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TransportJournalITJInternational47 · 48 | 22 November 2013www.transportjournal.comENGLISH EDITION(also available in an identicalGerman and French version)SpecialsAsia 36Italy 41An eye on the futureThomas Fields on plans forthe port of Long Beach 15Aiming to take offIndia remains a difficultaviation market 39A Wall Street listingFiat commercial vehicleson NY stock exchange 53

Photo: thinkstockKorea.hubs.International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Contents35 Editorial7 People&Companies11 Shipping &Ports11 Rising freight rates surprise the sector13 ICTSI growing in emerging economies15 Ambitious plans for the port of Long Beach19 The role of Europe’s ports re-definedItalian logistics market enjoying ligh tailwindReturning to confidenceThe Le ta government was confirmed in office in October 2013, and now Italy is ge tingback to work, with the cabinet adopting an infrastructurepackage. After eight quartersof a shrinking economy there are now signs of economic recovery.Positive and negative trendsPhoto: Photo: Christian Christian Doepgen DoepgenITALY43 Contship pleased with itsterminals’ good 2013 results44 TEN-T leaves a mark on Italy47 Planned logistics platformin Trieste taking shape48 M & M in the air and at sea51 The «core port» of Ravennaha steamed ahead this year52 Airfreigh trends not uniform53 CNH Industrial goes abroad43 Contship pleased with itsterminals’ good 2013 results44 TEN-T leaves a mark on Italy47 Planned logistics platformin Trieste taking shape48 M & M in the air and at sea51 The «core port» of Ravennaha steamed ahead this year52 Airfreigh trends not uniform53 CNH Industrial goes abroadCan the Italian trend be turned around?36 Asia Special International Transport Journal 2013State to take stakes in Japanese ports?Competition from across the Sea of JapanJapanese ports are feeling the e fects of the steady growth of the South Korean port of Busan rather distinctly. More and moreshipping lines have decided not to run direct services to Japan and are instead opting for transhipment via Busan. In order toregain market share the government of Japan is considering taking stakes in the Keihin and Hanshin port conglomerates.Both Japan’s container ports as we l as its boxlines have reported lo se so far this year.Japan wants to make its ports a be terbusine s proposition. Despite severala tempts by the state to make the country’shubs more a tractive as internationalhandling centres for liner shipping services,a great number of large box ships currentlypa s the country by. The competitionfrom Busan (South Korea), whichhas established itself more and more as atranshipment port in the last few years,is particularly strong.For this reason the Japanese transportministry is cu rently a se sing plans to acquirestakes in the companies that operatethe two major container ports in Tokyoand Osaka. Japanese busine s interestsare exerting increasing pre sure on theItaly seems to be realisingtheimportancehigh­speed railway link between Italyof logistics these days. If the upstream and France is we l­known, has a locatedand downstream sectors of the logistics EUR 200 mi lion to th expansion of se­industry are added to the big picture, lected rail hubs. In addition to makingthen the number of employees in the sectoris estimated at around 1 mi lion. To­expansion, a EUR 300 mi lion fund hasgether they generate an annual turnover been set up exclusively for the rehabilita­of EUR 200 mi lion, representingnolestion of roads, bridges and tunnels.provision for investments in motorwaythan around13% of Italy’s gro s domesticproduct. Co rado Pa sera, the transportminister in the Monti government inThere are signs of an economic turnaroundin Italy. Indicators such as retail2012, noted that reforms in the logisticsindustry in Italy had to be accorded strategicpriority because inadequate infradexthat have been declining for yearsstructure and organisationalineficiencyrebounded for the firs time in the thirdwer estimated to be costing the country quarter of 2013, and the demand for ware­EUR 60 bi lion annua ly.housing and logistics capacities has alsoThe cabinet has now provided hi suc­begun