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31 · 34 | 15 August 2014 www.transportjournal.com ENGLISH EDITION Specials in this issue Dear readers, ITJ Special 22 The Americas Special

International Transport Journal Latin America’s Mercosur 31-34 2014 Americas 22 A sleeping giant Latin America boasts one of the world’s largest economic unions in the form of its Mercosur common market. While Europe is paying After our celebratory July we’ve pro- relatively little attention to this association, China is watching the region very closely. The country’s head of state Xi Jinping recently visited Argentina, despite the ter’slat poor commercial circumstances, and also has his sights on Brazil. Breakbulk/Heavylift Supplement

lost momentum and Mercosur has be- come less important as a customs union. Even on the topic of free trade, the criti- cal steps have yet to be taken. Currently it is much more relevant as a forum for diplomatic exchange. Some observers have therefore raised bably all returned to a rather more the prospect that separate negotiations between the EU and Brazil could soon begin. This would represent a dramatic development for the other partners and could put the importance of Mercosur into question.

China, firstly... Ever more Chinese capital is heading for South America, which could benefit Argentina too. Help could once again come from the

Photo: Thinkstock Far East. The governments of Venezuela The Mercosur alliance (Mercado Común and China recently announced that they del Sur, or southern common market), economies, both of which are very impor- are planning to intensify their economic Turningis seeking pointpoint to increase its economic rel- tant for the region. relationship with a series of agreements. mundane August. We would never- evance. A planned free-trade agreement At the forefront of the proposals are the A massivemassive gantry gantry The Mercosur common market is one with the European Union is expected9 to of the largest in the global economy. trade in oil and other raw materials, as cranemake inin a a tightsome tight progressspot spot in this regard, as it The union of Venezuela, Argentina, Bra- well as investments in infrastructure. will dismantle trade restrictions and thus zil, Paraguay and Uruguay unites about The Chinese head of state Xi Jinping Feedboost thethe the canals exchangecanals of goods between the 275 million people, who together gener- visited Argentina, Cuba and Venezuela on Callstwo totomake regions.make better better ate about four fifths of South America’s his recent Latin American trip. In 2012, Other topics are currently making17 the gross domestic product. The association China invested about USD 11.4 billion in use ofheadlines,of inland inland however: waterways waterways Argentina, which thus constitutes South America’s largest Latinmerican A countries, which repre- took over the presidency of Mercosur mercantile entity. sents 11% of its total foreign investments Uniquefrom Venezuela inin the the at UK the UK end of July, has Ongoing negotiations between the EU (source: United Nations Economic Com- Collett&SonsCollettdeclared & aSons state handles bankruptcy handles for the sec- and Mercosur have nevertheless received mission for Latin America and the Carib- ond time in twelve years. Things are20 very little attention in Europe – the bean, Eclac). 550 tt side-girder side-girder deck deck not encouraging for Mercosur member Transatlantic Trade and Investment Part- theless like to take this opportunity to Venezuela either. The country has had nership (TTIP), a proposed trade agree- ...as well as secondly to deal with massive protests against the ment between the European Union and The Chinese-South American connec- government of Nicolás Maduro in recent the United States, has dominated news on tion was also illustrated by a specific Bra- months. the old continent much more. zilian example recently. Alibaba, China’s largest IT corporation, and Brazil’s state- Mercosur’s two troubled members More appearance than substance owned postal service provider Correios In Argentina, inflation is currently con- In addition to political integration the recently entered into a partnership that tinuing to increase and growth has practi- member countries are striving first and will advance bilateral trade between the cally come to a standstill. The economic foremost to simplify trade with one an- two countries. In so doing, Alibaba will crisis has deepened in Venezuela as well, other, one key target in particular being support Correios’s local distribution net- but the government has been able to the gradual phasing out of existing cus- work, as well as its storage and customs bring back some stability. toms duties. Initially the plan seemed handling facilities. It is impossible to look at the Merco- to be going well: trade in the Mercosur With this collaboration, as well as with look back briefly and thank all of you sur market without taking into accou area has shown dystea growth over the its B2B website, Correios wants to help the unstable situation of these two large nt ten years since its establishment. In the small Brazilian enterprises increase sales meantime, however, the proposition has of their products to potential Chinese customers. Antje Veregge for the many kind words of support and encouragement that you shared Sceptical insurance companies 10 with us on the occasion of our 75th anniversary. We’ll be more than happy The expansion of the Panama Canal should proceed to continue to deliver a little (magenta) smoothly now that an additional contractual clause has been signed. But ever-larger ships lead to increased risks colour to your desk every fortnight! too, as insurers have pointed out. Analysts are weighing The recent World Cup was another the pros and cons of the changes to the channel. cause for celebration – at least at our latitudes. But our special focus in this European entrepreneurs 26 issue just happens to be on those

A Polish forwarder and a Hungarian railway enterprise countries where fans lamented most have put the firm Amber Rail on track in Slovakia. They are about the tournament’s final result. planning to offer conventional and intermodal blocktrain You can read about the dormant po- links from Poland to the northern Adriatic ports of Koper (Slovenia) and Trieste (Italy). tential in the Mercosur common mar- ket, as well as about China’s role – the 4 People&Companies 17 Norbert Dentressangle busy US firm country is everywhere these days – in 19 In conversation with Viktor André Fuchs waking this sleeping giant (page 22). 6 Comment On page 24 we look at UPS’s plans for 20 Rail/Inland Shipping/Road Haulage 7 Legal&Insurance Matters 20 A Rhine–Alpine backbone further development in South America, and on page 25 this latest issue of the 8 Ports&Shipping 21 Focus on Switzerland ITJ you can also find out what’s eating 8 Volumes down to/from South America 9 Egypt planning new Suez Canal 26 Regional Focus the aviation industry. 26 Central Europe Enjoy your read! 13 Aviation 27 Africa 28 Middle East/Asia 13 More freight in Europe in June 14 French efforts in Africa 29 Miscellaneous/Masthead 15 Forwarding&Logistics 30 A Time for Reflection 16 Swiss customs now more efficient Advertisers’ Index Andreas Haug Cover: The Trans-American bridge in Panama. Photo: Thinkstock Head of airfreight

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Commission confirms president The Isle of Man Ship Registry has named captain Raja Ray as the managing direc- Jon W. Slangerup has been the new chief executive tor of its business development efforts officer of the port of Long Beach since June this year in Singapore. Ray previously worked for (see also ITJ 27-30/2014, page 10). At the end of July American Eagle Tankers (AET) for 20 Doug Drummond was confirmed as the president of years, both at sea and on land, in Singa- Long Beach’s board of harbour commissioners, which pore and in London. He was last head of he will thus head for a further twelve months. One seat AET’s Atlantic fleet in Houston. Today, in the five-member commission is currently vacant, as Raja Ray 40% of the 16.6 million grt fleet that sails Susan E. Anderson Wise is no longer on the body. Photo: Isle of Man Ship Registry under the flag of the Isle of Man originates from Singapore. The Isle of Man Ship Re- gistry recently extended its network of regional experts From Shanghai to Houston to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila and Brisbane too.

Claus Schensema is taking over the management of GAC Logistics in North New man for Japan and Korea America. In his newly-assumed position he will report to Lars Heisselberg, the cor- Anton Khodakovsky is the Volga-Dnepr Group’s new poration’s group vice-president who is in vice-president for Japan and South Korea. Khodakovsky, charge of the Americas. Schensema pre- who has already worked for the group since 2004, was viously worked as the managing director previously on AirBridgeCargo’s payroll for ten years. He of GAC in China for twelve years, where was the company’s commercial and regional director he was based in the company’s offices in for Russia and the Community of Independent States. Shanghai. He will focus his activities with The Volga-Dnepr Group described the nomination of the logistics service provider on the oil and Khodakovsky as another step forward towards the crea- gas, mining as well as project cargo sectors Claus Schensema tion of a network of key regional offices that it wants to in North America. Photo: GAC develop in every area of the world.

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High and low tides Board member The assumption that everyone is interested in gold has again proved true these days, SGKV, a German intermodal M. Bulheller, T. Arendt, A. Ochs and with the precious metal once more becom- transport centre, has acquired G. Schulze Isfort (from the left). Photo: SGKV ing a much-sought refuge for anxious several new research projects as capital seeking a safe haven. The price of well as a number of new members in 2014 so far. The gold remains a prime counter-indicator of community also recently presented Alexander Ochs, a economic progress. If it goes up, the mes- Bayernhafen group authorised signatory and the firm’s sage is clear: the downturn has kicked in. Christian manager in charge of the development of its intermodal What has this got to do with us? Doepgen, transport, as a new member of its board. SGKV con- Political crises with an economic back- ITJ editor-in-chief firmed its other board members in office. ground – such as the ones now raging in Ukraine, the Middle East and North Africa – always Change of address leave their mark on the logistics industry too. This is no reason to be pessimistic, however. You don’t necessarily ERS Railways, European HQ have to believe Rosa Abrantes-Metz’s analysis, exposing Albert Plesmanweg 61 B, NL–3088 GB Rotterdam, Netherlands the manipulation of the money market’s London inter- Telephone +31 10 428 52 00, Fax +31 10 494 28 48 bank offered rate (Libor) and positing that the price of gold [email protected] – www.ersrail.com is similarly manipulated. The truth, rather, is that a long low tide is usually followed by a high tide – or in other A. Hartrodt words, that a crisis is usually followed by an upswing. We Hofackerstrasse 40 A, CH–4132 Muttenz, Switzerland saw the phenomenon take hold after the nuclear catastro- Telephone +41 (0)61 337 83 90, Fax +41 (0)61 337 83 94 phe in Japan recently, with so-called «Abenomics». [email protected] – www.hartrodt.com

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Differing European case-law Shipments lost through freight exchanges

