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Downward spiral 10

A negative trend rarely remains alone. Not onlyare the margins in the shipping industry dropping,as the WCI shows, but the punctuality of contain-erships has also declined. Reliability has droppedto a level last attained at the beginning of 2012.

Expanding to the east 19

Emirates SkyCargo has added the Pakistani city ofSialkot to the list of destinations it serves there,bringing its cargo capacity between Dubai andthat country to 1,400 t a week. The carrier alsorecently improved its South Pacific options.

Focusing on key axes 32

Austria’s LTE Group, which is headquarteredin Graz, is expanding its railfreight operations.Besides adding promising markets such as Czechiaand Hungary to its portfolio it will also seek toimprove the Baltic–Adriatic axis in 2014.

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There is basic agreement in the Austrianlogistics industry. Oliver Wagner, themanaging director of the national for-warding and logistics association sinceJune, opened his tenure by stressing the«importance of logistics as a key factor inAustria’s ability to compete internation-ally.» The aim, he said, is to «anchor logis-tics more visibly.» This is the consensus.As far as transport modes go, Austria ison the Danube, and this presents a dilem-ma. On the one hand there is an all-outattack on the introduction of gigaliners atthe political level. Transport minister Do-ris Bures is very vocal on this, as is MEPJörg Leichtfried. Politically there is a pref-erence for rail transport and waterwaysand for suitable European policies alongthese lines. On the other hand, Austrianforwarders, led by Wolfram Senger-Weiss,president of the national association, arein favour of large heavy goods vehicles on

the roads, and have warned that Austriacould be isolated in Europe in case of ano. In addition, the restructuring of RailCargo Austria (RCA), the freight subsidi-ary of ÖBB, has not been well-received byforwarders. The Austrian timber indus-try, which provides 5 million t of cargo ayear and accounts for about 12% of an-nual railfreight in Austria, has criticiseddramatic price increases of up to 30%and warned that huge volumes of timbertransportation may be transferred to theroads.

The railway as an opportunityAccording to the EU white paper ontransport published in the year 2000 theplan is for the share of rail transport inthe modal split to reach 35%. In realityits contribution is constantly falling, anda mere decade later it is already down to24%. More recently it has been moving

even further away from the target. This isdespite the fact that Austria, at the cross-roads of Europe on the Rhine–Danubeaxis between Germany, Italy and South-eastern Europe, is in an ideal position forrailfreight.RCA’s new firm Rail Cargo Logisticsis pushing forward by integrating the for-mer subsidiaries AgroFreight Speditionand ChemFreight Transport, Logistikand Waggonvermietung. RCA has alsoinvested in retro-fitting wagons to turnthem into special units for the automo-tive industry.

However, it is not only the state rail-way that is driving innovation. FriedrichMacher, a former chairman of the boardof RCA, founded his own railfreight firmGrampetcargo Austria in 2012. It is a pri-vate enterprise providing transnationalcargo services in Romania, Bulgaria andHungary. It benefits from good accessroutes to major traffic arteries such asthe Rhine and the Danube, as well as toroutes linking northern Germany and theAdriatic. An additional trump card is thefact that a rail company such as this onecan bag contracts during the 12 to 16weeks in the year in which the Danubeis not navigable. This too is part of anintermodal approach. Christian Doepgenwww.railcargo.at

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Competition between modes of transport

Rail is the keyAustria has raised objections to the introduction of gigaliners in Europe, and is advocat-ing rail instead (see ITJ 21-22 / 2013, page 94). On the other hand an announcement thatÖkombi is set to be merged with Rail Cargo Austria was received with great scepticism.

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28 AAE sets record with ÖBBHigher tolls on Austrianmotorways in 201429 Sustainability at Schachinger30 Mitsubishi-Hödlmayer team

Österreichische Post benefits31 Discussing a terminal in Enns32 LTE banking on aBaltic–Adriatic axis

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5 Editorial

7 People&Companies

8 Comment

10 Shipping&Ports11 G6 to intensify cooperation in 201414 Multiport expects the times to change15 Northeast Passage not yet a success story

17 Aviation17 A visit to Boeing’s home plant19 TAM opening Manaus freight terminal19 European air cargo figures doing well

20 Forwarding&Logistics20 SR Technics’ spare parts logistics22 EU Commission against state support23 Mory Ducros in financial trouble

24 Rail / Inland Shipping /Road Haulage24 Transsib happy with latest results24 Air-rail link offered by de Rijk24 Krone pleased with Turkish plant

26 High-Tech Logistics

27 Austria27 Between railfreight and the gigaliner28 Tolls due to rise in Austria in 201431 Enns discussing terminal expansion

33 Regional Focus33 Southeastern Europe & Greece34 Central Europe35 Asia36 The Americas

37 A Time for Reflection /Advertisers’ Index

38 Miscellaneous /Masthead

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Dear readers,This issue brings an action-packed year to an end for us.

Let’s be honest – it was a transition year. The general situ-

ation 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 better moment

than now to enter the Christmas period, when we tradition-

ally take stock, reflect on the past and look to the future

– and make some resolutions for the new year. It represents

an opportunity to concoct a personal recipe for success. And

perhaps entrepreneurial and personal resolutions aren’t that

far removed from each other.

Making new year’s resolutions doesn’t have to be a hol-

low annual ritual, however. Motivation psychologists have

established that five stages can lead you to your goal. They

are, setting yourself attainable targets, anchoring your plans

in your close circle of friends and family, taking interim stock

of your success every now and then, developing a plan for

the process involved, implementing the goals and being pre-

pared to digest any setbacks that may occur. Before such a

background for this process we at the ITJ are already pleased

with the implementation of our resolutions this year, even if

we don’t yet know what rewards we can expect therefrom.

Luckily we have New Year’s Eve around the corner, when we

can take critical stock and formulate our new resolutions for

2014. In this context I believe that the English poet Alexan-

der Pope (1688–1744) hit the nail on the head. «Be not the

first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay

the old aside.»

To help you «all around the world» make

your way around the globe next year we

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Veteran on Raben boardIndustry veteran Hans-Jörg Hager took ona new mandate on the supervisory boardof the Raben Group at the beginningof December. Hager, a former CEO ofSchenker Germany and a Schenker boardmember, was in charge of European over-land transport services there. He was also a member ofKuehne+Nagel’s executive board until last May. On topof that he is the president of a forwarding entrepreneur-ship colloquium and a logistics lecturer at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University.

Finance expert for Luxair Cargo

Laurent Jossart was named executive vice-president ofLuxair Cargo on 6 December. He is currently CFO ofthe Luxair Group and will take up his new post on 1January 2014. Before joining Luxair Jossart worked asmanaging director of Charleroi airport, as CFO of theCity Bird Group and later for the airline Virgin Express.

ECSA elects leadersThomas Rehder has been elected as the new presidentof the European Community Shipowners’ Associations(ECSA). Niels Smedegaard, president and CEO of DFDS,will remain the body’s vice-president. Rehder replacedJuan Riva, who had been at the helm since 2011. The newpresident has been managing partner at Carsten RehderGmbH & Co since 1987. He also chairs the maritime andports committee of Hamburg’s chamber of commerceand on the board of Det Norske Veritas (Oslo).

Managing director takesover at Havi LogisticsTorsten Oldhues has become the new op-erational managing director of Duisburg-based Havi Logistics. He also took chargeof the firm’s distribution logistics sectorwith 1,000 employees. Before transferringto Havi, Oldhues was last head of the logis-tics department for the company AgravisRaiffeisen. He has now returned to his pro-fessional roots, as he had already served thegroup of companies as warehouse managerfor Germany from 2000 to 2002, lookingafter its warehousing centre of expertise.

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Geodis Wilsonpromotes two managersDean Devasia has become the new chiefinformation officer (CIO) of Geodis Wil-son and will join the company’s freightmanagement board. Devasia joined Geo-dis in 1991 and was last CIO for the USAand acting regional CIO for the Americas.Devasia reports to Kim Pedersen, execu-tive vice-president of Geodis Wilson.

Geodis has also appointed Igor MuñizTinoco as head of industrial projects inSoutheast Asia and the Pacific. Muñiz,who will be based in Singapore, previous-ly worked at the Agencia Maritima Condeminas Norte(Berge Group) and the Marmedsa Group, and joinedGeodis in 2008 as industrial projects director for Iberia.

Leeds added to network

Europa Worldwide Logistics, an English transport firm,has opened a branch office in Leeds, in West Yorkshire(England). Miles O’Donnell, who has seven years offreight management experience with RH Freight underhis belt, will manage the centrally-located office.

Gefco Group spokeswomanMaria del Peso has been named as the new head of theGefco Group’s communications department, where shewill develop and implement the group’s integrated com-munications strategy. From 2007 to 2013 del Peso wasdeputy head of communications at the Thales Group.Prior to that she held a similar position at Samsung Elec-tronics France.

AfricaIcao council confirms elections

Nigeria’s Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu waselected president of the council of the In-ternational Civil Aviation Organization(Icao) at its 200th assembly. He succeededMexico’s Roberto Kobeh González, whodid not complete his third term. KobehGonzález, who was honoured for his sevenyears of work for aviation, will continue aspresident until the end of 2013. Aliu waselected to a three-year term of office andwill assume his new role on 1 January 2014.

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The project logistics specialist KOG Trans-port has set up a new branch office in Kara-chi (Pakistan), its second office in Asia af-ter Mumbai (India). Captain Farooq Umarand his team started operations there on4 December. KOG Pakistan will seek notonly to serve the local market, but to alsoprovide transhipment options to and fromAfghanistan. Experts estimate that about600 teu bound for Afghanistan reach theports of Karachi and Qasim every day.

New DNV director in India

DNV GL Oil & Gas has appointed Moss Daemi as itsdirector for the Middle East, India and North Africa.He reports to CEO Pekka Paasivaara. Daemi, an oil andgas consultant, has spent most of his career at BP. Daemiwas previously also executive vice-president of GL NobleDenton’s operations in the Middle East and Africa.

Gruber Logisticsstrengthened in ChinaThe German company Gruber Logisticsis expanding in China. On 1 DecemberGlenn Bai became managing director forAsia and China. He works from the firm’srecently-established Shanghai office. Bai’scareer to date has included managementpositions with the logistics service provid-ers DB Schenker and Panalpina in China.Bai will be tasked with developing innova-tive logistics solutions for the company,with a focus on project cargo.

Captain Farooq UmarPhoto: KOG

Glenn BaiPhoto: Gruber Logistics

CommentDecision in favour of Basel Nord makes senseThe Swiss transport ministry announcedat the beginning of December that BaselNord, a major new container terminal,will be built in the near future in theinland port on the river Rhine in Basel, aswill a new basin in the inland waterwayhub (see also ITJ 43-44/2013, page 40).The pan-industry agreement to focus onthe Basel Nord project is the result of amediation process lasting several monthsand initiated by the Swiss federal transportoffice (Bundesamt für Verkehr BAV). It involved industryrepresentatives from the transport and logistics sector as wellas shippers and trade associations.

The decision in favour of Basel Nord was long overdue,and makes perfect sense. The location on the Rhine in theinland port of Basel, adjacent to Germany and France, isthe ideal place to handle imports and exports with a tri-modal approach. Everyone agrees that Switzerland urgentlyneeds further terminal capacities, in order to be able to man-age projected strong growth in import and export freighttraffic (containerised and un-boxed) in the near future. Allparties involved – logisticians, shippers, trade bodies andauthorities – are in basic agreement on the issue. The factthat matters are now finally moving ahead, after years ofdiscussion and controversy concerning the right location formajor new terminals, is very pleasing.

