. It is questionable, – namely that demand for the peak season will again be however, how effective they will be, in the light of the fact that quite weaker this year than was normally the case in the past. a few ULCVs are due to enter service by the end of the year. After all, The English market expert Drewry has established growing volumes are essential for a better balance between demand that consumers’ purchasing patterns would appear to and supply. be changing. Previously differing volumes between the Antje Veregge summer’s and the winter’s goods flows have converged www.drewry.co.uk

G6 Alliance cutting capacities

The members of the G6 Alliance – APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, MitsuiO.S.K.Lines, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Orient Overseas Container Line – are terminating their ABX service in their Far East–Black Sea Euro-Med Services network. Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) will TRANSPORT OF ANY TYPE OF VEHICLE, EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT, FORESTRYPRODUCTS, charter slots on other sailings and thus continue to serve STANDARDAND SPECIAL CONTAINERS, PROJECT AND HEAVY LIFT CARGO the region directly. Approximately 6,000 teu of capacity will be lost. Former ABX ports will continue to receive calls thanks to a feeder service with a connection via Port Saïd. The weekly link will provide coverage of the Black Sea, deploying two 3,000 teu vessels. The feeder service that sets sail from Port Saïd calls at Ashdod, Istanbul, Constantza and Odessa. This link connects to a service the alliance runs between Asia and the Western Medi- terranean, whose hub the G6 recently transferred from Damietta to Port Saïd (see ITJ 23-26/2013, page 38). Direct weekly service from/to: Observers believe that the move represents an urgent • Alexandria • Esbjerg • Malta • Southampton and necessary measure to improve the market situation. • Antwerp • Flushing • Mersin • Tartous • Ashdod • Gemlik • Palermo • Tripoli (Lebanon) Rumours have abounded for a while that some lines • Hamburg • Beirut • Piraeus • Tripoli (Lybia) are planning additional reductions in sailings from the • Izmir • Bristol (Prby) • Lattakia • Salerno • Tunis and Rades fourth quarter onwards, to create more stable rate lev- • Civitavecchia • Limassol • Savona • Valencia els. The termination of the ABX service represents no • Cork • Livorno • Setubal • Wallhamn more than a drop in the ocean, however, as G6 Alliance ANTWERP HAMBURG LONDON members are set to take delivery of a number of 13,000 Grimaldi Belgium Grimaldi Germany Grimaldi AgencyUK Tel: +32 35459430 Tel: +49 40 789707 12 Tel: +44 207 9305683 teu or more units. They will be deployed between Asia Fax: +32 35414275 Fax: +49 40 789707 71 Fax: +44 207 8391961 and Europe by 2014. av NAPLES GRIMALDI HEAD OFFICE www.apl.com; www.hmm21.com; www.mol.co.jp Tel: +39 081 496111 Fax: +39 081 5517401 www.grimaldi.napoli.it www.hapag-lloyd.com; www.nykline.com; www.oocl.com 12 Shipping & Ports International Transport Journal 31-34 2013

H1/2013 results from Rotterdam and Antwerp Less boxes in the western ports

Rotterdam and Antwerp, the two largest European ports, were able to maintain their results for the first half of 2013 at a similar level to 2012’s figures, despite a tense market situation. Whilst Antwerp’s liquid bulk throughput grew substantially, Rotterdam registered strong losses in this field. Container throughput developments diverged in the two hubs.

The Dutch port of Rotterdam recorded a decline in terms of weight lay in the per- The hub’s total throughput presented a 0.9% decline in volume compared to the sistent economic malaise in Europe. This different picture. The volume of goods first half of 2012, to 219.7 million t. This development was particularly noticeable handled by the Belgian maritime port in was primarily caused by a reduction in in the feeder segment. This is partially H1 rose by 2% in comparison with the crude oil quantities – which are particu- because shipowners seek to cut costs by like-for-like period last year, coming in at larly important for the hub, accounting making more direct port calls than in the 95.66 million t. Liquid bulk throughput for a quarter of overall volume – which past. Over and above this some feeder improved particularly well, rising by 33% fell to 46.2 million t, 8.7% below last connections between the Baltic states and to 29.25 million t. year’s figure. LNG also developed very Rotterdam have also shifted to ports in Both ports are seeking to strengthen poorly, falling by 70% to 62,000 t. northern Germany. The result was a 6% their positions by expanding capacities, Container throughput delivered mixed decrease in volume. despite the difficult market environment. results. Though the number of contain- Rotterdam did better in the box seg- Whilst Rotterdam inaugurated the first ers handled increased slightly, by 1% to ment than Antwerp. The centre on the section of its new Maasvlakte 2 deepsea 5.9million teu, overall the segment expe- river Scheldt handled 1.7% less units, port in May, Antwerp has plans to ex- rienced a 2% decrease in the number of namely 4.29 million teu. The number of pand on the Scheldt’s left bank. av tonnes handled, to 61.7 million t. A port tonnes handled in the container sector www.portofrotterdam.com spokesperson said that the reason for the also declined, by 3.7% to 51.51 million t. www.portofantwerp.com

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HMT becomes UAL NL In brief

Box volumes down in Barcelona. The A triple celebration number of containers handled in the Spanish Mediterranean port declined by 3% in the The Dutch firm UAL NL, formerly called HMT, has plenty to celebrate this year. first half of 2013, in comparison with the It sees the 30th anniversary of the company’s founding, the naming of a new same period last year, coming in at 828,169 teu. The hub’s excellent result in the export breakbulk freighter and the introduction of a new company name. container segment, which saw a 12% rise, was not able to make up for the 2% loss in Shipping crisis or not – the West Africa the import sector. The port’s total through- specialist HMT has three good reasons put of approximately 21 million t in H1/2013 to celebrate this year. 30 years ago, in was about at the same level as the previous 1983, managing director Roger Jungblut year’s figure. www.portdebarcelona.cat founded HMT, which initially focused on the oil and gas industry and on spe- World’s largest ship calls at Busan. The cial shipping projects. When HMT was South Korean port of Busan received a call

NL from the ship «Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller» in appointed general agent for Universal L

UA mid-July. The first of Maersk’s new triple-E Africa Lines (UAL) soon after its found- : ing, it became the first choice for business to ships called at Busan New Port’s PNC Pho in the West Africa trade lane. In order to UAL will have taken delivery of five specially- terminal. The «Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller», make its key strength clear to partners developed eco-trader ships by 2014. which is 400 m long, 59 m wide and has and customers, HMT has now adopted a maximum draught of 15.5 m, can carry the new name of Universal Africa Lines innovative bow shape with wave piercing about 18,000 teu. www.busanpa.com Netherlands (UAL NL). abilities which improves sailing speeds German railway test run. The Duisport The anniversary and the new name and helps cut its fuel consumption. On its group linked its DIT Duisburg intermodal alone would be enough cause for festivi- maiden voyage the UAL Texas will call at terminal to Eurogate Wilhelmshaven's ties, but with the naming of a new unit the ports of Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), container terminal, located in the Jade- in Rotterdam the corporation recently Pointe Noire (Congo) and Soyo (Angola), WeserPort there, for the first time in July, also extended its fleet. The ship, the amongst others. sending a Wilhelmshaven–Duisport shuttle UAL Texas, is a newly-built 8,600 dwt When UAL takes delivery of the fifth on a test run. The plan was to see if the freighter in the so-called eco-trader series. and last of its eco-trader units early in technical procedures for handling operations It is a sister ship of the UAL Houston, 2014, the company will once again have and railway management were in place, to which was delivered in 2012. The Bode- good reason to celebrate. ensure that the scheduled links in the new wes shipyard built the UAL Texas, which av hinterland connection will run smoothly and features a so-called Groot cross-bow, an www.universalafricalines.com efficiently. www.duisport.de

Zeeland ports recovering. Zeeland Sea- ports, an alliance between Vlissingen and New PSA hub in Zeebrugge First liner client in London Terneuzen, two Dutch ports on the river Scheldt, reported an increase in goods The Belgian deepsea port of Zeebrugge is The London Gateway, DP World’s new handled in H1, following on from a weak intensifying relations with its Asian part- deepsea port, will receive calls from the first quarter. Throughput rose by 1.8% to ners. The arrival of the Taiwanese line Southern Africa Europe Container Ser- 16.8 million t. Export consignments dropped Evergreen’s EverLadenon 19 July signalled vice (SAECS) consortium. The shipping off by 0.8% in comparison with the like-for- the opening of PSA’s new Zeebrugge In- lines Deutsche Afrika-Linien (DAL), like period last year, coming to 4.69 milliont, ternational Port (ZIP). It is operated by Maersk (with its subsidiary Safmarine) whilst imports increased by 2.8% to 12.11 Singapore-based PSA. The Ever Laden’s and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) are the million t. The hubs said that the main reason for the latter improvement was improved call represented the launch of a new week- three members of SAECS. The London figures in the raw minerals and construction ly service that Evergreen runs with its Gateway call will replace an existing materials segments. The number of con- South Korean partner Hanjin, under the SAECS sailing to the port of Tilbury. The tainer handled declined by 7.5%, however. respective names China Europe Mediter- new port is set to commence operations www.zeelandseaports.com ranean service (CEM) and Asia Northern in the fourth quarter of this year. Whilst Europe Network (ANN). Cosco, K Line, rail service providers and retailers – such More sailings to Panama. The French ship- Yang Ming and CMA CGM can book as Schenker and Marks & Spencer – had ping line CMA CGM is set to increase the slots on the link, which calls at Qingdao, said quite a while ago that they wanted to frequency of its Panama Direct Line service Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian, make use of the new port and the asso- from fortnightly to weekly on 18 September. Tanjung Pelepas, Colombo, Rotterdam, ciated logistics park, commitments from It calls at ports in Australia, New Zealand, Felixstowe and also Hamburg, amongst container shipping lines had been nota- the Americas, Europe and North Africa. others. av bly absent so far. www.cma-cgm.com www.mbz.be www.londongateway.com 14 Shipping & Ports International Transport Journal 31-34 2013

Promising first quarter results The Japanese are on course

At the end of June the three large Japanese shipping lines K Line, MOL and NYK completed the first quarter of their 2013 financial year. All three corporations are back in the black for the period, despite the rather tense mood in the markets.