According to an Austrian judgement a freight forwarder invoke force majeure to justify its non-liability (case number 11-14261). who loses a truck shipment to a criminal organisation The forwarder bore liability, for which it was responsible to its client. It should have known that a freight exchange does not guarantee a when using a freight exchange is not guilty of gross transport company’s reliability. The forwarder had not checked whether negligence. According to a French decision, however, a the transport company was reputable and trustworthy, because neither the identity and contact details of the transport company, nor its entry forwarder may not invoke force majeure in the event of a in the commercial register had been verified prior to placing the order. claim if a shipment falls into criminal hands in this way. The conclusion is that freight forwarders must always check out un- known transport enterprises that apply for transport contracts through A freight forwarder placed a request in the internet, us- freight exchanges. Even if the appropriate insurance cover is in place, ing an internationally-recognised freight exchange and it may otherwise prove to be expensive for everyone involved in the looking for an enterprise to transport 24 t of copper transportation task. Eckhard Boecker wire from Germany to Austria. A Slovakian transport company responded to the invitation to tender. The two parties reached an agreement and the transport com- pany’s driver promptly arrived at the loading point to carry out the job. It later emerged that the Slovakian However complex it gets, transport company did not exist, and the valuable ship- we’ll point you in the ment never reached the intended recipient. The result – a loss of EUR 142,500. right direction The forwarder reported the loss to his insurance com- pany, but the claim was rejected, because the policyhold- er was said to have been guilty of gross negligence. The firm should have obtained additional information about the transport company when first placing the order, the court found, especially as the shipment contained high- value goods. In addition, the forwarder and the transport company are said to have only communicated via a free e-mail account. However, judges at the supreme court in Vienna took a different view of the case. The forwarder could not be accused of acting with gross negligence (case number 1 R 174/09 d). The forwarder could not have suspected criminal activity simply because the transport company had only provided a mobile phone number – just as cor- responding via a free e-mail account cannot be deemed to be grossly negligent. It is far more likely that the for- warder was the victim of «a clever scam», which also included the use of stolen vehicle registration plates.

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In brief Volumes down in South America, rates from the Far East rising

Approved. The US Department of Jus- tice and Federal Trade Commission have A topsy-turvy ride cleared the merger of the container ship- ping business of Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) and Hapag-Lloyd. The The trade between Europe and the South American east coast has seen declining proposed move has thus overcome the utilisation rates for a few months now. For once, this does not apply to rates on first cartel authority hurdle, but the move the Asia–Europe racetrack, which rose by a hefty 22% at the beginning of August. remains subject to the approval of other regulators around the world, including bodies in the European Union, Brazil, China Shipping lines’ high hopes for more stable The average size of vessels deployed on the and Chile. www.csav.com rates on the Europe–South American east lane has risen continuously since April, www.hapag-lloyd.com coast trade would not appear to be on however, when it stood at 6,750 teu. The their way to being fulfilled in the short average shipping space available per unit Majority ownership. The emirate of Qatar term. Rather, the English analyst Drewry rose to 7,300 teu in May, and it continued now owns 51% of the shares of the con- assumes that liner shipping companies to climb in June too, reaching 7,400 teu tainer line United Arab Shipping Company are preparing to terminate yet more ser- per ship. (UASC). Qatar had previously carried out a vices this year, in order to improve their South American exports accounted for series of capital injections linked to a new- ship’s utilisation rates. 64,000 teu on this trade in May. The same building programme that UASC has been Container volumes on this trade again statistic had recorded a total of 65,000 teu implementing. The firm’s orderbook now declined in May. The best of times came in the previous month and in March the encompasses a total of eleven ships with a to an end with the conclusion of the number of boxes came to 69,000 teu. The capacity of 14,000 teu and six units which football World Cup in mid-July, and the year-on-year comparison also sees the can carry 18,000 teu each. www.uasc.net industry returned to its everyday reality. curve on a downward trajectory. In the This includes persistent inflation and low first five months of 2014, 2.6% less boxes Process completed. The restructuring growth in Brazil, the continent’s largest were hauled from South America’s east measures undertaken by the Israeli line economy. Overall, Drewry reported that coast to Europe, that is to say 311,000 teu. Zim have been completed after 18 months of negotiations with creditors. The Israel ships transported 66,000 teu from Europe One of the reasons for this slippage is the Corporation has invested USD 200 million to South America in May, 8% less than in dry period in parts of Brazil, which had a of new equity, and now owns 32% of the April. The figure for the latter month had strong negative impact on the coffee bean shares in Zim. Creditors have converted already seen a 9% slip in comparison with harvest. USD 1.4 billion of Zim’s total debts of the 79,000 teu carried in March. As a result, the freight index devel- USD 3.4 billion into a 68% stake in the line. About 348,000 teu were hauled across oped by Drewry for the route from San- www.zim.com the Atlantic on the trade between Europe tos (Brazil) to Rotterdam (Netherlands) and the South American east coast in the recorded declining values in the course New stakeholder. Ports America, a termi- first five months of this year. This corres- of one year, and last came in at less than nal operator and cargo handling company, is ponds to a 1.6% loss vis-à-vis the like-for- USD 1,800 per feu. planning to take a 30% stake in Internation- like period last year. Drewry added the The World Container Index (see al Transportation Service Inc (ITS), provided note of caution that the market had just below) presented a completely different the move is approved by the country’s cartel undergone some transformation in April. picture. The market has accepted the rate authorities. ITS is a subsidiary of Japan’s In that month the partners MSC, CMA increase that lines implemented on the K Line and has operated container terminals CGM, CSAV, Hamburg Süd and Hapag- Far East–Europe trade on 1 August, so in Long Beach CA and Tacoma WA for more Lloyd discontinued one of their two sail- that an feu hauled from Shanghai to Rot- than 40 years. www.kline.co.jp ings on this trade and thus reduced the terdam on 7 August cost USD 2,877 (a www.portsamerica.com capacities available by approximately 9%. hefty rise of 22%). av

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Another expansion scheme A new Suez Canal

Egypt wants to kick-start its ailing economy and initiate a comprehensive infrastructure programme. The construc- tion of a new Suez Canal is at the core of the effort.

Egypt wants to build a new waterway to relieve the 163 km Suez Canal. A new 35 km thoroughfare will be stock ink Th excavated parallel to the current canal, Mohab Mamish, : chairman of Egypt’s canal authority, announced recent- to Pho ly at a conference in the port town of Ismaïlia. On top Egypt wants to build a new channel parallel to the Suez Canal. of that, the existing canal is to be widened and deepened over the same length. The move will result in a new pects the facility to generate annual revenues of up to USD 13.5 billion. 72 km Suez Canal. The waterway currently in use oper- The project may be finished in three years, though Egypt wants to ates a one-way traffic scheme, but has three two-way do all it can to phase in the new canal before this deadline. No locks lanes to relieve traffic, with waiting zones along almost are required for the channel, as there is no height difference that has 80 km of the canal’s overall length. The estimated cost of to be to overcome, as is the case with the Panama Canal. Up to 20 digging the new thoroughfare is said to be approximately Egyptian firms could be involved in the building project. They will USD 4 billion. be supervised by the national army, which controls a large part of the The Suez Canal earns Egypt about USD 5 billion a Egyptian economy. year, making it one of the most important sources of The country’s new programme will also include tunnels, infrastruc- foreign currency for the country – particularly since ture and tourism zones. In contrast to the new canal, these schemes will the tourist industry began to register decreasing figures. be open to foreign investors. Overall, the Suez Canal authority expects When the construction work is completed, Egypt ex- the project to create 1 million new jobs. av

Hamburg and Chile again

The German carrier Hamburg Süd (Hamburg Südameri- kanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft) is taking over the container shipping business and associated agency functions of the Valparaiso-based Chilean shipping Euro-Med Services company Compañía Chilena de Navegación Inter- TRANSPORTOFANY TYPE OF VEHICLE, EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT, FORESTRYPRODUCTS, oceánica (CCNI). According to Alphaliner, the price STANDARD AND SPECIAL CONTAINERS, PROJECT AND HEAVY LIFT CARGO tag amounts to USD 160 million. After carrying out due diligence and obtaining regulatory approvals as well as completing the purchase contract, the takeover is provisionally expected to be concluded by the end of December this year.

Moving up from 13th to 11th Alphaliner says that CCNI currently operates 17 con- tainerships with an overall capacity of 59,800 teu, and is additionally committed to chartering four 9,030 teu Direct weekly service from/to: newbuildings in 2014 and 2015. Together with its sister •Alexandria •Esbjerg •Malta •Tripoli • Antwerp •Flushing company Aliança di Navegação, Hamburg Süd has a to- • Mersin (Lebanon) •Ashdod • Gemlik •Palermo •Tripoli (Lybia) tal of 500,000 teu available. • Beirut •Hamburg •Piraeus •Tunis and The German line wants to strengthen its network of •Bristol (Prby) •Izmir • Salerno • Civitavecchia • Lattakia •Savona Rades routes to and from South America by integrating CCNI’s • Cork • Limassol •Setubal • Valencia liner services. Alphaliner expects that the CCNI brand, • Derince • Livorno • Southampton • Wallhamn which was established in 1930, will disappear once the ANTWERP HAMBURG LONDON merger takes place. Hamburg Süd has generally applied Grimaldi Belgium Grimaldi Germany Grimaldi AgencyUK Tel: +32 35459430 Tel: +49 40 789707 12 Tel: +44 207 9305683 this strategy to the 15 entities that it has already acquired Fax: +32 35414275 Fax: +49 40 789707 71 Fax: +44 207 8391961 since 1985. The latest takeover will enable Hamburg Süd NAPLES GRIMALDI HEAD OFFICE [email protected] to jump from 13th to 11th position in the global carrier Tel: +39 081 496111 Fax: +39 081 5517401 www.grimaldi.napoli.it rankings. av 10 Ports & Shipping International Transport Journal 31-34 2014

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The Panama Canal has again been making headlines in recent days. The issue of funding appears to have finally been resolved, thanks to the signing of an additional contractual clause. Now the insurance company Allianz is

2014 raising public awareness of the risks associated with the 2014 www.swisstrans.info expansion of the waterway. Longer maritime voyages also offer advantages, however.

