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In his forecasT on global conTainer Terminal Trends industry analysT Daniel Schäfer highlighTs some aspecTs, and Windultimately powerpower casTs business doubTbusiness on The viabiliTy, of The Transhipment hub concept in The Caribbean. Offshore industryindustry provides provides Since The 2008 financial crisis, global25 floodgrowTh ofof contracts contracts in conTainer ThroughpuT has been period (2008–2013: imporTs up by 4% unsTeady and, aparT from 2010, relatively and exporTs by 22%), and would also to slighTly less Than 9 million Teu per year, Devilweak. isis ImprovemenTs in in the the detail detail have been very mod- revive box Traffic, which has sTagnaTed represenTing 36–37% of ToTal Tonnage buT 13 More goods, lower profits for CMA CGM esT, especially over The past Two years, since 2007. ConsequenTly, serving as The main revenue generaTor, aT HHL shipsships two two huge huge coming to 3–4%, in almosT all of The31 conTainer Traffic (excluding PuerToise a r in Rico) US 51–52% of overall income. reactors toto the the USA USA world’s regions (see figure 1 on page 29). from 43 million Teu in 2013 To 56 mil- CurrenT projecTions indicaTe fuTure lion Teu in 2020 appears To be a realisTic Construction boom average annual growTh raTes of 6%, and prospecT. The Panama Canal plays an imporTanT some regions may significanTly exceed role, parTicularly for Trade beTween The ThaT. In NorTh America, Mexico will lead Construction boom in Central America USA’s easTern seaboard and Asia (China, The way. QuiTe aparT from Those consid- IT is also worTh Taking a look aT The shifTs Japan and SouTh Korea, amongsT oTher 13 Rickmers-Linie planning to restructure eraTions, iT should be exciTing To waTch in flows of Trade and changes in The porT counTries), and accounTs for a 35–40% oTher developmenTs in This region Too. landscape ThaT will resulT from The expan- share of annual Traffic on ThaT shipping FirsT, consumer demand in The USA sion of The Panama Canal. When The pro- rouTe. The expansion of The canal has un- can be expecTed to recover. The InTerna- jecT is compleTe, The waterway will be able leashed a consTrucTion boom, especially Tional MoneTary Fund (IMF) predicTs a To handle 13,000 Teu conTainerships, as in CenTral America. 30% rise in boTh imporTs and exporTs in opposed To The currenT limiT of 5,000 Teu. In some counTries, The aggregaTe ca- The USA beTween 2014 and 2019 (IMF The Panama Canal AuThoriTy states pacity of all new box-handling faciliTies 15 Vesselsvalue: The most expensive tanker World Economic OuTlook, April 2014). ThaT This will double The annual capacity now on The drawing board would far ex- This would represenT a substanTial im- for The shipmenT of goods from approxi- ceed ToTal Turnover in 2013 (see figure 2 provemenT versus The previous six-year maTely 330 to 650 million T. RecenTly, con- on page 29). Tainer Traffic on The canal has amounTed 15 NOL selling off the family silver continued on page 29 15 In brief 17 Aviation 17 CurrenT developments at Martinair Cargo 19 Germany’s leading airfreight hubs in flux Pacific developments 14 19 CAL Cargo Airlines expanding its fleeT 19 Air cargo volumes in Europe The Spanish terminal operator Grup TCB is 19 In brief constructing a new facility in Guatemala. The background includes the government’s plans to 20 Forwarding&Logistics increase agricultural exports and TCB’s desire to 20 Japanese banking on Eastern Europe build on the expansion of the Panama Canal. 20 Deutsche Bahn takes airlines to courT 20 Stef growing thanks to a takeover 20 In brief 21 Salewa climbing new heights 23 Swiss Post renewing IT infrastructure United we stand 24 25 Rail/Inland Shipping/Road Haulage Competition between small and medium-sized 25 An intermodal hub on the Mississippi enterprises on the one hand, and multinational 25 Railfreight in the German-speaking countries corporations on the other, is intensifying. BuT size is noT everything, and SMEs are banking on 26 Focus on Switzerland networks to improve their ability to compete. 33 Regional Focus 33 Africa 34 Southern Europe/Southeastern Europe/Turkey 36 Middle East Africa’s dormant potential 33 37 Miscellaneous/Masthead The continent’s oft-cited slumbering economic potential was again confirmed recently by a study 38 A Time for Reflection/Advertisers’ Index published by the professional services network PwC. Access to markets remains quite a challenge for international firms, however. Cover: The Golden Gate Bridge. Photo: Andreas Haug AHEADOFTHE PACK:PROMPTAND PROFESSIONAL! We pack goodsquickly and securely,ensuringthat nothinggoeswrong on journeyslongand short. Swiss qualityyou cantrust! KIFAAG,Switzerland | T+41 52 368 41 21 | www.kifa.ch 4Editorial International Transport Journal 37-38 2014 Dear readers, non-manufacturing sectors, have also improved significantly since starting the year rather weakly. The engine driving economic growth has crossed the seas to So the USA seems to be largely back on track. It is expec- another continent. The rather stagnant euro area led to the ted to register real GDP growth estimated at 2.77% in 2014, promotion of key emerging economies as beacons of hope thus following up on the good results achieved in 2012 for a recovery – but only until first their growth and then and 2010, and even on those of 2006. An improvement of their exchange rates buckled under pressure. Asia in particu- 3.4% or more, as achieved in 2005 and 2004, is still quite lar, which led the global economy over the last decade, has a distance away, however. So the signs seem to be pointing lost some of its momentum. India has once again been over- towards an initial return to economic health in the taken by its national realities, which are not very conducive USA, before the onset of a real boom. The mere to foreign investment. China’s growth remains impressive, spreading of this news is already a cause for but is lower than it has ever been in the past 15 years. Politi- optimism. cians are commenting that the country’s economic strategy Cross the Big Pond with us in this now focuses on change – and no longer on growth. This issue – and perhaps in per- does not really augur an impending bull market. son too. We’d be happy to A good lesson can be learnt from taking a look across meet you at the trade the Big Pond. The USA, which has been under quite some fairs we’re attending in pressure since the sub-prime crisis set in a few years ago, has California and Texas. published some encouraging figures recently. The ratio of first-time applicants for unemployment benefit to total em- ployment, which is one of the most important indicators of overall US economic development, has reached a record low, which is a good sign. Indices released by the Institute for Christian Doepgen Supply Management, covering both the manufacturing and Editor-in-chief TheEuropeanTransportOrganisation International Transport Journal 37-38 2014 Companies & People 5 Americas Moving to the private sector John Halinski, who recently retired as deputy adminis- trator of the US transportation security administration (TSA), haS joined the Command Consulting Group as In the US southwest a senior advisor. Halinski will be valuable to hiS new Washington DC-based corporation, a global security Union Pacific Railroad haS named Ken and intelligence serviceS firm, thanks to hiS aviation Hunt as itS new assistant vice-president for experience as the US representative to the International operations for LoS Angeles and southwest- Civil Aviation Organization (Icao), amongst other roles.