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) gene this trade will last, thanks also to the peak stock ink Th rated a net income of JPY 7 billion (EUR season (see also page 11). : to

54 million) in the first quarter of finan Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) also made Pho cial 2013, which closed on 30 June 2013. a net profit, namely of JPY 14.5 billion Japan’s shipping lines did better in Q1/2013 This compared favourably with the like (EUR 112 million). The corporation was than in same quarter of the previous year. forlike period in the previous year, when thus able to turn around its negative re the company made a loss of EUR 5.2 sult of EUR 36 million from Q1/2012. ter than the EUR 3.66 million recorded million. K Line was able to improve its MOL’s revenues came in at EUR 3.2 bil in 2012. revenues from EUR 2.1 billion in the first lion, which was an improvement on the The three big Japanese lines agree that quarter of 2012 to EUR 2.3 billion this EUR 2.9 billion registered in Q1/2012. economic developments for the rest of this year. The number of loaded containers Nippon Yusen Kaisha’s profits stood at financial year remain uncertain, however. the line carried between Asia and North JPY 8.5 billion (EUR 65 million), a dis The ongoing recession in Europe and America rose by 4% over the same pe tinct improvement visàvis a loss of just slower growth in some emerging econo riod in the previous year, whilst traffic under EUR 10 million in the likeforlike mies, such as China and India, will con between Asia and Europe saw a 10% de period in the previous year. Its revenues tinue to create problems. av cline. Despite this sinking volume KLine in the first quarter of the financial year www.kline.co.jp assumes that the freight rate recovery in came in at EUR 4.05 billion, slightly bet www.mol.co.jp; www.nyk.com International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 Aviation 15

An insight into an airline’s network operating centre An eye on the global network

Since its merger with Continental in 2010 United Airlines has kept an eye on around 5,600 flights every day from its network operations centre in Chicago. This may be the last form of flight management before cargo and passenger aeroplanes fly by remote control.

The screen in the network operations centre (NOC) in Chicago IL (USA), the flight control centre of United Airlines’, the world’s largest carrier, is as large as the big screen of a cinema.A long chain of connected red, blue and green lights shimmer on its surface, making the radar ch Ko screen look a bit like a fishing net. Every s au Kl knot in the net represents a moving air- : to craft – moving almost imperceptibly, but Pho continuously. A storm warning, far away Naom Alon always keeps an eye on the sky. off the Mexican coast, glistens deeply red. A thunderstorm is much closer to the It started operations in 2012. «Someone manage the increase in airfreight volumes NOC, distinctly visible about 30 miles always supervises our flights from the arising from the merger. There are four away. Should it move any closer, to with- ground, no matter where in the world it positions where Boeing B747-8Fs can be in five miles of Chicago O’Hare airport, may be.» This may be the last form that loaded and unloaded. The facility also then one of the busiest hubs worldwide flight management takes before civil air- includes temperature-controlled ware- would come to a standstill, on account of craft fly by remote control. housing options, a fully-automated par- the danger of lightning striking. cels sorting centre that can handle 3,000 Weather warnings are just one part of New requirements and new services packages an hour and serves 68 destina- the permanent flow of information into United’s NOC is not based at O’Hare, tions, as well as a completely new area for and out of the 27th floor of the Willis but in the former Sears Tower (renamed handling pets. The carrier’s comprehen- Tower. Other bits of the overwhelming the Willis Tower in 2009 by its new own- sive logistics services are impressive. amounts of data concern flight routes, er, the Willis insurance corporation). Its We asked Alon what has changed since delays, available cargo capacities as well 527m still make it the highest building 9/11, but his response is incomplete, as as the status of the engines or fuel con- in the USA, even though it has lost the «it would probably take me the rest of sumption of individual United jets. «We title of highest building in the world. the day to explain all the ramifications of can’t stop bad weather here,» says Naom The NOC’s 1,300 employees have 341 that event.» Airlines have no longer been Alon, «but we can prevent mishaps.»A consoles and 57 monitors, connected in charge of security checks in the USA separate meeting room, equipped with by 200km of cables, where they work since 2001. Checks are now carried out by everything that modern communica- in three shifts. The data handled is col- the 56,000 employees of the Transporta- tions technology has to offer, serves as lated with that from other flight control tion Security Administration (TSA). Ex- the facility’s crisis intervention centre. centres. The NOC keeps an eye on every plosives that can be ignited with the aid Supporting measures, contingency plans single United Airlines flight worldwide, of liquids, or pistols that contain no metal and safety and security issues can be ef- about 5,600 connections a day. that have been printed by 3D printers ficiently coordinated from there. The ef- United’s airfreight division, a giant keep the authorities on their toes, as they fects of hurricane Sandy, or of the attacks whose 87,000 employees operate a fleet of cannot be detected by x-ray scanners. The on New York on 11 September 2001 – 701 owned aircraft since the merger with TSA has only been in a position to scan when two United Airlines aircraft were Continental, recorded a freight perfor- all freight on domestic flights since 2010, also involved – are a vivid memory in mance of approximately 1.1 billion cargo however, and since the end of 2012 there the NOC. ton miles in the first half of 2013. At the has been 100% scanning on interconti- Alon is a pilot who flew Boeing B737s beginning of 2012 United opened a new nental flights too. The only snag, as Alon and B727s himself for several years. Now 25,000sqm airfreight hall, with 53 load- also knows, is that «complete security he is one of six managers of the NOC, the ing bays and 21,300sqm of warehousing doesn’t exist». most modern such facility in the world. capacity in Chicago. There the airline can Klaus Koch

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Corporation renamed after its cash cow EADS transformed into Airbus

The aircraft manufacturer Airbus has revised its full-year guidance upwards. EADS is also changing its name and restructuring the group. The irony is that the aerospace and ry ta defence services entity will then have a similar structure to that of its US rival Boeing. li us Mi rb Ai

EADS reported increased revenues and Astrium and Cassidian. The EADS sub- : to profitability in H1/2013, driven by its sidiary Airbus Commercial expects gross Pho commercial aircraft business. Its ebit commercial aircraft orders in 2013 to rise On 1 August the French air force took delivery rose to EUR 1.5 billion, whilst its order above 1,000 units (instead of 800 as pre- of its first A400M military transporter, which book value increased to EUR 635 billion dicted in May). has a maximum payload of 37 t. at the end of June. In the first half of 2013 Over and above this, the group will EADS managed to improve its revenues change the name of the entire corpora- corporation’s helicopter subsidiary Euro- by 6% to EUR 26.3 billion, in compari- tion to Airbus in 2014, as a result of a copter, in turn, will now be rebranded son with the like-for-like period in the structural reorganisation programme. In under the Airbus Helicopters name. previous year. this context the group has decided to inte- Airbus’s US competitor Boeing under- Amsterdam-based EADS said at the grate its space and defence entities Airbus took a similar step a decade ago. It was re- end of July that these developments re- Military, Astrium and Cassidian into one organised into the three divisions Boeing flected the aircraft delivery pattern at Air- division – Airbus Defence & Space – in Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Defense, bus Commercial, as well as broadly stable response to changing markets and flat or Space & Security and Others. ah revenues in the companies Eurocopter, shrinking defence and space budgets. The www.airbus.com; www.boeing.com

Between recession and economic optimism In brief Ground takeover. The Zurich-based Swiss In the light of a 0.9% decline in the vol- The winners amongst the European hubs ground handler Swissport is taking over its ume of goods handled at European air- included Luxembourg, which confirmed competitor Servisair, which is active in the ports in June, the continent’s airport as- its recent positive trend, as well as Istan- United Kingdom and Spain, amongst other sociation ACI Europe has stated that the bul. Some of the strongest improvements places. Swissport handles around 3.5mil- industry is still «in recession». The world registered outside of the ten largest car- liont of freight annually, whilst Servisair body Iata, in contrast, considers the glass go airports were posted by the Latvian manages 650,000t. Its previous owner to be «half full», particularly in Europe. capital Riga (+124% to 6,556t) and by Derichebourg said the firm was worth about The airfreight performance of European the Norwegian capital Oslo (+16% to EUR 450 million. www.swissport.com airlines measured in ftk did indeed rise 6,852 t). The Swedish centres in Stock- Doing well. Swiss WorldCargo improved by 2.6% in comparison with June 2012, holm Arlanda (–15% to 4,117t) and Goth- its freight performance by 2.3% in the first whilst the same figure declined by 1.2% enburg (–25% to 2,100 t), in contrast, reg- half of 2013, bringing the figure to 744mil- in North America, and by 1.8% in the istered hefty declines. ah lionftk. www.swissworldcargo.com Asia-Pacific region. www.aci-europe.org; www.iata.org Data transfer. Israel’s C.A.L. Cargo Airlines, Freight throughput at leading European airports in June 2013 which handles a transport volume of approximately 100,000 t annually, has extended Rank June 2012 Airport Country Airfreight in t ±% its collaboration with the IT service provider 1 (1) Frankfurt DE 176,387 +3.1 Champ Cargosystems, which started in 2011. 2 (2) Paris CDG FR 157,000 –9.0 The partners will focus on improving the 3 (4) Amsterdam NL 124,435 +1.7 transmission of consignment data to the 4 (3) London LHR UK 119,786 –4.2 Israeli customs authorities. 5 (5) Leipzig Halle DE 73,979 +1.1 www.cal-cargo.com; www.champ.aero 6 (7) Luxembourg LU 59,007 +13.8 7 (6) Cologne Bonn DE 58,275 –1.3 Iran and Uganda. Turkish Cargo started a 8 (9) Istanbul IST TR 51,700 +9.2 weekly service to the Iranian capital Tehran 9 (8) Liege BE 45,008 –8.2 on 31 July. The carrier has also introduced 10 (10) Milan MXP IT 35,994 –1.1 RFSs from Entebbe. Uganda’s most impor- Freight throughput at Swiss airports in June 2013 tant freight hub will be linked to 22 cities pe ro in the country and to twelve stations in 1 (1) Zurich CH 24,730 +1.2 Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, South