Schweizerische Rheinhäfen Basel Kleinhüningen Birsfelden The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is delighted that Muttenz-Au Verzeichnis der Schweizer Transport- und Tel. +41 61 639 95 95 Logistikwirtschaft sowie der [email protected] the recent difficulties with the consortium in charge of www.port-of-switzerland.ch expanding the waterway, Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), now appear to have been resolved by means Was Sie kennen swisstrans noch nicht? of a contractual amendment (see ITJ breaking news of Dann wird es höchste Zeit sich einen 5 August). However, the insurance industry believes Überblick zu verschaffen. Sie finden den there is little reason for celebration. After all, increasing vessel sizes also lead to increased risks. In its latest study, direkten Zugang auf unserer 4-sprachigen entitled «Panama Canal 100: Shipping Safety and Future Website: www.swisstrans.info Risks», the maritime insurer Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty (AGCS), states that the value of insured goods passing through the canal per day following the Swisstrans – Alle Schweizer completion of two new locks could leap to more than Transportunternehmen USD 1 billion. More than 12,000 ocean liners currently pass through und die gesamte Zuliefer­ the Panama Canal every year. The new locks, which industrie are scheduled to go into operation at the end of 2015, will significantly increase this number – there is talk Das Nachschlagwerk swisstrans® ist die of around 4,750 additional units passing through every umfassendste und vielseitigste Transport­ year. As we all know, however, it is not just the number datenbank sowie das Verzeichnis der of transits that is augmenting, but also vessel sizes. In Schweizer Transportwirtschaft und erscheint future, container ships carrying up to 13,000 teu will seit über 30 Jahren. Es enthält mehr als be able to pass through the canal. The current limit is 6500 multimodale Transportfirmen der approximately 5,000 teu. Schweiz und des Fürstentums Liechtenstein sowie Behörden und Verbände mit ihrer Safety record to deteriorate? Anschrift, Tel.­/Faxnummer. Today, around 3% of the world’s maritime trade passes through the Panama Canal every year, which is equiva- Die Verlinkung von Ihrer E­Mail/www­ lent to approximately USD 270 billion worth of goods. Adresse sowie das Firmen­LOGO (nur digital) The safety of vessels using this route is therefore of con- ist für eine kleine Jahresgebühr buchbar. siderable economic importance. Weiter haben Sie die Möglichkeit Ihre However, following improvements in the canal’s Firma in den über 140 verschiedenen safety record over the last ten years, the AGCS experts Services (Ihren Schwerpunktdienstleistungen) have warned that the increased volume of traffic and und über 160 Destinations (Schwerpunkt­ larger vessels could now result in a worsening of the länder) den Mitbewerbern und Kunden anzubieten. record, as the initial expansion phase is also associated with greater risks. Alles ist auch digital einsehbar, deswegen: Captain Rahul Khanna, the global head of marine risk consulting at AGCS, explains the potential risk manage- www.swisstrans.info ment consequences of the expansion as follows: «Larger vessels automatically pose more risk. The high freight volume alone may result in significant losses and disrup- tion in the case of a serious accident.A fully-loaded con- tainership with the new panamax dimensions is around International Transport Journal 31-34 2014 Ports & Shipping 11 n of the Panama Canal f football pitches transiting the canal

The handling of larger units poses an- other major challenge. In view of the limited manoeuvrability of giant vessels, operating procedures concerning wind and weather-related restrictions in ports need to be modified.

Improved on-board safety However, an enhanced sailing route from Asia to the east coast of the United States and to the Gulf of Mexico could, on the other hand, also reduce risks in another field. Captain Alan Breese, a senior ma- rine risk engineer at AGCS, says that «the stock longer a container can remain on a ves- ink

Th sel without having to be transhipped to o: a train or other means of transport, the Phot The new panamax vessels could transit the canal with USD 250 million of goods on board. better.» The study has also established that the four football pitches long and up to 49 m could also interfere with traffic at major safety record of the Panama Canal region high, and can carry a cargo of approxi- ports in North America and throughout has steadily improved in recent years. mately 12,600 teu. This, in turn, can have the region, as well as leading to a rise in There were a mere 27 shipping accidents an insurance value of up to USD 250 mil- the number of insurance claims due to in the last ten years, with only two total lion.» According to AGCS estimates, an operating disruptions. losses. This rate of one accident per 4,000 additional USD 1.25 billion of insured journeys compares extremely favourably goods could pass through the expanded What about hurricane risks? with that of other major waterways. The canal, at its full design capacity. This in- In addition, a number of North Ameri- Suez Canal, for example, has one inci- crement is primarily due to larger ships. can ports and terminals along the eastern dent per 1,100 journeys, whilst the Kiel On a busy waterway such as the Panama coast and in the Gulf of Mexico are at risk Canal in northern Europe registers one Canal, accidents involving vessels of this from hurricanes. This danger increases if accident per 830 journeys. size can pose enormous challenges. They ever larger vessels are forced to extend Thus the situation can be summarised can lead to blockages, if there is a lack of their stay, thereby bringing the value of as follows: a transport accident involving qualified experts on hand who are able to insured goods in the ports up. The major- a giant ocean-going vessel in the Panama salvage giant vessels. ity of losses incurred as result of so-called Canal entails rather incalculable risks. The potential impact of accidents goes Superstorm Sandy in 2012, for example, The benefits arising from less tranship- far beyond the disruption to shipping in can be attributed to a surge which flood- ment needed cannot be dismissed out of the Panama Canal itself. An incident ed ports in northeastern USA. hand, however. av

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In the air and on the ground Danger all around Buav Aviation and global trade are in a state of uncertainty. It is bad for business when the / leh geopolitical situation is simultaneously subject to several new crises. And there are also Sa fak

microscopically small parasitic creatures that benefit from the planetary aviation network. Moa : to Pho The country’s flag carrier Malaysia Air- Aviation Organization (Icao) reminded Above: Similar pictures reached us from Libya lines has been confronted by another states of «their responsibility to address three years ago (see ITJ 37-38/2011, page 58). tragedy, coming just a few months after potential risks to civil aviation in their Below: A virus can sometimes travel the world its flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to airspace.» The body has reacted to events by hitching a ride on a wild animal or a Beijing disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. by establishing a task force, where state laboratory monkey. Another Boeing B777 was downed over and industry experts will address the civil eastern Ukraine. The crash on 17 July of aviation and national security aspects of a harrowing outbreak of the Ebola virus flight number MH17, which was on its way the challenge. Icao will convene a high- disease, which hit Guinea, Sierra Leone from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, not level safety conference for all member and Liberia first and then moved on to only cost almost 300 people their lives, but states in February 2015. Nigeria early in August. The potential also subjected the airline to strong turbu- Aircraft in conflict zones were not only spread of this highly lethal virus to other lence. An explanation for the accident was under threat in the air, but also on the parts of the world has caused many a quick to hand – separatists. They had al- ground in July. Tel Aviv airport, Israel’s public health official a headache recently. ready brought down an Ilyushin freighter gateway to the world, was one of Hamas’s Icao and the World Health Organization operated by the Ukrainian air force with targets, whilst several Afriqiyah Airways, are coordinating preventive efforts for surface-to-air missiles on 14 June. Libyan Air Cargo and Libyan Airlines the industry in a programme called a col- The latest battles waging in Iraq and aircraft became the target of and were laborative arrangement for the prevention in Syria – areas that many international completely destroyed by hostilities in the and management of public health events carriers have now stopped flying over – airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli. in civil aviation (Capsca), a global effort added to the impetus to put the subject of And last but not least there is a risk that to improve preparedness and responses to aviation security at the top of the indus- has been spreading in West Africa since public health events that affect the avia- try’s agenda. Thus the International Civil February. The region has been subject to tion sector. Andreas Haug

Europe’s airfreight hubs register weaker growth in June

1.2% more freight was handled at Euro- managed to avoid, thanks to the inter- a sigh of relief when the European Com- pean airports in June this year, in com- est of China’s Puren Group. The Ger- mission decided that state aid that they parison with the same month in 2013, the man centres in Dortmund, Weeze and had been granted was in line with the new continental airport association ACI Eu- Leipzig/Halle, and the French hubs in European Union guidelines published in rope announced on 6 August. Its figures Angoulême, Pau and Nîmes, all breathed February 2014. ah for the period under review recorded robust growth of 4.6% in the first half, Freight throughput at leading European airports in June 2014 vis-à-vis the first six months of the previ- Rank June 2013 Airport Country Airfreight in t ±% ous year. 1 (1) Frankfurt DE 169,109 –4.1 Industry leader Frankfurt airport 2 (2) Paris (CDG) FR 156,432 –0.4 already broke the million-tonne mark at 3 (3) Amsterdam NL 134,350 +8.0 half-time for the first time in three years, 4 (4) London (LHR) UK 125,407 +4.7 registering a plus of 2.5% to come to 5 (5) Leipzig/Halle DE 72,914 –1.4 1.005 million t. The latest month of the 6 (8) Istanbul (IST) TR 61,453 +15.4 half year saw it lose some volumes, how- 7 (7) Cologne/Bonn DE 59,977 +2.9 ever. The situation at other German hubs 8 (6) Luxembourg LU 57,001 –3.4 fluctuated equally, with Frankfurt Hahn 9 (9) Liège BE 46,351 +3.0 (–20% in H1 to 58,113 t) defending its 10 (10) Milan (MXP) IT 40,520 +12.6 V

fifth place nationally against Düsseldorf AD Freight throughput at leading Swiss airports in June 2014 , pe

