International 15 · 16 | 12 April 2013 www.transportjournal.com Transport Journal ENGLISH EDITION (also available in an identical ITJ German and French version) Special Eastern Europe and Baltic States Supplement Small becomes big How small shippers benefit from NVOCCs 15 Big becomes easy Safely packing industrial plant equipment 32 Easy to become bigger Port of Felixstowe doubling rail capacities 39 Your full truck loads in ONE hand TheEuropeanTransportOrganisation International Transport Journal 15-16 2013 Contents 3 | 15 ·16 12 ApRil 2013 English edition Special in this issue 5 Editorial EASTERN EUROPE & BALTIC STATES Eastern Europe & Baltic States Supplement 6 People & Companies 12 Shipping & Ports 13 New container terminal in Rotterdam First crane for Maasvlakte II 16 Growing container volumes Singapore the workhorse 18 Inland shipping on the Mississippi New intermodal terminal in New Orleans 19 Aviation 19 Houston and Dallas airports Global aviation industry heading for Texas 20 Globe Air Cargo Switzerland Great expectations 19 Agents of growth Two new airports that are also interesting for 21 Forwarding & Logistics airfreight were opened in March, one in Quito 21 Pharmaceuticals logistics•Packaging and one in Sri Lanka. A different fate befell an Sensitive goods securely packed old new project in Doha, where a grand opening 25 Augustin Quehenberger Group Cautiously optimistic scheduled for 1 April was postponed. 28 Road Haulage/Intermodal 28 K+N Munich now a 24plus system partner Gateway to Southeastern Europe Not hazarding a guess 23 31 Change of transalpine rail service providers Drama at the Gotthard The manufacturers of hazardous goods have to 32 Packaging adhere to many a rule and regulation when ware- 32 Packaging industrial equipment housing their wares. Contargo’s hazardous goods Safely stowed in wind and waves containers offer flexibility when own storage 35 Packaging company Schütz GmbH & Co options are exhausted. Highest foodstuff security 36 Customs Closely observed cargo 40 37 Forest Products 38 Regional Focus The arena of the Swiss transport museum in 38 Nordic Countries Lucerne was transformed into a container 39 UK/Ireland terminal for a special exhibition on the 40 Central Europe fascinating world of transport at the end of March. The event lasts until 20 October. 41 Trade Fairs & Conferences/Masthead 42 A Time foR Reflection/Advertisers’ Index Cover: A shunting yard at sunset. Photo: thinkstock International Transport Journal 15-16 2013 Editorial 5 Dear readers, Guests arriving early foR a ceremony to mark the recent from Korean Air, announcing a new thrice-weekly service by opening of a new airport in Doha may have felt a little bit Space Shuttle, decked out in the company’s light blue livery, silly. The first QataR Airways aeroplane was scheduled to on the Seoul–Mars route. The US low-cost caRRieR Southwest land at the new hub at 12.20 on 1 April – but at 10.30 the Airlines’ statement that it was going to offeR even cheaper party was cancelled. Construction delays. The grand open- Boston–Denver flights – in a hot-aiR balloon, was in stark ing of Hamad international airport was originally pencilled contrast to AiR Malta’s offeR to its rich customers who are in in foR three years ago, then foR 12 December 2012. But now a bit of a rush. It offered them rather adventurous flights in the ministry of the interior’s civil defence authority realised 1950s fighteR planes. – rather late in the day – that the facility’s safety standards Here at the ITJ we stick to the hard facts. were below par. Does that remind you of anything? Disputes We wish you a pleasant read in these suRRounding a new airport in Berlin are similaR– except that ongoing difficult economic times. If last May the German authorities noticed three weeks before you take the time to delve into ouR fas- the formal opening of the hub – which had also already cinating Eastern Europe and Baltic been delayed several times – that the fire precautions were States Special, then you can also not up to scratch. Whilst the Germans have to wait until do so in Russian, if you prefer. summer to find out when theiR new capital