to improve.sales and the purchasing managers’ incesor Maurizio Lupi with EUR 2 bi lion In addition to economic uncertainty,to spend on measures to improve Italy’s the politics of a very bureaucratic stateinfrastructure next year. Lupi, whose remain a key unknown variable in Italy.pa sion for a «treno alta velocità» (TAV) One example saw the Italian environmentministry giving international hazardousgoods transport firms just a fewdays notice to get themselves registeredin the country’s refuse tracing scheme«Sistema di contro lo de la tracciabilitàdei rifiuti (Sistri)» by 1 October (see alsopage 51). The Italian authorities provedintransigent and deaf to pleas for moretime, so the IRU and six transport a sociationsfrom six European states have fileda complaint with the European Commission.There is clearly some way to go untilthe flywheel of the Italian logistics marketurns again. Christian DoepgenMoving business forward!Photo: thinkstockgovernment to make the move. They areafraid that the country wi l i retrievablylose its competitiv edge in internationalmaritime transport. The pre sure is onthe government to invest in the Keihinports enterprise, consisting of the centresin Tokyo, Kawasaki and Yokohama, andin the Hanshin ports company, coveringthe ports of Kobe and Osaka. Statisticsshow that in the period 1994–2012 everfewer container ships heading for Europeand North America made a stop in Japan.Many opted instead to cut costs and ca lin South Korea.Subsidised by the stateThe South Korean port of Busan receivesmuch more government support than anyJapanese port. The hub receives an estimatedJPY 4 bi lion (EUR 30 mi lion) insubsidies from the South Korean government.These state subsidies combine withlower personnel costs compared to Japanto a low South Korean shipping lines too fer lower rates to customers, and thusachieve a greater market share for SouthBoth the Keihin and Hanshin megaports,on the other hand, are operatedby local authorities that only have negligibleinfluence on central government.The transport ministry is thus planningSpecials in this issueto revise Japanese port law in the comingyear, to a low the government to takestakes in the two most important portoperators in the country. Analysts expectthe central governmen to buy shares inKeihin ports as early as 2014, which iswhen the ports of Tokyo, Yokohama andKawasaki are due to be consolidated.According to statistics published bythe ministry of economy, trade andindustry, three Japanese ports wereamongst the world’s 20 largest hubs in1994 (when measured by the number ofcontainers handled). In the meantimethere is not a single Japanese port to befound in the list of the world’s top 20The port of Kobe handled 2.6 millionteu last year and was ranked 52nd inthe world, whilst Osaka came 57th, witha throughput of 2.4 mi lion teu. Tokyomade i to 28th, with a volume of almost4.8 mi lion teu.The port of Busan, on the other hand,is number five in the world, with 17 millionteu handled in 2012. The most importantports in South Korea after Busanare the port of Gwangyang and Yeosu,which handled 2.15 mi lion teu in 2012,and the Incheon hub, with a throughputof 1.98 mi lion teu in the same year.Barbara Odrich / Antje VereggeAsia 36Italy 4121 Aviation21 An air bridge to the Philippines23 ABC again expanding its networkEnjoy the reliability of world-classprofessionalism and serviceby China Airlines Cargo.Tel. + 352 34 83 63 - 1 or please consult our website www.china-airlines.com28 Forwarding&Logistics28 Navis collaborating with Italsempione29 Interport also serves Iberia32 Transnatur opens Bilbao warehouse34 Rail/Inland Shipping/Road Haulage34 Drivers hold key to unlocking their potential35 FELB strengthening Eurasian links36 Asia Special37 Shenzhen ahead of Hong Kong?39 Cebu Pacific Air adds freight capacity40 More groupage container services in Asia41 Italy Special43 Contship terminals doing well45 Seeking warehousing capacities48 Militzer&Münch banking on sea and air54 Regional Focus54 Western Europe55 Central Europe and the Nordic Countries56 Eastern Europe57 Miscellaneous /Masthead58 A Time for Reflection/ Advertisers’ IndexJapanese ports gearing up 36The South Korean port of Busan’s