2 (2) Geneva CH 4,032 –3.7 : ACI Eu

ce Sudan and Congo. www.turkishcargo.com

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E-commerce more popular than ever according to new study Logisticians face mounting challenges

Logistics is increasingly becoming a decisive factor for the success of e-commerce companies. Leading online shops, striving to set themselves apart from the competition, are continuously optimising services and building up their fulfilment and logistics expertise. Although logistics service providers are benefiting from high growth rates, they are under increasing pressure to adapt their products.

ers. After all, fast and flexible logistics are increasingly becoming a key factor in the success of e-commerce companies. Today, it is almost standard in Germany and the United Kingdom for deliveries to be shipped the day after an order is placed, but in future, customers will expect goods to be shipped on the day they are ordered without a significantly higher price. Initial solutions are already coming on stream. In the USA, Germany and the UK, service providers, such as Shutl and Tiramizoo are making it possible to bun- dle courier services. In Cologne, DHL is stock currently conducting a same-day delivery ink th

: service trial, in cooperation with the on- to line grocery Gourmondo. And now that Pho The e-commerce segment is growing strongly. Its dynamic development means logisticians need to Amazon has expanded its regional ware- implement new strategies to meet the growing expectations of consumers and online shops. house it will surely not be long before its so-called evening express service is The e-commerce business is booming. soar to more than 85% of the B2C parcels expanded to include same-day shipping Travel, concert tickets, televisions, cloth- market. That represents more than a dou- to many German cities. This increase in ing, jewellery, books DVDs – you name bling of the German e-commerce parcels delivery speed is anything but a trivial it, you can order everything online, and market over the next ten years, to more undertaking. E-commerce firms are shift- the volume of goods thus traded is steadily than 1.3 billion parcels every year. «E- ing from central to regional warehouse rising.A study by the consultancy Oliver commerce is increasingly setting the tone logistics and are working on the direct Wyman has concluded that e-commerce is in the CEP industry,» Michael Lierow, transfer of goods to the dispatch ware- growing by 10–15% annually in Western a partner at Oliver Wyman, says. «That houses of logistics companies. Europe. In 2012, Germany saw revenues enables logistics providers to expand their from internet purchases reach nearly EUR business activities, but at the same time More flexibility and agility 30 billion, almost double the figure for the requirements are increasing dramati- The importance of the sorting steps at the 2005. Today more than a third of all holi- cally. Competition is becoming keener, initial dispatch point as well as of the main day bookings and ticket purchases in Ger- demanding innovation and speed.» shipping routes will diminish, potentially many are completed online. In the fashion E-commerce giants like Amazon and resulting in utilisation problems in depots sector the internet generates 35% of an- Asos have steadily improved their dis- and networks. Multi-channel companies, nual sales, 24% of all books are purchased patch services, responding to customers’ some of which already have regional ware- on the net, and a 15% share of computers needs, developing the market and raising houses near their shops, are at a big advan- and accessories are acquired through the the bar for the industry. More and more, tage. Multi-channel strategies exemplify worldwide web. customers want to decide for themselves an approach that merchants and service when and where the goods they have or- providers are using in order to reach po- Higher customer standards dered are delivered. They also want to tential customers through a number of dif- The growing market share of online busi- have the flexibility to change the time ferent communication channels. Accord- ness is also affecting shipping. In 2013 the and place of delivery. And ultimately, ing to the study logistics service providers volume of packages shipped in the B2C customers want merchandise returns to now require a great deal of flexibility and segment in Germany will reach between be handled conveniently. They not only agility – particularly on the last mile – 800 and 850 million parcels. Online sales want free return postage, but they also ex- to give them the capability of delivering are expected to significantly drive growth pect to be able to return goods in shops or huge numbers of orders to customers on in the volume of B2C packages handled even have them picked up at their homes. the same day the order is placed. At the through to 2023. With an annual growth This puts the ball squarely in the court same time, the document continues, logis- rate of 9%, e-commerce shipments will of both web shops and logistics provid- tics service providers are facing mounting International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 Forwarding & Logistics 19 pressure to reduce shipping costs. Leading tiate a company from the others, it won’t the same time, logistics firms will shift online merchants now handle volumes hesitate to leap at the opportunity.» To into high gear in the development of the that put them in a substantially advanta- keep pace with e-commerce firms, trans- ultimate prize, scalable same-day ser- geous negotiating position vis-à-vis the port logistics companies in particular will vices. That will require a reorientation of logistics companies. In addition, custom- have to develop targeted strategies, and product development toward innovative ers increasingly expect delivery costs to be implement them quickly. Merely offering solutions, and increasing the flexibility of priced into the products they order. a cheap service is not enough anymore. It networks, with an eye towards delivery is far more important to score points with capabilities and locations. Clear strategies needed innovative solutions. The pre-requisites More adversity is in the offing for logistics for such an approach are flexibility and The clock is ticking companies. The big e-commerce players a capacity to anticipate market develop- Shopping habits are changing, and con- in particular are starting to think about ments. Logistics service providers have sumers’ expectations are changing with how to take over parts of their logistics to take full advantage of their position as them. Both e-commerce providers and operations themselves. In the USA and the the final point of contact with customers, logisticians must act. In view of the dy- UK, for instance, Amazon has introduced in order to raise their stock in the eyes of namics of e-commerce trade and the grow- its own package lockers, where customers online merchants. ing B2C share of the parcels shipping busi- can pick up their orders. In future, says To stand out, logistics companies can ness, Lierow says that innovative solutions the Oliver Wyman analysis, even more offer differentiated shipping services to from logistics service providers are the or- online shops will develop their own ship- meet the requirements of their custom- der of the day – and the clock is ticking. ping logistics ideas wherever it is worth ers. Package pick-up stations that are open «Within the next twelve months the first their while – particularly in cities – and 24 hours a day, and centrally located in e-commerce companies will develop and whenever such a move enables them to set inner-city areas or easily reachable by offer their own logistics services. Logistics themselves apart from the competition by car are an example of such services. The firms that continue with business as usual doing so. «It is precisely this capacity for stations can make use of existing infra- won’t keep up. They need clear strategies innovation which has placed e-commerce structure, such as petrol stations. Soon, that generate added value for end consum- companies in their strong position in the two-hour delivery windows and flexible ers and, by extension, for the e-commerce market today,» says Lierow. «If innovative re-delivery at a customer’s location of companies,» he concluded. edited by ra logistics concepts can sustainably differen- choice will become standard services. At www.oliverwyman.de

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Transporting dangerous goods in Switzerland The only constant is change

The 15th Swiss dangerous goods day, which took place in Basel in June, made it clear that personnel responsible for dangerous goods not only have to know their way around the jungle of regulations for trucks, trains, inland ships, and aircraft but they also have to communicate those requirements internally in their organisations.A variety of plenary sessions and modules on special topics attracted a broad audience.

The dangerous goods day, which was organised by Swiss TS Technical Services, a testing institute, in cooperation with the Swiss hazardous goods association Gefa Suisse, was held in the conference centre at the binational Basel-Mulhouse airport. This year the event marked an important anniversary. The event celebrated its 15th year. Apart from the fact that the dangerous goods day compiles the latest developments and important information in an organised form, the occasion continues to enjoy unwavering interest, as the large t at number of participants made abundantly rm te Al clear. Even though the internet actually : to

offers continuous access to all the neces- Pho sary information about hazardous goods, Ralf Mengwasser, of the testing and certification institute Swiss TS Technical Services, was in personal contact and the opportunity to charge of the 15th Swiss dangerous goods day in Basel. share experiences and knowledge evidently still holds their appeal today. European agreement concerning the inter- port vehicle – or into the container – and The co-organiser of the event, Gefa Sui- national carriage of dangerous goods by that is a very important distinction. The sse, also celebrated its 15th anniversary this road (ADR agreement). The new amend- one who places the dangerous goods into year, the organisation’s president, Rudolf ment aims to regulate which types of dan- the truck or railway wagon has to fulfil nu- Scheidegger proudly announced. The asso- gerous goods may be transported through merous obligations. For instance, both the ciation was founded in 1998 with the aim tunnels. Mengwasser said, on the topic of loader and the transporter (for example the of training and testing dangerous goods lithium battery transport. truck driver) are responsible for ensuring representatives on legal regulations re- «You could spend an entire day on this that the load is secured.» garding hazardous goods handling. In the topic alone. So far, we’ve made a conscious years since its founding, Gefa Suisse has effort to avoid the subject of lithium batter- Theory and practice collide grown to become a respected provider of ies, because the moment you say anything According to dangerous goods expert basic and advanced training for dangerous about the issue, it’s already outdated.» In Mengwasser, the critical obligation of goods representatives in both the German a nutshell, Mengwasser said that the regu- the loader before any dangerous goods and French-speaking parts of Switzerland, lations that consignors, freight forwarders are loaded is adherence to the regulations Scheidegger added. and dangerous goods representatives are re- that apply to the loading and handling of quired to observe are many and complex, the goods. Both the truck driver and the Constant change and that they are constantly being updat- container or vehicle must be inspected in Ralf Mengwasser of Swiss TS Technical ed. The next round of changes is already every case to ensure safety, that the load Services, who moderated the dangerous in the pipeline and must be implemented is secure, for cleanliness and that loading goods day, explained in his opening ad- by 2015. and unloading equipment, as well as any dress that in terms of dangerous goods, One of the most common causes of ac- other equipment used, are in good working constant change governs people’s pro- cidents and incidents involving dangerous order. However, he said that this was not al- fessional and private lives. Mengwasser goods is inadequately secured loads. The ways easy to implement in practice, as tight cited examples of the nearly impenetrable dangerous goods process starts with the time constraints are the norm and because tangle of new provisions and amendments dispatcher, and includes packers, loaders (or too many checks can paralyse the logistics to regulations. His examples included the fillers, in the case of liquid bulk), transport- process. The latter point, Mengwasser said, so-called tunnel-limitations code and the ers and recipients. Mengwasser explained represents a clear conflict between the le- highly-complex issue of lithium batteries. the obligations of the loader with regard gal requirements and their practical imple- Following a number of accidents in- to dangerous goods handling. «In this con- mentation. Robert Altermatt volving dangerous goods in tunnels, the text, the loader is the company that places www.gefasuisse.ch tunnel-limitations code was added to the the dangerous goods into or onto the trans- www.swissts.ch International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 Forwarding & Logistics 21