The Basel terminal is set to be realised in two phasesby 2018. The first one will enable rail-road transhipment,and then CHF 90 million will be invested in a new basinto enable multimodal throughput involving inland barges.The overall project will cost CHF 140–160 million. Howmuch thereof the national government is set to contribute isstill open, as is the question of who will operate Basel Nord.The disputed contester in the terminal stakes, the LimmattalGateway in the greater Zurich region, will be implementedgradually, according to the transport ministry.

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New Tiaca board membersThe International Air Cargo Associationhas appointed two members from Europeand Asia to its board. David Yokeum,founder, president and CEO of Bangkok-based WCA, a network of forwarders, andSebastiaan Scholte, chairman of the CoolChain Association and CEO of the Dutchfirm Jan de Rijk Logistics, a provider oftransport services, have joined.

The AmericasFarrell for Long Beach

Lori Ann Farrell, the former CFO of the city of LongBeach, has been appointed to that port’s board of com-missioners. She fills the seat vacated by former vice-pres-ident Nick Sramek. A successor to former harbour com-mission president Thomas Fields is still being sought.

CongratulationsPrize for port of Dunkirk

Christine Cabau Woehrel, president of thedirectorate of the French port of Dunkirk,has been named «Personality of the Year2013» for bulk shipping. Dunkirk is thecountry’s leading port for bulk, coal andore throughput. Woehrel has been incharge of the port since 2012.

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Goodbye GuadeloupeLaurent Martens, the president of the board of Guade-loupe Port Caraïbes, resigned at the end of November.He moved on to the post of vice-president of TerminalLink, part of the CMA CGM group. Martens, who start-ed at the port in 2008, was thanked by the authorities forhis dedicated work for the hub. His record includes man-aging the port’s strategic expansion plan for the years2013–2018, gratifying financial results and containerhandling figures, as well as the modernisation of fivesites at the port. His tenure saw the port honoured withseveral awards, including most reliable port and bestmultimodal terminal in the Caribbean, amongst others.

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The freight rate for a 40-ft equivalent uniton the route between Shanghai (China)and Rotterdam (Netherlands) stood atUSD 2,004 on 5 December, just under7% less than in the previous week. Thismeans that the World Container Index(WCI) has declined by almost USD 700since the introduction of a general rateincrease early in November.

Shippers are likely to be pleased withthe sinking costs of transporting con-tainers. Other recent news may be lessconducive to a positive reaction fromthose quarters, however, as Drewry’s lat-est Carrier Performance Insight report re-veals how containership reliability in alltrades declined for the third consecutivequarter in Q3 of this year. Containershipreliability dipped below 70% for the firsttime since the beginning of 2012.

A 7-point decline from Q2The decrease of 1.4 percentage pointsquarter-on-quarter lowered the averageon-time performance to 69.5%, the low-est score since the third quarter of 2011.The Asia–Europe/Mediterranean tradewas one of the main culprits for the de-cline, with only 68.8% of the 362 voyagesrecorded in that trade classed as beingon time, a decline of 7 percentage pointsfrom the second quarter.

Asia–Europe traffic also comparedpoorly to other key east–west trades, withtranspacific routes scoring 76.5% (thesecond-highest quarterly score for the

trade) and transatlantic ones 79.4%. Thereason for the deterioration in reliabilityin the most important trade lane is hardto pinpoint. There were fewer cancelledsailings in comparison with the secondquarter, and limited schedule adjust-ments or serious issues with the weather.Transit times at sea that were lengthierthan scheduled caused some of the delaysin cargo availability at destination ports,with performances worse than in the pe-riod between April and June.

Drewry found no evidence of a cor-relation between rates and reliability at aglobal level, but the company did suggestthat a burgeoning link is forming on atrade-lane basis. Shippers will await thecorresponding report at the end of thefourth quarter with bated breath.

Antje Vereggewww.drewry.co.uk

Declining containership punctuality

Joy and sorrow for shippersThe World Container Index slipped again per 5 December, in comparison with the

previous month. A tendency to less punctual containership operations was also

registered in the period under review.

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In briefFunds for Bordeaux. The European Unionwill contribute funds from its TEN-T pro-gramme to feasibility studies analysing thebuilding of a box terminal in the French portof Bordeaux. The studies will analyse thebest way to develop Bordeaux into a key in-termodal node for southwestern France. Anintermodal box terminal could increase theefficiency of maritime transport and improverail connectivity with hinterland platforms inthe region. www.bordeaux-port.fr

Grimaldi wins award. The «excellentsupplier services» of Italy’s Grimaldi Groupwere recognised by car manufacturerFiat-Chrysler’s Qualitas Award 2013 in thesupply chain / logistics supplier category. Theawards ceremony, which took place at Fiat-Chrysler’s headquarters in Turin (Italy), wasattended by managers and 1,200 employeesas well as suppliers from Europe, the MiddleEast and Africa. www.grimaldi.napoli.it

New equipment. Contship Italia has signeda contract to purchase two ship-to-shorecranes for its La Spezia Container Terminal(LSCT). The new hoisting equipment can op-erate across 23 rows of boxes on ultra-largecontainerships. The acquisition representsan element of the company’s investment toimprove the terminal’s infrastructure andcapacity. www.contshipitalia.com

Expansion. The shipping liner com-pany MSC wants to expand its activitiesin Antwerp (Belgium) and has asked theport authority for permission to extend itsoperations on the Deurganck dock. In orderto guarantee transparent processes the portauthority will invite expressions of interestfrom other parties, in order to determinewhether there are other significant interestsof a similar nature. www.mscgva.ch

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P3 scrutiny. The International Longshore-men’s Association (ILA) and the GlobalShippers’ Forum (GSF) have raised concernsabout the P3 Network’s vessel-sharingagreement to the USA’s Federal MaritimeCommission (FMC). The ILA says thatP3 represents «an unprecedented risk ofanti-competitive practices», whilst the GSFthinks it requires «careful scrutiny». TheFMC hosted a meeting with European andChinese bodies to examine the network,amid concerns that it might lead to competi-tors being pushed out of the market.

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from Europe. The commission will now review whether this conductconstitutes a coordinated effort in breach of article 101 of the Treatyon the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and article 53 ofthe Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA Agreement).

Officials have yet to release any concrete information about whichlines are actually affected by the investigation. However, unconfirmedsources claim that all 14 of the shipping lines are among the 20 largestcontainer lines in the world. Both Denmark’s Maersk Line and France’sCMA CGM have publicly acknowledged that they are subject to theinvestigation, and they have both denied the allegations. The same sus-picions had already led the European Commission to search the officesof twelve shipping lines in 2011, which led to this current investigation.

Antje Veregge

EU targeting shipping lines

Breakingthe rules?The European Commission has opened formal proceed-

ings against 14 shipping lines suspected to have violated

European Union antitrust regulations.

On 22 November the European Commission startedofficial investigation proceedings against 14 containershipping lines. The aim of the inquiry is to determinewhether the shippers’ apparently coordinated behaviourbroke any EU antitrust rules. The commission justifiedthe investigation by stating that since 2009 the companiesin question have regularly been announcing scheduledprice increases through press releases on their websitesand in the trade press. Several times a year, according tothe commission, the companies published the amountand date of price increases in their announcements, allof which generally appeared around the same time. Onecompany after another would publicly disclose its plansin the weeks prior to the date of the announced rateincrease.

The commission is therefore concerned that the ship-ping lines use this method to inform one another aboutplanned price increases, which has a negative impact oncompetition. The practice could create disadvantagesfor consumers by inflating prices in the liner shippingmarket for container transport services on routes to and

14 liner shipping companies are currently subject to European Commissioninvestigations concerning contravention of the EU’s antitrust regulations.

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Japanese lines continue their slumpMOL’s container activities made a loss in H1 of financial2013/2014 (from 1 April 2013). Even though the ship-ping corporation’s operating revenue rose by 11.7% toJPY 845 billion (EUR 6.4 billion) in the second quarterof financial 2013 in comparison with the same periodlast year, and the company made a profit of JPY 21 bil-lion (EUR 158 million), the container division reporteda loss of JPY 3.7 billion (EUR 27.8 million).

K Line’s box revenues came to JPY 294 billion in theperiod (EUR 2.2 billion), compared to JPY 271 billionin H1/2012. Whilst profits in the first half of 2012 cameto JPY 3.8 billion, this shrunk by almost 60% to JPY 1.5billion (EUR 11.3 million) in the same period of 2013.

NYK’scontainerunitgeneratedrevenuesofJPY304bil-lion in Q2 (EUR 2.3 billion), up from JPY 275 billion inQ2/2012. This meant a loss of JPY 800 million in Q2(EUR 6 million), compared to a profit of JPY 2.6 billionin the same period of the previous year. av

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G6 extends collaborationThe six member lines of the G6 Allianceare planning to expand their cooperationto the transpacific trade between Asiaand the west coast of North America andto transatlantic trade lanes. The Alliancesaid that the move will provide custom-ers with greater choice and frequencies toand from the individual ports concerned.

The G6 Alliance plans to deploy about76 ships in twelve services connecting 27Asian ports and hubs on North America’swest coast. About 42 more ships will bedeployed in five transatlantic services, ofwhich two will simultaneously be trans-pacific links. These vessels will call at 25ports on the US east coast, US west coast,Canada, Panama, Mexico, Netherlands,the UK, France, Belgium and Germany.

The new services are scheduled to be-gin in the second quarter of 2014, pend-ing regulatory approval. Details concern-ing the precise connections and port rota-tions will be announced at a later date.

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EU supports ScandlinesThe EU is set to support a Scandlines sus-tainable traffic machines project, whichfocuses on «the way to greener shipping»,with a total of EUR 6.4 million.

The pilot project combines conven-tional diesel-electric propulsion with ahybrid system, with the aim of reducingthe emission of pollutants on the routebetween Puttgarden (Germany) andRødby (Denmark) in future.

Diesel generators produce excess en-ergy during slow steaming and in peri-ods when the vessel is berthed, and thisis stored in batteries. The system providesmore energy than a diesel generator canproduce if and when more energy is re-quired. This enables the diesel motor toalways deliver an optimal performance.The hybrid system improves the effi-ciency of a ship’s motors and substan-tially reduces carbon dioxide, sulphurand nitrogen oxide emissions. Over andabove this Scandlines is also planningto install exhaust gas scrubbers, in orderto reduce sulphur emissions from 1% to0.1%. www.scandlines.de

CMA CGM volumes upThe French shipping line CMA CGMtransported approximately 3 million teuin the third quarter of 2013. This 11% risein comparison with the like-for-like pe-riod last year represents a new record forthe group. In the first nine months of theyear CMA CGM handled approximately8.5 million teu, a 7% rise in comparisonwith the same period in 2012.

Despite these volume improvementsin the third quarter the corporation’s con-solidated revenues slipped to USD 4.1 bil-lion, a 2.1% fall year-on-year. Comparedto the second quarter consolidated rev-enues increased by 1.4%, however. CMACGM’s revenues for the first nine monthsof the year came to USD 12 billion, aplus of 0.3% vis-à-vis the like-for-likeperiod last year. Average revenue per teudeclined by 11.8% year-on-year, as Asia–Northern Europe market rates contractedsubstantially over the quarter.

CMA CGM expects its performancein the final three months of the year toregister a decline compared to Q3/2013.

