International 37 · 38 | 13 September 2013 www.transportjournal.com Transport Journal ENGLISH EDITION (also available in an identical ITJ German and French version) Special Heavylift / Breakbulk Supplement Small is beautiful On airfreight reefer transportation 19 Battle of the giants Ports very ambitious in the Middle East 30 Ultra plus Sri Lanka now equipped for ULCVs 40 International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Contents 3 37·38 | 13. September 2013 Deutsche Ausgabe Specials in this issue 5 Editorial HEAVYLIFT / BREAKBULK Heavylift/Breakbulk supplement 6 People&Companies/Job Market Middle East 30 11 Shipping&Ports 11 Freight rates: the «golden week» should help 15 Terminal operators New market leader in Russia 16 Turkmenbashi: New port in Central Asia 19 Aviation 19 In conversation with Markus Scheuber of Swiss International Air Lines 21 Better freight development in July 21 New airfreight hubs in Italy’s Mediterranean queen 13 East and West Africa 22 Freight Forwarding&Logistics The domestic economic situation has not left the 22 Sulser Transport Tarros Group unscathed. Entering new markets, Renovation–innovation–activation such as Portugal or the cross-trade business, 25 E-commerce: DPD takes stake in Tiramizoo enables the group to look to the future 27 Arvato tying up loose supply knots for French opticians with optimism. 28 Rail/Inland Waterways/Road Haulage 28 ECL launches new shuttle service 29 The Rhine is a good connection Worried about Syria 33 30 Middle East Special The situation in Syria remains in turmoil and rep- 30 Container capacities: No harm in competition resents a big challenge for logisticians. Refugees 32 Etihad Rail ready for the green light have to be supplied with the bare necessities, 34 Packaging intercontinental aviation is in danger and aviation 34 Successful US-Kenyan cooperation kerosene costs may shoot up. 35 Movianto offers new secondary packaging 36 Regional Focus 37 Southeast Europe&Turkey Munich–Switzerland 36 38 South Europe 39 North and Latin America The Swiss freight forwarder Streck Transport, from 40 Asia/Pacific Möhlin near Basel (Switzerland), recently started offering daily direct links to and from Munich. A 41 Miscellaneous/Masthead parallel service between Munich and Zurich is also 42 A Time for Reflection/Advertisers’ Index in the pipeline. Cover: Port cranes Photo: thinkstock International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Editorial 5 Dear readers, Our Germany Special may only be due improvement. At the same time the in ITJ 41-42/2013, but to mark the transport ministry published a «sliding national elections to the Bundestag, medium-term projection for freight Germany’s lower house of parliament, transport», which predicts excellent on 22 September, it is worth taking growth for the entire cargo transport a look at the country at the heart of sector in 2014, namely a volume im- Europe which is frequently awarded provement of just under 2% and a the unofficial title of «logistics world performance increase of a little less champion». In the weeks leading up to than 3%. We’ll see. the election the predictions were still We’ll only know who will hold the rather uncertain – less the predictions reins in the chancellor’s office and in concerning the results of the election, the transport ministry for the next but rather those addressing the perfor- four years on election night – or in the mance of the national economy. subsequent days. But the news will One poll commissioned by the Ger- certainly be on the table in time for the man chambers of trade and industry publication of our Germany Special on in August found out that the coun- 11 October. try’s exporters would lose world trade market shares in 2013 – and yet still manage to climb back to the position of second-largest exporter worldwide, behind China but once again ahead of the USA. Three weeks later the national statistical office surprised the public with a statement that German exports had declined by 1.1% in July vis-à-vis June – even though the econo- mists had previously predicted a 0.7% www.transportjournal.com Andreas Haug Head of airfreight 6People & Companies International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Europe Eurotunnel welcomes director Philippe de Lagune, who was the French safety coor- dinator for the London 2012 Olympic Games, joined Groupe Eurotunnel on 9 September as safety and ethics New in Stockholm director. Eurotunnel’s new director previously