Panalpina recovering, Pantos growing in China In brief Pantos Logistics, a South Korean compa- TNT Express in the red DSV buys Ontime. DSV, a Danish transport ny with global activities, recently signed and logistics corporation, has taken over Panalpina, a Basel-based Swiss logistics a declaration of intent to set up a long- the enterprise Ontime Logistics. Ontime is and forwarding firm, has regain its feet term strategic partnership in China with a Norwegian transport and logistics service in the months from April to June, af- the Chinese service provider Bondex provider with around 220 employees and 15 ter a poor Q1/2013. Sales improved by Logistics. The firms are planning to coop- branch offices in Norway, Sweden and Den- 3.8% vis-à-vis the like-for-like period last erate closely in the fields of international mark. It is active primarily in the overland year, coming in at CHF 3.33 billion. The express business, procurement logistics, transport solutions segment and generated firm’s gross profit increased by 5.1% to warehouse management options as well sales of around DKK 600 million (EUR 80 CHF765million. Its operating profit as distribution. ra million) in 2012. The partners agreed not to (ebit) climbed by more than 28% to www.pantos.com disclose any details of the transaction. CHF58.8million, with its net profits also www.bondex.com www.dsv.com improving, by 9.4% to CHF 38.4 million. In H1/2012 Panalpina’s results had been Aramex doing well. The logistics company severely depressed by a fine of just under Daher with new owners Aramex, which is headquartered in Amman CHF 60 million levied by the EU and (Jordan), improved its revenues by 9% to Switzerland for cartel law infringements. The French freight forwarding and logis- AED 1.65 billion (almost EUR 340 million) in The business of the Dutch service tics company Daher has changed hands. H1/2013, in comparison with the same pe- provider TNT Express, in turn, is not The French transport and logistics corpo- riod last year. Net profits also rose, by 13% progressing well. In the second quarter ration Norbert Dentressangle has bought to AED 142 million (EUR 29 million). of 2013 its sales dropped by 3.1% to the Marseilles-based entity. The transac- www.aramex.com EUR1.7billion. Write-offs caused the tion, which is expected to be closed in the Lehnkering AEO certified in Belgium. The company to report a loss of EUR304mil- third quarter, has yet to be approved by Antwerp-based entity Lehnkering Logistics lion. TNT had made a profit of EUR39 the country’s competition commission. was recently awarded AEO certification in million in the previous year. ra www.dahergroup.com Belgium. www.lehnkering.com www.panalpina.com; www.tnt.com www.norbert-dentressangle.com

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Leimgruber is the highest-flying Swiss logistics company Lifts for the Roche tower

The logistician Paul Leimgruber has been mandated by the lift firm Schindler Aufzüge to handle the logistics needs for the lifts being installed in the Roche tower in Basel. The skyscraper will be almost 180 m high, thus becoming Switzerland’s tallest building.

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The skyscraper is scheduled to be complet- trucks. The project is set to last approxi- : ed by 2015. The lift and escalator manu- mately two years. to Pho facturer Schindler has been mandated to Chemical industry giant Roche’s new Basel supply the 14 lifts for the building, and 41 storeys high headquarters will be ready in 2015. it, in turn, has awarded the logistics con- Leimgruber’s managingdirectorHanspeter tract to the Swiss transport and logistics Fox said that «we already collaborated suc- At 178 m the new office complex, which enterprise Leimgruber. The firm, which is cessfully with Schindler in 2012, when we is officially simply called Bau 1 (building based in Pratteln (near Basel), will keep were recruited for the same task during no. 1), will be the tallest building in the all the parts needed for the lifts in interim the renovation and extension of Basel’s country. The new Roche headquarters will storage and deliver them to the site in ac- trade fair and exhibition centre.» (See ITJ encompass 41 storeys and approximately cordance with Schindler’s assembly plan. 25-26/2012, page 5). «Special logistics task 2,000 employees will work there. It will The contract covers a total of 750 t of such as these call for flexibility and coor- also include a restaurant as well as a mul- material, including very small parts and dination skills. Naturally, we manage jobs tipurpose hall that can hold an audience pre-fabricated lift cabins. Leimgruber like this separately from our daily general of 500 people. It is expected to cost about will compile consignments in accord- cargo transportation and container logis- CHF 550 million overall. ra ance with the requirements laid down by tics tasks,» he added. www.leimgruber.ag

In brief Broekman Group K+N on course,

Raben expanding. The Raben Group, which on a shopping spree UPS grows only slightly already opened a new branch office in the Dutch city of Oss last year, has now opened The Broekman Group, a Rotterdam- The international logistics corporation another centre in the Netherlands. The ser- based Dutch logistics entity, is expanding Kuehne +Nagel was able to improve its vice provider’s latest platform is located in substantially. Early in July it announced H1/2013 results in comparison with the Staphorst, in the north of the country. Raben that it was taking over the forwarder and like-for-like period last year. Sales grew Netherlands’ range of services includes logistics service provider Triple Logis- by 3.6% to CHF 10.4 billion. Net prof- international transport services, domestic tics. Soon thereafter it said that it was its rose from CHF 214 to 289 million, a distribution and warehouse logistics. also buying the logistics company Two strong 35% jump. The H1/2012 result had www.raben-group.com Chemical Logistics (which was formerly been depressed by a fine imposed by the known as Te Winkel & Oomes). European Union for illegal price-fixing, Tuscor Lloyds in Rotterdam. The Manches- Hoofddorp-based Triple Logistics has however. K+N’s operating result (ebitda) ter-based English shipping agent and freight 5,500 sqm of warehousing and logistics grew by 20% to CHF 466 million. forwarder Tuscor Lloyds recently opened a facilities, and offers air and sea freight ser- The US parcel service provider UPS, in new branch office in the port of Rotterdam vices as well as overland transport options turn, only managed to grow marginally (Netherlands). www.tuscorlloyds.com and warehouse solutions. Two Chemical in the first six months of 2013 in com- Logistics was founded as Te Winkel & parison with the same period last year. FedEx in the Mezzogiorno. The global Oomes (TWO) in 1852, and focuses on Sales improved by 1.7% in the first half, courier, express and parcel service provider packed chemicals. It is headquartered in rising from USD 26.49 to 26.94 billion. FedEx Express is expanding its network of Nijmegen and has branches in Maastricht Net profits rose by 1.1%, from USD 2.01 branches in southern Italy, with the opening and Berlin. It was sold to the Broekman to 2.1 billion. The corporation’s operat- of a new office in Bari, on the boot’s eastern Group by the Dutch freight forwarder ing result slipped by 1.1%, however, from coast. The corporation already opened two and logistics service group Emons. ra USD 3.36 to 3.32 billion. new centres in the region earlier this year, www.broekman-group.nl ra namely in Naples and Pescara. www.tripletransport.com www.kn-portal.com www.fedex.com www.emons.nl; www.two.nl www.ups.com International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 Rail / Inland Shipping / Road Haulage 23

Renault Trucks presented its new range of trucks in June has been reduced by up to 5% vis-à-vis the previous generation, despite the re- strictions of the EuroVI standard. The Model T with modules long-haul series’ engines are the EuroVI units DTI 11 and DTI 13. The automated Optidriver gear box, which is included se- Renault Trucks has seized the opportunity presented by the introduction of Euro VI rially for the entire range, has been fitted engines in trucks from 2014 onwards to renew its range of models. The Volvo Group has with new software to manage the changing of gears. invested about EUR 2 billion to improve vehicle performance and efficiency. Since 2008 In order to improve vehicle mainte- 300 vehicles have covered 10 million test km and spent 5 million hours on test benches. nance activities, the electric and pneu- matic cable ducts have been positioned This is the first time that a truck manu- T series aims to offer a balance between separately in the chassis, with electricity facturer has renewed its entire product fuel savings and comfort, and has re- cables on the right and compressed air range at one fell swoop. The new models placed the legendary Renault Magnum piping on the left. For emergencies the were developed in cooperation with fifty after more than 20 years. It is simultane- driver has a so-called 24/7 button on his international clients, with test bench tem- ously a worthy successor to the Renault dashboard. Pushing it immediately trig- peratures ranging from –40° to 60°C. Premium Route. gers the geo-localisation of the vehicle So how does the model T save fuel? and transmits the truck’s technical data. T for tractor One way is the twelve degree angle of This ensures the unit of the prompt at- Renault Trucks chose to base its new inclination of the truck’s windscreen, tention of one of Renault Trucks’ 1,600 range of units for long-distance haulage which reduces the aerodynamic resist- sales and service partners worldwide and vehicles on a single lorry, the Renault ance coefficient by as much as 12%. The ensures that breakdown services are on Trucks Tmodel, which is well suited to vehicle also has an optimised drive train. their way. meeting long-distance transport needs, The result is one of the best consump- on account of its modular system. The tion performances in the market, which continued on page 24

