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Photo: thinkstockthinkstock EASTERN EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA Turkey and Greece 41 Turkish boom and Greek bust both loose momentum 13 Shipping & Ports Joy andand sorrow sorrow on on the the Bosphorus Bosphorus

So farfar the the boom boom that that Turkey Turkey experienced experienced in 2012 in 2012 has not has continued not continued into 2013, into as 2013, demand as indemand the Near in and the Middle Near Eastand declinedMiddle East by declined by nearly 10%,10%, strongly strongly affecting affecting Turkey. Turkey. Exports Exports to European to European markets markets on the on other the hand other picked hand up picked strongly. up Thestrongly. recession The inrecession Greece, in Greece, on thethe other other hand, hand, has has seemed seemed to bottom to bottom out, andout, the and country the country is benefiting is benefiting from the growingfrom the support growing of itssupport shipping of companies.its shipping companies. 13 The WCI is on the rise low, andand a reductiona reduction in thein the national national budg- budg- had previously stood at 10%, but in 2012 et deficit deficit by by EUR EUR 1.9 1.9 billion billion (or 1% (or of 1% of Last year the sky seemed to be the limit itself growth only came in at 2.1%, ac- GDP) waswas simultaneously simultaneously achieved. achieved. Photo: thinkstock for growth in the logistic sector in Turkey, cording to the Turkish statistical office. In thethe past past year year the Foreignthe Greek Greekrade economy t economy may be al- weak, al- but long-term prospects are intact with exports – especially to Arab coun- The transporttransport and and communications communications sec- sec- so provedproved to to be be better better than than its reputation its reputation tries – booming, impressive infrastruc- tors werewere not not unaffected, unaffected, with with the the tem- tem- in thethe export export sector. sector. With With 8.8% 8.8% annual annual ture plans – such as the Marmaray rail pestuous growthgrowth of of 10.5% 10.5% in 2011in 2011 shrink- shrink- growth, results results proved provedSome very very respectable, respectable, stumbling blocks tunnel under the Bosphorus – nearing ing to 3.2% in the following year. and a a degree degree of of market market differentiation differentiation 15 Cooperation agreement in New Zealand completion and American investment In the the first first half half of 2013 of 2013 heavy heavy vehi- vehi- was achieved.achieved. This This was was evidenced evidenced by theby the and consulting firms – such as Colliers cles, machinerymachinery and and plant plant equipment equipment re- re- fact that that the the decline declineWas in this exports in exportsmere to sabre-rattling EU to EU in the summer lull? In any event, the validity of the TIR car- and Jones Lang Lasalle – celebrating the mained thethe engines engines of of growth growth for Turk-for Turk- countries was was more morenet than for than HGV compensated compensatedcross-border Russia, traffic has been provisionally extended by the Russian customs. country as the up and coming logistics ish exports. exports. Demand Demand for for iron iron and and steel steel for byby improved improvedHowever, sales sales to thetothe the USA, giant USA, Russia, country must take care not to play all of its logistical trump cards. market in Europe. as wellwell as as jewellery jewellery sank, sank, with with exports exports in in Turkey andand the the Middle Middle East. East. During the same period the future these sectorssectors declining declining by by 37%. 37%. Deliver- Deliver- of Greece was considered bleak, and iesiestotheEUinthesesectors,ontheother to the EU in these sectors, on the other Privatisation stillstillMAN on on Truckthe the agenda &agenda Bus’ so-called consist- the privileged position of the Greek hand, roserose by by 3.8%, 3.8%, to 41%to 41% of all of Turkish all Turkish Greece isis also also countingently counting efficient on on liberalisation tourliberalisation 2013 has now arrived cow. Otto complained that «things don’t 19 ILO sets a milestone merchant navy was strongly criticised exports. of itsits transport transportin sector. Russia,sector. The havingThe newly-issued newly-issued covered more than always run smoothly with the Russian by international partners. Now prime Turkish logistics logistics companies, companies, such such as as road freightfreight concessions concessions90,000 km in came Westerncame into into opera-Europe opera- in 2011 post office.» Sometimes shipments took minister Antonis Samaras has come to Ekol Logistics,Logistics, traditionally traditionally focused focused on on tion on on 30 30 June, June,and the South the first first roundAfrica round in of 2012. the of theThe commer- several weeks, he said. «But of course the cial vehicle manufacturer is now touring state post office faces enormous logistics an agreement with the Union of Greek the EuropeanEuropean market, market, continue continue to regis-to regis- tender forfor the the sale sale of theof the Greek Greek railways railways,mber

Shipowners, which represents 441 ship- ter high high turnover turnover figures figures in their in their busi- busi- Trainose is is running through running till the till 16 European 16Septe September, part of Russia. challenges,» he conceded. Bureaucracy is Photo: MAN ping companies, under which their ness with with Germany, Germany, for for example. example. The The and thethe process processThe of road of privatising privatising show started two two ofin the of southern the also an obstacle. «We’ve always been able MAN was on the road in Russia in August, special tax status was maintained in ex- taketakeover over of of Mars Mars Logistics, Logistics, an Istanbul-an Istanbul- country’s largelargeRussian port porttown operators, operators, of Sochi, in Thessa-in venue Thessa- of the next to cope, however. In an initial phase cus- displaying its new tractors. change for voluntary increases in dues based transportertransporter with with a fleeta fleet of around of around loniki (THPA)(THPA)Winter and and Olympics, Piraeus Piraeus (PPA), (PPA), and isproceeded about is about to the toms clearance was incredibly tiresome, (see page 48). 1,000 vehicles, vehicles, by by the the Japanese Japanese multi- multi- to begin.begin. One Onecapital of of the Moscow the companies companies via the interested Ural interested metropolis as our heavy goods vehicles were always vigorously. Meanwhile, the acceptance of nationalnat ional Hitachi Hitachi in July in provesJuly proves that the that the in anan acquisition acquisitionof Yekaterinburg. is theis the Chinese Chinese A MAN shipping shipping TGS truck held up at the border.» the TIR carnet at the country’s borders Projections and growth areas Turkish logisticslogistics sector sector continues continues to beto be companyand Cosco,Cosco, a comparison which which already already model operates visitedoperates eleven was extended until 14 September. Euphoria in Turkey has slowly given interesting. a containercontainerstations terminal terminal between in in Piraeus. Piraeus. the Black Sea and the ...and bureaucratic backlogs 21 Aviation Christian DoepgenDoepgen way to a more realistic assessment of the Greece hashas grown grown strongly strongly to theto the end end Ural mountains, and were displayed to This could be repeated if the Russian cus- Dormant potential www.tuik.gov.tr national economy. At the end of June of thethe first first half half of 2013.of 2013. Observers Observers consid- consid- customers there. The 10,000 km journey toms authorities were to suspend accept- Homemade circumstances may have lead www.statistics.gr the government in Ankara presented its ered thethe contraction contraction of of GDP GDP by justby 4.6%just 4.6% also enabled the German company to get ance of the TIR carnet. Russia’s federal to this situation, such as the fact that Rus- growth pro jection of 5.5%perannumto vis-à-vis thethe previous previous year year to beto positivelybe positively a picture of road conditions in Russia. customs service announced on its website sian GDP grew by just 1.8% in the first 2018. Annual growth projections to 2013 early in July that it planned to change five months of this year, significantly less Road congestion... the conditions for the application of the than in the preceding three years, when Freight transportation is one of the big- TIR process on 14 August. These condi- growth oscillated between 3.4 and 4.5%. gest challenges facing Russia, as routes tions were adopted in the Convention on Rosstat has predicted growth of 2.5% for 21 Cutting emissions by cutting takeoff weight often cover thousands of kilometres, Mi- the International Transport of Goods in the whole year, however, a figure which chael Otto told the German press agency 1975. They also describe the use of the many economies in Europe can only dpa in Moscow. The chairman of the TIR carnet, amongst other things. The dream of. supervisory board of the Otto Group, a customs authorities claimed that pay- The economy in Kazakhstan is set trading and services company, reported ment difficulties on the part of the na- to be even stronger – the International on 20 August that it was set to invest tional association of international road Monetary Fund predicts GDP growth of EU0 R million 5 in Russia, above all in carriers (Asmap) were responsible for the 5.7% in the second largest country in the 22 Shining a light on airfreight in Linz doubling the size of its existing logistic suspension of the process. The Russian region, which also did not experience a centre in Tver, 170 km northwest of Mos- body, which monitors the TIR system recession in 2009 (GDP +1.2%). in the country, denied these allegations Andreas Haug www.asmap.ru 23 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Special 24 ART Logistics delivers luxury Profits for terminals 13 25 Container throughput booming in Novorossiysk 26 Good marks from AsstrA for Poland/Czechia 27 New automotive location for Gefco Transporting containers is currently anything but 30 Georgia wants to become a transit corridor a lucrative business for many shipping lines. For 31 Colossal opportunities in Kazakhstan container terminals, in contrast, there probably remains plenty of potential in the handling of the 32 Forwarding & Logistics steel boxes. 35 New terminal for Swiss Post 36 GLS expanding in Southeast Europe 37 Austria Post in the pharma wholesale segment 38 Agility is on course Where to from here for TIR? 23 39 Rail/Inland Waterways/Road Haulage 40 New Hannibal shuttle train The Russian customs authority has provisionally extended the validity of the Carnet TIR to 41 Turkey and Greece Special mid-September. If a suspension were really to 43 Turkish logistics market in flux take place, then Russia would lose an important 45 Turkish Cargo on course for growth logistics trump. 48 Greek shipowners want to contribute more 49 Japanese industrial giant active in Turkey 50 Bulgaria and Turkey find a solution Bosphorus ups and down 41 51 Regional Focus 51 Central Europe The economic upswing in Turkey has lost a little 52 Nordic Countries/Baltic States/Western Europe steam and Greece is developing better than 53 Miscellaneous/Masthead expected. The country is planning to open its transport sector and has received some unex- 54 A Time for Reflection/Advertisers’ Index pected support from its shipowners.

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For many years now international capital has invested the world, which has a direct impact on the largest South occasionally gigantic sums of money in the so-called Bric American economy. In Russia, too, GDP in the first five states – Brazil, Russia, India and China. Emerging markets months of 2013 grew by a «mere» 1.8% – substantially less seemed to hold great promise from an economic point of than in the last three years, when the rate view. They offered high returns on investments, the promise oscillated between the more satisfying of new and virgin markets and seemingly unlimited pros- figures of 3.4% and 4.5% (see page 23). pects for growth – also for logistics enterprises. It seemed as The prices of shares traded on the if the future of many an undertaking was firmly chained to emerging economies’ exchanges the emerging economies, particularly when they were com- fell by the same amount in the pared to the frequently saturated industrialised countries of first half of 2013 as they rose by Europe and North America. Read our Geodis Wilson inter- in the second half of 2012. view on this subject on pages 32-33. The bottom line is that the But in the meantime the wind seems to have changed. economic boom in the Bric There would appear to be some rather large spanners in states is over – at least for the the works of the growth engines in the Bric states, with the time being. capital invested there partially already moving on again, in search of better returns. The Chinese economy is growing more slowly than was hoped for, and exports are stagnant. India, too, is currently experiencing an economic downturn, and in Brazil the same scenario is looming, partly also be- Robert Altermatt cause the prices paid for raw materials are in decline across Head of forwarding & logistics

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International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 People & Companies 7 Europe C.H. Robinson focuses on Europe C.H. Robinson has appointed Ivo Aris as director of global forwarding in Europe. He is in charge of the global forwarding division and its strategy. Aris held sales, op- News from Contship Italia erations and management positions at Road Air, which was acquired by the Rhenus Group in 2007. He became The directors of the Contship Italia group Rhenus’s country manager for air and ocean freight in have appointed Thomas Eckelmann as the Netherlands, was a member of the global air and chairman of the La Spezia container ter- ocean management team and shouldered responsibility minal, with Enrico Ravano retaining the Michele Giromini for several Rhenus Group companies. Aris is also chair- role of group vice-president for adminis- Photo: Contship man of the Dutch airfreight forwarders’ association. He tration, finance and subsidiaries. Michele reports to Stephane Rambaud, C.H. Robinson’s senior Giromini, general manager of the La Spezia container vice-president of global forwarding. C.H. Robinson re- terminal since 2009, is now its managing director. Marco cently added Rotterdam and Istanbul to its European Simonetti, group vice-president for maritime container network, expanding it to 51 offices on the continent, terminals in charge of facilities in Gioia Tauro, Cagliari, with more than 1,000 employees working there. La Spezia, Ravenna and Tangier, remains a director of the La Spezia facility. As a board member, he has as- sumed the role of vice-president. Franco Nicola Cupolo Air Serbia CEO appointed was promoted from general manager to managing director of the firm’s Cagliari terminal. Dane Kondic has been appointed chief executive officer of Air Serbia. Kondic, who has dual Australian and Serbian Denis Ilin to head ABC citizenship, will lead the airline, formerly known as JatAirways, once regulatory ap- Denis Ilin was named executive president of AirBridge- proval for the re-launch of the carrier is Cargo Airlines at the beginning of August. Ilin spent the given. Kondic gained his aviation indus- last five years as the head of aviation of Basic Element, try experience with Malaysia Airlines and a Russian finance and industry holding. Prior to that, Qantas, amongst others. Between August he held several top-level positions in the Volga-Dnepr Dane Kondic 2012 and August 2013 he was Sabre Airline Group, including that of general director of ABC and Photo: Air Serbia Solutions’ regional director for Southeast senior vice-president for strategy, marketing and sales. Asia. Prior to that he was commercial vice- He played a key role in establishing the Volga-Dnepr president in Asia at Abacus International. JatAirways, Group’s scheduled services. Ilin’s tasks include central- which will be rebranded as Air Serbia in October, re- ising AirBridgeCargo’s global business management, cently sold 49% of its shares to the Abu Dhabi-based amongst other duties. Emirati airline Etihad Airways.

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Transporteur fürEuropa +49 6867 500 www.fixemer.com 8People & Companies International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Luis Simões Alliance for ship investments names director The shipping lines E.R. Capital (Erck Rickmers) and the Bernhard Schulte group have formed a joint ship invest- The Portuguese logistics ment venture called Quayside Maritime Partners (QMP). company Luis Simões has The JV will be managed by Philipp Wünschmann and appointed Luís Miguel da Dietrich Schleicher. It will aim to take advantage of in- Silva e Freitas as director Luís Miguel da Silva Photo: Luis Simões ternational overcapacities to purchase vessels at attrac- of distribution. The move tive prices and sell them when the market improves. The simultaneously heralds Simões’ merging its Portuguese two firms manage about 800 vessels between them and and Spanish distribution departments. Freitas was one employ around 20,000 people. QMP’s first transaction of the managers in charge of the Simões operations cen- concerned a panamax containership. (nau) tre in Carregado (Portugal) and was previously a project manager in the company’s financial department. Internal slution for Kuehne+Nagel

Change for Hansa Heavy Lift Detlef Trefzger is the new CEO of Kuehne+ Nagel International. Trefzger joined K+N’s Hansa Heavy Lift appointed board member Roger Iliffe board in March, as member for contract as interim CEO with effect from 23 August, while it and integrated logistics, a charge that he will searches for a replacement for Tomas Dyrbye, who has continue to hold. Trefzger was previously a left the company. Canadian national Iliffe is senior vice- member of the executive board of Schenker president of the US investment fund Oaktree Capital (2004 to 2012) in charge of contract logis- Management, the 100% owner of Hansa Heavy Lift. tics and supply chain management, and lat- Oaktree has said that it will continue to make significant terly also global air and ocean freight. Until investments in the heavylift market and further expand the offer from Switzerland arrived, Trefzger Hansa Heavy Lift’s fleet, with a focus on the oil and gas Detlef Trefzger was considered Schenker board chairman sector, EPCs and other demanding engineering sectors. Photo: Schenker Thomas Lieb’s «crown prince».