city airport will See you at the TransRussia open, a renewed attempt to launch proceedings in Doha in trade fair in Moscow! April is apparently not completely off the cards. Even when there is a spanner in the works, the clocks seem to beat to a different tune in the region. Arab culture does not include playing April Fool’s jokes – but that was my first reaction when I read the news from Doha. Genuinely false rumours from the aviation world this year included an announcement from space tourism pioneer SiR Richard Branson’s airline Virgin Atlantic that they will Andreas Haug be equipping short-haul planes with glass floors, and one Head of airfreight IndependentIndependent International International Freight Freight Forwarding Forwarding & Logistics&Logistics Experts Specialists at your disposal at your disposalin the European in 21 European Countries Countries E-mail: [email protected]: info@ ifa-forwarding.net|www.ifa-forwarding.net www.ifa-forwarding.net AUSTRIA | BELGIUM | BULGARIA | CZECH REPUBLIC | DENMARK AUSTRIAESTONIA–B| FINLANDELGIUM –B| FRANCEULGARIA| GERMANY-CZECH REPUBLIC| GREATB–DRITAINENMARK| GREECE ESTONIAHUNGARY–FINLAND| IRELAND–FRANCE| ITALY–G| LATvIAERMANY| LITHUANIA–GREATB|RITAINMALTA HUNGARNETHERLANDY–ITALY| NORW–NETHERLANDAY | PORTUGAL–NORW| POLANDAY –P|OLANDROMANIA–ROMANIA| SLOvAKIA SWEDENSLOvENIA–SLOVENIA| SPAIN |–SSWEDENPAIN –S| WITZERLANDSWITZERLAND–T| UKRAINEURKEY 6People & Companies International Transport Journal 15-16 2013 Russian maritime and inland shipping agency Rosmor- Europe rechflot. He took over from Andrey Lavrishev, who was named as Rosmorport’s new executive director. Kon- stantin Bobrov, the previous executive director, has been appointed deputy managing director for capital develop- Top management ment. Rosmorport’s most pressing tasks are to develop changed at Panalpina Russia’s maritime port infrastructure. (nau) Panalpina, one of the world’s leading freight forwarding and logistics compa- Ibia appoints a new head nies, has replaced its chief executive officer Peter Ulber Monika Ribar. She is set to step down at Photo: Panalpina The International Bunker Industry Association (Ibia) has the end of May. Her successor is 53-year- appointed Captain Peter Hall as its new chief executive old Peter Ulber, a recognised international forwarding officer. He replaced Ibia’s chief executive Cliff Brand, who expert and former Kuehne +Nagel management board took a post as marine director of a new port in the King member. This change was planned and prepared by the Abdullah economic city in Saudi Arabia. Hall has held a Panalpina World Transport Holding’s board of directors wide range of roles in the shipping industry over the past and Ribar, as part of the company’s strategy for the fu- 40 years, including 18 years at sea and working as the ture. Ribar, who was a member of Panalpina’s manage- CEO and harbour master of the Gibraltar port authority. ment for more than 22 years and led the company for seven, plans to focus on non-executive managerial roles on other companies’ boards of directors, as the company TT-Line expands its executive said in a media release on the subject. Ulber studied at Hamburg’s International School of Logistics and held Bernhard Johannes Termühlen became various management positions at Kuehne +Nagel, in Eu- one of the managing directors of TT-Line, rope, North and South America, between 1985 and 2011. a German shipping corporation that is From 2008 onwards he was in charge of K+N’s sea and based in Lübeck Travemünde on the airfreight business. In 2011 he went into business as a co- country’s Baltic Sea coast, on 25 March. founder and partner of the Charleston Enterprise Group. He previously worked for the global invest- ment bank Goldman Sachs, and was last in charge of the fields of finance and renew- Executive reshuffle for Rosmorport able forms of energy at the Term Group. Termühlen is additionally the managing Igor Levit, formerly the deputy managing director of director of the company Trampschiffahrt, Rosmorport, Russia’s state-owned entity that manages the TT-Line holding. 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