Peter Karlsten, group executive vice-president for trucks in the Emea region

Renault Trucks has particularly when taking the aspect of however, but also in our own centres. presented its EuroVI sustainability into account. There are cer- The ultimate need is simply to get every lorry. Is this a move tain requirements concerning time limits lorry back where it belongs – namely on to green logistics? that can only be fulfilled by road haulage. the road – as fast as possible. Of course green logis- But as I said, cooperation and collabora- tics is an important is- tion are transportation’s strengths. Volvo is said to have a better image sue. On the one hand than Renault Trucks. Why is the Volvo there are many cus- How is your global cooperation be- Group investing so substantially in a tomers, road hauliers, tween five truck brands progressing? second brand for the European market? who want to or have The Volvo Group sees itself as the leading We don’t buy brands to let them die. 5,000 to offer their clients manufacturer worldwide of trucks, bus- people worked on the development of the ecological transport solutions. There ses, construction machinery and techni- new Renault trucks. We invested EUR 2 isn’t much more to add to that fact. On cal solutions for the shipping industry billion. Test trucks covered 10 million test the other hand, however, the EuroVI and industrial applications. The lorry km. Together with 50 international cus- emissions standard will represent a legal brands Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks, tomers we analysed intensely what the re- requirement in Europe from next year Mack, UD-Trucks and Eicher are inte- al qualities of the truck of the future have onwards. Over and above this we have grated into the Volvo Group, which has to be. We wouldn’t have made this mas- managed to cut our new truck’s fuel con- a presence in 192 countries. We’ve gener- sive effort if we had not been convinced sumption by 5% in comparison with the ated synergies at every level, especially in of Renault Trucks. Today the name stands predecessors. That’s not only good for the the development of new technologies as for path-breaking technological concepts environment, it’s also good for efficiency. well as in the production of the different and a close degree of trust and coopera- components every brand requires. tion between clients, dealers, manufac- What is road haulage’s role, as one of turers and users. We can also build on the many modes of transport? Is it true that Volvo and Renault have Renault Trucks’ many decades of experi- The various modes of transport have plans to merge sales and service? ence and tradition, as it also incorporates to complement each other really, don’t Yes. Renault Trucks’ presence in Central the French Berliet brand. If you look at it they? Every mode has its right to exist. Europe, for example, will be increased that way, then Renault Trucks has been The logistics industry worldwide is seek- by around 40% by the move. We don’t building lorries for the future since 1894. ing suitable transport options and lorries only offer service and maintenance work That is the path the brand will stay on in are frequently the only feasible solution, in workshops operated in partnership, the Volvo Group too. Beat Keiser 24 Rail / Inland Shipping / Road Haulage International Transport Journal 31-34 2013

between 10 and 18 t, Renault Trucks’D wide model, weighing between 16 and 26t, and the D access, a model with a er

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s: are based on the company’s recognised to technology, which has been adapted for Pho Renault Trucks’ new series being tested in wintry conditions. urban deployment. They also conform to EuroVI standards and offer increased continued from page 23 heavy building site jobs, is called the K performance and improved reliability. series, based on the predecessor model, The long-haul series also has a slot ready called Kerax. Renault Trucks’C series, For the last mile for the installation of the Optifleet fleet which comes in two different driver’s Some aspects of the range have been im- management software. The company’s cabin widths, offers a large payload ca- proved, to cut costs and make servicing Optifuel Infomax software also offers pacity, low fuel consumption and a de- the vehicles easier. These include the use the possibility of saving up to 15% of gree of comfort that is comparable to the of a three-component bumper bar. The the truck’s diesel fuel consumption. Re- corporation’s long-haul vehicles. Renault unit has to precisely meet all the vastly nault’s own driver training programme Trucks’K series, in turn, provides robust- differing needs and requirements of its additionally helps drivers to drive in an ness and a high degree of off-road ma- users in the distribution segment, in economical way. 25,000 drivers have suc- noeuvrability, as well as the best angle of which a great number of different sectors cessfully completed the course so far. inclination in the market. are active. Renault Trucks thus offers its Renault Trucks offers the construc- Inthe context of the new range, Renault clients more than 100 different vehicle tion industry two different series. One is Trucks now offers three models for local configurations, which are ready for many called the building site vehicle C series (c and regional distribution runs. They are different extras. Beat Keiser for construction) and the other one, for Renault Trucks’D unit, which weighs www.renault-trucks.com

Marco Polo gets poor marks German railway links improving

The EU’s Marco Polo programme, which was designed to shift In July and August the German railway industry witnessed two freight transportation from the roads either to the railways, the railfreight events with long-term promise. On 24 July the nation- inland waterways or to shortsea operations, has been called inef- al government, the regional government of the state of North fective by the European Court of Auditors (ECA). The ECA, Rhine-Westphalia and the country’s state-owned railway opera- one of the EU’s seven governing institutions, concluded that tor Deutsche Bahn signed an agreement for the construction the programme should be discontinued in its current form. In of a third railway track between Emmerich and Oberhausen. future, funding should depend on an impact assessment at the The move, which will help ease a bottleneck for freight trains outset, showing whether and to what extent there is EU added between Rotterdam and Duisburg, is considered an important value. This is the rather discouraging overall assessment meted milestone in the extension of the so-called Betuwe route in Ger- out by the ECA, which evaluated the financing programme re- many. This connects Germany’s Ruhr region with the Rhine val- cently. The ECA’s special report (SR 03/2013) assessed whether ley corridor and the Dutch maritime port of Rotterdam. Hans the projects funded by programme were effective. Smits, the Rotterdam port authority’s CEO, was relieved. «Three The Marco Polo programme (parts I and II) has been in place years ago, a third track was pretty low down on the German list since 2003. The programme is part of the EU’s transport policy of priorities.» But it then changed from being what he called «a objective of developing alternatives to freight transport by road. project for the port of Rotterdam» to an undertaking addressing This generally-accepted objective of reducing international road the exports issue. freight traffic simultaneously aims to improve the environmen- The plans envisage the investment of about EUR 1.5 billion tal impact of freight transportation, as well as reducing conges- in the expansion of a 75 km stretch by 2022. North Rhine- tion and increasing road safety. Westphalia will contribute EUR 450 million, the government The audit has found that there are not enough relevant pro- EUR 746 million (EUR 51 million from TEN funds), with the ject proposals put forward. Half of the audited projects are of remainder coming from Deutsche Bahn and other third parties. limited sustainability. One of the main findings of the analysis When the announcement enhancing railfreight links to is that there are serious indications of deadweight projects – the west was made, a cargo train from the east was halfway to that is to say undertakings which would have gone ahead even Hamburg.A train from Zhengzhou in central China covered without EU funding. In fact, 13 of the 16 beneficiaries audited 10,214 km to reach Germany on 2 August. The trip was complet- confirmed that they would have started and run the transport ed in the record time of 15 days – three less than planned. The service even without a subsidy. train with 51 containers was operated on behalf of the city of In addition, there is no reliable data to assess whether the Zhengzhou, and was organised by the Zhengzhou International programme benefited the environment, reduced road conges- Land Port Development and Construction Co. DB Schenker tion or improved road safety. av was the undertaking’s logistics partner outside China. ah www.eca.europa.eu www.portofrotterdam.com; www.dbschenker.com CH-GB-20130722 ie o i htmas oetasaec,mr fiinyadms motnl oetm o e darling her for for in time Be more importantly most and efficiency more transparency, more means: that Pia For time. o,byred ardr i comdtste l.Adta vnicue e rnpr evc rvdr:tak otenew the to thanks providers: service transport her eMap includes TC even in that option And tracking all. them accommodates Pia labrador: boyfriend, Job, Clsaeuulyfe fcag rmlandlinen from charge of free usually are *Calls hn:+0 02 09 fe fcag rmlnln ubr)o ietdwla twww.timocom.co.uk at download direct or numbers) landline from charge of (free 90 30 20 10 +800 Phone: Fre Pi o yet Not ight a, an Tr acking exc c upieadts CeMap TC test and surprise ice fr af eigh hange an? tf ® Tr h futur The h a rc aiu P ytm fdfeettlmtc rvdr in providers telematics different of systems GPS various track can she or acking mes ifrn rcsmyapydpnigo h ewr n h ae ftecrirused. carrier the of rates the and network the on depending apply may prices Different umbers. wa eoft rd Te ® er ra nlv prto for operation live in drn platform ndering nsport! ,h as the 4w ma eeks ll −f e fcharge. of ree on the sc re as en nl ltoma h same the at platform ingle . www.timocom.co.uk –t edog. he NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA

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New study on the business mood in the transport and logistics industry in the USA Slow growth, high costs

The 24th annual State of Logistics report states that the US logistics market will be confronted by slow growth, higher costs as well as strong freight volume fluctuations in the medium term. The report is published every year by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), a trade organisation for logisticians and supply chain experts.