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www.powerlogisticsasia2013.com Register Now! International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 People & Companies 9 Berlin Brandenburg airport Matthias Platzeck, prime minister of the German state of Brandenburg, resigned his chairmanship of the supervisory board of the firm Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg for political reasons on 19 August. He will be replaced by his deputy, Klaus Wowereit, the mayor of Berlin. The heads of the two German federal states made the announcement at a board meeting of the operating company of Berlin’s projected new airport. Platzeck had only just taken over from Wowereit in January.

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New Geodis Wilson head in USA UTi Americas sales boss

Michael Greco has been named as the new MD of the UTi Worldwide has appointed Mike Valentine as its Geodis Wilson group in the USA. He will report to John regional sales VP for the Americas. He reports to Ed Gallahan, regional director for the USA. Greco moved Feitzinger, executive VP in charge of global operations. to Geodis from Panalpina in New York, where he was a Valentine, who joined UTi in 2009, was named regional divisional head and VP. The appointment signals Geodis VP for automotive activities in the Americas in 2012. Wilson’s ambitions in the USA. See also our interview Valentine will lead the firm’s integrated forwarding, con- with Geodis Wilson’s Kim Pedersen on pages 32-33). tract logistics and distribution sales force. ADV 340/2013 CH

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Professor Armin Schwolgin, The merger of American Airlines and the head of the forwarding, Armin Schwolgin Photo: Juri Junkov US Airways (see ITJ 9-10/2013, page transportation and logistics 40), which has been in the pipeline for course at Lörrach’s Baden-Württemberg cooperative state months now, seemed to be home and university celebrated his 60th birthday with university dry not so long ago. Even the European colleagues and the Lörrach logistics forum. Besides host Commission, the continent’s highest com- Herbert Boll, of Streck Transport, Karlhuber Dischinger, petition authority, said at the beginning Axel Salzmann, of Kravag, and Professor Egon Trump of August that – in the light of the compet- Andreas all proposed a toast. itive dynamic in transatlantic air traffic Haug – it had no objections to the move. But a ITJ editor mere ten days after getting the green light from Brussels it was none other than the US department Obituary of justice (together with seven attorney generals) that filed a lawsuit against the plans on 13 August. The creation of the USA’s (and the world’s) largest airline was once again on thin ice. It is the largest airline by passengers, but not Doyen passes away by freight carried. The «New American» cargo segment would nevertheless not be a quantité negligéable. If you David Cheslin, the founder and managing add American Airlines’ and US Airways’ 2012 freight director of London-based Dunelm Public performance (1.6+0.5billion tkm = 2.1billion tkm), Relations, passed away on 5 August. From then the result places the new entity third behind United the 1970s onwards Cheslin, a pioneer of (3.6billion tkm) and Delta (3.5billion tkm). Of course, communications in the shipping industry, they also attained their places thanks to mergers (in 2010, worked as a journalist, and then set up a United with Continental and Delta with Northwest). PR agency for the shipping industry in But Washington has now put a stop to industry 1981. Dunelm also organised conferences consolidation – for a change, now that six of the ten US and collaborated with the shipping lines carriers that operated international flights in 1938 have Evergreen and Rickmers, amongst others, disappeared from the skies. They are Braniff (1982), East- as well as the P&I Club in the United David Cheslin ern and PanAm (bankrupt in 1991), Western (merged Kingdom. In 2004 he founded Coastlink, Photo: Dunelm Public Relations with Northwest 23 years before Delta), TWA (acquired through which he also served the shortsea by American in 2001). The lawsuit stated that additional segment. A memorial service in his honour will be held benefits for clients were not immediately apparent, air- in London on Friday 27 September at 2 pm in St Mary ports would have to fear for their status as hubs and the Abchurch, in Abchurch Lane, London EC4. merger candidates had shown that they could also survive alone. But how long for? Change of address and name A French government body has looked further into the future than is usually the case for political decisions. Saco Shipping You can read about its report on page 21. It says that new Netzibodenstrasse 23c business models (such as LCCs) and Chinese and Persian CH-4133 Pratteln Gulf competitors are putting so much pressure on Europe’s Telephone +41 61 826 14 51 historic airlines that only the three big European play- Fax +41 61 826 14 55 ers – AF-KLM, IAG and Lufthansa – may be left in the E-mail [email protected] market in 20 years. If at all,I might add... Internet www.sacoshipping.com

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The development of throughput volumes 800 million teu a year – stock ink th : to

good prospects for terminals Pho Larger ships require larger cranes – quite a Positive market predictions for the container shipping industry are rare these days. Whilst challenge for many a terminal. there is no end to lines’ overcapacities on the horizon, container terminal analysts expect ards. Or in other words, with just a small growing demand. They also face some challenges, however. improvement in percentage terms they could improve their throughput by more Many container terminals were pleased containers in 2017 to around 800 million than the annual volume of goods han- to present positive H1 figures upon com- teu. The 186 million teu which this analy- dled in the UK, India or Brazil. pletion of the first half of the year, re- sis sees as being additionally demanded flecting the fact that they were able to globally in future corresponds roughly Double the capacity handle greater volumes in comparison to to the throughput of all Chinese ports Ship sizes are simultaneously increasing the same period last year (see also pages together last year. Or, to put it slightly rapidly. The capacities of the world’s larg- 15 and 19). The English analyst Drewry differently, to more than the combined est containerships have quadrupled since believes that this trend is set to continue. annual throughput registered in Europe, 1992. The volume of goods carried in the Drewry’s container analysis team was the Middle East and the USA last year. Asia–Europe trade lane has doubled in happy to note a profitable and dynamic the last ten years. This development trig- business environment in its latest report Small cause, great effect gered the cascading of larger ships into on the state of the international container Handling the steel boxes is a huge busi- secondary trade lanes. terminal industry. The sector neverthe- ness. There are nigh-on 1,300 container The new P3 operational alliance be- less faces two substantial challenges, the terminals worldwide, but this fact is fre- tween Maersk Line, MSC and CMA analysts believe: growing ship sizes, and quently overlooked, as their locations CGM is expected to once more give this increasing demand for containers. are so highly fragmented, geographically trend a strong impetus in the near future, There is no arguing with the fact, speaking. as the P3 partnership is due to deploy at however, that growth will not be of the If a terminal registers even a small per- least 20 triple E ships in the next few ilk seen in the boom years of the 1990s centage rise in demand, this could trigger years. This means that ports around the as well as the noughties. Drewry’s pre- a very substantial increase in absolute fig- world have to modernise their infrastruc- diction is that it will still not be bad, ures. Singapore or Shanghai (China), for ture in order to be able to handle the big- though. The company has projected an- example, could handle almost 10 million ger vessels. nual growth of a little over 5% through to teu more by 2017, even if their growth av 2017. This would bring global demand for figures were only average by global stand- www.drewry.co.uk

Hopes pinned on the US peak season

Drewry Shipping Consultants and the to the US west coast stood at USD1,941 be implemented in this trade so far, but Cleartrade Exchange’s World Container in mid-August, in comparison with may follow in September. av Index (WCI) reported a rates rise of just USD2,680 at the same time last year.A www.drewry.co.uk under 15% at the beginning of August, in planned peak season surcharge could not www.alphaliner.com comparison withthe previous month. The reason can be found in the rate increases World Container Index – Shanghai–Rotterdam container freight rates (USD/feu) implemented by most of the large liner shipping companies from the beginning 4,000 of August (see ITJ 27-30/2013, page13). 3,500

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New Zealand islands move a little closer together A strategic North-South alliance

Container handling in New Zealand takes place mainly on the North Island.A new deal between the North Island’s port of Tauranga and the South Island’s port of Timaru is now set to change this state of affairs.

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Timaru’s position as a marshalling point The partners said that : to for South Island cargo. Tauranga handled they expect their collabo- Pho more boxes than the North Island’s port ration efforts to hasten the Timaru (pictured) is set to benefit from Tauranga’s experience. of Auckland for the first time last year, consolidation of freight when its throughput stood at roughly routes in New Zealand, 563,000teu. The new leader is now set to by facilitating a more extensive schedule of the economic downturn that started invest almost EUR13 million in a new of coastal shipping and railway options. in 2008, it again registered steady growth strategic alliance. This sum will enable it The number of vessels calling directly at from 2010 onwards, with the improve- to acquire a 50% shareholding in Prime South Island ports has declined recently, ment registering at 3% in 2012. Exports Ports, the operator of the Timaru hub, as shipping lines have increasingly ration- account for about 30% of GDP. Milk lease PrimePort’s container terminal for alised their services. and dairy products, above all, as well as up to 35 years and acquire the container New Zealand’s economy is now do- meat and timber, are exported, mainly to terminal’s operating assets. The port of ing relatively well. Though the country Australia, China and the USA. av Tauranga will set up a wholly-owned sub- entered a recession in 2009, as a result www.port-tauranga.co.nz

Hamburg benefits from Baltic services Surprising second quarter results

The port of Hamburg is once again looking up. Germany’s larg- For some shipping lines there might be a light at the end of est gateway registered a total throughput of 68.1 milliont in the the tunnel at the conclusion of the second quarter of the cur- first six months of 2013, a 3.5% rise compared to the like-for- rent year. Market leader Maersk Line improved its profits from like period last year. The container handling that predominates USD227million in Q2/2012 to USD439million at the end of in the universal port of Hamburg accounted for 46.5milliont the same quarter this year. The corporation said that the result thereof. The 4.5millionteu turned around represented a 2.1% could be attributed to lower bunker prices and vessel network improvement in the period under review. The satisfying con- efficiencies. Whilst the line’s volumes rose by 2.1% its average tainer throughput was attributed to 2.6% growth in exports, freight rate fell by 13.1%. bringing the total figure for the segment to 2.2millionteu. Im- The USD 146 million loss reported by APL, the container ports rose by 1.7% to 2.3millionteu. The throughput of loaded transport division of the Singaporean enterprise NOL may not containers, which came in at 3.9millionteu, was 2.4% higher look very impressive, but the corporation was at least able to than in the same period last year. The handling of empty con- improve the negative result registered in the like-for-like period tainers, which fell for the past two years in Hamburg, stabilised last year by 39%. at 600,000teu, or 0.2% up. Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd group, in contrast, returned to the These results show that Hamburg has successfully beaten the black in the second quarter of the current financial year. It trend registered in the largest seaports in the northern European reported a group profit of EUR20.9 million for the months range. They reported average downturns of 0.4% in throughput April to June 2013. It had made a loss of EUR7.3million in the and 1.2% in the number of boxes. The positive recent develop- same quarter of 2012. The operating result of EUR66.7 million ments in Hamburg’s Baltic Sea container services contributed was more than twice as high as last year’s EUR30.8million. substantially to these developments.A total of 1.1millionteu Although intense competition in the industry led to unsatisfac- were transported between Hamburg and the Baltic Sea region tory rate levels, substantial cuts and a slight drop in the bunker in H1, a plus of 8%. Seven new feeder services to and from the consumption price were the main factors underlying the positive German hub now offer additional capacities, bringing the range net result. av of liner services to and from the Baltic Sea to more than 150 www.maersk.com feeder sailings a week. av www.nol.com.sg www.hafen-hamburg.de www.hapag-lloyd.com 16 Shipping & Ports International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

IMB warns of growing danger in West Africa «A worrying trend»

The presence of the EU’s mission Atalanta and the use of private security guards on board ships sailing along the east coast of Africa are proving to be effective measures against piracy. The number of attacks in the Gulf of Guinea, on the other hand, is rapidly growing. One problem in combatting piracy is that only a few of the incidents in this region are reported.

At the end of last year it seemed as if the territorial waters of coastal states in the the attacks in this region are reported,» overall situation for international ship- Gulf of Guinea,» IMB director Pottengal Mukundan continued. «The authorities ping had become less tense. The lull in Mukundan says. are thus not in a position to react appro- piracy around the Horn of Africa was priately, and other ships in the region are just a short breather, however. In recent simultaneously not aware of the actual ex- months the zone around the Gulf of More ships in their sight tent of the danger.» The majority of the Guinea has increasingly become a key In this region pirates generally use smaller raids in West Africa, 22 of the 31 attacks focus of activity. ships for their attacks, units which were in the region, took place off the coast of The International Maritime Bureau designed as support vessels for offshore oil-rich Nigeria. (IMB) registered a total of 31 attacks in ships. The attackers take control of these and around the Gulf of Guinea in the small vessels and use them to attack tank- first six months of this year. Addition- ers, as well as other cargo ships, such as Code of conduct for the region ally, the area in which pirates operate is containerships or bulk freighters.A total The affected countries in West Africa expanding. «We have noticed a worrying of 56 sailors have been taken hostage so urgently want to bring the situation off trend, namely that crew members are far this year. «However, it continues to their coasts under control. In June 2013 now also being kidnapped far beyond the be the case that only a small fraction of 22 West and Central African states issued International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Shipping & Ports 17 a code of conduct, in which rules regarding the suppres- sion of piracy and armed robbery aboard ships are laid out. They also opened a coordination centre in Yaoundé (Cameroon). The group of states concerned said that the deployment of more marine forces in the region would be a more effective short-term option, however.