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Asked why Multiport’s special anniversa-ry was being celebrated in Geneva, AlbertHoek, executive president of Multiport,was quick to reply that «Switzerland isundervalued as a shipping hub,» addingwith a smile that «many of our customersare based here – including future custom-ers.» He is aware of the significance ofthe geography of markets, however – thenext annual meeting of the ship agenciesnetwork will be held in Singapore in 2014.

New areas of business opened upThe maritime shipping economy appearsto have bottomed out, is a summary ofthe mood of those attending. Conversa-tions with individuals such as AndrewMcMillan of Leinster Shipping in Dub-lin (Ireland) and Andreas Schorlemmerof Perez&Cía from Kingston (Jamaica)confirmed this, at least for certain fieldsof business. According to Hoek, whoworks for the Broekman Group in Rot-terdam, most members have overcomethe low of 2011. «The firms in our net-work have responded by continuing todiversify and specialise, through logistics

services, for example.» A great emphasisis placed on the selection of members,which usually takes place on the recom-mendation of an existing member and ispreceded by proper due diligence checksby Multiport’s two managers, Hoek andGordon McMillan.

Members therefore have a great deal ofconfidence in each other, for instance in

the financial management of orders andcustomers. Since 2010, Multiport’s port-folio has included China, and from thisyear it is also represented in Argentina,Australia, Barbados and the Bahamas. Itis currently considering the inclusion offirms from Thailand, Poland, Vietnamand Indonesia. It believes it is importantto be present in every major deepsea port.

Getting to grips with volatilityThe shipping agencies have a relaxed viewof the huge new P3 Network, as this col-laboration was born out of necessity. Inthe medium term they expect market vol-atility to gradually decrease and marginsto recover, as a result of the impact of thenew alliance.

There is no lack of optimism aboutthe future. Hoek believes a generationof young managers is now emerging whoare providing a great number of newimpulses in owner-operated companies.«We’re only scratching the surface of thepotential,» according to Hoek.

Christian Doepgenwww.multiport.org

Ship agencies see potential in the market

Global coverage – local handlingFor many small and medium-sized enterprises, networks are the best way to address the challenges of the market. It was on the basis

of this knowledge that ship agencies founded Multiport in 1978. In November 2013 its members, shipping agencies from 106 countries,

celebrated its 25th anniversary in Geneva (Switzerland). They were joined there by the ITJ’s editor-in-chief Christian Doepgen.

Anna Aresti, Guy Foucherot, Sue Labramand Albert Hoek (from the left) met up atMultiport’s AGM in Geneva.

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Media interest in international commer-cial shipping is usually somewhat limited.Nevertheless, the arrival of the freighterYong Sheng, which is operated by Chineseshipping line Cosco, in the port of Rot-terdam on 10 September this year madeheadlines beyond the country’s borders.With this journey from Dalian (China)to Rotterdam, a Chinese cargo ship hadjourneyed through the Arctic from eastto west via the Northeast Passage for thefirst time ever. The transit time for theship, which was loaded with steel, cameto 34 days – nine less than the traditionalroute via the Suez Canal.

Even though the Yong Sheng wasthe first cargo ship to sail from Chinathrough the Northeast Passage, the op-tion has long been an interesting alterna-tive to the southern route for ships ontheir way from Europe to Asia during thesummer months. The ice in the regionhas been melting for years now, as a resultof global warming. Thus the NortheastPassage is now open to freighters as well

as ice-breakers. 71 cargo ships travelledthrough the passage in 2013, accordingto the Northern Sea Route InformationOffice. There were 46 such journeys in2012, in comparison, and 41 in 2011. Thefirst cargo ship to sail the route this yearcame through the Northeast Passage atthe end of June, and the last one exitedearly in October. Some experts assumethat the ice-free period in the ArcticOcean could increase to 120 days by themiddle of this century. In 2010, the ice-free period amounted to only 30 days.

China and Russia cooperatingRussia has already been intensifying itsinvestment in the option for some time,inn order to expand the infrastructure inthe Arctic. Support for this should nowalso be coming from China. In Septem-ber, the Russian and Chinese transportministers met to discuss the expansion ofthe Northeast Passage. The general con-sensus is that the northern ocean routeshould be used more frequently in future,

an approach that is publicly supported byshipping companies from Singapore andIndia as well. Ultimately, the trip shouldnot only be shorter and more economical,it could also be safer, because there are nopirates in Russian waters. In contrast tothis, however, the costs for ice-breakersas well as high insurance premiums to in-sure against possible shipping accidentsare high. European shipping companies,which currently supply the majority ofglobal commercial fleets, have so farbeen rather hesitant to publicly expressan interest.

It is uncertain how the ice in the regionwill develop in the future. Some studiessuggest that colder summers will again re-turn, following comparably mild recentsummers. Russian’s investment needs tobe taken into consideration nevertheless.In the case of a shipping accident in theregion, however, the option would cer-tainly not pay off for the Arctic.

Antje Vereggewww.arctic-lio.com

Transiting the Arctic

Cool cooperation calculationsThe news about the journey made by a Chinese cargo ship to the Netherlands via the Northeast Passage made great waves recently.

The Arctic waterway has a long history as an interesting transit option, however.

71 freighters have transited the Northeast Passage between Europe and Asia this year. The «Yong Sheng» was the first Chinese unit amongst these vesselsto have chosen the route to carry steel from China to the Netherlands.

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The people of Seattle WA (USA) areknown for their ability to make a lot ofnoise. On 2 December, during an NFLgame against the New Orleans Saints, thefans of the local American football team,the Seattle Seahawks, reclaimed the worldrecord for the loudest crowd in an openstadium with a noise 137.6 decibels loud.

In contrast, the staff of one of the larg-est employers in the Pacific Northwest isintent on developing and manufacturingthe quietest possible product. This is theaviation and aerospace company Boeing.It has a number of sites in and aroundthe Seattle area and has helped shape theeconomy of the whole of Washingtonstate for decades.

More than 30,000 people are employedin its largest factory in Everett, around50 km north of Seattle and located on theroad to Vancouver (Canada). The hangar

there is the second-largest building in theworld by volume (13.3 million cbm), withan area of 400,000 sqm. It was the birth-place of Boeing’s long-haul jets in the1960s. The B747 Jumbo has been manu-factured there since 1968.

Three shifts for the DreamlinerAfter the building was extended furthermodels – B767s from 1980 and B777s from1993 – began to be manufactured there byemployees working in three shifts. Final

A visit to Boeing’s headquarters

Sleepless near Seattle«Every 24 seconds a Boeing aircraft takes off somewhere in the world,» was the neat

encapsulation of the global dimension of the US aviation and aerospace company Boeing

offered by Carrie Shiu, the corporation’s regional product marketing director.

Boeing is always on the go, both on its own runways as well as in its manufacturing plant.

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assembly of the B787 Dreamliner is alsocarried out in Everett, though large sec-tions of the plane are also assembled inthe city of North Charleston SC. This ledto a curious incident recently (see page 38of our special heavylift supplement).

Production running smoothlyOn the whole, however, production isproceeding better and better in these vasthalls. «In 2006 it took 70 days to man-ufacture a plane, today we take just 48days,» says Jason S. Clark, deputy B777Fprogramme manager, describing the pro-gress the company has made during a tourof the works.

Tour participants can see six largemetal pipes moving forward at the rate of4 cm a minute. Thanks to the tireless ef-forts of the mechanics and engineers theylook more and more like an aeroplane thelonger they move along the productionline. Once the finished aircraft leaves thehall it is sent to the painting facility.

Adjacent to the production build-ings is the Paine Field airport. Its threerunways are used for test flights and bycustomers who have taken delivery of anorder. Compared to Seattle Tacoma air-port, where 283,500 t of airfreight werehandled last year, air traffic is kept inreasonable bounds here.

This even allows Boeing employees towhizz around between the many brandnew planes on the apron on their bicy-cles. The latest aircraft is silent, thoughnot quite as quiet as a bicycle. The noisea B777F makes is 7.1 PNdB (perceivednoise decibel) below the prescribed Icaonorm. Andreas Haug

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Iata and the airport association ACI Eur­ope were unanimous in their assessmentof the so­called old continent’s air cargodevelopments in October. An autumnalburst of energy saw volumes rise by 4.6%compared to October 2012, which OlivierJankovec, ACI Europe’s director general,

considered an «encouraging sign». Iatasaid the recovery was not yet hewn instone, but the freight performance ofEuropean airlines when measured in ftk(+4.4%) was only outdone by MiddleEastern carriers (+12.3%).

www.aci-europe.org; www.iata.org

TAM opens new cargo terminalTAM Cargo, the Brazilian airfreight operator of the Latam Air­lines Group, has started operations in a new cargo terminal inManaus. The facility covers 13,000 sqm, with 5,000 sqm roofedin, making it the company’s largest airfreight centre in Brazil.

Manaus, the capital of the federal state of Amazonas, is oneof the country’s most important production centres for a widearray of industries, and is simultaneously of fundamental im­portance to the operations of TAM Cargo. According to thesuperintendent of the Manaus duty­free zone (Suframa), thenigh­on 500 companies based in the Manaus industrial complexrecorded revenues of BRL 51 billion (EUR 16 billion) to Augustthis year, which represents an increase of 10% over the sameeight­month period last year.

2,600 slots as well as a cold room for perishablesAccording to Pablo Navarrete, TAM Cargo’s executive director,the new domestic terminal is part of the Latam Airlines Group’sUSD 20 million (EUR 15 million) investment programme inthe infrastructure of its Brazilian terminals. In mid­NovemberNavarrete pointed out to the media that «this month marks ahistoric achievement for us. This investment demonstrates ourcommitment to improving our infrastructure in Brazil.»

The new Manaus high­bay facility is a vertically­orientedwarehouse, with 2,600 stocking positions, an exclusive systemfor storing and identifying freight and a cold room for per­ishables. TAM Cargo clients can also make use of an area forreceiving large lots (full pallets) and 20 customer service stationswith 14 docks and six positions on two ramps.

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SkyCargo linking up Pakistan and FijiThe airline Emirates, which just broke a civil aviation recordby placing an aircraft order worth USD 99 billion at list prices(see also ITJ Daily of 19 November), is in the headlines againwith SkyCargo, the freight division of the Dubai­based carrier,announcing the reinforcement of its eastbound services.

SkyCargo will benefit from the recent addition of a fifth pas­senger service (with an Airbus A330­200) from its hub in Dubaito Pakistan. After Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar thecompany now also flies four times a week to Sialkot, «an impor­tant national production centre,» according to Emirates’ headof cargo Nabil Sultan. The move means that SkyCargo cannow provide its customers with 5% more belly­hold capacitiesbetween the two countries, or a total of 1,400 t a week.

In other news, SkyCargo has entered into an interline freightagreement with Fiji Airways, the flag carrier of the Republic ofFiji in the South Pacific. The move has been designed to easeexports from the South Pacific, using the hubs Auckland (NewZealand) and Sydney (Australia). ah

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Emirates supported Dubai’s successful bid for the 2020 world expo and hasalso ordered another 50 Airbus A380s.