(+9% to 47,838 t in H1). ro The neighbouring small airport of 1 (1) Zurich CH 25,379 +2.6

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In brief France in Africa Bearing hope The Frankfurt-based company LUG air- Canadian construction. Bombardier cargo handling organised the transport Aerospace has launched a new version of its Q400 NextGen aircraft, a unit that is config- of diagnostic equipment from Germany ured for passengers and freight operations. to Kenya recently, covering its costs it- It can carry 50 people and simultaneously self. The twelve-year-old x-ray machine

offer 32.5 cbm of cargo space to carry up to ws transported will be used in St Joseph hos- Pa pital, run by the Christian aid organisa- 3 t of airfreight. The aeroplane will thus be ur Fo particularly suited to airlines with middling : tion Shelter of Hope in Mombasa. Nina to Hampel, LUG’s sales and customer ser- passenger volumes and quite high freight Pho potential. www.bombardier.com This lion will sleep in the jungle tonight. vice manager, said that LUG «agreed to cover the costs of carrying the appliance Returning to West Africa. On 1 July the French institutions contributed to two when we were asked to help with the trans- South European carrier TAP Portugal in- local efforts in East Africa and Southern portation task. We were also supported in creased its services between Lisbon and Africa recently. The Agence Française this by other companies.» Accra from five to seven a week. Three de Développement (AFD), the country’s Frankfurt-based Deufol took over ex- of the flights continue from the Ghanaian agency for international development co- port packing after the equipment was de- capital to São Tomé. The capital city of operation, granted Ethiopian Airlines a livered to LUG, and provided staff and the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and EUR 50 million loan for the construction packaging material free of charge. The Príncipe, an island nation in the Gulf of of a new cargo terminal in Addis Abeba company Leisure Cargo supported the Guinea, used to be served by weekly non- (see also ITJ 11-12/2014, page 15). project with a special rate on a Condor stop flights. On 26 October TAP Portugal is The carrier Air France-KLM-Martinair flight to Mombasa. LUG also arranged also set to resume its Lisbon–Bissau service. Cargo, in turn, transported six lions from documentation, security scanning, in- The thrice-weekly Airbus A319 flights to a zoo in Amsterdam to Johannesburg terim storage and transportation to the the capital of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and a new home. They flew south to the firm FCS Fraport Cargo Services, where were suspended earlier this year on account Lions Rock big cat sanctuary in style in the goods were loaded onto the aircraft, of security concerns. www.tapcargo.com a Boeing B747F full-freighter. and customs clearance in Kenya. ah

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Cool success. Cryoport, a global service 10 t of relief goods to CAR provider of seamless refrigerated supply chain solutions, increased its sales by 92% The Luxembourgian logistics service in the first quarter of financial 2015 (to provider Logwin again supported Save 30 June), generating USD 0.94 million. In July the Californian company based in Lake the Children medical aid efforts in July. dren

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Central African Republic for the past 18 : of DHL. www.cryoport.com months. The organisation Save the Chil- to Pho dren provides humanitarian relief aid to Urgent aid reaches the CAR’s Ouaka district. More air and sea freight. The Danish the needy in the country. Teams in Ban- logistics corporation DSV recorded a net rev- gui, Kemo, Nana-Gribizi and Ouaka dis- infusion bags, examination gloves and enue increase of 5.5% in the first half year, tribute medicine and medical equipment doctor’s clothing to Bangui, with some to EUR 3.2 billion. The air and sea freight to health centres, while mobile hospitals of the sensitive supplies transported in segments developed particularly well, the visit places with inadequate health infra- temperature-controlled conditions. company said, registering volume growth of structure. Kathrin Wieland, CEO of Save Organising the transport from Amster- about 10%. Overland operations in Europe the Children Germany, said that «medi- dam airport proved to be a challenge, as continued to suffer from the heavy price cal provisions in CAR are very poor and only a few airlines serve Bangui. The only competition. www.dsv.com there is a great risk that disease will spread. direct connection from Europe was fully We’re grateful to Logwin for transport- booked for two weeks. Kevin Körner, New approach. London-based Europa Worldwide Logistics has created separate ing medical equipment to the region.» Logwin’s airfreight export manager, got sea and airfreight divisions and centralised In June Logwin collected the goods, the aid to its destination on time, how- the activities in Birmingham and Heathrow. packed on pallets, from suppliers in the ever, thanks to an alternative connection www.europa-worldwide.com Netherlands. It shipped tablets, syringes, that he rooted out. ah

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Swiss customs initiatives bring greater efficiency Visions to become reality

Up until now, the queues of goods vehicles at the Swiss border have been a dependable indicator of the country’s current economic situation. Simplified customs procedures reduce the time they need to cross the frontier and are of special interest to truck drivers, explained Roland Schumacher, CEO of Sisa Studio Informatica, a provider of IT solutions for electronic customs clearance.

Electronic customs clearance (e-customs) is a vision that has been pur- sued by the World Customs Organisation (WCO) since 1999. Its aim is to replace all paper-based customs procedures by electronic systems throughout the world. The purpose of the e-customs project is to in- crease security at the external borders of states or communities of states (such as the EU or Asean) and to simplify international trade. Since 2007, as part of the Switzerland’s e-government strategy, the country’s customs authority FCA has planned to completely replace all paper e chiv forms with internet applications. It has thus laid the foundations for ar J IT the separation of flows of goods and information, and for total com- : puterisation. The revision of the customs assessment procedures, that is to Pho to say the computerisation of customs procedures, will be accompanied Border traffic jams may soon belong to the past – if the replace- by process optimisation. ment of paper documents by software solutions is successful.

From NCTS, e-dec and UID to further innovations says Roland Schumacher with regard to the expectations. The introduction of the new computerised transit system (NCTS), the «The initial results are favourable, and it is therefore electronic international transit procedure, was followed by the intro- probable that as from the end of 2015, forms 11.51 and duction of the e-dec import and export systems. This means that only 11.52 will be a thing of the past,» the specialist states. electronic customs declarations have been accepted since 2013. With a customs user management project (ZKV), the FCA introduced the Replacement of VV with eVV– and other projects business identification number (UID) in 2014. This can be used in all After the definite replacement of form-based import e-dec customs declarations and NCTS procedures. It is also planned to customs clearance with e-dec import, the next big step link the UID to the nations statistics office (BFS) as well as to the ZKV is the replacement of the tax assessment decision (VV) application (among others, authorised consignee, authorised consignor, with an electronic customs receipt (eVV). This will affect principal and guarantor). The way will then be clear for the replacement roughly 20,000 customs users. The appropriate system of the shipper number/TIN. has been available since 2012. The FCA is likely to assign Work is now in progress on the computerisation of the national a high priority to country-wide implementation in 2015. transit procedure (in-tv, electronic transit pass) in order to replace the Further projects are an electronic customs declara- paper transit pass. This is being tested in a pilot project with ten firms, tion for temporary importation (eZaVV) and simplified and is intended to bring the benefits of international NCTS to national inward processing (evAVV), also known as free pass transit, as well as the realisation of end-to-end electronic processes. «The replacement. Their implementation was scheduled for business community has eagerly awaited this project for many years,», 2014, but was postponed recently.

Potential for cutting customs costs

Customs duties of more than EUR 21 billion account for roughly 13% of the European Union’s revenues. For in- ternational corporations, the scope offered by the law for the optimisation of customs charges constitutes a large potential to cut costs – which is frequently neglected by companies. This is the conclusion reached by the Global Logistics Forum in the Diplomatic Council (DC) in its white paper entitled «Customs compliance within inter- national trade». Petra Herrmann, international customs expert in the DC, comments as follows. «Even large cor- porations are often unaware that customs optimisation already begins in the product development stage and runs through the whole supply chain.» ah International Transport Journal 31-34 2014 Forwarding & Logistics 17 Norbert Dentressangle Stef integrates in Italy Seafrigo in New York acquisition in Iowa and grows internationally

On 31 July the French logistics service The French reefer cargo logistics service provider Norbert Dentressangle (ND) provider Stef has taken over the activities agreed with the holding corporation of Trentino Fresco in the northern Italian Oak Hill Capital Partners to take over all region of Trento. Stef Italia holds a 51%

shares in the 3PL firm Jacobson Compa- stake in the newly-created company Stef rigo af Se

nies. The transaction, which is estimated Trento, while Trentino Fresco holds the : to be worth approximately USD 750 mil- remaining 49%. Pietro Zeni, the mana- to Pho lion (EUR 560 million) and which is still ging director of Trentino Fresco, will Seafrigo’s new US warehouse is located five subject to official approval, is set to be head the new entity, which has 13 em- truck minutes from Newark airport and less completed by mid-September. ployees, who manage a warehouse cover- than half an hour from Manhattan. Norbert Dentressangle’s CEO Hervé ing 2,400 sqm at the Trento Interporto, Montjotin referred to it as a «milestone in located between Verona and Innsbruck. Seafrigo, a reefer cargo logistics business our strategy of becoming a top provider Stef Italia expects to double its annual based in Le Havre (France) that mana- of global supply chain management solu- sales to EUR 6 million as a result of the ges global operations, has opened a new tions. It elevates the corporation’s reach to strategic step. warehouse in Elizabeth NJ (USA). The a new level.» Jacobson Companies, whose The activities in Italy (+10%) and facility is located in the direct vicinity head office are in Des Moines IA (USA), Spain (+11%) have contributed particu- of Newark airport, and is also close to was established in 1968 and is considered larly to Stef’s international growth in the container terminals in the port system one of North America’s biggest 3PLs. Its second quarter, the company announced of New York and New Jersey. The centre 5,500 employees (ND: 37,700) generate in July. Sales improved by 7.1% com- provides 20,000 pallet storage spaces, annual sales of about USD 800 million pared to the previous year, coming to offering three different temperature (ND: USD 5.5 billion) at 142 sites with EUR 683 million. This means that Stef levels: –20°C, 4°C and 15°C. Further 3 million sqm of warehousing. The move posted an accumulated half-yearly sales services, including e-logistics solutions will make the USA ND’s third-largest figure of EUR 1.33 billion, which was and road haulage to the entire US, are market. ah 5.9% above that of H1 /2013. ah offered from the warehouse. ah SwissPost makes alot of things easier. Includingcross- border transport.