Tension abating in Somalia The situation off the coast of Somalia is quite the opposite. With just six reported attacks this year, the number is lower than at any time since 2006. Two of the attacks stock ink th led to ships being hijacked. Marines were able to recap- : ture the hijacked vessels, however. At the end of June, to Pho Somali pirates held a total of 57 crew members hostage The number of incidents of piracy may be declining in East Africa, but the situation on four ships. The whereabouts of eleven other sailors in the Gulf of Guinea has deteriorated. who had been kidnapped in 2010 is still unknown at the time of going to press, however. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed guide- In the first half of 2013 the IMB registered a total of lines for private security service providers aboard cargo ships last year. 138 attacks worldwide. The figure for the same period in In June this year a number of companies began participating in a vol- the previous year, in comparison, was 177. The number untary audit programme. In May the EU also announced a further EUR of kidnapped sailors also came down substantially, from 37 million in support for its regional maritime security programme 334 in the first half of 2012 to 127 mariners abducted (Mase), to fight piracy and promote maritime security. The funds will so far this year. go into the further development of legal systems and the enforcement of justice in the region and support the prosecution of pirates. Antje Veregge Anti-piracy measures having an effect www.icc-ccs.org/icc/imb According to the IMB the reason for the decline in piracy is the presence of international marine units in East Africa, as well as the security measures being taken by the shipping lines to protect their ships, including the deployment of private armed security guards on board vessels. «International marine units continue to play an important role in keeping the danger under control,» Mukundan explains. The European Union Naval Force Somalia Operation Atalanta has been actively participat- Euro-Med Services ing in efforts to combat piracy in the region since 2008. TRANSPORT OF ANY TYPE OF VEHICLE, EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT, FORESTRYPRODUCTS, Operation Atalanta, which takes its name from a Greek STANDARDAND SPECIAL CONTAINERS, PROJECT AND HEAVY LIFT CARGO goddess of the hunt, is the first marine operation ever undertaken by the EU. The deployment of private security guards, on the other hand, remains controversial, and the fear of rogue elements remains high. To deal with this danger the

Increased security measures Direct weekly service from/to: International shipping not only faces the threat of pi- • Alexandria • Esbjerg • Malta • Southampton racy, but simultaneously also continues to be exposed • Antwerp • Flushing • Mersin • Tartous • Ashdod • Gemlik • Palermo • Tripoli (Lebanon) to the potential threat of terrorist attacks, mainly from • Hamburg • Beirut • Piraeus • Tripoli (Lybia) al-Qaeda or its splinter groups. At the beginning of • Izmir • Bristol (Prby) • Lattakia • Salerno • Tunis and Rades August the Yemeni government announced that it had • Civitavecchia • Limassol • Savona • Valencia preempted an attack by said network on various targets, • Cork • Livorno • Setubal • Wallhamn including an oil terminal in Mina al-Dhaba, east of Aden ANTWERP HAMBURG LONDON (Yemen). There is some dispute concerning how serious Grimaldi Belgium Grimaldi Germany Grimaldi AgencyUK Tel: +32 35459430 Tel: +49 40 789707 12 Tel: +44 207 9305683 the threat actually was. After an Interpol alert issued at Fax: +32 35414275 Fax: +49 40 789707 71 Fax: +44 207 8391961 the same time, Malta recently increased security at its NAPLES GRIMALDI HEAD OFFICE ports and airports, in order to prevent an attack possibly Tel: +39 081 496111 Fax: +39 081 5517401 www.grimaldi.napoli.it being planned by al-Qaeda. av

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A bill of rights for seafarers Better working conditions on board

The International Labour Organization’s new minimum standards regarding the conditions of seafarers on board entered into effect recently. The ILO is optimistic that the 1.5 million seafarers worldwide can now insist on compliance with their rights. It is, however, unclear how many of them effectively know about this new achievement.

20 August this year was an important day for international maritime shipping. With the entry into force of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) for the 30 states that had ratified it by 20 August 2012, a new bill of fundamental rights for seafarers became binding international law on that date this year. «This marks the beginning of a new era for the world’s 1.5 million seafarers,» says Guy Rider, the ILO’s director general. In addition, the new standard is expected to give rise to fairer competitive conditions stock ink Th between shipping lines around the world. : to

The so-called race to the bottom – which, Pho according to the ILO, caused working The new MLC 2006 is also expected to make competition between shipping lines fairer. conditions on international freighters to continue to plummet dramatically in the than 70% of the global gross tonnage. To call the new ILO law a milestone is recent past – is now expected to come to Participating countries include important certainly no exaggeration. There is still an end. flag states such as the Marshall Islands, one serious problem, however – not all The MLC covers almost every aspect Singapore, Liberia and Cyprus, amongst seafarers have so far been informed about of the working environment, including others. In addition the Philippines, home their additional rights. Students of ship- the work itself, and food and lodging country to a third of all crew members ping and chartering at Bremen’s univer- on board a ship. Employment contract when they are not at sea, is a signatory. sity of the applied sciences found in a sur- conditions are now also regulated, for vey conducted in six international ports example. Requirements regarding medi- Scope extends to non-signatories too that only 16% of 116 seafarers questioned cal care, occupational health and social Even ships from flag states that have not felt that they were fully informed about security are also codified in the MLC. ratified the MLC must adhere to the con- the MLC. The law augments key conventions of vention’s requirements once they enter a Even if the study only portrays a the International Maritime Organiza- port of a state which has ratified the con- snapshot of the situation in the ship- tion (IMO) and consolidates or updates vention. Here, state authorities are enti- ping industry, it nevertheless illustrates 36 treaties and several ILO recommenda- tled to carry out checks on board ships that much educational work remains to tions and protocols. to see whether MLC standards are being be done before the seafarers’ charter of A total of 45 ILO member states have met. If this is not the case, the authorities fundamental rights can fully unfold its ratified the law in the meantime, with can detain the ship. Thus the scope of effect. Antje Veregge Germany also adding its signature re- the law extends beyond the 45 ratifying www.ilo.org cently. These countries represent more countries to other flag states. www.hs-bremen.de

In brief

Growth in Dunkirk. The French North Sea Green power in Hamburg. Eurogate has Positive trend in Long Beach. The Califor- port of Dunkirk handled 9% more loaded started operating its own wind turbine at its nian port of Long Beach reported 15.7% more containers in the first six months of 2013 than Hamburg container terminal. The new 200m imports, 9.5% more exports and 12% more in the same period of the previous year. The turbine with its 59 m rotor blades is Hamburg’s empties in the first seven months of 2013, number of containership calls rose by 7% in tallest such wind generator. It is expected compared to the same period in 2012.A port the period under review. The port authorities to provide between 25 and 50% of the total spokesperson said that these improvements said that the favourable figures could primarily energy requirements of the facility. The equip- were primarily due to the fact that larger ships be ascribed to additional scheduled shortsea ment is expected to save approximately 4,600t have tended to call at the port more frequently

services. www.dunkerque-port.fr of CO2 a year. www.eurogate.de recently. www.polb.com

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French government authority questions European airlines’ ability to survive The limits of liberalisation

Thirty years ago, every European country took pride in having its own flag carrier. Following the waves of privatisation and liberalisation that sloshed across the Atlantic from the USA, many illustrious representatives have been washed away and new providers have appeared in the market. The future is more uncertain than ever. What will European airspace look like in 20 years? es chiv ar J IT s: to Pho An international player at any price: Olympic Airlines was absorbed into Olmypic Air in 2009. National trauma: Swissair was grounded in 2001.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, the commissioner gen- • Financing needs are significant in this «The role of governments,» according to eral of France’s Commissariat général à capital-intensive sector, in which any the strategy council, «is not to limit com- la stratégie et à la prospective (office of delay in fleet modernisation reduces an petition in order to protect existing air- the general commissioner for strategy and airline’s ability to compete. lines.» They do need to take care that the future studies CGSP), which succeeded conditions of competition are fair, how- the Centre d’analyse stratégique (CAS) in Nightmares and solutions ever, both within European airspace and April 2013, summarises the current chal- In its report, entitled «Are European air- between European and non-European lenges facing large European airlines as lines mortal?», the commission did not companies. Thus the CGSP recommends follows. exclude the fate that even befell airlines • that the fees and taxes due from Euro- • As a result of the effects of globalisation such as Swissair, which was believed to pean airlines are not further increased, and the rising aspirations of some emerg- have solid foundations. Three countries • that a greater degree of fairness should ing markets, the regulatory framework is – France, Germany, and the United King- rule competition, and in the midst of a modification process. dom – have so far been able to preserve • that the risks and opportunities of the • Competition is increasing dramatically their historical air carriers – Air France, general and systematic opening of the on every route. Lufthansa and British Airways. Each car- European long-haul market be analysed • The tariff structure integrates external rier has grown stronger and entered into market for market before any negotia- environmental costs, and the tax bur- alliances with partners from around the tions on traffic rights are entered into. den weighs ever more heavily on com- world. Financial difficulties are neverthe- Andreas Haug pany decisions. less also an undeniable part of operations. www.strategie.gouv.fr

Dutch netting reduces CO2 emissions

Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo has manufactured by the Dutch company started using unique airfreight netting, DSM, under the brand name Dyneema, thereby reducing its annual emissions of and the netting is produced by Amsafe carbon dioxide. The all-cargo division Bridport, a British specialist for safety

has cut its annual kerosene consumption technologies in air transport. Air France- a

by 800 l, by replacing some conventional KLM-Martinair Cargo will be the first neem Dy pallet netting made of PET fibres with large airfreight group to successively : to

lightweight netting weighing approxi- equip its entire freight business with the Pho mately half as much – only about 9 kg new airfreight netting. KLM CEO Camiel Eurlings inspecting per net. The move has enabled it to cut «We’re very proud to be the first large the unique new nets. its CO2 emissions by 2.5t a year. air-cargo service provider to introduce The first nets of this type were deliv- this ultralight Dyneema netting to opera- been publicly recognised. For the eighth ered to Amsterdam on 9 July. They are tions,» KLM’s CEO Camiel Eurlings said year in a row we have led the field of air- made of a synthetic chemical fibre based when attending the delivery of the first lines listed in Dow Jones’ sustainability on polyethylene with ultra-high molecu- nets. «Our efforts to reduce the impact index.» www.afklcargo.com lar weight (UHMW-PE). The fibres are of our activities on the environment have www.dyneema.com; www.amsafe.biz 22 Aviation International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

In brief Here’s looking through you, boxes

Return. Air India returned to Australia 16 years after it suspended links to the fifth continent. The Indian flag carrier planned to resume a service from New Delhi via Sydney to Melbourne and back four times a week on 29 August.A thrice-weekly link connecting the two Australian cities to the Indian capital in the opposite order was due to start the following day. Boeing B787s will be deployed on the routes. www.airindia.com rt

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dia to fly Dreamliners to and from Australia. : It is planning to start a Tokyo Narita–Sydney to Pho link on 1 December, with a JAL B787 service Linz has improved airport security by investing substantially in a new freight scanner. to Bangkok (Thailand) beginning on the following day. www.cargo.jal.co.jp A new large scanner that carries out se- checks even more efficiently than was curity checks on airfreight consignments previously the case. This not only saves Sweet and sour. The budget carrier AirA- entered full operations in the cargo di- time, but also quite a bit of money.» sia Japan is being rebranded Vanilla Air, it vision of Linz airport (Austria) recently. The centre’s operator will also offer its was announced in Tokyo this week. AirAsia The new piece of equipment can carry security services to external customers Japan was the result of a merger last Octo- out security checks on pallets and cargo who do not have any facilities of their ber between Malaysia’s AirAsia and Japan’s units up to 1.7m high, 10 m long and own – as is foreseen in the framework of All Nippon Airways (ANA). The cooperation weighing up to 2t. Modern technology new legal regulations concerning security fell apart in June, however, and the former enables staff to inspect cargo from vari- checks on airfreight consignments. This JV went fully to ANA. The new brand is set to take off in December. AirAsia also offers ous points of view in a single process. option is already used by clients, as is con- belly-hold capacities on its Airbus A330- Short processing times and the con- firmed by Christian Hangl, DHL Global 300s (10 t) and A320-200s (2.5 t). comitant optimisation of handling pro- Forwarding Austria’s head of airfreight in www.ana.co.jp cedures are the substantial advantages Linz. that the new equipment offers. Dietmar «Linz airport has lived up to its reputa- Second – part II. Cathay Pacific recently Schram, the head of freight activities at tion for professionalism. There have been announced the start of a full-freighter con- the airport, told the media that «flexibil- no delays in handling at the airport or nection linking Hong Kong and Guadalajara ity and rapid processing are important for hurdles to the collaboration with airlines (see also ITJ 31-34/2013, page 31). Before it our customers, and it is precisely these in Linz from the first day that the new could start, however, the second-largest city qualities that we offer them, thanks to the ordinance – which resulted in a screening in Mexico saw the landing of an aeroplane new scanner. It augments our two existing process for so-called unknown shippers – flying the same route on 21 August, but scanners perfectly and puts us in a posi- entered into force,» Hangl said. operated by another Asian airline – namely tion to carry out the necessary security www.linz-airport.com Korean Air Cargo. The latter’s offering sees a Boeing B747-400F heading for the Central American country twice a week, with a stopover in Dallas TX (USA) on the schedule. cargo.koreanair.com Berlin airport opens ... a new cargo centre An aeroplane flying for UPS and owned tenants in the complex, which is oper- First. 341,000t of airfreight were handled by the Basel-based Swiss freighter op- ated by the company Air Cargo Center at the world’s leading cargo hub Hong Kong erator Farnair, a logistics and express Berlin, include Air Logistics (the freight in July, 1.9% more than in July 2012. The in- specialist, transported the first cargo to sales department of Qatar Airways) the crease was partially owed to a 5% increase Germany’s Berlin Brandenburg airport freight forwarder Müller & Partner and in export volumes, driven by success to and on 1 August. The ATR72F took off the freight handler Wisag Cargo Service. from North America, amongst other places. www.hongkongairport.com from Cologne/Bonn airport and landed Excellent freight volume growthin Ber- on time in Berlin early in the morning. lin continues. The Tegel and Schönefeld Re-opened. Jomo Kenyatta airport in the The hub’s cargo centre, which had been hubs registered an 8.7% improvement in Kenyan capital Nairobi, large parts of which inaugurated four weeks previously, can July in comparison with the like-for-like were destroyed by fire on 7 August, was handle around 100,000t of freight annu- month last year, bringing the figure to once again operating at 100% capacity from ally. It also has a separate direct access 3,133t. The date for the opening of the 19 August, with services having successively to the apron. Besides UPS and FedEx, new airport – in phases or all at once – is been reinstated. www.kaa.go.ke airlines that carry belly-hold cargo will still shrouded in mystery, however. ah be the first users of the facility. The first www.berlin-airport.de EASTERN EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA

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Foreign trade may be weak, but long-term prospects are intact Some stumbling blocks

Was this mere sabre-rattling in the summer lull? In any event, the validity of the TIR carnet for HGV cross-border traffic has been provisionally extended by the Russian customs. However, the giant country must take care not to play all of its logistical trump cards.

MAN Truck & Bus’ so-called consist- cow. Otto complained that «things don’t ently efficient tour 2013 has now arrived always run smoothly with the Russian in Russia, having covered more than post office.» Sometimes shipments took MAN

90,000 km in Western Europe in 2011 several weeks, he said. «But of course the : and South Africa in 2012. The commer- state post office faces enormous logistics to Pho cial vehicle manufacturer is now touring challenges,» he conceded. Bureaucracy is MAN was on the road in Russia in August, through the European part of Russia. also an obstacle. «We’ve always been able displaying its new tractors. The road show started in the southern to cope, however. In an initial phase cus- Russian town of Sochi, venue of the next toms clearance was incredibly tiresome, vigorously. Meanwhile, the acceptance of Winter Olympics, and proceeded to the as our heavy goods vehicles were always the TIR carnet at the country’s borders capital Moscow via the Ural metropolis held up at the border.» was extended until 14 September. of Yekaterinburg.A MAN TGS truck and a comparison model visited eleven ...and bureaucratic backlogs Dormant potential stations between the Black Sea and the This could be repeated if the Russian cus- Homemade circumstances may have lead Ural mountains, and were displayed to toms authorities were to suspend accept- to this situation, such as the fact that Rus- customers there. The 10,000 km journey ance of the TIR carnet. Russia’s federal sian GDP grew by just 1.8% in the first also enabled the German company to get customs service announced on its website five months of this year, significantly less a picture of road conditions in Russia. early in July that it planned to change than in the preceding three years, when the conditions for the application of the growth oscillated between 3.4 and 4.5%. Road congestion... TIR process on 14 August. These condi- Rosstat has predicted growth of 2.5% for Freight transportation is one of the big- tions were adopted in the Convention on the whole year, however, a figure which gest challenges facing Russia, as routes the International Transport of Goods in many economies in Europe can only often cover thousands of kilometres, Mi- 1975. They also describe the use of the dream of. chael Otto told the German press agency TIR carnet, amongst other things. The The economy in Kazakhstan is set dpa in Moscow. The chairman of the customs authorities claimed that pay- to be even stronger – the International supervisory board of the Otto Group, a ment difficulties on the part of the na- Monetary Fund predicts GDP growth of trading and services company, reported tional association of international road 5.7% in the second largest country in the on 20 August that it was set to invest carriers (Asmap) were responsible for the region, which also did not experience a EUR 50 million in Russia, above all in suspension of the process. The Russian recession in 2009 (GDP +1.2%). doubling the size of its existing logistic body, which monitors the TIR system Andreas Haug centre in Tver, 170 km northwest of Mos- in the country, denied these allegations www.asmap.ru 24 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Special International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

Kazakhstan – a promising market Luxury logistics

Aliya Mussina, the head of A.R.T. Logistics in Kazakhstan, talks to the ITJ about importing fashion and luxury goods into Kazakhstan. s ic

Mrs Mussina, A.R.T. Logistics currently has six affiliates. How im- st gi Lo

portant is the branch in Almaty (Kazakhstan)? T

We’ll soon have seven branches, you know!A new office is opening in AR o: Chengdu (China) in September. Our Almaty centre was the first affili- Phot ate A.R.T. Logistics established and I would say that, in the light of the Aliya Mussina manages the ART Logistics branch in Almaty, local opportunities open to us, it plays strategic role for the company. which was established as the firm’s Central Asian hub in 2005.