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Rank (October 2012) Airport Country Airfreight in t ±%1 (2) Frankfurt DE 176,618 +3.42 (1) Paris (CDG) FR 169,450 –1.53 (3) Amsterdam NL 135,003 +6.54 (4) London (LHR) GB 127,961 –1.05 (5) Leipzig / Halle DE 78,620 +6.36 (6) Cologne / Bonn DE 66,253 –0.67 (7) Luxembourg LU 61,004 +19.18 (8) Istanbul (IST) TR 53,701 +15.19 (9) Liège BE 50,372 +14.210 (11) Milan (MXP) IT 36,743 +4.4

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In briefHNCA and Cargolux. Luxembourg hasallowed China’s Henan Civil Aviation Devel-opment and Investment Company (HNCA)to take over a Cargolux stake which QatarAirways had held until autumn 2012. Thetransaction for 35% of Cargolux, which thecompany itself had not announced by thetime of our editorial deadline, was worthUSD 231 million. www.cargolux.com

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Finally open. The first ever air cargo ship-ment was handled at Hamad internationalairport in Doha (Qatar) on 1 December. Thegrand opening of Qatar Airways’ new hubhad had to be postponed at almost the lastminute on 1 April 2013 (see ITJ 15-16 /2013,page 19). www.qrcargo.com

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Links between old enemies. A Kuwait Air-ways flight landed in Iraq for the first timesince before the Gulf War of 1990. In othernews, three Iranian carriers have shown aninterest in resuming services to the USA.

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FelixAmmann, seniorvice-presidentof thecomponent services division at SR Tech-nics explains that the services provided bythe SR Technics component services divi-sion «cover about 1,000 aircraft aroundthe world. These aircraft need to be in theair to the greatest extent possible, whichputs huge demands on technical support,maintenance and the logistics required. Tosecure a well-functioning supply chain wetherefore also work closely with logisticsservice providers and freight forwardingcompanies.» Ammann was talking to anaudience attending a Propeller Club Portof Basel event on spare parts, equipmentand maintenance services in the aviationindustry.

Three main business fieldsAs regards the services model adopted bySR Technics, the maintenance and repairscompany provides its customers with acombination of aircraft, component andjet engine services as well as offering thetechnical management of aircraft fleets.SR Technics breaks down the work re-quired on an aircraft into three fields.Aircraft maintenance, jet-engine servicesand component business.

Under the title of aircraft services,comprehensive options relating to air-

worthy, perfectly-functioning aircraft areprovided. These include activities such asthe resolution of technical problems ina couple of minutes by SR Technics’ in-house mechanics or electrical engineerson a liner waiting directly on an airfield.At the other end of the spectrum, it mayalso involve grounding periods of 30 to40 days, during which SR Technics em-ployees dismantle an aircraft in its entire-ty, then put it back together and finally

return it to the customer after conductinga test flight.

At the head office of SR Technics atZurich airport (Switzerland), about 200jet engines are repaired every year. An-other maintenance plant is located inMalta. As Ammann explained, the busi-ness unit is currently in transition. «We’reincreasingly moving our activities awayfrom pure aircraft maintenance towardsexpanding and converting private luxuryjets. We believe that a huge potential canstill be tapped in this segment.»

Some spare parts can be expensiveThe task of the so-called component ser-vices unit is to supply spare parts, pre-dominantly to customers such as Boeingor Embraer. «When it comes to these parts,we distinguish between elements that needto be consistently repaired in a permanentcycle, and other parts that wear out on anincreasingly frequent basis.»

Components are an important elementfor airlines to get their aircraft into the skiesevery day in a timely and reliable fashion.«A broken spare part results in an immedi-ate interruption to operations. About halfof all technical delays are indeed down tomissing or faulty spare parts,» Ammannelaborated. The financing needs caused by

Maintenance and spare parts logistics for civil aviation at SR Technics

Nothing goes without spare partsSupplying spare parts, in particular in the aviation industry, is a very delicate and expensive task. Anyone who flies frequently relies

on safety, which also includes supplying aircraft with original spare parts. Today, spare parts logistics is all about ensuring high-level,

top-quality supply security around the globe.

Felix Ammann, senior vice-president of SRTechnics’ component services unit.

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spare parts are high, as they can be veryexpensive on certain occasions. The costof the spare parts varies from a couple ofeuro cents to EUR 5 million for a replace-ment jet engine. A large cost item is alsoassociated with the storage of spare partsfor aircraft.

In general, the aircraft market is ex-tremely volatile today, Ammann ex-plained. There is an increasing number ofaircraft, in particular also younger fleetsthat are not even ten years old, which aredismantled nowadays and their spare partsoffered in the market, rather than beingkept in the skies. The technical availabilityof the aircraft fleet is becoming increas-ingly important for airlines, and this isnot only down to the fiercer competition.After all, contemporary aircraft are highlycapital-intensive.

Logistics as an important componentThe SR Technics manager explainedfurther that the service portfolio of hiscompany works much like an insurancebusiness. «As soon as an airline urgentlyrequires a spare part, we guarantee that wewill deliver the correct spare part at theright time in the right place. Service qual-

ity and certainty as regards the availabil-ity of spare parts and components and thequick supply of customers with the spareparts required are absolutely key for us inthis process.» In this context, logistics playa «very significant role», said Ammann.

The third pillar of SR Technics’ rangeof offerings is the field of engine services.This unit focuses on maintaining andrepairing jet engines as well as providingspare parts for engines. The biggest cus-tomer of SR Technics is the British no-frills airline Easyjet, which has entrustedSR Technics with the entire maintenanceand repair work of its fleet of aircraft (ap-proximately 250 units).

SR Technics, which was established in1931 and was a part of the Swissair Groupuntil 2002, is today owned by a groupbased in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emir-ates) and has operational centres through-out the world – including in Geneva,London, Malta, Abu Dhabi, Singapore,Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur. SR Tech-nics currently generates annual sales of ap-proximately CHF 1.1 billion (2012 figure)with its 3,100 employees.

Robert Altermattwww.srtechnics.com

Steder Delta Group:New office in ConstantzaThe Steder Group, a forwarding and logis-tics firm based in Rhoon (Netherlands),and Delta Maritime, of Thessaloniki(Greece), have opened a joint office inConstantza (Romania), through theSteder Delta Group, their joint venture.Both companies are strong in shippingand logistics and have now extended theircollaboration to serve the Black Sea andCaspian Sea regions, as well as the RiverDanube region. The Steder Delta Groupoffers agency, charter and broker servicesfrom Constantza, as well as project cargosolutions and forwarding services. Thecompanies chose the port of Constantzafor its favourable geographical position,which is enhanced by the pan-EuropeanDanubian inland waterway. ra

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Sagitair investing inItalian joint ventureSagitair, a forwarding and logistics com-pany based in Novate Milanese, near Mi-lan (Italy), has entered into a joint venturewith the companies O.T.E. Transport andO.T.E. Air Freight. The move comes notlong after Sagitair’s acquisition of BizetaTrasporti, Italgael and Zust&BachmeierS.r.l.. From 1 January 2014 all the above-mentioned companies will trade underthe name O.T.E. Group. Sagitair has a3,000 sqm warehouse, 1,000 sqm of of-fice space and more than 65 employees.The company offers a broad range ofshipping services, including airfreight,seafreight, project cargo and road servicesthroughout Europe. ra

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In 2012 the Commission of the European Union de-cided that Deutsche Post DHL had wrongfully usedsubsidies on the pensions of former employees. The EUCommission, accusing Deutsche Post DHL of illegallyreceiving subsidies of between EUR 500 million andEUR 1 billion, also determined that the additional costsfor pensions had already been compensated for by thestate-regulated postage rate and for this reason the statefunds represented double funding.

The order to the German government to repay thesubsidies was not sufficiently met, in the view of theCommission, because subsidies rendered to the parceldivision were not recovered with the repayment. Theresulting distorted competition in the parcel markethas now led to the initiation of proceedings before theEuropean Court of Justice.

In an initial statement, Deutsche Post DHL indicat-ed its surprise, while Germany’s Federal Association ofInternational Express and Courier Services (Biek) wel-comed the decision by the EU Commission.

Gunnar Uldall, the president of the group, said that inhis opinion it was «regrettable that the German federalgovernment, as the majority shareholder of DeutschePost DHL, has not properly implemented the decision ofthe commission arrived at in 2012. The financial supportfor Deutsche Post DHL in the parcel division contra-venes the principle of fair competition.»

He added that «it isn’t clear to me why the taxpayerand the consumer are both used for financial support ofthe company, even though there is strong competitionin the parcel market. Subsidies for this highly-profitablecorporation don’t help competition, but instead harmboth consumers and taxpayers.»

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EU takes legal action against Germany

Dispute over subsidiesThe EU has initiated proceedings against Germany, due

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to Deutsche Post DHL.

In briefCeva treading water. The international logistics corporation and supply chainmanagement specialist Ceva Logistics again reported slight decreases in its rev-enue and profit in Q3/2013. The service provider had already presented poorerQ2 results, compared with those for the like-for-like period in 2012. Ceva’s Q3turnover fell to USD 2.1 billion from USD 2.28 billion in the corresponding periodlast year. Earnings before tax, interest, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda)sank slightly from USD 81 million in Q3/2012 to USD 80 million this year.

www.cevalogistics.com

Asos mandates Kerry Logistics. The Hong Kong-based service provider KerryLogistics recently commenced operations in China for the British fashion onlineretailer Asos. Kerry manages its activities for Asos from a 6,300 sqm warehousein Shanghai. www.kerrylogistics.com

XPO Logistics acquisition. The US 3PL service provider XPO Logistics, whichis headquartered in Greenwich CT, recently acquired Optima Service Solutions,a provider of last-mile services to US retailers and manufacturers, for USD 26.6million in cash, excluding working capital adjustments, with no assumption ofdebt. www.xpologistics.com; www.optimaservicesolutions.com

A new name for an established company. The Bremen-based Germanenterprise BWG Reimer was renamed Reimer Logistics in mid-November. BWG(Bremer Warenverteilungs-Gesellschaft) has been an integral part of the firm’sname since 1925. The firm’s customer base includes companies from the auto-mobile, consumer goods and medical technology industries. Reimer has eightlocations and 450 employees in Germany. http://reimer-logistics.com

Germany has to answer to the European Court of Justice oversubsidies given to Deutsche Post DHL.

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Mory Ducros’ insolvency is one of thelargest bankruptcies in France since theturn of the century. Mory Ducros onlyevolved from the merger of the Frenchgeneral cargo service provider Mory andthe enterprise Ducros, which once be-longed to DHL, at the end of 2012. MoryDucros applied to go into receivershipand institute bankruptcy proceedings tothe commercial court in Pontoise nearParis on 22 November. In the meantimethe commercial court has named twobankruptcy administrators, who havefrozen the company’s debts and giventhe logistics service provider a six-monthperiod under which it will be under inten-sified observation.

The investment fund Caravelle ownsMory Ducros. The company, which spe-cialises in rejuvenating ailing enterprises,took over the loss-making firm DucrosExpress from DHL Express France in2010. In 2011 Caravelle then acquiredthe general cargo activities of the MoryGroup, a French transport, freight for-warding and logistics firm that had beenplaced in receivership by the Frenchcourts on account of its insolvency (seealso ITJ 41-42/2011, page 27).

Many jobs on the lineIf Caravelle were to fail to find a partypotentially interested in acquiring MoryDucros in the near future – an assump-tion that many a French expert is stronglyinclined to agree with – then the 5,000Mory Ducros jobs are likely to be lost,as are another 2,000 jobs of people em-ployed by sub-contractors working forMory Ducros.

The French trade union CFDT, inturn, has predicted that 2,000 to 3,000jobs could be lost and that a social planmust be prepared. Mory Ducros has sofar refused to disclose any figures and iscounting on restructuring the enterprisewith help from investors.

The transport provider says that it hasmore than 4,500 vehicles and 85 branchoffices in France. The options the com-

pany provides range from pan-Europeandelivery services for standard palletisedgoods through to services for specialproducts such as pharmaceuticals.