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A look at GF’s networks The mood in the breakbulk industry has been substantially more opti­ mistic since the middle of last year. What is your impression, taking into account the Breakbulk Europe trade fair, which took place in On course Antwerp in May, amongst others? I can only agree with you. The overall mood was generally extremely positive in Antwerp, everyone was excited about The Gross+Fuchs Group of Companies is driving developments in the coming months – even though actual the growth of its four networks globally and in growth in terms of volume was still lacking in concrete terms at that time. We have to accept the fact that lead times in the a differentiated way, COO Viktor Fuchs told the project cargo business are much longer than in the conven- ITJ’s Christian Doepgen in an interview. tional sector, but all of our members can hold their breath

s for long enough! That was my positive impression. ner The number of members in GF’s four net­ rt Pa

works has expanded in recent years to ean In what other areas are you particularly aiming to grow, more than 700 companies. Has the tar­ Oc now that Eastern Europe has cooled down? r& Ai get size of the individual networks been : The developments in Eastern Europe are indeed a bit reached in terms of coverage? to disturbing – although we’ve also been getting a certain Pho Because we’ve limited the growth of our GF COO amount of generally positive feedback from our members Air&Ocean Partners network we’re only Viktor André Fuchs. operating there. It is questionable to what extent the sanc- looking for new members there for one or tions which have now been imposed will actually have any the other niche market. Our project cargo alliance Pro- effect, particularly as regards the daily business of small and medium- ject Partners is enjoying a lot of attention. Its activities sized enterprises. Crises such as the one in Ukraine today may present are expanding strongly towards Asia and South America. SMEs with great opportunities – in certain circumstances. The situation in Connecting 5Continents (C5C) is bal- Africa and South America, on the other hand, are definitely our anced. We’ve clearly experienced most growth there over most important markets for further growth. We’re planning to make the last few months. Developments are extremely ho- several trips to promote our networks there soon. Both regions have mogeneous, that is to say, equal in the various markets. significant growth potential, and business up and down the west coast of Africa is of particular interest to us. How have the profiles of GF’s networks developed over the last few years? Thanks to the fact that we have years’ of forwarding ex- perience we’re naturally close to the needs as well as the problems of SMEs competing with large corporations. Is your company Interested Our tools have supported our members well through In operatIng the economic downturns of the recent years. We’ve got From tHe soutH West oF europe? through this period with the loss of almost no members; rather, we’ve experienced steady growth in numbers.

IT tools are still a key factor for success. How integrated VIAL is the connection between your members today? In the industrial heartland of Northern Spain: with In terms of software each company works according to 10 logistics activity centres the individual requirements posed by its regional envi- years of operating experience, developed ronment, above all in terms of IT connections to cus- strategically and geographically around Vitoria and with the presence of important toms authorities as well as to shipping lines and airlines. multinationals. Rather than agreeing on a common denominator to 9,223,285 m2 meet the IT requirements in the 98 countries where our for logistics purposes members operate, our IT contribution provides a global dunning system. We can follow all of our network mem- bers’ open invoices and, where necessary, issue remind- aprIvIleged locatIon ers. This gives us a perfect overview of our members’ Midway between Central Europe activities at a level which most likely can’t be matched and Northern Africa. by any network today. In acrucial section of the VIAL overland trans-european network: What special points affecting all of your members will Paris-Madrid-Lisbon. Thekey link in the logistics chain in feature at the top of the agenda of your four networks’ Daily access to amarket of 18 South West Europe general assemblies, which are scheduled for October? million companies and 136 million customers. We’d like to present our members with details of some new features in our software tools. In addition, we have news about business development and promotional Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Alava activities prepared for 2015 for our members which we’re C/ Dato, 38 •01005 Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava) –SPAIN– Tel: +34945 14 18 00 •[email protected] planning to present at the conferences. 20 Inland Shipping / Rail / Road Haulage / Switzerland International Transport Journal 31-34 2014

The Rhine–Alpine corridor – an assessment A backbone for railfreight

A trip along the Rhine corridor from Antwerp and Rotterdam to the Swiss border, also known as the Rotterdam–Genoa corridor, gives some interesting perspectives on the development of railfreight on this route. Anitra Green got on board for the ITJ. A report on the southern end of the Rhine–Alpine corridor will follow in a future issue.

The Rhine–Alpine corridor (corridor 1) is According to the port of Rotterdam, the upgraded from two to three tracks. Work taking shape, though a lot still needs to be modal split is likely to shift significantly on this project will start next year, with done. The clear aim is to shift traffic from by 2035, with the railways’ share rising completion due in 2022. Meanwhile, road to rail, meet market requirements from 14% in 2009 to 20%– which could Antwerp is in the final stages of tests runs and improve European railfreight ser- mean handling 3.6 million teu. Barge traf- on a new rail link through the port, the vices. It is a collaborative effort between fic is slated to increase from 40% to 45% Liefkenshoek link, which provides a fast the rail infrastructure authorities in the (to 8.2 million), while road traffic’s share direct connection to its marshalling yard. countries concerned and aims to create could drop from 46% to 35%, which Inland ports are expanding too. Duis- interoperability, eliminate bottlenecks would still represent 6.4 million teu. burg runs around 350 freight train con- and develop a total service concept. The Rail links from ports are being im- nections a week to more than 80 Euro- authorities involved are ProRail, Infrabel, proved to meet this enormous demand pean destinations. It is also developing its DB Netze, SBB, BLS, Swiss Train Paths for new capacities. About 500 trains a Logport III logistics facility, with a new and RFI, with the support of the EU. week now run on the Betuwe line between intermodal terminal for the chemical Volumes in Rotterdam and Antwerp Rotterdam and the German border, but industry. Logistics service provider Con- are expected to grow strongly in the next the connecting line in Germany between targo is based there. It operates 25 inland 20 years, especially in the box trades. Emmerich and Oberhausen needs to be terminals and handles 2 million teu a

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There is a lot of competition amongst the firms providing transport. Hupac, a Swiss intermodal specialist, boasts of having a 45% share in the transalpine market, competing with 25 other inter- modal operators. It insists on using only one traction provider for the whole of any given route, in contrast to ra Green

it DB Schenker Rail or BLS Cargo, for example, which prefer to cooperate An

: with strong local partners. Incidentally, DB Schenker Rail, which claims to to have a market share of 25% through Switzerland, used to cooperate Pho Terminal capacities along corridor 1 – Cologne is pictured – are with BLS Cargo, but switched to SBB Cargo in December last year; being expanded to cope with expected volume increases. the change was worthwhile, they say (see also ITJ 15-16/2014, page 31). The body EEIG Corridor Rhine–Alpine EWIV coordinates these year. At its Neuss facility it is planning a new truck/train interests. Information is published in a customer information platform. terminal, which due to come on line in September 2016. One new measure is a pre-arranged paths product (pap), structured in RheinCargo, a trimodal service provider owned by segments. Rail operators can apply for a sub-set in combination with Hafen und Güterverkehr Köln (the Cologne port operat- at least one border crossing, and once allocated, that slot cannot be ing company HGK) and the port operator Neuss-Düssel- taken away. The entity is also studying a 740 m train, for longer trains dorfer Häfen (NDH), handles freight in its regional and mean higher productivity– up to 15% more capacity per train and path. international network and carried around 24 million t of goods by rail last year. It is now setting up a new bimodal facility, Terminal Nord, due to come on line this year. The railtracks have been laid, the first gantry is being erected and the search for an operator is on. In Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, the bimodal Kombi- Terminal Ludwigshafen organises chemical transport to and from a BASF plant, and acts for third parties (60%). It is a BASF, Bertschi, Kombiverkehr, Hoyer and Hupac partnership and handled record volumes last year. 8. St.Galler Logistikdienstleistungs-Kongress Netzwerke–Führung–Business Innovation