On the occasion of the presentation still very reluctant to make decisions to of the latest – the 24th – edition of shift their supply chain. Now we’re seeing the annual State of Logistics report in more of them make these changes and WashingtonDC, author Rosalyn Wilson taking their business to 3PLs.» declared that in 2012, the year under re- He was speaking during a panel dis- view, the transport and logistics industry cussion held at the National Press Club in the USA had initially done rather well. in Washington DC, which was also at- Economic developments were dynamic tended by other industry executives, for at first, but then lost steam quite signifi- example from the railfreight operator cantly in the third quarter, the member BNSF, the logistics service provider Pacer of the Council of Supply Chain Manage- International and the office materials ment Professionals (CSCMP) continued. manufacturer Office Depot. Wilson explained that «we have to put

our expectations where they belong» and Rising logistics costs SF BN accept the idea of a new normality. «If Wilson said that the total logistics costs : we expect slow, sustained growth, then for US businesses rose to USD 1.33 tril- to Pho we’ll all be happy.» Wilson’s new normal- lion in 2012, a 3.4% increase over the pre- Railfreight activities have grown strongly in the ity includes slow economic growth, above vious year. This figure remains at 8.5% of USA over the past few years. all, as well as consistently high unemploy- the USA’s gross domestic product. In ad- ment and high costs in almost every seg- dition, she said, pure transportation costs The CSCMP believes that the railways ment of the industry. have increased relatively modestly, grow- will manage to gain additional market ing by 3%, largely on account of weak shares in the USA, at the expense of road Realisation replacing reluctance and inconsistent shipment volumes and haulage and shipping. The shipping in- Marc Althen, the president of the US strong pressures to hold rates. dustry is the only sector in which costs corporation Penske Logistics, which sup- Warehousing costs were also on the declined, namely by 0.9%. This was said ports the CSCMP analysis every year and rise, increasing by 7.6% in 2012. Expendi- to be primarily due to the fact that the which presented the 24th edition, proved ture on national railfreight activities in segment has significant overcapacities, as to be rather more optimistic about 2013 2012 rose by 4.9%. In 2011 railfreight op- well as due to ongoing price wars over than the author of the document herself. erating costs had risen by a rather heftier freight rates. Robert Altermatt Althen said that «in 2012, shippers were 16% vis-à-vis 2010. www.cscmp.org

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Difficult to reform Colombia’s freight transport sector Nothing doing without «tractomulas»

Cargo transport in Colombia is carried out largely on the backs of the super-heavy trucks called tractomulas. Their position in a fragmented forwarding market is a stumbling block on the way to renewing Colombia’s vehicle fleet and increasing competition in the logistics industry. Armin Schwolgin visited the country recently. Here is his report.

A World Bank report, entitled «Connect- have a 74% share of the market and an ing to Compete», ranks the Colombian overall transport capacity of 511,362t. logistics industry in 64th place out of 155 On the other hand there are also the countries analysed, with a score of 2.89 heavy C3S units, three-axled tractors points. Singapore scores 4.13 points and that can be combined with three-axled comes first in the rankings (see table at trailers. These 22,418 tractomulas have a the bottom of the page). transport capacity of 872,200 t, or 42% Inadequate transport infrastructure of total volumes.

impedes all of the modes of transport in in the country equally. Road haulage, Renewing an old fleet is slow olg hw which dominates the transport and logis- Looking at the trucks on the road one Sc F. tics industry in Colombia, is particularly gets the impression that they are in a min Ar affected by the state of affairs, however, relatively good state. Their average age of : for nothing goes in Colombian freight 24.4 years tells a different story, however. to Pho traffic without its super-heavy trucks. The The heavy tractor-trailer combinations Renewing the country’s lorry fleet is not the only industry’s workhorse – which becomes a do slightly better, with an average age iron the Colombian government has in the fire. workdonkey, a tractomula, in slang – is of 19.5 years. Ten years ago there was an a six-axled vehicle with a payload of ap- initiative to withdraw one old truck from comparison. The Colombian truckers’ proximately 50t. These giants form the the roads for every new one sold. Accord- association (Asociación Columbiana de backbone of the Colombian transport in- ing to Olivero Enrique Garcia, chairman Camioneros, ACC) was strongly in fa- dustry. If one ignores the important coal of the Colombian motorised vehicle as- vour of keeping a tariff system and fixed and oil transport segment, then 99% of sociation (Associación Colombianas de fuel prices. 100,000 lorry drivers went on all goods in the country are hauled by Vehíulos Automotores, Ademos), which strike against the decision in February road. Coal is largely hauled by the rail- groups importers, dealers and manufac- 2011, and in 2012 130,000 drivers joined ways, with the share of oil transported by turers, the corresponding ordinance no. in protests. through pipelines rising. 10500 from 2003 was never implemented, Relations between the transport minis- on account of a lack of the corresponding try and the industry have reached a nadir. Fragmented structure regulations. Colombia’s many independ- The ACC and the cargo transporters as- There are 1,582 road hauliers operating in ent transport companies have called for sociation (Asociación de Transportadores Colombia, according to transport minis- an import freeze for new trucks, as they de Carga ATC) declined to continue talks try figures. When looking at the make-up believe there is an oversupply of freight with transport minister Cecilia Àlvarez- of this group of hauliers and contractors, space in Colombia. Correra in May. The main point they however, the industry’s fragmented struc- criticise is that the oversupply of trans- ture becomes apparent. Approximately Annulling state-set minimum tariffs port space is not regulated, which gives 76% of all lorries are owned by an in- The Colombian government regulated shippers an advantage. dividual or an autonomous single-person the freight rates for lorry transportation It cannot be denied, however, that enterprise, with only 2.5% owned by for- from 1998 until 2011 (resolution 003175 Colombia’s transport and logistics in- warding companies themselves. There are from 2008). It set the minimum price that dustry is not efficient enough in an in- only eight freight forwarders with more could be billed per tonne and kilometre. ternational comparison. Logistics costs than 100 trucks. Various attempts at reform resulted in the of about 18% are twice as high as in the 196,275 trucks with a total payload of rates measure being repealed in 2011. The USA or Germany, and thus represent a around 2 million t were licensed in 2006. government wants to encourage compe- substantial hurdle for the country’s fur- Commercial cargo operations are domi- tition and thus reduce transport costs, ther development. nated by short-distance vehicles, which which are rather high in an international Armin F. Schwolgin

World Bank logistics performance indices for Colombia Criterion Overall index Customs Infrastructure Intl. transport Logistics quality and expertise Tracking and tracing Punctuality Rank 64 64 68 78 52 85 57 Points 2.89 2.65 2.72 2.76 2.95 2.66 3.45 Source: Colombian transport ministry If youwant to keep up, youbetter take giant steps.

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US west coast ports face greater competition The countdown has started

The expansion of the Panama Canal is due to be completed by 2015. When the massive project is completed, the balance of power will change amongst US ports for traffic to and from Asia. In order to be ready on day X, many hubs have already started vigorous infrastructure investment programmes.

cargo. The port of Prince Rupert (British Columbia, Canada) and the Mexican hub in Lazaro Cardenas, in the southern state of Michoacán, are also successfully investing in expansion. Prince Rupert was able to improve its volumes by 37% last year in comparison with 2011. Through- put thus broke the 500,000 teu barrier. This development shows that the port was able to strengthen its position as a

y gateway for consignments destined for

thorit the USA’s Midwest. Prince Rupert, together with the port of Vancouver (also

Canal Au in British Columbia), is positioning itself as an Asia-Pacific gateway, offering more Panama

e: efficient and cost-effective options than ports on the USA’s west coast. Imag Two new locks will enable 13,000 teu ships to transit the Panama Canal from 2015 onwards. In the past the latter faced repeated and long-lasting strikes. Over and above US ports are competing heavily amongst warded by rail.A journey from China to this, the rules for the protection of the each other for market shares. One of the the US east coast thus takes around 18 environment in Californian ports are reasons for the current intensity of ac- days, which is made up of about twelve amongst the strictest in the world, which tivities is that once the expansion of the days at sea and another six for rail trans- results in high costs for shipping lines, Panama Canal is completed in 2015, the portation to the east coast. as they have to equip their ships to meet cards for the distribution of the flow of The expansion of the canal is set to these requirements. container imports into the country will change this, as it will then make econom- be re-distributed. ic sense for shipping lines to route larger Record investment The expansion of the canal includes vessels straight through the canal to the West coast ports are making great efforts the establishment of two new locks by east coast, thus circumventing unload- to defend their position. The port of Long 2015, one at the entrance to the Atlan- ing on the west coast, with its the hub- Beach, which, together with the port of tic Ocean and the other at the opposite and-spokes system. The analyst Drewry Los Angeles, is one of the most impor- end, where it enters the Pacific Ocean. believes that in the coming years, about tant gateways for freight coming from Over and above this new channels will be 25% of all cargo now handled on the west Asia, has announced its budget for 2014 dug to these locks, and existing fairways coast will be shipped through ports on – including record investments. The sum deepened. The maximum dimensions of the east coast or on the Gulf of Mexico. of approximately USD1billion (EUR ships that can transit the canal from then 753 million) has been earmarked to ex- on will increase to 366 m long and 49 m Competition abounds pand the hub’s middle-harbour terminal, wide, with a maximum draught of 15.2 m. This changes the demands made on those which will enable it to receive calls from This means that ships with a capacity ports. That is why terminals in Baltimore 16,000 teu leviathans. The Gerald Des- of around 13,000 teu will then be able to MD, Norfolk VA and Miami FL are ex- mond bridge will also be replaced, as it pass through the waterway. The canal au- panding massively – in order to be able now prevents ULCVs from entering some thority believes that these measures will to handle so-called panamax2 units. The parts of the port. result in the volume of goods in transit ports of New York/New Jersey, Jackson- The future does not look rosy for rising from 6.8 million teu in 2012 to ville FL, Savannah GA and Charles- ports on the west coast. Record orders for 12.4 million teu in 2020. tonSC have all also got expansion plans triple-E units leave the question of where in their drawers. the journey is going to take the industry Hub and spokes on the ropes West coast ports are thus expecting unanswered. These giants currently only Today, around two thirds of US imports to face strong headwinds. And what’s sail between Asia and Europe, but things from Asia enter the country through ports more, ports in Canada and Mexico are will surely not always stay that way. on its west coast. From there they are for- also gearing up, and handling ever more Antje Veregge International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 North and Latin America Special 31

International services to and from the Americas AA Cargo’s strong New Returnees and newcomers York–Costa Rica links Having already started offering cargo ca- Iata has said that June’s airfreight volumes in North America declined by 1.2% in com- pacity in and out of San Diego CA and parison with June 2012, whilst the same figure rose by 7% for Latin America.A few AtlantaGA on 3 June, American Air- lines then opened freight stations at two recently (re-)introduced routes to and from the region illustrate how lively the market is. more airports in July. It has been offering airfreight capacity in and out of New York’s La Guardia airport since 22 July, handling consignments destined for the US market as well as international export packages. On 17 July AA Cargo had also opened a new station at the airport in Liberia (Costa Rica). www.aacargo.com