Right from the moment it was mergedthe company Mory Ducros struggled tomake its mark on the hotly-contestedFrench general cargo market, where the

profit margins have been shrinking fromyear to year. The company generated salesof EUR 766 million in financial 2012,but made a loss of EUR 80 million inthe twelve months. Over and above thisMory Ducros’ prospects for this year areeven gloomier. ra

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Mory Ducros facing bankruptcyThe French general cargo specialist Mory Ducros, the second-largest French transport firm with 5,000 employees on its books,

has reported that it is insolvent and has applied to go into receivership. The logistics service provider’s future is thus naturally very

uncertain. In the worst case, the complete liquidation of the company could be the only solution.

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Sparx Logistics, a Chinese transportationand logistics company based in HongKong, recently acquired the Aqua & AirCargo Company, an established supplychain management firm operating inShanghai and across China.

Aqua & Air was established in Shang-hai in 2007. Its network includes wholly-owned facilities in Shanghai (where thecompany’s country headquarters can befound), Qingdao, Tianjin, Ningbo, Xia-men, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. SparxLogistics holds a class A NVOCC licence.

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New Indonesianjoint venture

The German logistics provider Dachserrecently established a joint venture inIndonesia that trades under the name PTDachser Indonesia. The portfolio of thenew firm ranges from air and seafreightactivities to customs clearance services.The joint venture, of which Dachser is themajority owner, currently has 25 peopleon its payroll. Hasmijati Koto, an experi-enced local freight forwarding expert, is afurther co-owner of PT Dachser Indone-sia, which is based in the national capitalJakarta. More locations in Indonesia willbe added in 2014.

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Approximately half of the internation-al container volumes transported onthe Trans-Siberian route in 2012 wereaccounted for by foreign trade betweenRussia and China. Transit traffic regis-tered the greatest growth rate, doublingits volume to 102,000 teu. The impressiveperformance continued in 2013, with theline carrying 87,000 teu in the first ninemonths of the year (+12% in compari-son with the like-for-like period last year).Almost three quarters thereof was trans-ported in container blocktrains. Impres-sive improvements were also registered inbilateral container traffic between Russiaand China, as well as Korea and Japan, aswas reported to the annual general meet-ing. It took place in Budapest, with theparties involved invited to the AGM byMÁV, the Hungarian state railway.

Ilona David, the president and directorgeneral of MÁV, underlined the impor-tance of the Coordinating Council onTrans-Siberian Transportation (CCTT)when it comes to coordinating the inter-

national transportation of goods on theTrans-Siberian line. She cited the increasein regular container train activities inparticular, and further test runs, whichare developing well. These include a newChengdu–Lodz service, which has cuttransit times between Poland and Chinato 13 days. The Chengdu–Lodz optionis operated by the logistics service pro-vider Interrail, which is a member of theAssociation of European Trans-SiberianOperators and Forwarders (Geto).

Geto chairman Hans Reinhard said hewas pleased with the meeting. The chair-man, who also chairs the board of theInterrail group, additionally called for«more rapid progress on the basic ques-tions concerning the line, such as transitsimplification, the strengthening of rail’sability to compete, modern managementof the railfreight corridors and economi-cally sensible solutions for the return ofempty containers to the East.» ah

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22nd CCTT plenary meeting in Budapest

More goods on the TranssibInternational container transport on the Trans-Siberian Railway grew by 15% to

640,000 teu in 2012. The figures were presented to the 230 participants at the

22nd annual meet of the Coordinating Council on Trans-Siberian Transportation.

1,000th Kronetrailer from TurkeyThe 1,000th trailer manufactured inKrone’s Turkish plant in Tire was de-livered recently. Bernard Krone, CEOof the company Fahrzeugwerk BernardKrone, said that even though the Kronetrailer factory in Turkey «only startedproduction in autumn last year, we’venow already reached a first milestone.»The Krone plant, which is located about90 km southeast of Izmir, has more than100 employees, primarily engaged in pro-ducing vehicles in the company’s ProfiLiner and Mega Liner series. The unitsare delivered to Turkish, Middle Eastern,Central Asian and African clients. ah

www.krone-trailer.comGeto chairman Hans Reinhard welcomed «a series of positive signals that will enable Euro-Asianoverland container transportation to expand.»

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26 High-Tech Logistics International Transport Journal 49-52 2013

The Merck Group, a German corpora-tion that specialises in the production ofhigh-tech materials, teamed up with theGerman enterprise DB Schenker Logisticsfor the shipment of so-called solar wafersfor photovoltaic systems by airfreight todestinations around the globe.

Eliminating performance fluctuationsThe production of high-tech chemicalsis just one of many specialities offeredby the performance materials businessunit of the global pharmaceutical andchemical company Merck, which is head-quartered in Darmstadt. This division ofMerck is active in growth markets which

have developed in the clean energy sec-tor. It has actively been developing inno-vative materials for technologies whichenable the efficient use of solar energyfor some time now, as well as develop-ing energy-efficient light sources, suchas LEDs and OLEDs (short for organiclight-emitting diodes).

Problems in the airIn certain components – solar wafers, forinstance – Merck’s researchers detectedperformance fluctuations of unclear ori-gin, following shipment of the goods asairfreight. The researchers suspected thatthe cause of the problem may have been

attributable to high-altitude radiation, orpotentially also to exposure to x-rays dur-ing transit. In order to run down all thefacts and develop more efficient shippingpackaging solutions on the basis of itsfindings, the Merck Group entered intoa constructive partnership with SchenkerGermany.

The airfreight experts at Schenker Ger-many organised the continuous monitor-ing and documentation of a referenceshipment from Merck on a regular flightfrom Frankfurt (Germany) to Taiwan andback. The logistics professionals equippeda sample shipment of solar wafers witha newly-developed monitoring unit, de-signed by DB Schenker for shipments ofvaluable and sensitive items.

Shipment monitoring«In the test for Merck we used a specialsensor solution from our portfolio ofservices, and additionally equipped theshipment with film dosimeters,» said ErikWirsing, head of the corporate innova-tion divison at Schenker Germany. «Thatenabled us to record all of the effectsof radiation during the entire transportchain and make the data available for ourcustomer.»

The sensor system records all of therelevant data at regular intervals, includ-ing temperature, humidity, shock or im-pact, angle of inclination and exposure tolight. Wirsing added that «in cooperationwith our customer Merck we developed aspecial range of tests. At the same time wetested several alternative packaging mate-rials designed to protect the solar waferseffectively against performance loss infuture.» ra

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Parcel tracking for high-tech products

Airborne sensorsDB Schenker Logistics uses a sensor-based solution for an air cargo shipment of highly

sensitive components for photovoltaic systems. The solution enables customers to keep

constant track of the temperature and humidity surrounding their goods.

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There is basic agreement in the Austrianlogistics industry. Oliver Wagner, themanaging director of the national for-warding and logistics association sinceJune, opened his tenure by stressing the«importance of logistics as a key factor inAustria’s ability to compete internation-ally.» The aim, he said, is to «anchor logis-tics more visibly.» This is the consensus.

As far as transport modes go, Austria ison the Danube, and this presents a dilem-ma. On the one hand there is an all-outattack on the introduction of gigaliners atthe political level. Transport minister Do-ris Bures is very vocal on this, as is MEPJörg Leichtfried. Politically there is a pref-erence for rail transport and waterwaysand for suitable European policies alongthese lines. On the other hand, Austrianforwarders, led by Wolfram Senger-Weiss,president of the national association, arein favour of large heavy goods vehicles on

the roads, and have warned that Austriacould be isolated in Europe in case of ano. In addition, the restructuring of RailCargo Austria (RCA), the freight subsidi-ary of ÖBB, has not been well-received byforwarders. The Austrian timber indus-try, which provides 5 million t of cargo ayear and accounts for about 12% of an-nual railfreight in Austria, has criticiseddramatic price increases of up to 30%and warned that huge volumes of timbertransportation may be transferred to theroads.

The railway as an opportunityAccording to the EU white paper ontransport published in the year 2000 theplan is for the share of rail transport inthe modal split to reach 35%. In realityits contribution is constantly falling, anda mere decade later it is already down to24%. More recently it has been moving

even further away from the target. This isdespite the fact that Austria, at the cross-roads of Europe on the Rhine–Danubeaxis between Germany, Italy and South-eastern Europe, is in an ideal position forrailfreight.

RCA’s new firm Rail Cargo Logisticsis pushing forward by integrating the for-mer subsidiaries AgroFreight Speditionand ChemFreight Transport, Logistikand Waggonvermietung. RCA has alsoinvested in retro-fitting wagons to turnthem into special units for the automo-tive industry.

However, it is not only the state rail-way that is driving innovation. FriedrichMacher, a former chairman of the boardof RCA, founded his own railfreight firmGrampetcargo Austria in 2012. It is a pri-vate enterprise providing transnationalcargo services in Romania, Bulgaria andHungary. It benefits from good accessroutes to major traffic arteries such asthe Rhine and the Danube, as well as toroutes linking northern Germany and theAdriatic. An additional trump card is thefact that a rail company such as this onecan bag contracts during the 12 to 16weeks in the year in which the Danubeis not navigable. This too is part of anintermodal approach. Christian Doepgen

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Competition between modes of transport

Rail is the keyAustria has raised objections to the introduction of gigaliners in Europe, and is advocat-

ing rail instead (see ITJ 21-22 / 2013, page 94). On the other hand an announcement that

Ökombi is set to be merged with Rail Cargo Austria was received with great scepticism.

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28 AAE sets record with ÖBBHigher tolls on Austrianmotorways in 2014

29 Sustainability at Schachinger30 Mitsubishi-Hödlmayer team

Österreichische Post benefits31 Discussing a terminal in Enns32 LTE banking on a

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railway company Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB)every year since 1998. AAE has become ÖBB-TS’s largestcustomer in the wheel set sector outside the ÖBB group.

AAE’s CEO Karsten Sachsenröder said that «withthe help of our partners, such as TS, we can implementour sophisticated servicing and maintenance schedulethroughout Europe and therefore ensure that our cus-tomers have the maximum possible service availabilityof their railcars.» At TS’s factory in Knittelfeld (Styria,Austria), around 120 employees work on the refurbish-ment of around 28,000 wheel sets annually. ah

www.ts.oebb.at; www.aae.ch

A 15-year partnership

ÖBB-TS produces the60,000th wheel for AAEA milestone was reached in time for the anniversary of the collaboration

between ÖBB-Technische Services and the freight car rental firm AAE.

Switzerland’s AAE group, whose approximately 30,000 freight carsmake it one of the largest rental companies for standard freight cars inEurope, has received the 60,000th refurbished wheel set for its freightcar fleet from ÖBB-Technische Services (ÖBB-TS), just in time forthe anniversary of the partnership between the two firms. AAE hassent several thousand wheel sets to the subsidiary of the Austrian state

ÖBB-TS managing director Engelbert Mayr (on the left) andAAE CEO Karsten Sachsenröder (on the right) celebratedthe anniversary by personally tightening the last screws on the60,000th wheel set .

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Higher costs justaround the cornerThe use of Austrian motorways will cost more in 2014.

The Austrian Economic Chambers warn that carriers and

their customers will be particularly hard hit.