Eliminate a bottleneck in Basel Der St.Galler Logistikdienstleistungs-Kongress hat sich in denletzten Jahren alseinefeste Grösse in der One section of Switzerland’s A2 motorway is called the Tagungslandschaft in der Schweiz sowieim Basler Osttangente. It straddles the Rhine between the deutschsprachigen Raum etabliert undfindetindiesem Gellert residential area south of the river and the Black Jahr bereits zum achten Mal statt.Unter dem Motto Forest tunnel (Schwarzwaldtunnel) north of it, not far from the border with Germany. It is the most intensely „Netzwerke–Führung–Business Innovation“ used road in Switzerland, with around 150,000 vehicles werden am 15.und 16. September 2014 im Ramada a day bringing the segment to the limits of its capacity. Plaza in Baselvon einem hochkarätigen Some estimates concerning future traffic developments Referentenkreis kooperative undinnovative have predicted that without any expansion work, road Lösungsansätze in derLogistik, dielangfristige hauliers may have to face up to four hours of traffic jams Wettbewerbsvorteileam Markt ermöglichen, diskutiert. a day there by the year 2030. Der 8. St. Galler Logistikdienstleistungs-Kongress wird A tunnel under the Rhine as a solution? am Vorabend, dem 15.September2014, miteinem The federal government and the cantons of Basel-Stadt festlichen Bankett eröffnet, beidem Prof.Dr. Claus and Basel-Landschaft have already disagreed for a while Hipp als Unternehmer-Persönlichkeitangekündigt ist. on the way to expand the section. Now the country’s Am Kongresstag,dem 16.September2014, werden federal roads office Astra has proposed a compromise. namhafte Expertender Schweizer undEuropäischen Instead of adding two more overground lanes, the au- thority has suggested a tunnel from the Wiese intersec- Wirtschaft Vorträge zu hochaktuellen Themen ausder tion in the north to Birsfelden in the south. Logistikbranchehalten. The government’s overground project was budgeted at CHF 900 million. A tunnel has been pencilled in at Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit, IhrNetzwerkzuerweitern CHF 1.4 billion. Astra said that «about CHF 300 million undbestehende Kontakte zu pflegen! needed for any extension to Germany are not included in this figure.» The cantons have welcomed Astra’s propo- Alle Informationen zu Referenten, Themen, Workshops sowie zur sal in principle, but there is no agreement yet concerning Anmeldungfinden Sie im Internet unter the shouldering of the additional expenses. Discussions www.logistik.unisg.ch/kongress. are set to continue in autumn. cd 22 The Americas Special International Transport Journal 31-34 2014

Latin America’s Mercosur A sleeping giant

Latin America boasts one of the world’s largest economic unions in the form of its Mercosur common market. While Europe is paying relatively little attention to this association, China is watching the region very closely. The country’s head of state Xi Jinping recently visited Argentina, despite the latter’s poor commercial circumstances, and also has his sights on Brazil.

lost momentum and Mercosur has be- come less important as a customs union. Even on the topic of free trade, the criti- cal steps have yet to be taken. Currently it is much more relevant as a forum for diplomatic exchange. Some observers have therefore raised the prospect that separate negotiations between the EU and Brazil could soon begin. This would represent a dramatic development for the other partners and could put the importance of Mercosur into question.

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Pho Far East. The governments of Venezuela Ever more Chinese capital is heading for South America, which could benefit Argentina too. and China recently announced that they are planning to intensify their economic The Mercosur alliance (Mercado Común economies, both of which are very impor- relationship with a series of agreements. del Sur, or southern common market), tant for the region. At the forefront of the proposals are the is seeking to increase its economic rel- The Mercosur common market is one trade in oil and other raw materials, as evance. A planned free-trade agreement of the largest in the global economy. well as investments in infrastructure. with the European Union is expected to The union of Venezuela, Argentina, Bra- The Chinese head of state Xi Jinping make some progress in this regard, as it zil, Paraguay and Uruguay unites about visited Argentina, Cuba and Venezuela on will dismantle trade restrictions and thus 275 million people, who together gener- his recent Latin American trip. In 2012, boost the exchange of goods between the ate about four fifths of South America’s China invested about USD 11.4 billion in two regions. gross domestic product. The association Latin American countries, which repre- Other topics are currently making the thus constitutes South America’s largest sents 11% of its total foreign investments headlines, however: Argentina, which mercantile entity. (source: United Nations Economic Com- took over the presidency of Mercosur Ongoing negotiations between the EU mission for Latin America and the Carib- from Venezuela at the end of July, has and Mercosur have nevertheless received bean, Eclac). declared a state bankruptcy for the sec- very little attention in Europe – the ond time in twelve years. Things are Transatlantic Trade and Investment Part- ...as well as secondly not encouraging for Mercosur member nership (TTIP), a proposed trade agree- The Chinese-South American connec- Venezuela either. The country has had ment between the European Union and tion was also illustrated by a specific Bra- to deal with massive protests against the the United States, has dominated news on zilian example recently. Alibaba, China’s government of Nicolás Maduro in recent the old continent much more. largest IT corporation, and Brazil’s state- months. owned postal service provider Correios More appearance than substance recently entered into a partnership that Mercosur’s two troubled members In addition to political integration the will advance bilateral trade between the In Argentina, inflation is currently con- member countries are striving first and two countries. In so doing, Alibaba will tinuing to increase and growth has practi- foremost to simplify trade with one an- support Correios’s local distribution net- cally come to a standstill. The economic other, one key target in particular being work, as well as its storage and customs crisis has deepened in Venezuela as well, the gradual phasing out of existing cus- handling facilities. but the government has been able to toms duties. Initially the plan seemed With this collaboration, as well as with bring back some stability. to be going well: trade in the Mercosur its B2B website, Correios wants to help It is impossible to look at the Merco- area has shown steady growth over the small Brazilian enterprises increase sales sur market without taking into account ten years since its establishment. In the of their products to potential Chinese the unstable situation of these two large meantime, however, the proposition has customers. Antje Veregge International Transport Journal 31-34 2014 The Americas Special 23

Pushboat operations in South America Imperial in the New World

The Imperial Shipping Group is showing its pioneering spirit: It has been deploying its pushboat combinations to transport iron ore from Brazil to Argentina since the beginning of this year. To this end the European logistics service provider founded a subsidiary in Paraguay. While the first lighters were imported from Europe, Imperial is now building new vessels locally.

A crisis often gives rise to new opportu­ nities – an old adage that seems to be true for the Imperial Shipping Group, at any rate. The transport specialist, which is headquartered in Duisburg (Germany), launched new services in South America last year, the decisive impulse for the move having come from the economic oup downturn which began in 2008. Gr g The Imperial Shipping Group has a in pp fleet of around 700 owned and chartered Shi inland barges. It specialises in the ship­ al Imperi ment of dry and liquid bulk, breakbulk : and project cargo. 200 vessels belong to to Pho the company. «Of course this ties up a Twelve units in a pushboat convoy sailing from Brazil to Argentina. great deal of capital. Until the beginning of 2008 this policy was not a problem. We apart from Europe, were of any interest rently being built locally. Some of these could pursue our business strategy of on­ for inland shipping activities, namely new vessels will be deployed in the exis­ going expansion and development with­ Russia, Asia (particularly China) and ting business, and others are intended to out any difficulty,» Carsten Taucke, the South America. provide new services, potentially for the CEO of the Imperial Shipping Group, The latter market proved to be espe­ carriage of agricultural produce. explains. cially attractive for Imperial, not least Imperial hopes to benefit from the Then came the crisis. As a charterer because of the expansion strategy it had Hidrovía Paraguay­Paraná project, which and shipping line Imperial depends on chosen. This envisaged either purchasing foresees the development of the Rio Para­ demand for the maritime trade in ore, a firm or taking a stake in an enterprise, guay and the Rio Paraná for inland ship­ coal, agricultural and other bulk cargo, or launching a collaboration deal with a ping on a length of just under 3,500 km, as well as for chemical products and gas. customer. This is the course Imperial has which will encourage the increased de­ 2008 brought a significant downturn in now adopted in South America. ployment of barges on these waterways. all of these markets. Consequently, part The group began its cooperation with In South America, twelve units sail in one of the corporation’s fleet lay idle on the a large South American steel producer pushboat convoy, which is twice as many Rhine. The firm did not want to deviate last year. The customer is headquartered as is the case in Europe. from its growth strategy, however. «These in Argentina, while its cargo comes from «The new venture requires a substan­ developments did make us realise how Brazil. The iron ore is shipped from there tial amount of capital, and we are invest­ fragile our business model was, however. to the Argentinian port of San Nicolas. ing more than USD 100 million in the Thus internationalisation became our For this purpose, Imperial opened a sub­ project,» Taucke points out. «Naturally, new watchword,» Taucke adds. sidiary in Paraguay, which commenced we are not making a large profit at the The group decided to diversify its port­ operations in January. Twelve lighters moment, but we believe that our efforts folio – not to change its range of prod­ and two pushboats were transported will pay off in the long term.» The first ucts, but rather to expand its regional from Germany to South America. Two newbuildings should be ready to set sail focus. Clearly, only three other regions, more barge trains with 48 lighters are cur­ this year. av

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In brief US CEP provider soon to be present in more than 200 Brazilian cities

Award in Miami. The US cruise trip organ- iser Royal Caribbean Cruises bestowed its Big brown spreading its wings Royal contribution award on Kuehne+Nagel in Miami FL recently, making K+N the sole In July UPS announced that it has plans to logistics provider to win the prize. construct nine new facilities in the Brazil- www.kn-portal.com ian state of São Paulo by next May. Focusing on Miami. American Airlines is reorganising its business and will end the «Key trends, such as the rise of the middle last connection between Charlotte NC the classes, e-commerce and SMEs, are con- hub of its merger partner US Airways, and tinuously opening up new opportunities

South America (São Paulo Guarulhos) this for us in Brazil,» said UPS country head S UP

autumn. Miami FL will then become the Nadir Moreno, explaining the motiva- : main access point for Latin America, starting tion for the firm’s latest move. to Pho with a daily flight to São Paulo Viracopos on The nine sites, in Araçatuba, Bauru, UPS is investing strongly in Latin America’s 2 December. www.aacargo.com Botucatu, Franca, Presidente Prudente, largest market. Ribeirão Preto, São Carlos, São José do Sky Airline in Alta. The second-largest Rio Preto and São José dos Campos, will cles, which will serve the new routes to Chilean airline became the 71st member increase UPS’s facilities in the state to 21, Campinas, Marilia, São José dos Cam- of the Latin American Aviation Association with storage space of 20,0000 sqm. They pos, Santos and Sorocaba. This will result (Alta) in July. With an Airbus fleet consist- are strategically placed near 110 towns in an extension of collection deadlines by ing of 15 units, Sky Airline operates freight and cities, which means that more than two hours. «With more flexible collection services between seven Chilean airports and 200 places nationally will then be linked times and faster transit options, we’ll be Buenos Aires (Argentina), La Paz (Bolivia) by UPS, 78% more than previously. able to provide better logistics services in and Lima (Peru), amongst other options. This improvement go hand in hand this key Latin American market,» More- www.skyairline.cl with an increase in the fleet to 155 vehi- no added. ah International Transport Journal 31-34 2014 The Americas Special 25

No world champion mood here What’s eating the aviation industry?