What services does your company offer in Kazakhstan itself, as The country’s logistics sector is developing as rapidly well as in the neighbouring countries? as Kazakhstan’s imports, which grew by 21% last year. A.R.T. Logistics is well-known as a LTL and container logistics specialist, and last year we introduced a new multimodal freight service, connecting Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand with Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Cargo is shipped from regional ports, and routed through China by rail, from the northeastern port of Lianyungang to Dostyk, the Kazakh border, and then to Almaty, as well as onwards to Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. Our second new link is an airfreight service carrying imported European fashion products and luxury goods to Kazakhstan, for which we’ve also designed and implemented a unique local handling and document formalisation option.

How big is the Kazakh luxury goods segment? The local luxury goods market is worth around USD900 million annually – and its growing strongly. Global brand names have opened many new shops in Kazakh- stan. Our jewellery and fashion customers require the secure and time-definite delivery of their products.

Is airfreight the solution of choice in this field? Airfreight plays a critical role for all high-value products, particularly for medical equipment, telecommunication equipment and luxury goods, as well as for heavylift operations in the oil and gas industry.

How do you cope with the security challenges? Inbound cargo is under video surveillance from the moment it lands. The goods are transported to customers in bullet-proof trucks. Importing such products requires connectingWorlds. certification and coordination between various government departments. In Kazakhstan, every item of jewel- Whether heavy lift from the Netherlands to Tajikistan or lery has to be assayed, certified and stamped by the assay high tech from Germany to Russia: For every project, office. These kind of services are still in their infancy in the cooperation between our country units is minutely the country, and not many companies can supply them. coordinated to run. Make use of the dense Militzer &Münch network of 100 locations in over 30 countries and convince yourself of our precision. What developments do you expect in this segment? The retail sector is growing exponentially in Kazakh- stan. In the next few years there is going to be increasingly strong demand for foreign brands, because people www.mumnet.com in Kazakhstan are keen to buy the original article. www.art-businessgroup.com International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Special 25

Container handling in the Black Sea From black gold to steel boxes

The Russian port of Novorossiysk has recorded rapid growth in its container volumes in the past few years. Nutep, a container port owned by the Delo group of companies, is banking strongly on this trend continuing and is investing in expansion. The group is planning to increase the capacities of its container terminals to 650,000 teu by 2016.

The port of Novorossiysk on Russia’s Black Sea coast is one of the most important maritime gateways in the country. For a long time the oil sector played the key role in the hub’s throughput. Though the black gold remains the largest export item by far, ever more containers have been handled at the quays in «Novo» in the past few years. Volumes could rise even more substantially in future, as analysts believe that the degree of containerisation in Russia,

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group of companies to believe that this Pho year it can achieve 13–15% growth in its Nutep is set to start building a new berth for 8,000 teu containerships in 2014. container terminal. The holding company Delo operates cerning potential congestion. To prevent is changing now, as Nutep has invested and owns said container facility, as well bottlenecks, Nutep is set to commence heavily in the expansion of its rail con- as a grain and a ro-ro terminal in Novo- with the construction of a new berth in nections. The construction of an impor- rossiysk. The total annual throughput in the existing terminal next year, on a plot tant section of a new port railway track these centres together comes to about of land that has especially been reclaimed was completed recently, enabling the 4.7milliont. Over and above this, the from the sea. centre to handle two blocktrains a day firm’s portfolio includes bunkering ser- It is expected to be completed by carrying 112 teu each. vice offerings. Besides owning Nutep – the end of 2016 and will be able to Over and above this Russian Railways the first specialised container terminal handle ships with space for more than is also investing in rail links to the port in the port of Novorossiysk, whose name 8,000teu and overall lengths of approxi- of Novorossiysk. Approximately 55 km stands for Novorossiysk transport and lo- mately 310m. Its capacities will come to of new tracks are currently being laid, gistics hub in Russian – Delo also holds a 250,000teu a year, thus enabling the ter- and a new shunting yard is simultane- majority stake in Global Container Ser- minal to handle 650,000teu. ously being established. These measures vice (GCS), a liner shipping, intermodal The maximum size of containerships are designed to bring the capacity of and agency specialist, also known for its that can call at Nutep stands at 4,500teu, the railfreight handling station to over subsidiary Ruscon, which provides trans- primarily on account of the fact that no 50milliont a year, an improvement of port and logistics services in Russian and ship longer than 265m can berth in the more than 50% on current volumes. The former Soviet Union ports. hub. Nutep’s basin is only 300m wide, plans are due for completion by 2016. after all. Around 30 to 40 vessels call at Critical size the container terminal every month, in- Russian economic growth slowing Nutepregisteredpositiveresultsinthefirst cluding units from shipping lines such So Nutep is not likely to lack capacities in half of 2013. Total container throughput as Maersk Line, CMA CGM Evergreen the immediate future. Russia’s economic rose to approximately 148,000teu, a 33% and Admiral and feeder operators such prospects, in contrast, are not very rosy at improvement over the like-for-like period as Xpress, Emes and UFS. the moment. The World Bank has estab- in the previous year. Overall the figure lished a decline in industrial production for the number of containers handled last Room for improvement in 2013, for the first time since 2009. The year stood at approximately 215,000teu. Most of the exports handled in Nutep organisation expects the Russian econo- The operator assumes that this year reach the port by rail. Only 9% of this my to grow by 3.3% in 2013, which is one around 75% of the hub’s annual capac- freight is transported in boxes, however, percentage point less than was recorded ity of 400,000 teu will be utilised. This whilst the largest proportion is hauled in the previous year. Antje Veregge is considered the critical threshold con- in conventional railfreight wagons. This www.deloports.com; www.delo-group.com 26 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Special International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

Twenty years of AsstrA Associated Traffic AG Markets in the east

AsstrA CEO Frank Müller spoke to ITJ editor-in-chief Christian Doepgen about the slow start to Russia’s 2013 logistics market, new opportunities in southeastern Europe and how AsstrA is positioned. A str As

Mr Müller, the Russian market isn’t making any great strides right : now. What is your sense of how it is developing? to Pho You’re right, Russia didn’t really get off to a running start this year. Its AsstrA believes there is great potential in Poland and Czechia, total foreign trade for the first half of 2013 shrunk by 0.5%, and exports thanks also to forwarders with competitive fleets. dropped by 2.7%. Investments by private entities have been scaled back and the state is stepping in once again to pick up the slack. Which markets do you think offer the best opportunities? Take Ukraine. It has risen to 66th place on the How is your main line of business going? World Bank’s logistics performance index. Our core business – international trucking to and from Russia – is The infrastructure and purchasing power in Ukraine are holding steady. Project teams in niche markets, such as metal, gas, and currently 20% below the level in Belarus, leaving plenty drinks logistics are doing good work. Traffic to central Europe and the of room for improvement. With our 80 employees there Nordic countries contributes to the 7,000 full-truck loads and 1,000 we have the same number of personnel in Kiev as we container loads we ship every month. Approximately 20% of our busi- have in Moscow, but so far we have only managed to ness consists of services for mid-sized shippers who are seeking risk generate half the revenue compared to Moscow. We’re mitigation, cash-to-cash optimisation and rapid market positioning by seeing interesting developments in Poland and Czechia, outsourcing their supply-chain activities. We’re looking to increase our where freight forwarders with competitive truck fleets internal annual growth guidance to 25%. are increasingly present and the export potential is growing. There are also opportunities in the regions of Turkey and the former Yugoslavia.

Does the heavylift and project-logistics niche hold any appeal? Acquiring the equipment requires big investments, and in the core Russian market such projects are planned and contracted out at short notice. We help to plan large projects and transports with weights of up to 300t, but being an asset-light firm is still our motto.

The key to corporate development today is IT. Where does AsstrA stand in this regard? We opted for the solutions offered by Oracle and have invested a great deal in IT. We have a digital ordering system and we can now manage the complete transport process for customers from a single interface.

AsstrA was founded in 1993. What is your vision of how the company will position itself in the future? AsstrA is at a crossroads. We could either develop a lucrative niche strategy, or adopt a volume business model. In my view, however, we could increase our current turnover from approximately EUR 240 million a year now to EUR 1 billion annually over the next five to ten years through organic growth alone.

What is your personal motto? Success depends on people and strategies. Our great strength at AsstrA – apart from our efficient cost structures – is our average employee age of 29. That creates dynamism! www.asstra.com International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Special 27

Gefco opens second Russian automobile distribution centre An alternative to St Petersburg

Gefco, an international transport and logistics corporation that belongs to the Russian Railways RZD, recently opened a second site in Russia, which is to be used to deliver vehicles coming from Europe and Asia via the commercial port of Novorossiysk. The new facility in the maritime port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea is considered by Gefco to be an alternative to using its St Petersburg centre.

Gefco’s national branch in Russia, Gefco Russia, is set to offer customers weekly delivery services for vehicles and spare car parts from a new 12,000 sqm site in Novorossiysk. Gefco sees the option as an advantageous alternative to the traditional sea freight route via St Petersburg and Llichevsk (Ukraine), which will allow carmakers to significantly reduce their logistics expenditure whilst simultaneously optimising delivery times, the corporation said. The new Gefco office at Novorossiysk will be in charge of goods management, o

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Commercial Sea Port (NCSP). Gefco and Pho the NCSP also have plans to develop the Gefco has expanded its automobile and spare parts distribution activities in Russia. ro-ro infrastructure at Novorossiysk in the near future.

First-ever call In brief New joint venture in Russia. The French The opening of this new automotive transport and logistics enterprise Norbert site coincided with the first ever call to Higher ART Logistics frequencies. The inter- Dentressangle has founded a new 50:50 joint the port of Novorossiysk by the Neptune national forwarding enterprise ART Logistics venture in Russia, together with the French has added a monthly LTL connection between food producer Danone. The new company will Odyssey, one of the largest ro-ro vessels Vilnius (Lithuania) and Ulan Bator (Mongolia) offer temperature-controlled logistics services for transporting vehicles that the port to the two it already offered. (See also our as well as fresh produce transportation in has ever received. The vessel delivered a interview with Aliya Mussina, head of ART Russia. www.norbert-dentressangle.com full/part load of PSA vehicles (Citroën Logistics in Kazakhstan, on page 24.) C-Elysée, Peugeot 301, Peugeot Partner www.art-businessgroup.com Meyer QSL expanding. The owner-managed and Citroën Berlingo), coming from the German logistics service provider Meyer Quick Spanish port of Vigo. Gefco has chosen DHL Express in St Petersburg. The courier, Service Logistics (Meyer QSL) has opened two the company TMBC Logistics as its han- express and parcel service provider DHL new temperature-controlled logistics ware- dling agent for all PSA cargo arriving at Express recently commenced operations in a houses in the Russian cities of Krasnodar and Novorossiysk. new 3,700 sqm logistics centre in the Russian Novosibirsk. Robert Altermatt metropolis of St Petersburg. www.dhl.com www.quick-service-logistics.de www.gefco.net

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THE MAIN VALUES OF LDZ CARGO ARE FURTHER STEPS TOWARDS COOPERATION ITS CLIENTS AND PARTNERS Cooperation is characterised by faithful clients confident in our The total number of LDZ Cargo clients is close to 3000, whereof services – always provided in due time, precisely, and with a sense more than 1000 are strategic clients. of responsibility. LDZ Cargo believes that each client and partner is unique and LDZ Cargo and LDZ Cargo Loģistika are looking forward to special, therefore work of the enterprise is directed towards fruitful cooperation with you. provision of the most appropriate solution of cargo transportation for each client.

LDZ CARGO IN FIGURES The amount of cargo transported by LDZ Cargo in the year 2012 has reached a record and comprised 60,6 millions tons. For the last several years the transportation tendency shows steady increase. The total number of LDZ Cargo employees is 2790. LDZ Cargo has 6731 freight wagons as well as 146 main-line and shunting locomotives. 30 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Special International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

Expansion plans for transhipment capacities in the Caucasus Georgia embraces its railways

Georgia’s railway wants to make the most of the opportunity arising from being a part of the Traceca corridor connecting Western and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In addition to links to Turkey, improvements to domestic railway lines are also on the agenda. The railway still has some technical hurdles to overcome, however, as ITJ correspondent Josef Müller found out in Tbilisi and Batumi.

route freight trains around the edge of the city, rather than directly through the capital. The project will require the construction of a 30 km northern bypass around the capital city, which will then link up with the trunk line to the ports of Poti and Batumi.