worked as the state’s préfet de police in Corsica, Belfort and in the Blue Water Shipping has opened Gers department in southwestern France, amongst many a second office in Sweden. It is Björn Jensen, Fredrik Pellegrini other state posts. headed by Fredrik Pellegrini, who Photo: Blue Water Shipping reports to Björn Jensen, the com- pany’s general manager in Sweden. The office is near M&M chairman seeks new shores Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden’s largest airport, and about 40 km from the city centre and seaport. Blue Water, Ewald Kaiser,M&M Militzer&Münch which became an Iata-licensed airfreight agent in Swe- International Holding’s CEO and dele- den this year, has been represented there since 2007. gate of the board of directors since 2008, has resigned. His work will be carried out ad interim by CFO Alexei Kovalenko. TNT Express banking on networks Kaiser, who drove expansion in the Eura- sia region and in North Africa, chose to Martin Sodergard will join TNT Express as the group leave M&M to take up new professional director of global networks on 1November, as part of challenges. Werner Albert, president of management reorganisation measures. Sodergard previ- the Transinvest Holding, thanked Kaiser ously worked as senior vice-president of Swissport Global for his dedication to the company. Ralf Cargo (see ITJ 23-24/2012, page 7). He began his career Teckentrup will be the new chairman at DHL in 1986 and was then general manager of DHL of the board. He is a board member of Aviation in Belgium, director of hubs and gateways in Ewald Kaiser Thomas Cook and CEO of the airline Europe and MD of DHL Express Nordic. Photo: M&M Militzer & Münch Condor Flugdienst. TheNo.1port in Scandinavia We havenolimits. Exploreyourpossibilities at www.portofgothenburg.com International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 People & Companies 7 Payot for Swissport Geneva Second managing director installed Swissport International, a provider of On 1 September Bernd Robke became the second man- ground and cargo services to the avia- aging director of the German firm Güll, a joint venture tion sector, appointed Jean-Luc Payot as between Deutsche Post DHL and Burda Direkt Services. the new CEO of Swissport Geneva on 1 Together with the long-serving senior managing director September. Payot took over from Michel Ernst G. Wallaschek, Robke will manage the marketing Glorieux, who left Swissport at the end and sales sectors of the provider of press services, sub- of August. Payot already worked for Swis- scription management and e-commerce options based in sport from 1993 to 2001, and rose to the German city of LindaU on Lake Constance. The new be general manager and vice-president Jean-Luc Payot director formerly spent nine years working for Arvato, of business development for Swissport Photo: Swissport a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, in Germany, France and France, as well as CEO of executive avia- Great Britain. Güll is a specialised service provider for tion. Before returning to Swissport Payot was managing publishers. It manages around 1.3 million subscriptions director of Bell Switzerland (since 2004). and regularly dispatches more than 1,000 publications to domestic and international destinations. Graf the boss in Maria Lanzendorf New Asco head of finance The Austrian transport and logistics provider Ge- brüder Weiss has entrusted Wolfgang Graf with the Asco has appointed Marianne Lipp as leadership of its air and sea freight division at the Maria finance manager. Lipp, who joined the Lanzendorf office at Vienna airport. Graf will manage firm on 2 September, is based in Aber- business at the Vienna office and report directly to deen (Scotland) and is in charge of the Michael Büchele, GW’s general manager air and sea for financial management of the group, Central and Eastern Europe. Graf obtained an MBA an oilfield services supporter. She will in logistics and supply chain management (day-release also have roles in planning, merger and course) from Danube University Krems (Austria). At acquisitions and investment. Lipp pre- earlier stages of his career Graf was GW’s sea freight viously worked with Deloitte, before manager in Innsbruck, Graz and New York, where he moving to KPMG in Aberdeen, where garnered a wealth of knowledge about the company’s Marianne Lipp she was latterly director of transaction network. Photo: Asco services. 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