07-08/2019 The merits of talking 
Albert Camus believed that “talking is the only bridge between people.” We don’t know whether the Chinese and US governments are familiar with the French writers’s work – but at the end of January the two countries nevertheless resumed talks to end their trade war. The ... more
05-06-/2019
Sometimes it’s easier to find out the industry’s mood on your own doorstep than at a high-profile yet distant conference. At a new year event put on by Spedlogswiss, the Swiss forwarders’ association, president Thomas de Courten and managing director Thomas Schwarzenbach were... more
01-04/2019
I hope you feel suitably regenerated for the start of the new year! You don’t quite have to be clairvoyant to predict that we’re setting out on a rather challenging twelve months. Digitalisation in all its facets, and especially its effects on logistics, will be one subject at... more
49-52/2018
Christmas is just around the corner – but many a logistics industry employee has to work very hard in December to earn his Yuletide break. The run up to Christmas always sees parcel service providers handling record consignment volumes and e-traders’ warehouses bursting at the... more
47-48/2018 Media reality and objectivity
If I’ve been reading the mass media properly, then we’re once again standing right at the abyss. Looming and ongoing trade wars, turbulent stock exchanges, volatile fuel prices; the headlines are dominated by bad news. But don’t forget – I said is was talking about the mass... more
45-46/2018 New insights from the road
The German poet Peter Sirius (1858–1913) let us know that if you go walking a lot, then you’ll come back well-versed. The ITJ’s editorial team has long shared this view; as often as possible we try to include a presence at the logistics industry’s hotspots in our everyday... more
43-44/2018 Safety last
Once the fourth quarter starts the economics prophets once again do the honours. Apparently the old has been rung out (not true), the new year thoroughly planned (an illusion, or said by an auditor) and ‘tina’ calls the shots – ‘there is no alternative’ to certain very urgent... more
41-42/2018 Prices on fire
This latest issue of the ITJ focuses on Germany. The European transport and logistics industry heavyweight is also the old and new logistics world champion, thanks amongst other things to robust domestic demand and strong exports. The industry’s major national meeting, the... more
39-40/2018 From pole to pole
This issue of the ITJ once again draws an arc from Asia across to the Americas. The two poles thereof are the Fiata World Congress 2018 in New Delhi at one end, which is being staged in the Indian capital from 26 – 29 September, and the Breakbulk Americas 2018 trade fair... more
37-38/2018 Europe’s Homework
When the World Bank published the Logistics Performance Index 2018 (LPI) in August, the satisfaction in Europe was particularly noticeable. The continent, which could come under extreme pressure in the show of strength between China and the United States according to numerous... more