Growth in question In 2012, some 4.5 million t of goods were transported by rail in Georgia, and in 2013 the figure is expected to increase by 900,000 t to 5.4 million t. The growth is expected to come from countries on er ll the other side of the Black Sea – namely, Mü Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Turkey and

Josef Russia. o: These are ambitious hopes. Although Phot Railway links to and from Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi are set to be improved. countries such as Afghanistan as well as Uzbekistan are interested in transit The Georgian state railway company, along this corridor in the coming years. through Georgia and offer special fees Sakartvelos Rkinigza, has set itself some The Georgian railway wants to make its for cotton transportation from Central ambitious goals. Not only does it want to contribution to ensure the success of the Asia, the technical performance of the increase its revenues from railfreight, but plan, Bakhtadze said at a presentation of Georgian railway is subject to a number it also wants to boost the overall health the expansion plan in Tbilisi. of limitations. of the nation’s economy through con- One example of these limitations is tinued expansion of the infrastructure Expansion projects in Georgia the port of Batumi in the autonomous linking the capital city Tbilisi with other Georgia is pinning its hopes on the con- republic of Adjara. The rail line actually regions of the country. The new agenda struction of a new 178 km rail line be- runs all the way up to the port but has to was announced in Tbilisi recently by the tween Turkey and Georgia. Once the con- cross a main thoroughfare in the city on rail company’s new director, Manuka nection between the railway networks of its way. The road has to be closed regu- Bakhtadze, who has been running the the two countries is completed, the first larly to make way for freight trains. Ilia company since March. freight trains are slated to roll by 2015, Tsivadze, head of marketing for the port, transporting more goods from Turkey via told the ITJ that the port authority is cur- Key Traceca corridor Georgia to Azerbaijan and other coun- rently planning a flyover, which would At the core of the expansion plans for tries in the region. elevate the roadway above the railroad the 1,600km railway network is a connec- In concrete terms, the line will run track and enable trains to move more tion between Tbilisi and the two Black from Akhalkalaki in Georgia to Kars in efficiently to their destination without Sea ports of Batumi and Poti. The sea- Turkey. Along the way, the railway track disrupting traffic. ports are critical transhipment points for will traverse the inhospitable terrain of The oil, bulk, and railroad port has international trade, and at the same time the Lesser Caucasus mountains, which a container terminal which has been transit points for goods flowing from separate the two countries. According to leased to operator ICTSI until 2055. Up Europe to Central Asia. Bakhtadze the new stretch of track will to 100,000 teu can theoretically be tran- Freight trains travel at 30 km per hour increase rail cargo by 2 million t a year. shipped through the terminal annually, along a main European line, a compo- Currently, such cargo would be trucked but in practice the figure is significantly nent of the Traceca corridor from Europe from Turkey to Georgia via the border lower than that. The port is owned by across the Black Sea, through Georgia and crossing at Hopa, and it usually ends up Kazakhstan’s KazTransOil, a subsidiary bound for Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and stuck in traffic jams at the border. of the energy group KazMunaiGaz. China. Europeans have declared their The second largest project is a bypass Josef Müller goal of transporting more goods by rail in the greater Tbilisi area, designed to www.railway.ge International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Special 31

The project cargo business in Kazakhstan Colossal opportunities

Kazakhstan’s raw materials are the basis on which many a logistics project has been built. In an interview with Christian Doepgen, Kamill Gafurov, CEO of the freight forwarder IFC Colos, describes his company’s s

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few years ago, but I believe you’ve been in the rail segment. Natu- ns Co active since 2005, haven’t you? rally we nevertheless offer : MunaiTrans, a specialist for the transport our foreign customers rail- to Pho of oil and oil products, was founded in freight options, however. CEO Kamill Gafurov’s company IFC Colos is involved in many a 2005, but we soon reinvented our firm We’re also planning to ac- logistics project linked to raw materials extraction in Kazakhstan. as a freight forwarder in 2007 and 2008. quire a railway terminal in In October 2008 we joined the TS Ser- Almaty and construct a facility at Korgas- common traits, such as a full openness, vice group, which had offices in Russia, Altynkol, on the Kazakh-China border. mutual readiness to help, and not least, Germany and China. 2011 saw our break- Our studies of the rail market have shown promptness. In addition our membership through, when the restructuring of TS led that there is currently demand for about in a register of potential suppliers to the the management to embark on a path of 500 rw-platforms for containers. We’re Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund independent development. Our name now working on getting a loan for this. (from 2011), as well as our role in First IFC Colos is an acronym of our slogan Point Kazakhstan, a register of potential COmprehensive LOgistic Solutions. Which of your project transportation supplier to the Kazakhstan oil and gas tasks are particularly noteworthy? industry (from 2012), are also very im- How have your key performance indi- The firm’s key personnel was already portant for the company. cators developed since your founding? involved in providing logistics services It’s symbolic that from the moment we for an Agip KCO project for the devel- «One of our most interesting projects is began work as IFC Colos, turnover in- opment of the Kashagan field in western the transporting of equipment to creased heavily, namely by 78% in 2011 Kazakhstan between 2004 and 2008, as vis-à-vis the previous year and by an- well as for the Karagandinskaya power Russia’s Troitskaya Gres power plant.» other 96% in 2012, bringing the figure station project, where we cooperated with to USD37.9 million. The company and international partners. Ongoing efforts WTO director general Pascal Lamy its branch and representative offices cur- include delivering cargo for firms such said that Kazakhstan may join the rently employ 79 people. as Kazstroiservice, Sinopec and Saipem. WTO this year. What are your expec- One of our most interesting projects in tations of the benefits this may bring? Your headquarters are in Almaty and 2012 was arranging for the transportation Kazakhstan’s accession to the WTO rais- you have branch offices in Astana, of equipment required for the reconstruc- es positive and negative expectations. As Altynkol, Aktau, Sary-Agash, Chim- tion of the Russian coal-fired power plant a logistician I see the situation positively, kent and Dostyk. Are you planning to Troitskaya Gres. In 2011, IFC Colos spe- because many Euro–Asian transport cor- set up any more branch offices? cialists surveyed the freight routes, ana- ridors run through Kazakhstan, as did Yes, we’re planning to expand our net- lysed the transport routes and modes and the well-known Silk Road, so there may work to other regions of Kazakhstan and negotiated with administrative represent- well be new impulses. We assume that open new offices in Kyzyl-Orda, Aktobe, atives. Transportation of the main metal routing schemes will initially change, Ust-Kamenogorsk,Uralsk and Kokshetau. structures from China to Russia started and that some decline in freight traffic One of the key segments we’ll target are in 2012 and this year we’re providing will take place, but then things may well Western European clients who need our the transportation for high-technology change cardinally. According to an analy- services and experience in Kazakhstan. equipment on the same route. sis presented by the Post-Crisis World In- stitute, a Russian think-tank, Kazakhstan «We’re planning to acquire a rail How does membership in the IFLN af- may become a new Asian tiger by 2050. fect your international business? terminal in the medium term.» IFC Colos joined the International What is the secret of your success? Forwarder Logistics Network (IFLN) We don’t have a special secret, but while Transportation in Kazakhstan is heav- in 2010. We analysed many forward- running the company I assign primary ily dominated by the railways. How ing associations and chose IFLN, as it importance to business values that focus important is railfreight for IFC Colos? has many young, dynamic and efficient on quality, professionalism, commit- As IFC Colos specialises in out-of-gauge, members. Relations between members ment, dependability, team spirit, self- oversized, fragile and heavy cargo, we are very good, and all the members have reliance and discipline. www.colos.kz 32 Forwarding & Logistics International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

Geodis Wilson banking on expansion in emerging markets The future lies outside Europe

Geodis Wilson, a logistics subsidiary of the French transport and logistics group Geodis, has developed into an important global service provider. The ITJ’s Robert Altermatt spoke to Kim Pedersen, Geodis Wilson’s Danish executive vice-president, about the state of the company and its future prospects.

What is your assessment of Geodis Wilson’s recent business developments? Basically, we’re satisfied. The enormous growth registered before the global financial and economic downturn in 2008 won’t be attained any more in my opinion, however. As I mentioned above, we now generate our growth primarily outside Europe. In India, China or Indonesia we’re improving in the double- digit percentage range, whilst business is stagnating in Europe. This will continue to be the trend. t at

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: the worldwide economic and financial to downturn of 2008/2009 – or was the Pho Kim Pedersen, Geodis Wilson’s executive vice-president. crisis overcome a long time ago by Geodis Wilson? What is your latest corporate news to and China. Let me give you a concrete No, it isn’t over by a long way yet. We’re present our readers with, Mr Pedersen? example. One of our customers from still feeling certain repercussions of the Well, maybe we can say that the fact that Sweden has been doing business with crisis, particularly in Europe, where we’ve I became Geodis Wilson’s executive vice- Brazil for many years now. Because its partially encountered stagnation or even president on 1 March this year is relevant production facilities have been moved recession, and thus increased fierce com- news, at least in such regard that in this from Sweden to China in the meantime, petition. My opinion of the current eco- relatively short time, I’ve made a new the company’s entire business now takes nomic situation in Europe is that the mark on the firm in the way of doing place between China and Brazil. What, continent isn’t in a temporary trough, business. What this means is that we’re in turn, does this mean for Geodis Wil- but that it has rather slipped into a long- seeking answers to questions concerning son? If we don’t have our own strong lasting recession. the activities that Geodis Wilson needs presence in these emerging markets, then The fashion and lifestyle segment, that to develop, questions about where do we we’ll simultaneously weaken our business is to say the textiles, fashion accessories want to invest in future, and how much? activities in Europe too. Growth is cur- and clothing sector, is one of our most im- The answer in a nutshell is that we rently not being generated in Europe, but portant fields of activity. Developments want to and will gradually see growth rather outside of the old continent. in this segment are weak in Europe, or coming from outside Europe. Naturally even in decline. So it’s clear to us that we Geodis Wilson will not quit Europe com- To what extent does Geodis Wilson can’t continue like this. pletely, for 65% of our activities still take benefit from its parent company, place in this region of the world. I’m very France’s Geodis group? May I rephrase one of the points from sure, however, that the future holds exact- Being part of the large Geodis fam- above here – Europe remains the most ly the opposite equation for us, namely ily brings several advantages with it, the important market for Geodis Wilson, that around 65% of our business activities most important one being that, thanks to doesn’t it? will be carried out outside Europe in the Geodis, we can offer genuine end-to-end In case I didn’t make myself completely coming years. solutions, including warehouse manage- clear before, please let me clarify every- ment options, road distribution, final- thing once more. The network business Which regions of the world or which mile services and international transport that we’re active in is necessarily always countries is Geodis Wilson set to focus solutions for every mode of transport. linked to the points of origin of the goods on mainly? Geodis is a genuine multimodal opera- concerned and to our customers’ desti- We’ll increasingly extend our feelers to tor, and we naturally benefit substantially nations. About 65% of our net sales are emerging economies such as Brazil, India from its comprehensive network. generated in Europe, and our activities International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Forwarding & Logistics 33 to and from Europe and North America, through acquisitions in future. The most Who are Geodis Wilson’s customers? particularly the USA, are also important important trade route today is the trans- Our most important fields of business – but the flows of goods that are growing pacific one between China and the USA, are the fashion and lifestyle segment, as at the strongest rates today are primarily and I have to admit that we’re still a bit well as the industrial sector (heavylift and those to and from Brazil, India or China. small there at the moment. But basically project cargo logistics and the oil and gas And a propos of booming markets and I’m very proud that we cover more than industry). Over and above this the auto- emerging economies – the talk today is of 90% of all of the important global eco- motive industry, particularly tier 1 and the E7 group, the emerging seven. Besides nomic regions. We’re present there where tier 2 suppliers to the automobile manu- the BRIC states (Brazil, Russia, India and our customers need us. facturing segment, and the pharmaceuti- China, as we all know very well by now) cals industry also play an important role. the E7 also includes Turkey, Indonesia What is the overall strategy that your and South Africa. company is set to pursue in future – or- What is it about the forwarding and ganic growth or through acquisitions? logistics industry that fascinates you? Are there any white areas left on the Our strategy is primarily to develop or- Even as a young boy I already dreamed world map ifwe look at Geodis Wilson’s ganically. If a suitable opportunity were of working in Hong Kong or Singapore global geographic presence? to arise, however, then acquisitions are one day, and of finding out for myself Yes, there are some white areas left. We entirely conceivable, at any time. We’ll what keeps the world economy ticking. aren’t the largest player in the market, like definitely grow inBrazil, India and China. I’ve been active in the forwarding and DHL, DB Schenker or Kuehne +Nagel, Those are the growth markets par excel- logistics industry for more than 25 years we’re totally aware of that. But we could lence for us. We have to proceed highly now, and still tackle every day with pas- – or should I even say we have to – con- selectively and carefully. We recently in- sion and curiosity! The industry is truly tinue to expand our presence in North vested a substantial sum in a 36,000sqm international and multicultural, and the America, for example. Even if we already warehouse near São Paulo (Brazil). We’ve big wide world is open for us to get to have around 20 branch offices in the pumped a lot of money into this location know it.I also consider the constant USA, Geodis Wilson isn’t a member of because we’re convinced of the opportu- change that the industry is subject to, on the top league there, mainly in terms of nities in Brazil, as well as in India and account of the ongoing globalisation of size. Perhaps we’ll attempt to attain a China, and that the future lies in these the economy, to be extremely interesting. greater market share in North America three countries. www.geodiswilson.com Supported by: International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Forwarding & Logistics 35

Swiss Post inaugurates new logistics terminal «A crucial pillar of the future»

PostLogistics, which belongs to Swiss Post, recently opened a new logistics centre in the Zurich region of Switzerland. This strengthens the organisation’s market position in eastern Switzerland as well as in southern Germany.

At its new location in Pfungen (canton of Zurich), Swiss Post receives incoming consignments which it delivers overnight or on the same day. With a service called Swiss Express Innight, the goods are delivered to customers before the start of their working day, and on the same day st Po s

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Express Day. Swiss Post also transports : to

small consignments from Pfungen, and Pho offers warehousing logistics facilities cov- The Swiss post office is continuously expanding its network of services. ering more than 5,800 sqm, together with additional services such as returns han- our customers,» says Roland Heizmann, Bern), Fétigny (canton of Fribourg), Din- dling/disposals or cross-docking. An area head of express, freight, and warehous- tikon (canton of Aargau) and Daillens of 5,700 sqm is available for the handling ing at PostLogistics. Every day, 44 deliv- (canton of Vaud). Shuttle operations re- of goods at the new location. ery rounds are made from Pfungen for duce the number of transport kilometres «The new logistics centre in Pfungen Swiss Express Innight, and twelve deliv- travelled, resulting in a corresponding is a key pillar for the future of our trans- ery rounds for Swiss Express, as well as diminution of CO2 emissions. port business, and ideally complements roughly 30 small consignment rounds. As a multifunctional hub the Pfungen our existing transport network. Through For transport, PostLogistics uses mainly logistics centre has a total of 57 loading its establishment eastern Switzerland 3.5t delivery vans, light trailers with lift- and unloading bays. These include four and southern Germany are linked more ing platforms and trucks. docks whose ramps are at a height of strongly to our network. The new loca- 1.2m, which are intended for trucks and tion makes us more flexible in the provi- Sophisticated distribution activities swap bodies. 26 loading dock ramps are sion of services and brings us closer to From Pfungen, the postal services organi- 1m high and suitable for the handling sation delivers to smaller customers lo- of trucks and light trailers. The remain- PostLogistics and its new cated east of Gubrist, and to Innight cus- ing 27 docking bays with 0.4m ramps are centre in Pfungen at a glance tomers east of Baregg. Transport shuttles intended for 3.5 t delivery vans. connect the new Pfungen logistics centre edited by Robert Altermatt • Loading bays 57 with facilities in Niederbipp (canton of www.post.ch/logistik • Handling area 5,700 sqm • Warehousing 5,900 sqm

PostLogistics, a business unit of the Swiss BDP takes majority stake in Polar Logistics company Post CH AG, offers overnight and same-day deliveries and conventional parcel BDP International, a leading global lo- Besides its presence in Sweden, BDP In- services. With its Swiss Express Innight gistics and transportation solutions com- ternational also subsidiaries in the other product, customers receive their goods be- pany from the USA, has taken a major- Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway fore the start of their working day. With the ity equity stake in the Swedish firm Polar and Finland. Polar Logistics, which was option called Swiss Express Day, the goods Logistics. The latter has been a partner in established in 2002, operates facilities are delivered on the same day. PostLogistics BDP’s global network for some time al- in Sweden at Arlanda airport and in the also transports small consignments and ready. The resulting joint venture will be ports of Stockholm and Gothenburg. The offers warehousing logistics. These products headquartered in Stockholm and operate firm’s broad range of services includes supplement the organisation’s core courier, as BDP International Sweden. The entity customs clearance options. ra express and parcels operations, and are aimed primarily at business customers. will retain its current management team, www.bdpinternational.com led by Slava Caisin. www.polarlog.com 36 Forwarding & Logistics International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

The Southeast European courier, express and parcels market New GLS company in Croatia

The pan-European parcels service provider GLS has expanded its own network in southeastern Europe. At the beginning of August the firm’s Croatian national subsidiary GLS Croatia started operations in the newest EU member state.