Korean Air cool in eight centres in the Americas Envirotainer, a leading Swedish provider

go of active temperature-controlled air-

Car freight containers, which is headquartered G IA

: in Upplands Väsby, accredited Korean to

Pho Air as a qualified Envirotainer provider South Africa’s rugby star Brian Habana blowing the trumpet for Johannesburg, the third of IAG’s A380 (QEP) in eight US stations in July. The destinations. IAG A380s will serve Los Angeles from 24 September, with Hong Kong following in October. accreditation has been awarded to the US stations in New York, Miami, Chicago, British Airways took over the first of ean capital Santiago since 28 July. The Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and twelve Airbus A380s on order early in weekly flights see the carrier’s return to Seattle, as well as to the Brazilian centre July. Three units are due this year (see ITJ the country, which a spokesperson said in São Paulo. Korean Air, which became 27-30/2013, page 17). The airline’s flag- was decided on on account of rising de- the first Asian airline to be awarded QEP ship will be deployed between London mand for high-capacity full-freighters to accreditation in 2011, has now obtained and Los Angeles from late September. and from Chile. this status for 22 stations worldwide. From April 2014 the link is due to be in- Korean Air expects the move to sup- creased to twice-daily, additionally using Intra-Americas links port its efforts to provide reliable tem- a version of the aircraft that has been op- The Chilean operator LAN resumed its perature-controlled services to custom- timised for the airfreight business. Boeing B787-8 services between Santiago ers trading pharmaceuticals in emerging Cathay Pacific has also introduced and Los Angeles (routed via Lima, Peru) South American markets. Currently its first full-freighter service to and from in mid-July. The Dreamliner, which of- Korean Air, which has cooperated with Latin America. The Hong Kong-based fers belly-hold capacities for five pallets, Envirotainer on temperature-controlled airline, which already serves ten cities had previously been subjected to techni- ULDs since 2010, offers a customised in North America, will route one of the cal checks for two months. pharmaceuticals transportation service nine Boeing B747-8Fs it operates to Gua- Aerolineas Argentinas has plans to called variation pharma. The airline guar- dalajara (Mexico) from Q4 this year, thus reintroduce a daily service between Bue- antees the safe and prompt transportation establishing the first direct all-cargo link nos Aires and New York (JFK). An Airbus of pharmaceuticals thanks to its 24-hour between Mexico and Hong Kong. A330-300 will be deployed on the route monitoring service that oversees the en- Boeing B747 freighters operated by the from 15 December. United, in contrast, is tire transportation process. Luxembourgian full-freighter operator discontinuing a service between Buenos www.envirotainer.com Cargolux have been landing in the Chil- Aires and Newark on 29 September. ah cargo.koreanair.com

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Gefco expanding in the automotive logistics field in Latin America Focusing on Brazil and Mexico

The Gefco logistics group, of which the Russian Railways RZD has been the principal shareholder since December 2012, has substantially expanded its presence in Latin America. It has founded new national branch office in Mexico and is establishing its presence in the strategically-important spare parts market in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

Gefco has chosen the heart of the country’s capital Mexico City as the location of its new national branch office. The logistics service provider is aiming to offer large automobile manufacturers and suppliers in the Latin American country and in the region integrated door-to-door logistics solutions. With 3 million cars produced annually, Mexico currently ranks as the ninth- largest global car manufacturer, according to Gefco. Many – if not all – of the key players in the automotive industry o

(including both manufacturers and sup- fc Ge pliers) have one or more local production : to

sites in the country. Pho The transport and logistics corporation Gefco is expanding business steadily in Latin America, Completing a network of hubs particularly in the field of spare automobile parts distribution. Gefco is currently also working on a project to take over the management of an Gefco said that the Toluca international tion in the spare parts market, which is international logistics platform in Tolu- logistics platform offers standardised growing rapidly in this region. Located ca (near Mexico City), which carries out quality with integrated and homogenous in Brazil’s main economic area, which the global purchase operations to supply processes. It will complete a network of covers São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and the PSA Peugeot Citroën factories in Porto international hubs already managed by south of Minas Gerais, the objective of Real (Brazil) and Palomar (Argentina) Gefco, including centres in Le Havre this new depot will be to support busi- with automotive spare parts bought in (France), Trnava (Slovakia), Shanghai ness in the region, which is particularly Mexico. (China) and Mulhouse-Sausheim, from booming in the automotive parts field. where goods flows between France and The depot will also manage the deliv- Russia (Kaluga) are managed. ery of spare parts for PSA Peugeot Citroën In brief plants in Argentina. For distribution in Distributing spare vehicle parts Brazil, the parts will be transported to Ryder doing well. The US transport and Gefco Brazil, Gefco’s Brazilian national Gefco’s distribution centre in Barueri, logistics corporation Ryder System, which is headquartered in Miami FL, improved its branch, is also expanding in South Amer- in the state of São Paulo, from where sales by 3% in the second quarter of 2013 in ica’s largest nation. It is opening a new they will then be delivered to dealerships comparison with the same period last year, office in Contagem, in the state of Minas across the country. from USD 1.56 to 1.6 billion. The firm’s net Gerais in southeastern Brazil. It will thus Robert Altermatt profits rose strongly too, from USD 46.8 to earn itself a strategically important posi- www.gefco.net 62.6 million. www.ryder.com

XPO buys 3PD. XPO Logistics, a third-party logistics service provider headquartered in Kerry Logistics acquires customs firm Braservice Greenwich CT (USA), recently acquired the US logistics enterprise 3PD for USD 365 mil- The Chinese service provider Kerry trade and industry, and in the capital city lion. 3PD, which in turn is based in Atlanta Logistics has acquired a majority stake in Brasilia. The Brazilian logistician, which GA and which was founded in 2001, special- the Brazilian logistics and customs servic- was founded in 1991, primarily serves the ises in the transportation of out-of-gauge es specialist Braservice. Hong Kong-based consumer goods and automotive indus- units, including whiteware and furniture, as Kerry Logistics said that Braservice has 17 tries, as well as the clothing and lifestyle well as in last-mile logistics services. branch offices spread across the country, segments. ra www.xpologistics.com including hubs in São Paulo and Rio de www.kerrylogistics.com www.3pd.com Janeiro, two of the nation’s key centres of www.braservinet.com.br Register nowfor the BIG event forBIG cargo in the Americas...

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Gebrüder Weiss continues to grow New terminal in Hungary

The Austrian transport and logistics service provider s Gebrüder Weiss has further expanded its network in is We Central Europe. Gebrüder : to The Lauterach-based Austrian logistics firm Gebrüder Pho Weiss (GW) augmented its network in Central Europe Trucks operating from the new Gebrüder Weiss logistics terminal in Györ (Hungary). by opening a new location in Györ (Hungary), close to the Austrian border, at the end of July. GW offers Gebrüder Weiss has been present in the Hungarian market since 1990. the full service range from the site in the Györi Ipari Initially it operated under the Hungaroweiss joint-venture brand, industrial park, including overland transport, air and which was then transformed into the entity Gebrüder Weiss Kft in sea freight options as well as tailor-made solutions. The 2005. GW’s Hungarian national activities are managed from the cor- industrial park is home to many well-known firms from poration’s own centres in Mosonmagyaróvár, Hajdúböszörmény and various industries, including the automotive industry, Dunaharaszti (near the capital Budapest). Furthermore, the logistics an emerging sector in Hungary for which GW has service provider runs a terminal for air and sea freight services at already implemented numerous solutions. GW’s new Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt airport (formerly Ferihegy). Gebrüder Weiss branch employs ten people, covers 1,500 sqm of storage employs a total staff of around 190 people in Hungary. ra space and offers 1,000 pallet slots. www.gw-world.com

In brief

Yusen investing in Czechia. On 1 August Yusen Logistics, a logistics service provider which is part of the major Japanese shipping line NYK, started operations from a 20,000sqm logistics platform in Strancice near Prague (Czechia). The new Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Aktiengesellschaft terminal, which has 30 loading bays, will focus primarily on cross-docking activities for the automotive industry, as well as offering warehousing solutions for retailers. www.yusen-logistics.com

JCL Logistics on course. In the first half of 2013 the Austrian enterprise JCL Logistics raised its sales by 4% in comparison with the same period last year, improving the figure from EUR196 to 204 million. Its operating profit at the ebitda level grew from EUR 2.2 to 5.9 million. www.jcl-logistics.com

Austrian post office doing well. The sales figure for the first half of 2013 reported by the Austrian postal service operator Österreichische Post grew by 1.5% in comparison with the like-for-like period last year, coming in at EUR 1.17 billion. The group’s operating profit (ebit) jumped by 3.9% to EUR 98.4 million. www.post.at

Grieshaber starts logistics terminal operations. Germany’s Grieshaber Logistics Group has commenced operations in the Hochrhein logistics park in Rheinfelden (Germany). The initial F I A phase saw 25,000 sqm of logistics areas opened to business TA for healthcare and industrial firms. Grieshaber offers a com- prehensive range of logistics solutions from the new centre, www.navis-ag.com including value-adding options such as picking, re-packaging Hamburg · Bremen · Hannover · Freiberg and re-labelling. www.grieshaber-group.com Rotterdam · Antwerpen · Barcelona International Transport Journal 31-34 2013 Eastern Europe 35

Tatarstan becoming a staging post between Asia and Europe JAT now called Air Serbia Kazan a key future hub