transhipmentthroughput has grown steadily in the last fewyears. Read about the Japanese government’splans to improve the ability of its own ports tocompete successfully.Gateway to the East 30Nicholas Minde, the managing director of DHLFreight Switzerland, spoke to the ITJ about thelogistical challenges associated with doing businessin Eastern Europe and about the potentialfor improvement there.Uncertain outlook 52The Italian airfreight market does not present avery uniform picture these days. The country’sairports have been able to gain cargo volumes inthe last twelve months, but the future of Alitaliaremains written in the stars.Cover: Ships moored in portPhoto: thinkstock

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 People & CompaniesEuropeManagement reshuffleThe management of the airfreight handlerCargologic, a subsidiary of Rhenus, willbe taken over by Marco Gredig from thepresent COO Peter Somaglia on 1 January Marco Gredig2014. The latter will be available for specialprojects and remain president of thelobby group AirCargo Switzerland. Gredig has workedfor Cargologic for many years, and became executivevice-president for marketing and security, quality andsafety, and deputy managing director, in 2009. In 2012Gredig was named president of the Swiss bonded warehouseassociation.New president for Med portsIntermed Gateway, a lobby group founded in 1997 bythe ports of Barcelona, Genoa and Marseille, has electedJean Claude Terrier, president of the governing boardof the port of Marseille Fos, as its president. PhilippeGuillaumet, who is from the same port, was namedsecretary general. Intermed’s 2014–2015 programme includesthe compilation of a study on the strengths ofthe three ports, lobbying for the alliance in Europeanprojects and the initiation of a joint marketing strategy.Projects to the foreDHL Global Forwarding, the air and oceanfreight sector of DP DHL, has appointedNikola Hagleitner as the global head of itsindustrial projects sub-division. Hagleitner,who was previously the corporation’sglobal head of business strategy, began hernew role in October. She reports directlyto Roger Crook, CEO of DHL Global Forwarding’sfreight activities, as she did in herformer position. Hagleitner will retain herseat on the global management board ofDHL Global Forwarding Freight.Nikola HagleitnerPhoto: CargologicPhoto: DP DHLFrancesco ParisiChanges at FinnlinesUwe Bakosch, who has held the position since 2009, hasresigned as CEO and president of Finnlines in Helsinkiand become head of Finnlines Germany. He was succeededby Emanuele Grimaldi, who stepped down as thechairman of the board of directors. He was replaced inthat role by Jon-Aksel Torgersen, who has been a memberof the body since 2007. Bakosch came to Finnlinesfrom ATG Autotransport Logistic and was previouslywith DB Intermodal, Scandlines and United EuropeanCar Carriers (UECC).(nau)Fiata president now from EuropePhoto: Francesco ParisiCasa di SpedizioniThe International Federation of FreightForwarders’ Associations (Fiata) electedFrancesco Parisi as its president at its conferencein Singapore. Parisi, who has beenactive on Fiata’s executive committee forsome years, celebrated the 200th anniversaryof his Trieste-based forwarding firmin 2007. His predecessor, Stanley Lim, wasnamed Fiata past president. Jean-ClaudeDelen is the new treasurer, and HeinerRogge remains secretary general. The onlynew face on the committee is Robert Keen,successor to Chris Gillespie. Four of theseven Fiata executive committee memberswork for Asian freight forwarders.New manager in DüsseldorfStephan Wolk has been appointed branch manager forair and ocean freight at Group7 in Düsseldorf. He previouslyheld leading logistics positions at home and abroad,including Japan. Wolk, who last worked for Röhlig, willbe in charge of Group7’s new Neuss logistics centre.Corrigendum on SNCF GeodisOur article entitled «La SNCF regroupe le fret», publishedon page 6 of the French edition of ITJ 43-44/2013,accidentally wrote the name of the SNCF subsidiaryVFLI as CFLI. Apologies.5For your recruitments, Turnpoint identifies theManagers who will contribute to the success of yourbusiness by their talents, personality and entrepreneurialspirit, combined with technical skills.EXECUTIVE SEARCHin FRANCEMERGERS & ACQUISITIONSCONSULTINGOther areas of expertise includeMergers & Acquisitions andConsulting for your InternationalDevelopments FREIGHT FORWARDING TRANSPORT LOGISTICS SUPPLY CHAINTurnpoint | 21 rue Cassette | 75006 Paris | France | E-mail: headhunting@turnpoint.fr | Tel : + 33 1 45 49 43 43 | www.turnpoint.fr