Just one short month after Croatia joined why it’s important that we’re able to offer the EU on 1 July 2013, GLS is already our international customers in the eastern present in the country with its own pan- and southern EU short delivery times and

national network. The CEP service pro- comprehensive services.» Gergely Farkas, S GL

vider will initially operate from four loca- the managing director of GLS Europe : to

tions, namely in Zagreb, Rijeka, Split and East, manages the new GLS subsidiary. Pho Osijek. These centres have been set up in GLS vans are set to become a familiar sight on the time since GLS Croatia was founded Short delivery times Croatia’s roads in the near future. in late May. The GLS Group had previ- GLS’s Popovec depot (near Zagreb) is the ously served Croatia as part of a coopera- firm’s national distribution centre. Farkas uled daily westbound connections to tion deal with a network partner. said that «GLS will deliver national par- Ljubljana (Slovenia), Ansfelden (Austria) GLS believes that Croatia offers great cels in Croatia with a standard delivery and GLS’s European hub in Neuenstein opportunities, as its economy is likely time of 24 hours right from the start. (Germany) are augmented by links to to benefit from membership of the EU, Numerous additional services, such as the east via GLS’s own hub in Budapest amongst other reasons. Rico Back, the cash on delivery and notifying private re- (Hungary). Daily GLS runs from Croatia CEO of the GLS group, said that it is cipients of imminent deliveries, are natu- to Hungary and Slovenia, for example, usually the case that «demand for just-in- rally also available right from the outset.» will offer standard delivery times of be- time deliveries rises as soon as customs International transports will be routed tween 24 and 48 hours. edited by ra formalities are done away with. That is through Zagreb from September. Sched- www.gls-group.eu

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Austria Post a pharma Europa Worldwide Group In brief

ceuticals wholesaler changes hands 30th anniversary of SBS. The global forwarding and logistics specialist SBS World- Österreichische Post, the Austrian post The Europa Worldwide Group, one of wide, which is headquartered in Dartford office, is entering the pharmaceutical the UK’s largest privately-owned trans- in Kent, celebrated its 30th anniversary products wholesaler fray. The corpora- port and freight forwarding enterprises, this year. Company founder and chairman tion is one of the main investors (40%) has been acquired by Andrew Baxter. Steve Walker launched the business under in AEP, a new pharmaceutical wholesaler Baxter was previously the joint owner of the name of S Black Shipping in 1983. SBS for German chemists which is due to start the Nottingham-based family-owned firm Worldwide has more than 250 members of operations in Q4. AEP customers will be RHFreight, another large independent UK staff today. www.sbsworldwide.com served from a central storage facility in transport company and forwarder that was Alzenau (Germany). AEP was launched sold to the logistics giant Kuehne+Nagel Ceva figures down. The supply chain by two former Celesio managers, Markus in March 2011. Baxter, who will assume management and logistics service provider Eckermann and Jens Graefe. The former the position of managing director, has ac- Ceva reported a decline in sales in the Austrian minister for trade and industry, quired a 90% stake in Europa Worldwide second quarter of 2013. Its turnover sank Martin Bartenstein, is also a co-owner. from the three former owners – Russell to USD2.148billion, 6.2% less than the The Austrian post office is already pre- Keep, Andrew Kennedy and Grenville USD2.291billion noted in Q2/2012. Ceva’s sent in the pharmaceutical products mar- Turner. Keep will maintain a 10% interest earnings before interest, tax, deprecia- ket through its logistics subsidiary Trans- in the company and become the group’s tion and amortisation (ebitda) fell from o-flex. Trans-o-flex’s 1,320 employees gen- finance director. USD82million in Q2/2012 to USD80million erated sales amounting to EUR527million Europa Worldwide, which is head- this year. www.cevalogistics.com in 2012. Trans-o-flex, which delivers con- quartered in Erith in Kent, employs 500 signments to more than 12,000 chemists people at nine branches in the UK. The GeoPost investing. GeoPost, the courier, express and parcels subsidiary of the French every day, has a market share of around firm also has an office in Hong Kong. state-owned postal service provider La 70% in the market for direct deliveries In 2012 Europa Worldwide reported a Poste, has acquired a 63.75% majority stake from pharmaceuticals manufacturers to turnover of GBP 73 million and carried in the Hong Kong-based logistics provider chemists in Germany. ra approximately 500,000 consignments. ra Tigers Ltd. www.geopostgroup.com www.post.at; www.trans-o-flex.com www.europa-worldwide.com

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In brief Agility is doing well Online business gives

DSV stable. DSV, a Danish transport and DP DHL strength logistics company based in Brøndby near Copenhagen, improved its turnover slightly Steady growth in the e-commerce seg- in the first half of the 2013 business year, ment in Germany and rising income from namely by 0.9% to DKK22.39 billion (about express activities contributed strongly to ty

EUR3 billion). The company’s operating ili Deutsche Post DHL’s good quarterly and Ag profit (ebit) dropped by 4%, however, : six-month results. The group’s consoli- to dated net profits climbed from EUR196 from DKK1.242 billion (EUR166 million) to Pho DKK1.189 billion (EUR159 million). Agility is on course for success. million in Q2/2012 to EUR422 million www.dsv.com in Q2/2013, due in part to one-off effects. The global transport and logistics corpo- Its consolidated ebit jumped by 14% vis- Kerry expanding in Mexico. The Hong ration Agility, which is based in Kuwait, à-vis the previous period, from EUR543 Kong-based firm Kerry Logistics has bought reported excellent results for H1/2013. to 619 million. Revenues produced by the a majority stake in the Cargo Master’s The company boosted its net profit by group totalled EUR13.6 billion between Group (CMG), a Mexican logistician and just under 50% vis-à-vis the same period April and June, a slight 0.6% dip com- forwarder. www.kerrylogistics.com last year, reporting a figure of KWD21.6 pared with the EUR13.7 billion recorded www.cargomastersgroup.com million (EUR56.8 million). The corpora- in the same period last year. tion’s earnings before interest, tax, depre- The group’s operating profit (ebit) in La Poste profits down. La Poste, France’s ciation and amortisation (ebitda) grew by H1/2013 rose by 7.8%, compared with state-owned post office, improved its sales 31%, to KWD45.3 million (EUR119 mil- H1/2012, climbing to EUR1.3 billion. by 0.6% in the first half of 2013 vis-à-vis the lion). The group’s turnover grew by 5.5% H1’s consolidated net profit climbed by same period last year, to EUR10.95 billion. to KWD708 million (EUR1.86 billion). 27%, to EUR920 million in the year so Its operating and net profits declined by Agility’s chairman and managing director far. In the first half of the year consoli- 23.6% and 9.3% respectively, to EUR483 Tarek Sultan believes that his company is dated revenues remained at the previous million and EUR396 million respectively. «on a very healthy growth path.» year’s level of EUR27.1 billion. ra www.laposte.com www.agilitylogistics.com www.dp-dhl.de

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of the Contship Italia group (just as Han- nibal and Sogemar are), offer scheduled direct connections to and from terminals in the Italian seaports of Genoa (Voltri Mare and Sech), La Spezia (LSCT) and Ravenna on a daily basis – and partially even more frequently than that.

Transfer from north to south Hannibal

: The Frenkendorf–Melzo shuttle fulfils to a long-sought-after requirement of the Pho Italy’s maritime ports can be reached very easily from the terminal in Melzo. Swiss economy and of Swiss freight forwarders, to link Italian terminals by a New unaccompanied Basel–Milan train seamless rail link to Switzerland. This is important to enable the country to rely A new Frenkendorf–Melzo shuttle start- Swiss rail transport provider BLS, and less heavily on carrying out its maritime ed operations recently. It is a joint ven- will run between the container terminals traffic via the northern ports of Rotter- ture between the Basel-based neutral in- in Frenkendorf (near Basel, Switzerland) dam, Hamburg and Antwerp and simul- termodal operator IMS Rail Switzerland and Melzo (east of Milan, Italy). taneously enables forwarders to benefit and the Italian logistics service provider The transhipment options offered from the much shorter overseas routes Hannibal (part of the Contship Italia there and the new shuttle train’s schedule from the Far East to the Mediterranean group). The twice-weekly unaccompa- will take advantage of networks run by Sea as compared to the North Sea. ah nied combined transport service will Sogemar. From Melzo locomotives oper- www.contshipitalia.com be operated with rolling stock from the ated by Oceanogate Italia, which is part www.imscargo.com

New intermodal terminal for Contargo

The German firm Contargo, a neutral between Duisburg and Koblenz (both The sale of the facility is part of APMT’s service provider for container logistics Germany). The firm can now offer both new hinterland strategy for northwestern in the European hinterland that is based train and barge connections to and from Europe. Instead of investing in property in Duisburg, has signed a contract to the seaports of Rotterdam and Antwerp and buildings, APMT will concentrate purchase the Neuss intermodal terminal from Neuss. on partnerships to improve its hinter- (NIT) from APM Terminals (APMT). The Neuss terminal will be steadily land links. NIT was founded in 2010 by By acquiring the terminal in Neuss expanded by Contargo in coming years, APMT. It carries out around 100,000 con- (Germany), Contargo has augmented its in order to cater adequately to growth in tainer movements annually. av network in one of the busiest locations the Düsseldorf and Neuss region. www.contargo.net

No détente in sight on Germany’s inland waterways

The conflict between employees of Ger- On 22 August inland waterway enterpris- industry had already lost millions as a many’s Wasser und Schifffahrtsverwal- es reacted by applying for an injunction, result of the strikes. Small family-run in- tung (the national waterway and ship- claiming that the action taken by lock land waterway enterprises, already strug- ping authority WSV) and the ministries keepers was illegal. The strike situation gling as a result of May and June’s floods, in charge of the body, which has been on was discussed in a one-on-one meeting had been particularly hard hit, the asso- the back burner since mid-July, escalated between Georg Hötte, the president of ciation added. in August. the country’s inland waterway transpor- The strike arose due to union demands The trade union Verdi has again called tation association (Bundesverband der for talks on a collective agreement, which for a strike. Many locks have been affect- Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt BDB), and they hoped would lessen the negative ed, including some in the Kiel Canal, one Frank Bsirske, the chairman of Verdi’s impact of the reforming the WSV. Verdi of the most highly-frequented inland wa- board, but they agreed not to divulge the fears that after the elections in Septem- terways in the world. At the time this is- contents of their talks. Verdi had previ- ber, as many as 3,000 (out of 12,000) jobs sue of the ITJ went to press workers were ously stated that the strikes may contin- may be lost nationally, despite assurances regularly downing tools and the strikes ue until the national elections, due on to the contrary made by the country’s in the waterway authorities of the states 22September. transport minister Peter Ramsauer. av of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg- The inland waterway transportation www.wsv.de Vorpommern had been extended. association BDB said that the shipping www.binnenschiff.de TURKEY & GREECE

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Turkish boom and Greek bust both loose momentum Joy and sorrow on the Bosphorus

So far the boom that Turkey experienced in 2012 has not continued into 2013, as demand in the Middle East declined by almost 10%, strongly affecting Turkey. Exports to European markets on the other hand picked up strongly. The recession in Greece, on the other hand, has seemed to bottom out, and the country is benefiting from the growing support of its shipping companies.

Last year the sky seemed to be the limit had previously stood at 10%, but in 2012, good news, and a EUR 1.9 billion (or 1% for growth in the logistic sector in Turkey, growth only came in at 2.1%, accord- of GDP) reduction in the national budget with exports – especially to Arab coun- ing to the Turkish statistical office. The deficit was simultaneously achieved. tries – booming, impressive infrastruc- transport and communications sectors In the past year the Greek economy al- ture plans – such as the Marmaray rail were not unaffected, with the tempestu- so proved to be better than its reputation tunnel under the Bosphorus – nearing ous growth of 10.5% in 2011 shrinking to in the export sector. With 8.8% annual completion and American investment 3.2% in the following year. growth, results proved very respectable, and consulting firms – such as Colliers In the first half of 2013 heavy vehi- and a degree of market differentiation and Jones Lang Lasalle – celebrating the cles, machinery and plant equipment re- was achieved. This was evidenced by the country as an up-and-coming logistics mained the engines of growth for Turkish fact that the decline in exports to EU market in Europe. exports, whilst demand for iron and steel countries was more than compensated During the same period the future sank. The export of jewellery to Arabic for by improved sales to the USA, Russia, of Greece was considered bleak, and countries declined by 37%. Deliveries to Turkey and the Middle East. the privileged position of the Greek the EU, on the other hand, rose by almost merchant navy was strongly criticised 4%, to account for approximately 41% of Privatisation still on the agenda by international partners. Now prime all Turkish exports. Greece is also counting on liberalisation minister Antonis Samaras has been able Turkish logistics companies, such as of its transport sector. The newly-issued to come to an understanding with the Ekol Logistics, traditionally focused on road freight concessions came into opera- Union of Greek Shipowners, which rep- the European market, continue to regis- tion on 30 June, the first round of the resents 441 shipping companies. They ter high turnover figures in their busi- tender for the sale of the Greek railway have voluntarily agreed to increase the ness with Germany, for example. The company Trainose is running till 16 Sep- dues they pay to the government (see takeover of Mars Logistics, an Istanbul- tember, and the process of privatising two page 48). based transporter with a fleet of around of the country’s large port operators, in 1,000 vehicles, by the Japanese multi- Thessaloniki (THPA) and Piraeus (PPA), Projections and growth areas national Hitachi in July proves that the is about to begin. One of the companies Euphoria in Turkey has slowly given Turkish logistics sector continues to be interested in an acquisition is the Chinese way to a more realistic assessment of the interesting. shipping company Cosco, which already national economy. At the end of June Greece has grown strongly to the end operates a container terminal in Piraeus. the government in Ankara presented its of the first half of 2013. Observers con- Christian Doepgen growth projection of 5.5% per annum to sidered the contraction of GDP by just www.tuik.gov.tr 2018. Annual growth projections to 2013 4.6% vis-à-vis the previous year to be www.statistics.gr

International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Turkey and Greece Special 43

General cargo and overland transport options to and from Turkey being expanded Sertrans, Hellmann, Bosman, DTC

There is a spate of new activities in the Turkish logistics market. Hellmann has joined the general cargo network System Alliance Europe in Turkey, and the Dutch forwarding and logistics group Wim Bosman has started a new partnership with the Turkish service provider Sertrans. And last but not least, the German firm Deutsche Transport-Compagnie launched its new Turkey options early in September.