Latin America is only region in the world that noted declining airfreight volumes in attractiveness as a destination and its abi- H1 /2014. An expert describes what is causing the problem. lity to compete as an exporter.» She says the most extreme example When football’s World Cup began two compared to May this year (measured in of such home-grown problems is the ex- months ago in Brazil – South America’s ftk), and 3.4% below the figure for June traordinary situation in Venezuela, where largest economy – hopes were sky high. 2013. The resultant decrease of 0.1% for the government, which is short of foreign But they plunged accordingly when the H1 /2014 is said to be due to «sluggish dy- currency, now owes carriers a staggering home team dropped out and Argentina namics and the continuing weakness of USD 4.1 billion. As a result eleven inter- lost in the final. The fact that bilateral regional economies, including Brazil’s.» national airlines operating to and from air travel was boosted by the many special the country have cut operations by be- flights operated by Aerolineas Argentinas Home-grown problems tween 15% and 78% in the past year, and between Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro Skaiste Knyzaite, the chief executive of- a few have even ceased flying altogether. for the final represented minor compen- ficer of Lithuania’s aviationcv.com, said Experts have long projected growth sation. Brazil’s TAM also drew a positive that «too many Latin American countries rates that would put Latin America on conclusion, despite the special invest- risk missing out on the economic devel- the same upward trajectory as China. ments it had made that in the end «had a opment that the aviation industry fosters, This prompts Knyzaite to ask whether negative effect on our operating margin because they treat it as a luxury item.A «the region would really be ready to meet during the World Cup.» number of states apply value-added tax the ever increasing demand, even if these The evidence that freight business and other taxes on aviation fuel for in- issues were eliminated?» The answer to lost out is clearer. The International Air ternational flights. As a result, fuel ex- the question may be yes or no. What is Transport Association (Iata) ascertained penses across the region are around 14% certain is that Latin American airlines re- that the performance of its Latin Ameri- higher than the world average. Moreover, quire up to 2,900 new aircraft and 45,000 can members was 4.6% lower in June high fees and charges impact a country’s pilots more over the next 20 years. ah

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Joint venture for blocktrains and single wagonloads An Amber Adriatic?

A new Polish-Hungarian-Slovakian joint venture connects railfreight from Central Europe bound for the Adriatic ports with freight forwarding er

services. The traffic flows through the companies’ own terminals. ll Mü Josef

The Polish freight forwarding company Trade Trans has joined up with : the Hungarian railway company Gysev Cargo to establish a joint ven- to Pho ture corporation (50:50) in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. It will In Sopron (Hungary) Gysev Cargo operates a container terminal enter the European market with an offering of blocktrain products. The with six tracks with cranes and four storage rail spurs. goal is to operate blocktrains carrying both conventional and inter- modal traffic from Poland via Slovakia and Hungary to the Adriatic Amber Rail says that it also carries out transports with ports of Koper and Trieste (Fernetti). Furthermore, Amber Rail has single wagonloads. As a partner in the background, said in Bratislava, other operators involved in European east–west traf- Trade Trans acts as a neutral railway marketing com- fic can add their own shipping volumes to these north–south trains. pany and forges partnerships with large-scale shippers The new company, led by Dieter Kaas and Zsolt Szalai, offers door-to- in trade and industry, import and export companies and door services, which include freight forwarding services in addition to forwarders. The focus of the company’s transport opera- traditional rail transport. The trains roll along Gysev’s west Hungarian tions is rail, which is explained by the fact that the Polish railway network, which is currently undergoing extensive expansion. state railway PKP Cargo and other Eastern European rail The rail hub in Sopron, where Gysev operates a container terminal and companies are stakeholders in Trade Trans. assembles blocktrains bound for Southeastern Europe, plays a role as a Nevertheless, says the company, «due to the com- central hub in the strategy. mon infrastructure problems in Southern European countries, other means of transport are also taken into account.» Thus the firm also offers transports by truck and barge, often in combination with rail transports. Private railcars are increasingly being used to compen- sate for wagons that are either too old or not available in sufficient numbers in Central European railway fleets. Goods are transloaded at the company’s own train sta- tions at interchange locations where trains are switched Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Aktiengesellschaft from broad-gauge to the standard European gauge. At locations not equipped with interchanges, customers are offered split-transport solutions, with the railways as well as trucks. Trade Trans transports goods via its own terminals, such as the Cervignano hub in Italy and terminals in Curtici, Pitesti and Arad (all Romania). Amber Rail uses the terminals in Fernetti (Trieste), Gliwice (Poland), Curtici (Romania) and Sopron (Hungary). Josef Müller

More toll roads in Belarus

The Belarusian government passed a resolution on 23 July, expanding the country’s toll road network by 256 km. The measure mainly affects additional stretches of international transit routes. As a result of this second expansion, a total of 1,189 km of motorways and high- ways have now been included in the Beltoll turnpike

F I A TA system since 1 August. Beltoll estimates that the number of vehicles now affected by the toll requirement has risen www.navis-ag.com to 200,000 units. Hamburg · Bremen · Hannover · Freiberg Vehicles with a total weight of less than 3.5 t and Rotterdam · Antwerpen · Barcelona which are registered in the toll union with Russia and Kazakhstan are exempted from requirements.(ku) International Transport Journal 31-34 2014 Africa 27

An ongoing African boom China making inroads

The news from Africa has it that Nigeria, with its estimated 177 million inhabitants, is not only the continent’s most populous country, but has also taken on the mantle (from South Africa) of its strongest economic engine. A series of major initiatives, frequently enjoying Chinese support, are currently on the continent’s drawing board. They could result in NS EC

significant economic progress in the region. : to Pho The newest figures for Nigeria have bring the total number of Representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority and the China once again clearly shown that growth berths in the port to 32. Communication Construction Company signing a contract in the West African country is gene­ The project is a part of that calls for work in the port of Lamu to start in September. rated (almost) entirely by its oil and gas the Lapsset international exports. The sector is notoriously weak in transport corridor (Lamu terms of creating employment, however, Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport). Republic of the Congo. The country has and experts believe that this is one of the Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia have also secured USD 164 million (from the reasons why a large part of Nigeria’s pop­ teamed up to complete the programme, Netherlands) to expand Julius Nyerere ulation continues to live in dire poverty. which is set to cost a total of approxi­ airport in Dar es Salaam, in order to ease mately USD 24 billion. the hub’s capacity constraints. Emirates launches Abuja link Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s president, It remains to be seen to what extent This makes the news that the airline believes that the integrated transport and the plans will be realised in the outlined Emirates has added a second destination commerce corridor, which includes the timeframes in both countries. Both major in Nigeria to its existing service to Lagos, building of new roads, railways, airports, projects have reported some delays. the country’s largest city, particularly oil refineries, pipelines and transmission welcome. The Dubai­based carrier com­ cables, amongst many other things, will menced daily flights to the capital Abuja be a great boon to the region. In brief on 1 August. Refrigerated facility in Tangier. The Adil Al Ghaith, the enterprise’s vice­ Its neighbour is keeping up with Kenya port of Tanger Med in northern Morocco is president for commercial operations in Tanzania, in turn, has plans to build planning to establish a modern refrigerated Northern and Western Africa, said that the region’s largest maritime port, for facility covering approximately 6,600 sqm. «the new service offers great opportuni­ USD 11 billion – also with Chinese help. The new plant will be located in the hub’s ties to intensify relations between the The hub will be built in Bagamoyo and customs-bonded Medhub logistics zone. It United Arab Emirates and Nigeria, which will be larger than the country’s Dar es will provide opportunities to store, conserve, is one of the UAE’s most important tra­ Salaam gateway and also bigger than pack, label and process goods. The project ding partners, on account largely of its neighbouring Kenya’s port of Mombasa. was launched with the help of Moroccan rapidly­growing economy.» Construction work is expected to start and Latin American investors and offers this year and will be completed by 2017. the country’s fruit, vegetables and seafood Expanding the port of Lamu Bagamoyo will have the capacity to han­ traders opportunities to export their pro- Numerous other African countries have dle 20 million containers a year, com­ duce directly to 140 ports in 60 countries also recently launched measures to pro­ pared with Mombasa’s installed capacity in accordance with international standards. mote further growth. One of the most of 600,000 boxes and Dar es Salaam’s The new centre, which is projected to create promising paths to greater economic 500,000 containers. 55 new jobs, is expected to cost USD 10 mil- development lies in expanding ports lion and offer a capacity of 40,000 t. and the concomitant infrastructure in Every mode of transport www.tmsa.ma the hinterland. Thus Kenya, for exam­ Analysts believe that the scales concer­ ple, has announced plans to expand the ning port capacities could tip in Tanza­ Cranes for Algerian ports. A group of port of Lamu, an undertaking it hopes nia’s favour in the medium term. By 2017 seven Algerian port operators has teamed to achieve – rather unsurprisingly– with the country will have four ports – Dar es up to buy 20 Liebherr mobile harbour cranes. They will be supplied to the gate- Chinese support. Salaam, Bagamoyo, Tanga and Mtwara. ways in Algiers, Annaba, Béjaïa, Ghazaouet, The Kenya Ports Authority and the Kenya in turn, has only two hubs, in Mostaganem, Oran and Skikda, where they China Communication Construction Mombasa and Lamu. will handle breakbulk cargo, dry bulk freight Company recently signed a USD 479 mil­ In other news, Tanzania is planning as well as containers. All of the new units lion contract for the construction of to build a new railway linking it to the are due to commence operations in the three new berths in the gateway. The landlocked countries of Uganda, Rwanda course of 2014. www.liebherr.com work is set to begin in September. It will and Burundi, as well as to the Democratic 28 Middle East / Asia International Transport Journal 31-34 2014

New finance platform for strategic investments ICTSI takes a fresh approach

New forms of investment and financing are in demand in the maritime economy – not I TS IC :

only in Europe, with its more traditional orientation. Terminal operator ICTSI shows to Pho new ways forward for the Asian market. The Manila terminal is ICTSI’s flagship facility.