«The planned toll increases due to take effect on 1 Janu-ary 2014 will raise charges by about 9% per toll cat-egory. This will probably be reflected in future trans-port prices,» predicted Albert Moder, deputy chairmanof the goods haulage trade association in the AustrianEconomic Chambers (Wirtschaftskammer ÖsterreichWKÖ) at the end of November. Officially, the tollcharge increase is being sold under a green label, but theprognoses upon which the planned increases are based,are «simply wrong» according to Moder. He suggestedthat the suspicion that higher tolls have been designedto fill state coffers are well-founded

With these toll charge increases, Austrian politicianshave deliberately accepted the increase in transportservice costs and additional burdens for the economyand consumers. «This will be felt by the entire econo-my. Businesses as well as consumers, who will have thetransport costs passed onto them, will therefore see costsrising significantly,» Moder said. The WKÖ trade asso-ciation therefore called for the proposed toll increasesto be rescinded. www.wko.at

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The Austrian logistics firm Schachinger has

built a new logistics centre that is second

to none in Europe. The ITJ spoke to

Max Schachinger jun., a member of the

Board, about what motivated the firm

to undertake this project.

Schachinger is a family-run logistics com-pany in Austria. Early in September thecompany finished building what it calls«probably the most sustainable logisticsbuilding in Europe.» It is more or lessself-sufficient in energy. Max Schachingerjun. calls the temperature-controlled dis-tribution centre that forms part of themultimodal logistics park at Schachinger’sheadquarters in Linz-Hörsching a stand-out project for green warehousing, bothin terms of construction practices and op-eration. The 11,000 sqm warehouse and800 sqm office complex was built usingsolid wood construction. In future 400 tof products for Metro Cash & Carry Aus-tria, the company’s new customers, will behandled there daily.

It has always been part of Schach-inger’s philosophy to break new ground.Talking to the ITJ, Max Schachinger jun.,a member of the management team anda member of Schachinger’s board, recallsthat «the idea of another grey hall made ofaluminium composite panels was abhor-rent to us. It would cement the drearinessof today’s commercial buildings for theentirety of our lives, and would then haveto be disposed of as hazardous waste.»

So the company chose a warehousethat would use minimal resources andbe based on the latest ecologically-soundideas. The construction costs came to

EUR 8 million, which was less thanoriginally budgeted. Schachinger jun. isenthusiastic. «The hall is full of addedvalue and looks as if it had cost signifi-cantly more. The interplay of blue, greenand red symbolises the main terrestrialelements, if you like.»

High quality of workIn planning the facility a key factor waslow operating costs over the life of the newbuilding. Schachinger summarised thecompany’s achievements as follows. «Us-ing the best materials and an interlockingmulti-user concept we achieved optimaleconomic and environmental values forwarehouse construction in record time.In addition, the solid wood constructioncombined with the architect’s delicatetouch gave us amazing quality.»

From the day construction began theworkers were surrounded by an inspiringwork environment of warm wood andfresh colours. The distinctive features

of the temperature-controlled buildingin solid wood construction (with locallysourced wood) are zero energy consump-tion (the building is virtually self-suffi-cient in energy, with an energy value of10.3 kWh/sqm, including a photovoltaicsystem on the roof ), the use of low-CO2

concrete, LED lighting throughout withdaylight and steering options, and inflat-able door insulation for efficient energymanagement in the interior of the hall.

The building is heated and cooled us-ing a heat-recovery scheme from ground-water that includes a system for air-con-ditioning that generates 20–25% of thecooling without a heat pump. The elec-tricity for the heat pump is supplied bythat most famous of all sources of energy,the sun, delivered to the building by aphotovoltaic system.

Its ecologically sound constructionmethods won Schachinger its customer

Sustainability the motto at Schachinger’s new distribution centre

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Schachinger’s new Linz-Hörsching distribution centre.

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environment is plundered around me, how blind and short-sighted theactions of companies are when they feel driven to the edge of the abyss.»Schachinger itself also went through some difficult economic times andhas been reorganising its divisions and making itself fit for the futurefor the last seven years. The fact that it is a family business gives thecompany its willingness to innovate, expressed amongst other things,by the fact that its warehouses became eco-efficient long before thoseof the competition.

An unconventional thinker in the logistics sectorSchachinger jun. is seen as a maverick in the Austrian logistics sector.He has said that there cannot be infinite growth on a finite planet, andthat logistics companies can create better terms and conditions for theiroperations even without political coercion or regulation. Coming froma private entrepreneur such statements sound surprisingly philosophi-cal. «I see great potential for improving the condition of life for humanbeings and for continuing to develop. We’re so good at creating, but weare also in a position to destroy as never before.» Josef Müller/ra

Metro Cash & Carry. Schachinger carries out storageservices, order picking, cross-docking and distributionactivities for the firm. Schachinger jun. confirms thatit takes courage and a lot of energy to set up a buildinglike this for a single customer in a time when contractsbetween customers and logistics companies are oftenshort-lived. Persuading banks to lend money is also be-coming more difficult, with the interest rates for logis-tics companies offered by Austrian financial institutionsparticularly onerous. So the company could not affordto make any mistakes in the project.

«We commit ourselves to five-year relationships withour customers,» Schachinger jun. explained, as he elabo-rated on why the combination of ecology, economy andsocial issues is so important to him. «I hate waste andresource destruction. Too often I’ve witnessed how the

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Hödlmayr new Mitsubishi logistics partnerThe Austrian automobile logistician Hödlmayr International is the newtransport partner of the company Denzel Autoimport, the general im-port agent for Japan’s Mitsubishi cars into Austria. Hödlmayr will takeover Mitsubishi vehicles after their discharge from ocean-going vesselsat the port of Koper (Slovenia). www.hoedlmayr.com

In briefRewe opens new central warehouse. The German foodretailer Rewe International has commenced operations ina new 36,000 sqm central warehouse in Ohlsdorf in UpperAustria. The opening of the EUR 60 million facility, whichstands on a 146,000 sqm plot of land, is expected to cut thedistances trucks have to cover to reach Rewe’s Austrian shopsby 6 million kilometres annually. www.rewe-group.at

Sales up, ebit down. The Austrian national postal servicesprovider Österreichische Post improved its sales in the thirdquarter of the current financial year in comparison with thelike-for-like period in the previous twelve months. The figurerose from EUR 550 to 561 million. Whilst the corporation’sprofits increased from EUR 26.3 to 28.4 million, its operatingprofit (ebit) declined from EUR 36.3 to 33.2 million.

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The state of Upper Austria is looking for anew operator for the inland port of Ennson the river Danube. The public port op-erator released a tender at the beginningof November to which potential inter-ested parties can now apply.

Upper Austria’s state economic ad-visor Michael Strugl would like to seea suitable partner found by the end ofFebruary to settle the matter, which hasalready caused quite an uproar in the in-dustry. Applicants had until the middleof November to indicate their interestand take a look at a fact book.

The application period for a bindingproposal expired at the end of November.Proposals are currently being evaluated,and from February 2014 onwards the newoperator is expected to take over businessactivities in the port of Enns, accordingto the state of Upper Austria’s plans.

Port customers are concernedDiscussions about a future operationalmodel have led to much uncertain-ty amongst port customers in recentmonths. Operators and logistics compa-nies have been critical of plans presentedby the Salzburg timber industry companyKaindl, which is planning to erect a newcontainer terminal next to the existing

terminal on its own 350,000 sqm space.Because of this, neutrality in the terminalwill be lost – at least that is concern of theport customers.

«This is a waste of taxpayers’ money,»in the opinion of Christian Gutjahr,managing director of intermodal opera-tor Roland. He believes that an additionalcontainer terminal in Enns is completelyunnecessary. «In Enns we expect a neutralcontainer terminal,» he says, bringing hisopinion right to the point. Many playersin the industry are of the same opinion.

Two specialist terminalsOtto Hawlicek, managing director ofContainer Terminals Salzburg (CTS),considers the concerns voiced in relationto the neutrality of the terminal operatorto be unjustified, however. Kaindl alreadyoperates the CTS independently, withHawlicek in charge of its Enns project.

Hawlicek emphasises the fact thatcompanies now working in Enns neednot have any fear, though, because theterminal will remain open to all usersand free of discrimination. According toHawlicek, Kaindl has already submitted aproposal to take over operations.

The construction of a second con-tainer terminal in Kaindl’s own port

area is necessary, as the existing terminalhas reached the limits of its capacity andin future there will be two terminals (Aand B), Hawlicek says. One of the termi-nals will focus on rail transport options,whilst the second facility will specialisemore in container handling.

Deutsche Bahn on boardIf Kaindl wins the tender the companywill establish an additional module, asHawlicek describes the second terminal.«Over and above this, we’ll start han-dling maritime traffic to and from Ennsin partnership with Deutsche Bahn inDecember 2014,» Hawlicek adds.

Public funding is available for a rail-way link to the second terminal. With atotal of EUR 4.2 million there is fixedfunding available from the country’stransport ministry for the construction ofrail connections to the planned new ter-minal area, as Walter Fleissner, spokesper-son for federal transport minister DorisBures explains to the ITJ.

CTS has submitted a correspondingapplication to the ministry. The moneyis to come from the government’s cli-mate and energy development project fordedicated rail spurs and terminals. «Thesubsidy agreement was associated withthe usual conditions, such as minimumvolumes and an obligation to operate thecentre,» Fleissner explains.

Non-discriminatory operationsThe establishment of another terminalin Enns will need to be examined withdifferentiated technical and economicconsiderations, the ministry commentson a question from the ITJ. Associatedwith this funding is the condition thatKaindl must keep the terminal open in aneutral and non-discriminatory way forother operators, forwarders and potentialnew customers. According to Hawlicekthis requirement does not present anyproblem at all.

Josef Müllerwww.ennshafen.at

Kaindl planning to take over Danube river port

Restructuring in EnnsThe question concerning the new operator of the Upper Austrian Danube port of Enns has been cause for uncertainty amongst port

customers for some months now. The Salzburg-based timber company Kaindl is planning to take over port operations and add a new

terminal. ITJ correspondent Josef Müller examines whether there will be a loss of neutrality in this context.

The discussions concerning the new operator of the inland port of Enns have been extensive.

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The Austrian railway transport companyLTE Logistik- und Transport-GmbH hasestablished LTE Germany, its new na-tional branch office based in Kassel. «Wedecided to push our commitment in Ger-many and Romania forward strongly,»LTE managing director Andreas Mandlexplained in conversation with the ITJ. InGermany the company will continue towork together with existing partners suchas TX Logistik, HSL Logistics, Lokomo-tion and the Ruhrtalbahn. In Romania,LTE already has two customers for whomit provides traction services and handlesconstruction materials and chipped mate-rial transportation.

Mandl said that business in Hungaryand Czechia has developed well. LTE

transports goods from the metropolitanareas of Prague and Budapest to Germanyand the Netherlands. The goods are pri-marily corn, rape seed and sunflowerseeds. LTE deploys 14 of its own loco-motives and 14 leased ones, pulling itsown Tam series wagons. By using multi-system locomotives and bilingual driverswith licences for Hungary and Austria,for example, delays at borders can beminimised. The group concentrates onagricultural, combined transport, the au-tomotive sector and raw materials, timberand ores, amongst other things.

LTE’s sales came to EUR 64 million2012, a gain of 20% over the previous year.A good performance in the Netherlandshas contributed to this. LTE has been in

business for 13 years and is 100% ownedby Graz-Köflacher Bahn und Busbetrieb(GKB). In the next few years, it wants toexpand the lucrative Baltic–Adriatic railaxis. Mandl said that «with our sister firmAdria Transport in Koper and the CargoCenter Graz in Werndorf, the LTE grouphas two strong partners.» Josef Müller

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Improving its position in the European railway network

Seeking to expand the Baltic–Adriatic axis

LTE has its eyes on the axis linking Slovenia andItaly to Poland and the Baltic region.