The Turkish subsidiary of Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has become the fifth Hellmann company to join the general cargo network System Alliance Europe. It can thus now offer additional direct transport options to and from Istanbul and new links to and from Izmir. The alliance said that the move has brought its membership to 54 partners in 27 countries, and that it now offers a total of 188 branches. pe

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Alliance partner, the German enterprise e Eu anc li

Deutsche Transport-Compagnie (DTC), Al is opening a Turkey gateway at its Nurem- em st

berg headquarters in September. The hub : Sy to

will offer daily transportation of consign- Pho ments to partner Hellmann Worldwide The general cargo network System Alliance Europe has expanded its options to and from Turkey. Logistics’ branch in Istanbul. including intermodal transport solutions tation tasks to be executed intermodally, Sertrans partner in Turkey – between the Netherlands and Turkey. then the transit time is two days longer. And last but not least, the entity Wim Wim Bosman said that the frequency The family-owned enterprise Sertrans, Bosman Expeditie, the Dutch national of departures from the Netherlands to which is headquartered in Istanbul, is a branch of the Wim Bosman group, which Turkey will be expanded thanks to the member of the generalcargo and groupage in turn is a part of the Mainfreight logis- collaboration deal with the new partner. network System Alliance Europe – just as tics corporation from New Zealand, has Specifically the firms will provide daily Wim Bosman is. Sertrans has a total of started a new collaboration deal with the LTL and FTL services to the Bosphorus, eight branch offices in Turkey. Turkish transport and logistics enterprise and over and above this there will be two Robert Altermatt Sertrans in the overland segment. The weekly groupage services available too. www.systemallianceeurope.net partnership between Wim Bosman and Road haulage to the customs authority www.hellmann.net; www.dtc.de Sertrans will focus on international op- offices will generally be completed in five www.wimbosman.com tions – primarily road haulage, but also days. If customers wish for the transpor- www.sertrans.com.tr

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In conversation with Turkish Cargo’s Mehmet Kizilkaya A world record holder going places

The freight carrier Turkish Cargo has been set on a solid growth path for ten years now. Mehmet Kizilkaya has been on board since 2003. He is Turkish Cargo’s regional director for Central and Southern Europe, one of the airline’s two European regions. The ITJ spoke to Mehmet Kizilkaya in Munich recently.

Mr Kizilkaya, you’ve been working for Turkish Airlines for a decade now. What has changed in the company’s corporate culture in this long time? A lot. I vaguely recall our 2004 summer flight schedule. We operated around 60 aircraft at the time, which carried out 2,000 flights a week, serving approximately 70 international destinations.

Turkish Airlines transported 10 million ein ch passengers that year. There wasn’t much ns Bor talk of the freight division at that time. c Mar

We handled an annual volume of less : than 100,000t back then. to Pho Today we operate 8,000 flights a week Mehmet Kizilkaya (on the left) talking to the ITJ’s Christian Doepgen and Andreas Haug. to 237 destinations in 103 countries, deploying 213 units. Moreover, we’ve By the time the founding of the modern tunity for trade – and not only Turkish targeted a volume of 539,000 t of cargo state of Turkey celebrates its centenary trade – that perfectly illustrates our role for this year. In another ten years we’ll in 2023, this figure has been projected as a global airline. We’ve made a name have 400 aircraft in our fleet – a world by some to rise as high as USD500 bil- for ourselves by serving niche destina- record. Whilst we’ve quadrupled our vi- lion. Of course you know that one third tions such as Tblisi (Georgia), Ashgabat tal statistics, our staffing levels have risen (by value) of all imports and exports are (Turkmenistan), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) as by a mere 40%. So as you can see, we’ve transported by air. well as other Central Asian cities. simultaneously also become much more It is this dynamic that has prompted productive. Turkey to plan a new airport, with state- «The axes of world trade of-the-art infrastructure, in Istanbul, our are continually shifting.» «We serve 103 countries – most important economic metropolis. more than any other Tell us more! Turkish Cargo’s marketing presence airline in the world.» The new airport will be located north reminds me a little of that of your com- of Istanbul and will have a total of six petitors from the Persian Gulf... Turkish Airlines became a member runways. It will have the very best inter- Every company has its own targets. We of the century club in May, with the modal links, including new road and rail observe what our competitors are up to, launch of a service to Malta, the 100th connections, maritime ports on the Black and respect their approach. The axes of country the airline serves. Have you Sea as well as the Bosphorus, and a new world trade are continually shifting. It’s set yourselves a limit to growth? inland waterways canal for the transpor- our task to make sure that the strong No, the sky’s the limit! Basically we want tation of hazardous goods. The project Euro–Asian trade route continues to run to reach as many destinations as we pos- will benefit from Istanbul’s excellent through our region for as long as possible. sibly can. There are several factors driving geographical position – at the crossroads To this end we’re continuing to invest our development. Turkey is a large coun- between Europe, Africa and Asia. massively in our hub at Istanbul Atatürk, try with a growing home market. The na- where we’ll establish 10,000sqm of ware- tion’s gross domestic product tripled be- What are relations with Turkey’s im- housing space this year, and another tween 2002 and 2012, and the purchasing mediate neighbours like these days? 50,000sqm next year. This may appear power of the man in the street has risen We’ve just established a new freighter to be a waste of money in the light of the accordingly. Then there is the fact that connection to Erbil, in northern Iraq. new airport, but it is essential to tide us Turkey is both a strong importer as well as It’s working very well. The same can be over until the latter is ready. an important producer. Companies from said of our Central African destinations Turkey have carved themselves many a of Entebbe and Kigali. In what other fields are you investing? niche market, creating export volumes It’s this approach, above all, namely worth approximately USD 150 billion. that we open up new windows of oppor- continued on page 47 S.I.T.T.A.M. Spedizioni Internazionali Trasporti Terrestri Aerei Marittimi S.r.l. OUR RACE FOR QUALITY HAS NO FINISH LINE

S.I.T.T.A.M. S.r.l. via Monzoro, 100 – 20010 Cornaredo – ITALY Tel. +39.02.93.480.1 – Fax +39.02.93.56.30.84 E-mail [email protected] – www.sittam.it International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Turkey and Greece Special 47 continued from page 45 Loxx set to cooperate with The quality of our services has to be top notch so that we Militzer&Münch in Turkey can provide specialist logistics markets – such as those in the pharmaceuticals or the express delivery industries, The German logistics provider Loxx announced recently that it had start- for example – with suitable offerings. That’s why we’ve ed a collaboration deal with Militzer&Münch in Turkey on 1 June. The invested both in our own warehouses as well as in the agreement between Militzer&Münch Uluslararasi Nakliyat ve Lojistik expansion of our network and fleet. The capacity of our Hizmetler, to give the national branch its full name, and Loxx initially full-freighter fleet has doubled in four years. It now en- offered export and import options to and from stations in Bursa and compasses three Airbus A310s and six A330s. Overall, Istanbul, in the Marmara region. The partners offer three general cargo our fleet is one of the newest in Europe. runs a week from each destination. Istanbul is simultaneously Loxx’s hub That’s the hardware we need for success, and we’re for the Middle East, the Caucasus and Turkmenistan. Departures were simultaneously modernising our IT software. We also increased early in August, and in the medium term the collaboration will promote staff training, and networking between the six be extended to the stations in Izmir, Mersin and Ankara. ra regions into which our global activities have been di- www.loxx.de; www.mumnet.com vided, with their headquarters in New York, Frankfurt, Vienna, Dubai, Nairobi and Hong Kong. Greek post office paring down network We can see that you’re thinking big! But to come back to the new Istanbul airport and the dimensions Post Elta, the state-owned Greek postal service provider, recently an- of that project – bearing the problems at the huge nounced plans to restructure its network of post offices. It is set to hand building site in Berlin or at the hub in Doha in mind, over 80 of the 730 branches Elta runs nationwide to private franchisees. wouldn’t you say that it’s a bit optimistic to talk about The reduction in the number of post offices is due to commence in inaugurating your new hub «in four or five years»? autumn this year and be completed by early 2014. Elta CEO Kostis No, I don’t think so. You see, in Istanbul we rather tend Melachroinos said that the corporation would be able to save around to finish such projects faster. The construction of Sabiha EUR 2.5 million annually thanks to the move. The private franchisees Gökçen airport, Istanbul’s second hub, located on the will be expected to provide the same services as Elta in the branches Asian side of the Bosphorus, was originally supposed to they take over, according to Melachroinos. www.elta.gr take four years, but it was completed in 2001 after just two years. When the plans are realistic, the funds are available and a degree of experience is available, then such an undertaking is entirely feasible.

«Turkish Airlines is ready to deliver the services to help businesses grow. There are many profitable niches in the new markets for us.»

Allow me to comment on the situation in Berlin –I www.zenit-spedition.at worked there for three years, after all. The plans for the hub lay dormant for many years, and were partially out of date.I also have the feeling that Berlin is different. If the project had been planned for Frankfurt, then it would have been completed a long time ago – for the latter has a different significance for German aviation. But I want to underline that I haven’t lost my «Vertrauen» (Kizilkaya uses the German word for faith – ed.) in Ger- many’s engineering skills!

What is your assessment of the current economic and financial situation in Europe? Ask me an easier one! The fact remains that, while the growth rate of world aviation has been in decline, aviation in Turkey has risen amazingly. At a time of global recession, Turkey has been one of the fastest-growing economies for the last years. Today, with emerging econ- There‘s no ‚No Can Do‘ with ZENIT ... we are the SpecialEast! omies looking to expand their offerings, Turkish Airlines is ready to deliver the services and support needed to Regular groupage services: Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Turkey,Moldova, Romania help businesses grow. There is a great potential for air ZENIT -neutral handling guaranteed. cargo and many profitable niches in the new markets for A-5101 Bergheim .Tel. +43/662/45 40 41 .ofﬁ[email protected] D-Furth im Wald .Tel. +49/99 73/80 48-0 .ofﬁ[email protected] us. www.turkishcargo.com.tr 48 Turkey and Greece Special International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

Paying in instead of avoiding tax Greek shipowners have decided to support the national economy with more than Greek shipowners dig is legally expected of deep for the state them. Photo: Thinkstock

The Greek economy remains in the doldrums. Now Hellenic shipping Butnowshipownershave firms have proposed voluntary payments to the state coffers, in order decided to provide the state with more funds, to make a contribution to the improvement of the country’s overall with the Union of Greek financial situation. Shipowners announcing plans to give greater sup- The citizens of Greece have repeatedly subjected their country’s ship- port to the economy. For ping companies to heavy criticism in the recent past. Even though the next three years, 441 the Greek merchant shipping industry already enjoys many special tax shipping industry firms are set breaks in Greece – as is the case in several other European countries to make voluntary payments to state too – shipping firms often register their vessels under foreign flags. coffers that exceed the legally prescribed levels This allows shipowners to make additional tax savings. This has caused by up to 50%. Between them, these 441 entities increasing resentment against shipping companies from large parts of manage a fleet of 2,769 vessels, which represents the population, which is suffering from the country’s sixth straight year more than half of the Greek-controlled fleet larger of recession. The government has made many drastic spending cuts as than 10,000 dwt. The government believes that it will a result. It was with this background in mind that the Greek govern- net EUR75 million this year and EUR140 million in ment amended a law in May, forcing those ships that do not sail under each of the next two years through the measure. the Greek flag to come pay higher levies (see ITJ 23-26/2013, page 17). Greek shipowners control approximately 15% of the worldwide merchant navy fleet, thus accounting for more than any other nationality in the market. They are frequently long on cash too. In the first six months of this year, Greek shipping lines have already invested more than EUR 4 billion in orders for newbuildings. Since the German KG financing model ran into diffi- Wherever you want... culties, they have not only been buying the proven bulk carriers, but containerships too. av

Work starts on Petkim’s new Turkish container terminal

Construction work on the Petkim Petrochemical Hold- ing’s new container port in Nemrut Bay near Izmir (Tur- key) started early this month. The first phase is due to be completed by 2015, with the second scheduled for completion a year later. Petkim, a chemical products manufacturer, is a joint venture between Azerbaijan’s state- Joint Venture in der owned energy corporation Socar and APM Terminals Türkei garantiert Know-how vor Ort! (APMT), a subsidiary of Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk group. The partners will initially invest approximately Profitieren Sie mit,von unseren wöchentlichen Komplett- Teil- und EUR300 million in the new port, which will then have Sammelladungsverkehren nach Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir und Bursa. an annual capacity of 1.5 million teu. This figure will Kompetenz die sich für Sie bezahlt macht. successively be expanded to 4 million teu. APMT will operate the port for up to 28 years. Transfreight AG,Leimgrubenweg 6, CH-4023 Basel Izmir is Turkey’s second-largest industrial city, and its Telefon: +41 (0)61 337 22 22 population of around 4 million people is growing fast. Telefax: +41 (0)61 337 22 00 Mail: [email protected] The Aegean Sea with its almost 10 million inhabitants is also part of the port’s large catchment area. av www.transfreight.ch www.petkim.com.tr International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Turkey and Greece Special 49

Hitachi takes majority stake in Mars Lojistik In brief The Japanese industrial production giant Defacto banks on TGW. The Turkish fash- Hitachi, which has been in business for ion retailer Defacto has asked the Austrian 103 years, has gained a foothold in the intralogistics service provider TGW to install Turkish logistics market. Hitachi Trans- the necessary intralogistics equipment and port System, the transport and logistics facilities in its new 55,000 sqm distribution division of the corporation, recently ac- s centre in Çerkezköy, Tekirdag (100 km west Mar quired 51% of the shares in Mars Lojistik, : of Istanbul). TGW will establish a twelve- a leading Turkish transport service pro- to Pho lane automated warehouse for Defacto vider. The transaction is scheduled for Mars Lojistik operates a fleet of approximately there, with nigh-on 200,000 slots. completion in October. Yauso Nakatani, 1,000 owned lorries. www.tgw-group.com Hitachi Transport System’s chairman of the board and CEO, said that the pur- firm also has stations at key international New air route. The Greek transport minis- chase would enable his company to sub- and national airports, including Istanbul try announced in March that the country is stantially improve its position in logistics Atatürk, Izmir Adnan Menderes and set to create a network of seadromes. It will markets in Asia, Africa and Europe (in- Ankara Esenboga. The service provider have a hub near Athens and twelve regional cluding Russia). also has centres in Luxembourg, Italy and stations. The charter provider K2 Smart Jets, Mars Lojistik generated sales worth China. Mars Lojistik has a fleet of 1,000 which has teamed up with the company EUR 224 million in the 2012 financial modern trucks. Water Airports, has said that it wants to year. This year the company plans to The industrial giant Hitachi generates offer an integrated route network from 2014 achieve a sales figure of approximately annual sales of approximately USD108 onwards, whilst Hellenic Seaplanes, which EUR 275 million. Mars Lojistik is pre- billion, which the magazine Fortune says already transports freight consignments sent in every important centre of trade puts it in 38th place amongst all com- weighing up to 30 kg, is assessing no less than 100 potential destinations. ah and industry in its home country. Its cor- panies worldwide. Hitachi has around www.hellenic-seaplanes.com porate headquarters in Istanbul manages 326,000 employees. www.waterairports.com branch offices in Bursa, Izmir, Adana, Robert Altermatt www.k2smartjets.com Ankara, Mersin, Tuzla and Ambarli. The www.marslogistics.com

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Conflict over cross-border long-distance traffic resolved for the time being Turks appease Bulgarians

Bulgaria belonged to the Ottoman Empire for almost five hundred years. Despite – or perhaps because of – this long common history, communication between the Balkan country and its neighbour to the southeast seems difficult. Current disputes about the bilateral cross-border transport industry confirm the impression. r