A September logistics conference in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, one of the republics making up the Russian state, will discuss how the region’s favourable ad geographic location can best be utilised to handle trans-continental goods flows. ih : Et to Pho Russia’s vast surface area means that corridor can reduce transit times to 14–18 The 33 airports that 86-year-old JAT served will the country is ideally situated to act as days.A 294 km highway between Kazan become 45 under its new name of Air Serbia. a landbridge between Asia and Europe. and Orenburg is in the pipeline, allowing The Republic of Tatarstan, located in the traffic to circumvent highly-congested 86 years ago Aeroput (which simply European part of the trans-continental Moscow from 2018 onwards. means airway in English) was founded country, is a particularly dynamic and A lack of strategic multi-functional lo- in the former Yugoslavia. In 1947 it was promising region. It is located at the inter- gistics centres in the Volga region is one re-established as JAT Yugoslav Airlines. section of north–south transport routes weak link for a new transport system. Now the largest carrier in Serbia is under- (Archangelsk–Caspian Sea–Black Sea) as Thus the authorities want to create the going another great upheaval. On 1 Au- well as on west–east trade lanes (Eastern Sviyazhsk multimodal logistics centre in gust JAT and Etihad Airways announced Europe–Central Asia). Tatarstan. The hub, with a rail/road ter- that the latter is the former’s new strate- The bulk of traffic between Europe and minal with warehouses, container storage gic partner. The Abu Dhabi-based airline Asia is carried by sea via the Suez Canal, areas and an inland port, is expected to is taking over 49% of JAT, which will with 30–40 day delivery times. That is be commissioned in 2015. be renamed Air Serbia. Etihad and the why the region on the river Volga is pro- An international forum an integrated Serbian state (51% stake) will each invest moting an alternative, a Europe–Western transport and logistics system will be held USD 40 million in the fleet as well as the China route (see also «German railway in Kazan on 13 and 14 September to ad- carrier’s route network. ah links improving» on page 24). This road dress these matters. www.ilf-kazan.ru www.jat.com 36 Africa International Transport Journal 31-34 2013

Heavy power station hauled across Egypt Transformation in Egypt

The news from the country on the river Nile sometimes overshadows our view of the overall economic situation in the country, and specifically of the conditions in the transport industry. Egytrans, the parent firm of Etal, recently carried out an intermodal heavylift transport task, hauling transformers north from the Red Sea. The road, not the political conditions, represented the biggest challenge.

Convoys set off from the ports of Sokhna and Adabiya, in the Red Sea. Their destination was a berth in Tibin, where the transformers, which measured 7.4x4.3x5.1m, were loaded onto Scheu- erle InterCombi trailers sporting 14 axle lines. Transporting the six transformers, each of which weighed more than 146 t, proved to be a complicated task, on account of poor road conditions. They were heuerle Sc / mastered thanks to a 650 mm axle com- al

: Et pensation, however. to Pho The massive transformers were transported to the power station on the Nile and on 14-axle trailers. One leg on the Nile The transformers were loaded onto a barge Egypt too is in a phase of technical mod- tion. Egytrans, Etal’s parent company, has by a caterpillar crane at the berth in Tibin. ernisation.A combined cycle power sta- been offering integrated global transport The vessel transported them upstream on tion has been under construction in the services and solutions in Egypt since 1973. the Nile, as far as a provisional berth set up Giza north complex, north of Cairo, since In this case the conditions for the plan- in Khatatba, Lower Egypt. This discharge 2010. The gas and steam turbine technol- ning of the operations were very difficult. station near the Giza power plant had been ogy will soon produce 750 megawatts. The result of an initial analysis was that an especially set up for Etal. The transform- As part of the EUR 500 million project intermodal transport solution, making use ers were then put in intermediate storage the company Egyptian Transportation & of an inland waterway barge on the river in Khatatba, and were later transported to Logistics (Etal) was awarded a contract to Nile, was the only way that the transform- the Giza north power station construction haul six transformers from two ports on ers were going to be successfully shifted to site. cd the Red Sea to the Giza north power sta- northern Egypt. www.egytrans.com

Transnet publishes annual results Namport planning to add new facility

At the end of June Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), a South African The booming African raw materials industry has knock-on state-owned transport and logistics company, published the con- effects on the continent’s transport and logistics industry too. solidated results for its latest financial year (ending March 2013). The Namibia Ports Authority (Namport) has noted that Bot- It reported revenues of ZAR 50 billion (EUR 4 billion), a 9.4% swana is starting to export coal to Asia, and that Mozambique year-on-year increase. The result defied the difficult economic is continuing to expand its transport infrastructure, and has conditions in South Africa, where the national economy grew thus decided to fast-track the construction of an additional port. by less than 2% for much of 2012. Transnet CEO Brian Molefe The state-owned port authority will build the port on 1,300 ha said that the company’s strategy to attract more container freight in Walvis Bay. Construction, which is estimated to cost approxi- to the railway softened the effect of lower than expected coal mately NAD 30 billion (EUR 2.3 billion), will be carried out exports. Container and car volumes increased by 22%. Transnet in phases from the end of 2013/early 2014. The first phase will set an overall record of 208 million t handled, which was 3.3% see the construction of a tanker berth and fuel storage facility. more than the 201 million t handled in the previous year. The The new port will also contain a ship and rig repair yard, plus firm thus generated a modest profit for the year. an oil and gas supply base. The tender for the port expansion is In other news, Mmathabo Sukati was appointed to Transnet’s expected to be awarded in August. executive committee on 1 July. She will lead the internal audit Namibia wants the new hub to become a key gateway port, function and oversee Transnet’s commitment to the require- particularly for the land-locked countries of the Southern Africa ments of South Africa’s so-called King III code of corporate Development Community (SADC), which is due to become an governance. cd economic union in 2016. cd www.transnet.co.za www.namport.co.na TO THE POINT WHICH SERVICE DO YOUNEED?

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Timocom supporting flood protection measures Less floods = better traffic flow

The images of the floods that affected Central Europe in June remain present in many a person’s mind. The Düsseldorf-based German company Timocom Soft- und Hardware mocom understands the subject and has supported measures to prevent flooding since 2010. Ti o: Phot Large parts of Germany and neighbour- The section is on the Lower Rhine in the The Lower Rhine, where the environmental ing countries were practically shut down Bislich sub-division of the city of Wesel project is being implemented. by floods in June. Images of trucks stuck (Germany). The project aims to trans- in water up to the driver’s cabin and nigh- form two side-channels of the river, cre- tive way to prevent this summer’s events on impassable roads appeared in the me- ated by gravel and sand production work, from being repeated. dia, conditions that resulted in delivery into perennial side arms of the Rhine, Around 85% of the wet lands on the bottlenecks and massive damages costing carrying water all the year round. Rhine – which is the most-used inland millions. It has been well-known since be- waterway in Europe – have been isolated fore these pan-European floods, however, Environmental freight exchange or destroyed. In those areas that have re- that flood and environment protection Marco Haack, Timocom’s sustainability tained their natural characteristics these measures are important. The German officer, said that «these efforts are impor- lands soak up water, and release it again enterprise Timocom Soft- und Hardware tant to us, for we’ve always sought to be in periods of dryness, thus reducing the took the subject to heart long ago. It has the most environment-friendly freight ex- impact of high water levels. The establish- supported the Naturschutzbund, a Ger- change, ever since our founding in 1997.» ment of side-channels, which is due to man organisation for the protection of The project protects the environment be completed by 2015 without hampering the environment, for three years in its ef- and simultaneously also uses natural trade on the river, will substantially re- forts to return a section of the river Rhine means to prevent flooding. Experts be- duce the likelihood of future floods. ah to its natural condition. lieve that this approach is the most effec- www.timocom.com; www.nabu.de

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Between corset and career

«We are the hero of our own story.» Mary McCarthy, US author and political activist

America is indeed a land of contradic- dealt with, a former school for daughters superfluous? Where a feminist manifest tions, a fact that has repeatedly been from better homes offers seminars based on such as «Lean In», a career primer written established – frequently with renewed curricula dating from the 19th century. So by Facebook manager Sheryl Sandberg, astonishment – by researchers, journalists today’s woman can still be educated in table tackles feminist issues in a completely and observant travellers. Europeans are manners, parlour games, tea and mourning relaxed way and storms its way up the particularly quick to come over here and rituals, archery, art, music, handicrafts and best-seller lists? All these are facts. inspect this old American curiosity shop dancing. One of the establishments most of supposed contradictions. important rules is that a woman never domi- But how, I continued to wonder, can nates a conversation. She remains passive women voluntarily squeeze into corsets So it is established that Americans are and demure in the company of men. and crinolines and learn the etiquette of a fervent patriots – but simultaneously society in which they are expected to be deeply suspicious of the state, often railing My feminist heart beat a rapid beat upon obedient and quiet? The answer is simple: against its structures and representatives. hearing that. The fact that almost all of the Because they’re having fun – dressing Then it is held that many highly-valuable women who have completed these courses up, taking new roles, re-enacting history. scientific contributions have emanated are successful professionals made the matter They don’t even dream that such a hobby from the USA, from laboratories in Har- all the more incomprehensible for me. Real might undermine their roles as a modern vard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Berke- estate agents, managers, medical profession- and independent women. Perhaps, I ley – and yet simultaneously god-fearing als, criminologists, teachers, lawyers. muse, American women are simply more citizens would like to delete Darwin’s the- relaxed feminists. One of this college’s ory of evolution from school text books. How is this possible in America in 2013? In teachers of etiquette told me that she Americans chastely wear swimming trunks America, which is considered a great role rides a motorbike and loves martial arts, in the sauna – and yet the porn industry is model for women’s rights and emancipation? above all karate. That she has five kids, simultaneously booming. Where there are more chairwomen of the was once an actress who worked on board in top corporations than anywhere vaudeville stages and that she is now Thesis and antithesis also rule the roost else in the world? Where half of all firms are studying law. «I’m a modern woman in on the question of women’s emancipa- founded by women? Where more women America,» she concluded. A woman full tion and gender equality. In a small town than men graduate from college? Where an of contradictions,I thought. But I guess in Tennessee, deep in the American official quota for women – which is repeat- only Europeans will see it that way. South, where defeat in the Civil War of edly and passionately debated in Europe, 1860–1865 has not yet been completely most recently in Germany – is considered Katja Ridderbusch

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