05-06/2014 Where are we headed? 
I hope the new year has started well for you, both in the personal and professional spheres! 2014 is still so new that we have to remain cautious about defining the trends that will characterise it. But we can already see that overcapacities in the airfreight industry may well... more
01-04/2014 Happy New Year!
The dawn of a new year is often the time for some fortune-telling. Analysts, market researchers, logistics industry experts (including those who put themselves on that pedestal) write predictions that compete for space in the media. Some writers assume that 2014 will bestow an... more
49-52/2013 From better to good!
This issue brings an action-packed year to an end for us. Let’s be honest – it was a transition year. The general situation for logisticians and transport operators only improved marginally and the economy’s great fly wheel continues to run well below its optimum speed. So what... more
47-48/2013 Ports in the limelight
2013 is slowly coming to a close, prompting me to have a first look back at the year that has passed and to take provisional stock of what has transpired. It wasn’t a dull year for our industry, that’s for sure! The fact that the volume of goods handled on most routes has not... more
45-46/2013 All’s well that ends well?
The end of the year is already nighing again, and there is a lot that needs to be done. That’s definitely a good thing! Iata has ascertained a rising trend for the airfreight industry in the past few months. The association’s figures, published on 30 October, show that the cargo... more
43-44/2013 Climate change and logistics
One of the subjects that is increasingly moving into freight forwarders and logisticians’ focus is the serious problem of global climate change and its immediate effects on our transport and logistics industry. There isn’t a day that passes without news coming in of a natural... more
41-42/2013 A change of course
There is much commotion in politics at the moment: after the Democrats and Republicans in the United States failed to come to an agreement on the way forward for the new fiscal year of the national budget, which began on 1 October, the White House ordered a shutdown of its... more
39-40/2013 Security takes charge
Security remains a key Leitmotiv of our age. The list of dangers that we may face at some point on our journey from the cradle to the grave is already infinitely long – but nevertheless still growing. What started with extra training wheels on your bicycle and water wings for... more
37-38/2013 Voting is power
Our Germany Special may only be due in ITJ 41-42/2013, but to mark the national elections to the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, on 22 September, it is worth taking a look at the country at the heart of Europe which is frequently awarded the unofficial title of... more
35-36/2013 A spluttering engine
For many years now international capital has invested occasionally gigantic sums of money in the so-called Bric states – Brazil, Russia, India and China. Emerging markets seemed to hold great promise from an economic point of view. They offered high returns on investments, the... more