In mid-August representatives of the Bul- ie St garian association of international trans- k an Fr port companies (Aebtri) and the Bulgar- : ian association of automobile transport to Pho companies (Basat) issued a warning that Mutual dependence. Turkish road hauliers’ transport routes to Europe lead through Sofia, whilst Turkey was planning to introduce new Bulgarian trucks heading for the Middle East have to pass through Istanbul. transit fees for foreign-registered trucks. The Turkish government’s 7 Au- that have not concluded a bilateral agree- The Turks claimed that they were sim- gust communiqué revealed, the Bulgars ment with Turkey covering the transport ply implementing valid international claimed, that new charges were going to industry. Bulgaria and Turkey have had cross-border freight transportation rules. be many times higher than existing ones. such an agreement in place since 1977. They claimed that slow Bulgarian repair Transporting a truckload across the bor- «We have an official guarantee from the works were responsible for border delays der to Istanbul and back would cost Bul- Turkish transport ministry that Bulgar- at Kapitan Andreevo. Frank Stier garian truckers EUR200–300 more, the ian trucks crossing the border into Turkey www.aebtri.com associations feared. only have to pay EUR43, same as they’ve www.basat.eu Aebtri and Basat officials were con- paid so far,» Papasov said, calming frayed cerned that the introduction of new tempers. tariffs by their Turkish colleagues repre- So the danger of border blockades Comment sented the silent promotion of Turkish seems to have receded for the moment, protectionism. They thought the Turks but the representatives of the Bulgar- No room for polemics intended to sweep Bulgarian transport ian transport sector do not consider the companies from the market, not only for matter resolved. «We didn’t only raise It is difficult to determine who was loads between Europe and Turkey, but the issue of the new transport fees, but responsible for the failure of communica- also for business to and from the Middle also drew attention to the matter of the tion between the Bulgarian and Turkish Eastern market. proposed penalties for incorrect shipping transport industries. Bulgaria would be «This affects a huge number of Bul- documents. In future Turkish border well advised not to exacerbate the conflict garian companies and puts hundreds of guards will be allowed to demand up to with polemics but to seek a constructive thousands of jobs at risk in the sector,» EUR3,000 from Bulgarian truck drivers, solution. The 8 million inhabitants of a Aebtri’s Koitscho Russev warned. He even if they aren’t responsible for a de- rather small Balkan country could greatly called on the Bulgarian government to fective document,» Basat’s Petko Angelov benefit from the economic dynamism of its «take reciprocal measures,» otherwise he said. neighbouring «tiger on the Bosphorus». threatened that Bulgarian truck drivers Bulgarian consumers are presently not would again block border posts to and spending, and as a consequence the Bul- from Turkey – as they had already done Not the first dispute garian economy is stagnating. Bulgarian- in May. In mid-May Bulgarian truck drivers had Turkish trade is developing positively, on blocked the border crossings at Kapitan the other hand. Statistics for the first half Andreevo and Lesovo for several days. of 2013 indicate that there was significant Tempers flare in a hot summer The action caused up to 10 km lorry growth compared to the same period last «The new transit fees do not apply to queues. The protests, then as now, were year. Bulgaria’s exports to Turkey grew Bulgarian hauliers,» Bulgaria’s transport directed against what in the Bulgarians’ by 21% to EUR2billion, and imports by minister Danail Papasov finally clarified view is discriminatory treatment and almost 27% to EUR1.4billion. on 21 August. The new tariffs, he said, harassment of hauliers by Turkish border only affect vehicle owners from countries officials. International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Central Europe 51

Same tenor in Germany, Austria and Switzerland «The railways must t er if

win back lost volumes» Se lf Wi : to The closure of many rail loading stations has led to a shift of traffic from rail to road, Pho not only in Switzerland but also in Austria. In both cases these rationalisation measures Three Central European colleagues – host Dr Frank Furrer, secretary general of VAP were a consequence of economic pressure rather than a response to environmental Switzerland, Jürgen Tuscher, of VPI Germany considerations. The loser of these changes is wagonload traffic. (on the left), Frank Petutschnig, of VPI Austria.

The number of Austrian rail loading stations has been for the transfer of freight to rail is not so marked in Germany as it is in reduced from 540 to 461 since 2010. At the same time, a its neighbouring countries to the south. «Our politicians seem to be more special service freight surcharge has been introduced at interested in the subject of overlong HGVs,» he remarked wryly. 76 stations. In many cases both measures became effec- Tuscher illustrated the profitability dilemma facing European state tive within six weeks after their announcement, causing railways with four core statements. uncertainty among shippers with regard to the future of • In recent years, no major rail freight undertaking has made sufficient the terminals that remained. profits to allow for reinvestment. The handling of timber was more than proportionally •A number of principal competitors are faced with large deficits and affected by this retrograde ecological step. «This is not serious structural challenges. the end of the story either,» Frank Petutschnig, secretary- • Irrational margin expectations (keyword break-even point) encourages general of Austria’s private wagon association VPI proph- distortions of competition. esied in mid-May at a Swiss transport industry association • It is difficult, in the face of intermodal competition, to pass pan-Euro- VAP's Freight Wagon Forum in Zurich. A further round pean cost increases on to customers. Wilf Seifert of reductions to 420 stations was announced at the end of last year, and this, it is calculated by Rail Cargo Austria, will result in nearly 35,000 more truck journeys per year. However, there is some good news. Petutschnig has sub- mitted a set of strategic measures to strengthen railfreight traffic to the Austrian government. Three examples. •A support programme for the provision of rail freight Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Aktiengesellschaft services in the single-wagon traffic, unaccompanied combined transport and rolling motorway (ro-mo) segments. • «New» support for private sidings and terminals up to the year 2017. • Strategic objectives in the form of a master transport plan, incorporating current measures. The aim is for 40% of Austrian goods traffic to be carried by rail by 2025 (in 2010 it was 33%).

Single-wagon traffic in decline all over Europe «The shift of freight traffic from road to rail must be backed by political will and must be defined by concrete objectives, not wishes,» Petutschnig placed on record. For the assurance of a high-quality, sustainable offering he argued for a reduction in production costs over the last mile, more intensive customer care and cooperation with other rail transport enterprises and forwarders, etc. The talk by Petutschnig’s German opposite number

F I A Jürgen Tuscher, chief executive of his country’s private TA wagon association VPI, was also devoted to the main topic of single-wagon traffic. Between 2011 and 2012, transport www.navis-ag.com volumes in Germany fell by 2.4% to 366million t in terms Hamburg · Bremen · Hannover · Freiberg of goods carried, and by 2.7% to 110 billion in terms of Rotterdam · Antwerpen · Barcelona tonne-kilometres. In Tuscher’s view, the political support 52 Nordic Countries and Baltic States / Western Europe International Transport Journal 35-36 2013

Plans for a metal processing terminal in Szczecin Turning scrap metal into steel

The activities of Cronimet, a recycled metals processor, in the port of Szczecin started in in ec 2011. Now the company, which opened another facility in 2012, has announced that it is cz of Sz rt set to start with the construction of a metal processing terminal. Po : to Pho The ground-breaking ceremony for the from its own production centres as well A new scrap metal handling terminal is being construction of a new terminal took place as from large Polish plants that deal in established in the port of Szczecin. recently in Szczecin. The company Cron- high-quality steel scrap. The secondary imet, a subsidiary of the global Cronimet raw material is already transported to will enable the goods to be handled more Holding, has said that it will invest a total Szczecin by trains and truck today, from rapidly and customers to thus get even of EUR 4.7 million in setting up the cen- where it is forwarded to other European better delivery services. tre, in cooperation with the ports of Szc- ports by ship. It is delivered to steel plants The company’s headquarters in Po- zecin and Swinoujscie. The terminal will in Finland, the Netherlands or Spain, de- land are in Inowroclaw. The parent com- facilitate the processing and handling of pending on the consignment concerned. pany itself is active worldwide, including alloy scrap, non-ferrous metals and tool The capacity of the new facility is expect- in Brazil and Russia. steels in the ports. Cronimet had estab- ed to amount to 250,000 to 350,000t of The environment for the new build- lished activities there in the second half scrap metal annually. ing was fashioned in accordance with the of 2012. The investment company Eko- «This new plant will enable us to fur- needs of the design. In February 2012 inwest is also involved in the terminal. ther expand our activities in the trade and Cronimet was granted a 30-year lease The authorities of the maritime ports recycling fields in Poland and thus allow agreement for a plot near the industry of Szczecin and Swinoujscie have signed us to invest in regional markets,» Michael canal in the port of Szczecin. cd the corresponding contracts. Cronimet Vogel, chairman of Cronimet Poland, www.port.szczecin.pl will get the raw materials required both declared. The position of the new centre www.cronimet.de

In brief Stef’s hands on Ebrex DB Schenker optimising Woodland’s 25th anniversary. The Essex- based Woodland Group, one of the UK’s capacities in Belgium leading independent freight forwarding and logistics companies, recently celebrated its DB Schenker Logistics recently began 25th anniversary. Woodland was founded operations in a new logistics centre with by Kevin Stevens in Basildon in 1988, and more than 5,000 sqm of handling ar,eas has now grown into a company that turns 70 loading bays and 2,900 sqm of offices. over more than GBP 120 million a year and The centre is in Zwevegem (Belgium).The employs 600 people. EUR 13 million building offers excellent ef

www.woodland-group.com St : infrastructure for domestic and interna- to tional overland transport services. The Pho Stef is expanding its French network. Tatex takeover now completed. The terminal took a year to build on a 36,000 integration into FedEx of the French express sqm tract of land and is equipped with service provider Tatex (formerly called Tat The French cool chain transportation eco-friendly technology, including solar Express), which was taken over by the US in- and logistics group Stef is planning to panels, sensor-monitored lighting and a tegrator and CEP corporation last year, was take over the company Ebrex France, an- grey-water recycling system. Until opera- completed around a year after the takeover, FedEx said recently. Tatex’s business activi- other specialist in the provision of reefer tions began, the 120 DB Schenker em- ties have already been carried out under the transportation and cool chain logistics ployees who now work there were based at name of FedEx Express France since March services from the same country. Stef said two sites in Waregem, 10 km away. They of this year. www.fedex.com that it had commenced sale negotiations have now been transferred to the new with the shareholders of Ebrex France. cross-docking terminal in Zwevegem, just UTi in London. The freight forwarding and The acquisition will be subject to regula- a year after construction work on the fa- logistics corporation UTi Worldwide, which tory approval, of course. Ebrex France is cility commenced. The company Schen- is headquartered in Long Beach CA (USA), based in Thiais, southeast of Paris in the ker NV, a subsidiary of DB Schenker Lo- has moved into a new 3,100 sqm warehouse Essonne department. It generated sales of gistics, is present in Belgium at locations terminal near London Heathrow airport. The approximately EUR 141 million in finan- in Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen, Eupen, platform has video surveillance and access cial 2012, with 1,125 employees working Willebroek, Zaventem, Zeebrugge and control facilities. www.go2uti.com in 21 locations. ra now Zwevegem. ra www.stef.com; www.ebrex.fr www.dbschenker.com International Transport Journal 35-36 2013 Miscellaneous 53

Refreshing ideas from Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands Liquids in many a shape and form

This edition of the ITJ appears at the end of s the summer here in the northern hemisphere, ler ai Tr which is why we’ve dedicated this article to apen Kn some remarkable ideas and incidents from : to the big wide world of logistics. Pho Enjoying an unexpected but welcome dip in a mobile swimming pool. People having some summer The firm Knapen Trailers from Deurne fun in the northern hemisphere. (Netherlands) is neither a drinks supplier nor a road tanker manufacturer. But as «Europe’s first maker of moving-floor schlösschen brewery was on hand to make known across the world. Unfortunately trailers and the inventor of a self-sup- sure that the 80,000 visitors to the event the unit, buffeted by the Atlantic waves porting trailer» the transport efficiency did not suffer thirst, but could enjoy a on its lonely voyage, lost contact with its specialist inspired its client Heno Trans. cool drink in the heat. They provided all satellite on 10 August, after several months It passed the «refreshing and inspiring the equipment needed – 20 reefer wagons, criss-crossing the seas. Solo, as the drinks hint» (pictured) on to its business part- three coolers, 100 buffet tables, 60 fridges manufacturer is aptly called, believes it ners, who could then also re-deploy their and 40 tents – to make sure that liquid is in the Caribbean, has asked people to multifunctional moving-floor trailers in refreshments were always on hand. keep a look out for it, and reminded local the hot, hot summer. The biggest ever message in a bottle shipping to be careful. They’ll need to be The beer brand Cardinal took a more was a bit lonelier than the festival-goers.A – unless the vessel has disappeared in the traditional approach for its Herculean lo- 10 m long unmanned high-tech vessel was Bermuda Triangle... ah gistics task at the Gurten festival in Bern set free in the context of a competition www.knapen-trailers.eu (Switzerland). An experienced team of by a Norwegian lemonade manufacturer. www.feldschloesschen.com more than 20 employees from the Feld- He was seeking to make his drink better www.solo.no

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Conformity and dissent

«I’d rather be criticised by the right people than praised by the wrong ones.» Gerhard Kocher, a Swiss journalist and aphorist

It’s important to realise that not any and way to the top too, as James Westphal of 36% minority – provided he’s vehement every truth can be unreservedly trum- the University of Texas established in a study enough in his public appearance. A loud peted out into the world. Children tend analysing corporate boards. Dissenting opin- critic thus has at least a relatively good to learn this in the schoolyard, usually ions are avoided there too, for fear of being chance of swaying opinion in an all-too in a rather emphatic way. Even if you ostracised. And the executive suite is surpris- unanimous environment. aren’t particularly keen on the prevailing ingly in tune with the kindergarten. In 2011 clothes, language or mode of mobility of a group of Dutch and German anthropology But is dissent worth anything in its own your generation, you’ll be much better off and psycho-linguistics institutes looked at right at all? Western and Eastern thought if you only share any opinion that contra- the behaviour of 96 four-year-olds, and es- are remarkably convergent in their posi- dicts the prevailing trend carefully. If only tablished that the children even supported a tive assessment of this question. In the I’d known Cicero’s resigned sigh – «you majority opinion when they had demonstra- tradition of Confucian philosophy the have to accept the times you live in»– in bly recognised it to be wrong. The conclu- Chinese Marxist leader Mao Tse-tung secondary school, I’d have been spared sion? Man is a hopelessly social animal. (1893–1976) considered a divergent the poundings I got for sneering at the opinion to be the cause and precondition limited speed of the mopeds popular at So is there no escaping this irksome con- of any development – which put him in the time. Some of my fellow pupils were formity? The pessimistic German philosopher agreement with the German philosophers cleverer – and quieter. Mopeds have be- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) drasti- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and Georg come rare today, my wounds have healed, cally countered this argument, as was to be Hegel (1770–1831). As dissidents we can and nowadays it’s electric bikes that do expected. He believed that a person who thus feel in harmony with yin and yang the overtaking. accepts every standard and rule invented – even when facing strong headwinds. by his world, like a puppet on a string, «will If that isn’t enough, then allow me to I’ve noticed that the demand for dissent eventually either buy some sleeping pills or cite the Irish playwright George Bernard is on the decline. Labour psychologists a gun.»A better solution than the final exit Shaw (1856–1950), whose more than believe that teamwork, though frequently could be to appreciate dissent more, as even 90 years of life led him to conclude that cited in today’s labour market, is often a small dose thereof can have a great effect. «reasonable people adapt themselves to no more than a code for conformity – a The Romanian-born Parisian psychologist the world. Unreasonable people attempt conformity that isn’t even necessarily Serge Moscovici (*1925) conducted experi- to adapt the world to themselves. All pro- demanded by your boss, but is rather ments which showed that a lone but com- gress, therefore, depends on unreason- called for and monitored by your own petent and self-assured dissident can turn a able people.» colleagues. This attitude reaches all the 97% majority opinion, for example, into a Christian Doepgen

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