The Manila-based Filipino port facility Originally, the facility was designed for financial institutions Australia and New operator International Container Ter- a total amount of USD 250 million. Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) minal Services Inc (ICTSI) has teamed However, due to strong demand from and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) up with a number of international and banks, the partners finally increased acted as facilitators of the programme. domestic banks to establish a new kind the programme to a higher amount of They said that the solid financial founda- of loan and credit facility programme USD 350 million. It was nevertheless still tion of terminal operator ICTSI was one for the Asian market. The focus is on a oversubscribed by a factor of 3.34. The motivating factor. av syndicated revolving credit facility worth USD 350 million. Credit facilities pro- vide the option to raise cash in set limits at short notice. With this new measure The basics of port operation in Singapore the company aims to establish a platform from which other loan-type financing The terminal operator PSA Corpora- dents and provide them with a «deeper instruments can be used in a relatively tion Limited (PSA), whose head office is understanding of operational processes flexible manner and as and when they are in Singapore, and the local Institute of and technologies at container ports». needed. ICTSI plans to use the funds for Technical Education (ITE) have signed The agreement aims to make the indus- «strategic investments and general com- a declaration of intent worth more than try more attractive for talented young pany purposes». USD 2 million. The aim is to train stu- entrants. av

In brief New to Hanoi Fully in South Korea Etihad Cargo, the freight unit of the Eight years after the transport and lo- Fleet milestone. Air New Zealand took flag carrier of the UAE, Etihad Airways, gistics service provider Dachser entered delivery of the country’s first ever Boeing B787-9 on 9 July. It is part of a comprehen- launched a full-freighter service between the South Korean market, the company sive fleet upgrade that encompasses ten its hub in Abu Dhabi and the Vietnamese started operating as Dachser Korea Inc on units. This Dreamliner version is 6 m larger capital Hanoi in July. The flights, oper- 1 July this year. In December 2013, the than the B787-8 and has space for 172 cbm ated on Thursdays and Sundays with one enterprise took over the remaining 50% of cargo – 35 cbm more than the basic ver- of the carrier’s four Airbus A330-200Fs, stake in the joint venture MGI&Dachser sion. www.airnewzealand.co.nz stop over in Mumbai (India) on their way Inc. At the same time as it is changing to Hanoi. The return flight is conducted the company name, the subsidiary is Launch customer placing orders. All nonstop. Etihad Cargo expects to fill the also moving into a new head office in Nippon Airways (ANA), which became the 62 t of capacity available with raw materi- the capital city Seoul. Dachser Korea has Dreamliner’s launch customer nearly three als, consumer goods as well as perishable another office, specialised in seafreight years ago, took delivery of the first of its 30 cargo on the route to Hanoi, and to trans- and located in Busan, as well as a ware- Boeing B787-9s on order on 29 July. Only port electronic goods and textiles from house for airfreight at Incheon airport. two days later, ANA officially confirmed Vietnam and destined predominantly for Furthermore, the service provider offers another major order, originally announced the Gulf region, Europe and Africa. consolidation for airfreight pallets in its in spring, for more than 40 further long- «Vietnam is a key market for Etihad own hall there. haul jets from the US aircraft manufacturer. Cargo,» explained Etihad chief strategist «This country with 50 million inhabit- The 14 new B787-9s, six B777-300ERs and Kevin Knight. «Our new freight service ants, a strong economy and a workforce 20 B777-9Xs have a combined list price of will build on the underfloor capacities of- with high technical skills is one of Ger- nearly USD 13 billion. www.anacargo.jp fered by our existing daily passenger ser- many’s key economic partners in East- vices to Ho Chi Minh City, in the south ern Asia,» said Thomas Reuter, COO of Freighter in Farnborough. Qatar Airways of the country.» Dachser Air&Sea Logistics. Roman Mül- stated its intent to buy four Boeing B777Fs, Etihad Cargo serves 108 destinations ler, MD of Dachser Korea and director of with an option to four more aircraft of the worldwide, deploying ten full-freighters Dachser Korea Inc., added that «we want same type, at the air show held in Farnbor- to this end. In addition to its A330Fs it has to expand in this market in a focused way ough (UK) in July. The list price of the deal comes to USD 3 billion. www.qrcargo.com three Boeing B777Fs (100 t), two B747- and use its close links to China, the US 400Fs (115 t) and one B747-8F (130 t). and Europe to our advantage.» ah International Transport Journal 31-34 2014 Miscellaneous 29

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: network.» Emirates also has partnerships to with the football clubs Arsenal, Milan, Pho The club Benfica, founded in 1904, and its footballers are set to fly with Emirates. Paris Saint-Germain, Olympiakos and Hamburger SV, as well as with the Asian Sponsoring football leagues and great clubs Football Confederation.

DHL in a less traditional football country Play resumes after the World Cup The express and logistics service pro- vider DHL, in turn, has entered into a The confetti blasted around the Maracanã to celebrate Germany’s World Cup win had sponsorship agreement with the Football hardly been swept up before national football championships across the northern hemi- Association of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s most populous coun- sphere resumed. Two large logistics industry players are staying on the ball as sponsors. try. The decision to support the Chinese Super League, the top flight of Chinese Emirates, an airline headquartered in signed a three-year contract that makes football, underlines not only DHL’s de- Dubai (UAE), was already involved in the Emirates the club’s official airline until sire to support football in China, but also World Cup in Brazil (see ITJ 9-10 /2014, 2016. Hubert Frach, Emirates’ divisional its long-term commitment to the Chinese page 49). Now it has also become a senior vice-president for commercial op- market and its determination to grow partner of Benfica (or Sport Lisboa e erations (west), said that «for us the part- there. Jerry Hsu, DHL Express’s CEO Benfica, to give the football club’s full nership with Benfica presents an ideal for the Asia-Pacific area, pointed out name). Benfica has 235,000 members, opportunity to be in touch with football that 34 years ago DHL became the first making it the largest sports club in the fans – not only in Portugal but also with international express firm to do business world. Benfica and Emirates, which has Benfica’s nigh-on 14 million supporters in China. It has grown with the country served the Portuguese capital since 2012, worldwide. The growing international and will grow with its football too. ah

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From saving time to stealing time

«There are more important things in life than constantly increasing its speed.» Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, pacifist and human rights activist.

A selfie did the global rounds not so long reluctantly handed the technician my device. every five minutes, tweet during a ro- ago. Barack Obama took a photograph Approximately thirty minutes later I put my mantic dinner, or use WhatsApp whilst of himself at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, hand in my pocket for the first time – and it driving a car? It’s as if Michael Ende had and the picture, with the British prime was empty. The same was repeated for the a premonition of what was to come when minister David Cameron and his Danish next fortnight. he wrote his book in 1973. In an epilogue colleague Helle Thorning-Schmidt in the I only read my e-mails three times a day his enigmatic passenger says: «I’ve told background, soon went round the world. in this period, and instead of chatting with you all this as if it had already happened. So is this an embarrassment or trendy? friends on WhatsApp, we were often found I could also have told you the story as if it One thing is certain – smartphone using a landline. It was a bit like in the stone was going to take place in the future. For owners are never bored. They whip out age, but also a bit like being on holiday. me there’s no great difference.» their cell phones as soon as they find The German writer Sten Nadolny already Nevertheless, it would be too simplistic themselves in the checkout queue, when described «The Discovery of Slowness» in his to portray all apps and smartphones as they are in the train or even on the lava- bestseller of that name in 1983. villains. They are, rather, representative tory. Apps induce us to check our displays As useful as these all-rounder phones of many electronic devices, such as Wii every minute of the day. WhatsApp, Face- might be, they have a vast range of ap- boxes or Nintendos. Unlike these elec- book, or simple e-mail accounts are some plications that steal your time. In his story tronic consumer entertainment playthings, of our best digital friends. «Momo», written forty years ago, Michael smartphones are designed as useful tools. I too belong to the faction of smart- Ende explained the consequences of this sort And if they are in fact used properly, phone lovers. I appreciate the flexibility of thing. Cigar-smoking ashen-coloured men they can be just that. Their pitfalls are it gives me in the form of an office in in spider-web coloured suits with lead-grey described well by the Austrian writer my pocket. I don’t miss city maps with briefcases steal people’s time to enrich them- Ernst Ferstl. «The biggest problem with idiosyncratic folding techniques, I don’t selves with that commodity. No one has any progress is that its downsides improve as miss queuing for tickets, and I don’t miss time to chat or listen to each other anymore well.» my camera. in the novel. Incidentally, I’ve come up with my I now carry out all these activities on Now these men in grey have arrived in own book of smartphone etiquette in the my phone. I realised how much we belong our time. They come well-camouflaged as meantime. I still don’t find it very easy together, my smartphone and I, when I apps that make out that they are useful, to stick to my own rules, but at least I’ve unconsciously kept postponing a much- important, meaningful – and they eat into thought about them – and that surely is a needed appointment at the cell phone re- ever larger chunks of our leisure time. After good start. pair shop. When I finally made the date I all, who really needs to check their e-mails Stephanie Lützen

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