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The head office of the new Huettemanncompany is in the town of Baia Mare,in northwestern Romania, where a newEuropean logistics centre for the Dutchadvertising and gift article manufacturerXindao is currently also being built. Rabe­link Logistics SRL will manage the fullrange of logistics activities for its custom­ers at the state­of­the­art terminal in BaiaMare. The services range from inboundgoods reception through picking to pan­European distribution options. The newterminal is scheduled to open at the be­ginning of 2014. Rabelink Logistics SRLis investing in new intralogistics equip­ment, information and communicationssystems as well as in its local staff. TheRomanian team will initially manage thelogistics processes, in close coordinationwith the Dutch parent company, and latertake over operations entirely.

Rabelink already operates a logisticscentre for Xindao in ’s­Heerenberg (Neth­erlands). Around 2,500 different items

from Xindao’s catalogue are dispatchedto every corner of Europe from there.

These activities will now gradually betransferred to Baia Mare, a process thatRabelink will also manage, and then alarge part of the goods will be distributedfrom Romania. Only about 20% of the

stocks will remain in the Netherlands.Rabelink will also handle overseas con­tainers from China that are unloaded inRotterdam in its ’s­Heerenberg warehouseand forward the goods to Baia Mare.

www.huettemann-logistik.dewww.rabelink.nl

Rabelink gradually shifting distribution logistics from Western to Southeastern Europe

New location in RomaniaHuettemann, a German logistics company based in Duisburg, has staked a claim in Romania by establishing its own

national branch office there. Rabelink Logistics SRL, a subsidiary of Huettemann’s Dutch firm Rabelink Logistics, was

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In briefNew logistics hub. Papastratos, a Greek tobacco and cigarette manu-facturer that is a part of the Philip Morris multinational tobacco corpora-tion, is currently refashioning its warehouse located in Agrinio (centralGreece) into a central logistics and distribution hub for its activities inthe European Union as well as in Eastern Europe. Raw tobacco fromGreece, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia willbe shipped to Philip Morris production plants located in the EuropeanUnion, Russia and Ukraine.

www.pmi.com

Chinese investment in Piraeus. The ZTE Corporation, a Chinesetelecommunications equipment manufacturer that is headquartered inShenzhen, recently started constructing a new logistics centre not farfrom the port of Piraeus (Greece). The ZTE Corporation is planning tomake the facility its new European hub. www.zte.com.cn

Sped S joins ECG. Sped S, a Sofia-based Bulgarian car transport special-ist founded in 1996 which specialises in international car transports inEurope and West Asia, was recently welcomed as the newest member ofthe Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG).

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that the government collects from car and lorry driversevery year flows back into road infrastructure. To ensurefair transport financing on the basis of the user-paysprinciple Astag is now supporting a new move (called thecash-cow initiative) that proposes the strict separationof funding for different modes of transport. The nextnational transport policy verdict will come from a voteon 9 February 2014 on the financing and expansion ofrail infrastructure. For the state railway SBB this is themost important policy decision of the decade.

www.milchkuh-initiative.ch

Swiss railway and road votes

When the people speakAfter the rejection of an increased road vehicle tax in November

associations and stakeholders have set their sights on 9 February,

when a vote will be held on the expansion of railway infrastructure.

The Swiss electorate expressed a clear opinion on 24 November. Almost61% of those Swiss who voted – and at nigh-on 54% the turnout wasrelatively high – rejected a proposal to raise the annual road-user toll forprivate cars from CHF 40 (EUR 32) to CHF 100 (EUR 81). In each ofthe country’s 26 cantons (federal states) the majority of the voters wasagainst the measure. In its comment on the result the SchweizerischerGewerbeverband (SGV), the largest umbrella association for businessin Switzerland, wrote that «the people have had enough of constantincreases in the toll and as motorists they no longer want to pay more.»Despite the rejection of the measure (whose income was earmarked forroad improvements), the SGV said that outstanding road rehabilitationprojects must nevertheless be completed quickly.

Astag, the Swiss association of commercial vehicle operators, whichwas also pleased with the outcome of the vote, pointed out that «therehas to be an end to cross-subsidies now.» It said that many road userswere fed up with the fact that their financial contributions were oftenused for purposes other than those for which they were intended. Astagcalculated that just one third of the CHF 9.5 billion (EUR 7.7 billion)

Maintaining and expanding transport infrastructure costs plenty,especially in Switzerland. National votes on the issue have toaddress the matter of cross-subsidisation.

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In briefCoalition talks. The new German government will seek tointroduce a general road-user vehicle toll, as it already existsin Austria and Switzerland. The country’s existing toll fortrucks on selected roads will also be extended to all federalroads, and the new coalition will additionally seek to establisha reliable basis for the financing of transport infrastructure,particularly the rail network. A controversial ticket tax, whichhas also had an indirect impact on the airfreight industrysince 2010, will not be rescinded. In other news, the air cargohub in Frankfurt can expect a degree of adversity should theGreen Party become a coalition partner in the state govern-ment of the federal state of Hessen. www.bmvbs.de

Silent nights. Stuttgart airport in Germany wants to cre-ate incentives for the use of quieter aircraft by establishinga new fee and tariff structure. From January 2014 aircraft inthe loudest category have to pay 56 times more per takeoffor landing compared to units in the quietest category. Aero-planes with more than 10 t take-off weight have been takeninto the system for the first time, and a harmful substance feehas also been introduced. www.flughafen-stuttgart.de

CSA back in Slovakia. The national carrier Czech Airlines(CSA) returned to Bratislava on 11 December. The capital ofneighbouring Slovakia will initially be served thrice a weekfrom Kosice and Prague. A Prague–Bratislava link was thefirst scheduled flight operated by Czech Airlines’ predecessor90 years ago. The airline said that it is planning to increasefrequencies to five a week on both routes in summer 2014.

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Kazakhstan wants to more than doublethe volume of the international flowof goods – export, import and transitconsignments – by 2020. This is to beachieved by developing the country intoa large Central Asian logistics hub ac-cording to Askar Mamin, the presidentof Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), theKazakh national railway company. Heelaborated on the subject in the capitalAstana in early November, at an inter-national transport and logistics businessforum entitled «The New Silk Road». Theproject includes both the implementationof large infrastructure projects in thecountry and the construction of a mod-ern transport logistics system.

A logistics giant in the makingThe national multimodal company KTZExpress, which was founded in June andwhich operates under the umbrella of theKTZ National Company, is to play a keyrole in this endeavour.

This will involve the coordination ofrail, sea, air and road transport, of seaport and aviation infrastructure, and of anetwork of logistics centres. The project isexpected to ensure the shipping of goodsfrom door to door, that is, the organisa-tion of the entire supply chain and theprovision of integrated cargo rates.

Kanat Alpysbayev, KTZ’s vice-presi-dent for logistics, said at a press confer-ence early in November that Kazakh-stan’s eleven public airports had beentransferred to KTZ Express in the mean-time. This will also affect the Aktau sea-port on the Caspian Sea and the KhorgosEast Gates special economic area.

Hoping to rise up the rankingsAccording to Alpysbayev, KTZ Express isalso in the process of forming an airportholding company. Alpysbayev believesthat KTZ Express will enable Kazakhstanto become an internationally-competitiveplayer in the logistics sector.

Analysts and managers hope that thecountry can rise from 86th place in the

World Bank’s logistics performance in-dex, a system that assesses countries’ lo-gistics efficiency, to at least 40th. Thiswould further increase the country’sattractiveness for international investors.

Wide-ranging plansThe plans are huge, the activities varied.For example, a freight village is due tobe created this year. A project to expandand modernise the maritime trade port ofAktau is to be completed by the end of2014. During the following two years theplanned network of transport logisticscentres is to be implemented, with theparticipation of private enterprises.

In addition, roads and railway tracksare being built, with the goal of optimis-ing the configuration for east–west andnorth–south international transit corri-dors. According to KTZ, 1,200 km of newrailway tracks are being built in Kazakh-stan. This is expected to create an opti-mised railway network for internationaltransport requirements.

Grain exports added to portfolioAs part of recently-signed agreementsentered into with China, KTZ and theport of Lianyungang in Jiangsu provincein eastern China are to jointly construct

a container logistics centre to ease the dis-tribution of cargo between Kazakhstanand Japan, South Korea and SoutheastAsia via the port.

Work is expected to start in the firsthalf of 2014, if possible. This project aimsto offer Kazakhstan the opportunity toreach China’s eastern ports and to createa centre for cargo handling there. Evenin the country itself critical voices aresceptical about the success of such a hugeundertaking, however, especially in viewof the fact that KTZ Express is also to takeover the country’s entire grain exports bythe end of the year.

A strong partnerCooperation with China is increasinglygathering speed. During the first threequarters of 2013, freight traffic withChina grew by 20% compared to theprior-year period. A total of 14 regularcontainer shuttle trains currently run be-tween Europe and Asia via Kazakhstan,according to KTZ. Next year, two morescheduled railway container transportconnections are to be added to existingoptions.

Christine Kulke-Fiedlerwww.ktze.kz

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Multimodal company gaining momentum

Kazakhstan wants a goliathKazakhstan wants to make better use of its location in Central Asia in the future. With its national multimodal transport and logistics

company KTZ Express it intends to emerge as an internationally-competitive logistics hub. Trade with China, in particular, plays an

important role therein. Sceptics doubt the success of the logistics giant.

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Ms Aurich, how close are you person-ally to Latin America?Very close. I’m in charge of route develop­ment as well as coordination betweenRöhlig’s five national offices there. Frommy office in Hamburg I also act as the«link between the worlds.» I used to workfor Rohde&Liesenfeld, amongst others,and spent six years in Chile, so I knowthe terrain.

How do you assess the potential of thecountries in which you operate?The range is considerable. Argentina re­mains an economic giant, though its per­formance appears erratic, due to its poli­cies and its import and exchange controls.The market in Chile is already divided upamongst a number of service providers.But there are also many new opportuni­ties, for example in Colombia and Peru.We consider Uruguay a strong hub on theeast coast – it is our gateway to the sur­rounding region.

What is your assessment of your chanc-es in Brazil, the regional heavyweight?The main pillar of our activity there isSMEs need for advice. Taxes and tariffsmust be assessed dispassionately, as mustpossible port blockages and last­mile un­certainties, when the cargo enters cus­toms clearance. Nevertheless, for manyshippers the country is a springboard toLatin America.

Is their assessment correct?Despite its complex parameters the Bra­zilian market continues to offers majoropportunities. The preparations for the

Olympics and the football World Cup arealso casting their shadow.

Is there a trend towards a reduction inwidespread bureaucratic arbitrarinessand corruption?Logistics in Latin American is progres­sive, for example in the IT sector. InSpanish­speaking countries especiallythe principles of good governance are in­creasingly being adopted, and the grow­ing popularity of training helps a lot too.

What kind of an obstacle does the lackof infrastructure represent?There are still many worthwhile projectsthat would really promote trade and thelogistics sector if they were to be realised.One such desirable undertaking I’d liketo mention is the Paraná waterway fromArgentina to Bolivia.

Many companies are moving their re-gional headquarters away from Miami.Following our acquisition of Procargo(see ITJ 39­40/2013, page 40), we decidedto go for a decentralised approach in Lat­in America. Although managing directorThomas Hansen sits in Miami, there areno other regional managers above him.Our country managers report to him.

