Shipping keeps calm 
The Japanese economy is the world’s third-largest in terms of per capita GDP, with USD 38,490 per person and year. The logistics / shipping sector benefits from the globe’s third-ranked car-making sector, and also from electronic equipment and textile exports. more
A tiger ready to pounce
Asia’s tiger states have recognised the key role that logistics plays worldwide. In March 2015 the Malaysian government, for example, published a master plan, with investments worth USD 81 million, to improve the local and regional connectivity in Port Klang’s hinterland. Plans... more
Top-class performances
The Alpine republics Switzerland and Austria are traditionally winter sports nations. To enable leading athletes on snow and ice to deliver their best, however, the logistics services for their sensitive and valuable equipment also have to be top-notch. Thus the winter sports... more
From Turkey to Lithuania
The Austrian logistics corporation Gebrüder Weiss launched a new multimodal transport solution between the Baltic Sea and Istanbul at the beginning of the year. more
Hot potatoes tackled
Over the past few years the Apennine Peninsula’s officials have made an effort to improve the overall framework for doing business, which has helped logistics too. The domestic transport industry’s positive outlook for 2016 is also down to national structural reforms. more
Countering dangers on the roads
The northern corridor is one of East and Central Africa’s most intensively-used goods haulage routes – and its most dangerous one too. The axis linking Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Congo sees most lorry accidents in all of Africa. Now the six states that it... more
Pulling out all the stops
Competition between European states that profit from the flag presence of vessels is increasingly being determined by regulations set in Brussels. Malta is currently benefiting from the amended tonnage tax in Italy – and it also has a competitive edge with its ship register from... more
Growth in the Middle East and the CIS
Kita Logistics, the logistics company, recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. It offers services in the areas of airfreight, seafreight, overland and multimodal transport. In particular, it has sufficiently large warehousing premises. Recently it spread its wings towards the... more
With a focus on containers
Since 2013, the Turkish shipping line U.N. Ro-Ro Isletmeleri, which was established in 1994, has offered container transports from Turkey to Europe and to other destinations. This is in addition to its roll-on/roll-off services. Its CEO, Sedat Gumusoglu, explained to ITJ the... more
New markets in the new world
IAG has focused on expanding pharmaceuticals activities this year. Geographically-speaking, South America has become more important, and destinations there that IAG Cargo does not serve itself it brings closer to its customers with the assistance of innovative cooperation... more