What concrete products and transportservices are you launching in the nearfuture?We’ll continue to utilise renewable ener­gy in our project logistics and in the FCLsegment we’re predominantly making useof our so­called flexitank product for thetransportation of liquid goods. We’ll alsobe extending our project cargo business,which is already running well in Brazil,to other markets. www.rohlig.com

Latin America’s logistics markets continue to offer potential

Unlimited opportunities?The Latin American countries’ logistics markets are diverse and to some extent develop at varying speeds. In a conversation

with Sabine Aurich, Röhlig’s coordinator for Latin America, ITJ editor-in-chief Christian Doepgen heard about the opportunities

and peculiarities that her company has identified there, as well as the approach that Röhlig adopts.

Sabine Aurich, Röhlig’s coordinator for Latin America, told theITJ that the region’s logistics markets offer a great potential andsimultaneously present numerous challenges.

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37International Transport Journal 49-52 2013 A Time for Reflection / Advertisers’ Index

Let’s do lunch«Language is the dress of thought.»Samuel Johnson, English man of letters (1709–1784)

Americans are friendly people. However,they don’t always mean exactly what theysay. This is a stereotype that holds sometruth. Take the salesperson who, whenyou enter the store, greets you with achirping «How are you today» – but who,of course, is more interested in your buy-ing power than your well being. Europe-ans always seem to have a hard time get-ting used to that. It’s a fact though, thatfriendliness is the lubricant that keepsdaily life flowing in America, and quitesmoothly for that matter.

I’ve lived in the United States for eightyears now and couldn’t agree more. Yet,there is one thing I can’t, and possiblydon’t want to, get used to – my country-men’s oddly reversed communicationsbehavior. Because they don’t only exagger-ate, but sometimes they even say the exactopposite of what they really mean.

If, for example, Americans call what I’msaying in a conversation «very interesting»,it means that a) they’re bored to death,or b) they find my thoughts to be – well –total humbug. If someone encourages meafter an initial meeting to «please keep intouch», it usually means that there isn’tthe slightest interest in any further contact.The proverbial suggestion «Let’s do lunch»

has become somewhat of a joke even in theStates, as the true meaning is: It’ll neverhappen.

The sociopolitical dictionary of Americans(and Britons as well) turns out to be an inter-cultural mine field for foreigners. I personallyfind it exhausting to constantly translate whatpeople say into what people may, or may not,really mean. For me, as a journalist, it shouldbe easier. But for some reason it isn’t. My re-actions routinely alternate between remorse,uncertainty and vengefulness.

Remorse, because I admit having usedsome of those strangely-coded phrases my-self, falsely though, because I used them intheir literal meaning. Take, for example, ane-mail that I recently wrote to a colleague ofmine, congratulating him on his latest article,which I’d found «very interesting», and add-ing that it would be great to «meet for coffeeor lunch» to catch up. Ouch. Stupid me, whywas I even surprised when I never heard fromhim again?

Uncertainty, because you never reallyknow if your translation is right-on, or semi-correct, or totally off. How do I know for surethat someone who encourages me to keepin touch, in reality considers me a nuisance?Pride forbids, of course, thrusting yourselfupon people. On the other hand persistence is

considered a virtue in America, and silencecan easily be read as a sign of indifference.

Vengefulness, while of course rare, isthe most liberating – and also the mostproductive sentiment in my personal ar-senal of reactions. I have to admit I findit much easier to be elegantly mean inEnglish than in my native tongue, German.Justifiably mean, that is. I remember thistruly ill-natured lady who I happened torun into a few years ago, and I ended upwishing her «a great life» (translation: «Goto hell»). Indeed, the lady gasped for air,and my American husband said that was akiller sentence. I was satisfied. Deeply.

Just recently, I composed an e-mail toa gentleman who happened to bombardme with personal invitations to utterly bor-ing lectures and other events. I thankedhim politely, respectfully declined, claim-ing numerous commitments which wouldkeep me busy until the end of the year atleast (September had just begun). In clos-ing I wrote «Let’s do lunch sometime». Ithought that was pretty slick.

Barely two minutes later, the responseshowed up in my in box: «What aboutlunch on 2 January?»

Katja Ridderbusch

Advertisers’ Index

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Emirates Sky Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Emons Spedition GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Ethiopian Shipping Lines Share Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Etihad Airways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Euroexpo Messe + Kongress GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Franzosini SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Gebrüder Weiss GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Grimaldi Cia di Navigazione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Haropa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

HLS Container Bremen e.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

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Intercargo S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Intercontor Hellas S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Lagermax Internationale Spedition GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

LKW WALTER Internat. Transportorganisation AG . . . . . . . . .6

Manaco, International Forwarders Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Moor Transport AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

NAVIS Schiffahrts- u. Speditions AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Dateline Overseas Ltd. (Representative office of PoletCargo Airlines) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Ritschard S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Roland Spedition GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Scandlines Deutschland GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Thai Airways International PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

TimoCom Soft- und Hardware GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

TransContainer JSCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Turnpoint (France) s.a.r.l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

TVS Europaverkehre Speditions GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

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19 November 2013 was a «wonderful day»for Karl Ulrich Garnadt. The chairmanof the board of the German freight air-line Lufthansa Cargo was in an extremelycheerful mood at Frankfurt airport, andpointed out that he was unable to remem-ber «the last time he had seen so manyhappy people at work.» Well over 1,000guests of honour attended the officialhanding over of a new Boeing B777F air-craft. In the heat of the moment they gaveno further thought to the fact that thecelebration was actually due to have takenplace more than two weeks earlier. Butduring the initial acceptance tests in theBoeing factory near Seattle WA (see alsopage 17), German engineers identifiedsome defects which delayed the originalhand-over date (see box).

At the end of the ceremony, Garnadtthanked both the US aircraft manufac-

turer and the invited customers, whowere probably as numerous as Lufthan-sa Cargo the employees in attendance.Whilst his company has now achieveda significant milestone on its journey to«becoming a company geared up for thenext generation», all the other stakehold-ers, namely the political decision-makersand the forwarding agents who work inFrankfurt, must also follow suit and jointhe journey. It was therefore good for himto see that all those present believed inthe future of Frankfurt.

Five of today’s best freightersLufthansa Cargo has ordered a total offive brand-new freighters from Boeing,at a list price of USD 270 million apiece.There is – «unfortunately» – no alterna-tive to the Triple Seven, explained Gar-nadt with regard to the European supplier

Lufthansa Cargo takes delivery of its first two B777Fs

Just like ChristmasIn November the German freight airline Lufthansa Cargo presented itself with a gift when

it took delivery of the first two of five Boeing B777 cargo planes it has ordered.

«Good Day, USA» was the slogan of the day after Karl Ulrich Garnadt, Claus Richter andThomas Barta (from the left) named the plane in November. Other aircraft are called «JamboKenya» and «Ni Hao, China» (to be named in 2014).

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The Boeing B777F known as D-Alfa is the first plane in Lufthansa Cargo’s current fleet to be of-ficially named. In an online competition the airline had invited suggestions to give all of its aircrafta name. «In the end, we could have named more aircraft than there are in the world’s skies,»said company spokesman Matthias Eberle, who was pleased with the overwhelming response ofmore than 40,000 suggestions. The winning suggestion was conceived in both Austria and Japan,and involves welcoming Lufthansa Cargo’s major destination countries in their native language infuture. According to Karl Ulrich Garnadt, this friendly approach underlines the unifying role playedby civil aviation. The aircraft were officially named by Garnadt, the chairman of the LufthansaCargo board, together with Thomas Barta, one of two competition winners. The other one,Tomoya Matsumoto, had unfortunately already taken his annual vacation especially for the dateoriginally scheduled for the handing-over ceremony in Frankfurt.

www.lufthansa-cargo.com/en_de/specials/name-the-plane

Mr Matsumoto arrived too early

Another gift idea: Trans-Siberia on two wheelsIt was a daring little group of four ex-tremely well-trained cyclists that set offon a long journey from the Red Square inthe Russian capital Moscow on 1 August.The Austrian tri-athletes Robert Lang,Andreas Sachs, Michael Strasser and Wal-ter Zelenka set out on a daring 9,208 kmjourney to Vladivostok, which they cov-ered nonstop, in other words with oneperson in the saddle at all times, in just13 days, two hours and 59 minutes – acrazy world record!

The endurance athletes had to do thepedalling themselves, but the contest,called the Race across Russia, receivedlogistical support from many parties.A recently-published illustrated booknames the Austrian overseas trade centreand Austria’s embassy in Moscow, SAPas a technology partner and Jaguar LandRover Russia as the undertaking’s auto-motive partner. It provided five specially-equipped sport utility vehicles to accom-pany the sporting pioneers.

The route, which is extremely wellknown in the transport industry (see page24), crosses through seven time zones,mostly following the Trans-Siberian rail-way line. A book on the trip is availablefrom retailers or via the project’s logisticspartner, the company Russia Fachspedi-tion Dr. Lassmann. So Christmas pro-vides you with an opportunity to bringthe adventures of this journey to life inwinter’s long evenings in the comfort ofyour own home. www.russia.at

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Airbus. His view is also due to the com-pany’s past and present experience withaircraft from the USA. 41 years ago theGerman company was the first airline tooperate a B747 freighter, and now has 18Boeing MD-11Fs in its fleet. The firm’sprogression from four to three-enginedand now to twin-jet planes can thereforebe regarded as a logical step towards «theworld’s most powerful, efficient and envi-ronment-friendly freighter,» as Garnadt,regaling his audience with superlatives,assessed this development.

Part of a strategy for the futureFor all this enthusiasm, new aircraft arenot the be-all and end-all for an airline,according to Garnadt, having a slight digat the huge orders recently placed by com-petitors from Dubai in the Persian Gulf(see ITJ Daily of 19 November 2013). In-stead, they must be regarded as part of anoverall strategy. Two years ago, the airlinelaunched a comprehensive programmefor the future, called Lufthansa Cargo2020 which, in addition to the moderni-sation of its freighter fleet, also includesa EUR 100 million investment in new IT,

together with the construction of a newlogistics centre.

But to get back to the stars of theshow, the two GE90-110B engines eachwith a power output of approximately36,500 hp – same as 100 Porsche 911 Car-rera cars – are able to keep the aircraft inthe air for ten and a half hours with a fullload of 102 t of cargo – the equivalent of100 cars of any type. During this time, itcan cover a distance of exactly 9,045 kmnonstop – in other words, from Paris toHong Kong, London to Los Angeles orSan Francisco to Tokyo.

However, Garnadt assured his audi-ence that this does not necessarily negatethe need for the airline’s stopover base inKrasnoyarsk in Siberia, where LufthansaCargo’s MD-11 freighters regularly land(see ITJ 07-08/2010, page 16).

And despite his pleasure in the new air-craft, it was apparent that captain ClausRichter, a long-standing MD-11 pilot whoflew the first B777F to Frankfurt, also be-came somewhat nostalgic for his habitualaeroplane when talking about the impera-tive of modernising the fleet.

Andreas Haug

Volga-Dnepr Groupphoto prizes awarded

More than 200 photographers submit-ted pictures to Volga-Dnepr’s third avia-tion photo contest (see ITJ 37-38/2013,page 41), and more than 10,000 visitorsfrom 92 countries voted in the audience-choice categories. Artem Orlov (Russia)won in the AN-124 section, ChristophFink (Germany) in the B747 and YvoCotala (Czechia) in the IL-76TD-90VDsection. A jury of experts adjudged a pho-to of an AirBridgeCargo Airlines BoeingB747F taken by Marina Lystseva (Russia),as the Grand Prix winner. With this newswe close the ITJ for 2013 and wish you agood winter break. www.volga-dnepr.com

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