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International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 People & CompaniesDouble barrel for FrejaFreja Transport and Logistics has appointedJan Håvard Hatteland and Tom Lunabbato promote its project and offshore activities.Hatteland has been regional directorin southwestern Norway since mid­November, and also looks after energy andoffshore activities. He is based in Sandnesnear Stavanger. Lunabba, who previouslyworked for K + N, has been Freja projectdirector since 1 November. He will workon boosting project and heavylift volumes.AmericasEuropean presenceC.H. Robinson, one of the largest US logisticscompanies, has opened an office inBasel (Switzerland), thus further expandingits European presence. Ildiko Gergely,who started her C.H. Robinson career inthe USA in the year 2000 and opened itsBudapest (Hungary) office in 2002, willmanage the Basel centre.Jan Hatteland (above)Tom Lunabba (below)Gerd HaasePhotos: FrejaPhoto: A. HartrodtAsiaFrom APL to Modern TerminalsHong Kong­based Modern Terminals has appointedErick Wong as its general manager for customer servicedelivery. Wong previously worked for APL Logistics for18 years, including postings as general manager of operationsin Hong Kong and in southern China. (nau)Heavy seas prompt resignationKim Young­min, the CEOof the South Korean carrierHanjin Shipping, has resigned,taking responsibility for thecompany’s losses over the lasttwo years. He will stay on untila successor is found. In 2009Kim Young­min transferredKim Young-min from Citigroup to becomePhoto: Hanjin Shipping CEO of Hanjin, which beganoperations as the Korea ShippingCorp in 1950. His contract was originally meant torun until 2015. Hanjin was able to more than halve itslosses to EUR 80 million in H1/2013. It has just receiveda EUR 106 million loan from affiliate Korean Air Lines.7Leading FerryFreightsince1977What we offer:• Online freight bookings• Experienced Russian-speaking staff• Credit accounts for regular shippers• Competitive ratesExclusive representativeof P&O Ferries in RussiaTel: +7 926 1518720+49 (0)89 89 60 73 -0 ferry@transcamion.com www.transcamion.com

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International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 People & CompaniesCongratulationsAfrica, Asia, Europe...Gerd Haase, managing director of theHamburg-based German overseas and airfreightforwarding company A. Hartrodt,is retiring at the end of the year after morethan 48 years with the firm. He has held aseries of posts in the company, includingthat of department head for Africa, manager of the specialproject sector for China and director for Australia inMelbourne. He became a company director in Hamburgin 1999. In addition to bearing joint responsibility forthe German organisation, Haase is currently in chargeof the Eastern Europe business division. He foundedA. Hartrodt subsidiaries in Hungary, Czechia, Poland,Romania and Russia, an activity that he has describedas his life’s mission.Changes of addressFlint Research Institute132 Heathfield Road, KestonKent BR2 6BACH, EnglandTelephone +44 1689 854 000Fax +44 1689 854 400E-mail fri@goodacreproperty.comwww.flintresearch.co.ukThorco Shipping ChileCerro El Plomo 5630Torre 8, Piso 9, Of 949Las Condes, Santiago, ChileTelephone +56 226 664 261E-mail chile@thorcoshipping.comwww.thorcoshipping.comCommentThinking about the long-term futureAt the EU’s TEN-T Days 2013, held inEstonia’s capital Tallinn, the EuropeanUnion pointed the way forward for theTrans-European Transport Networks(TEN-T). The system now has nineso-called implementing corridors, as wellas 94 main ports and 38 key airportsthat are designated nodal points. Thefinal communiqué even included sensitiveterms such as «core network» (see also ITJ45-46/2013, page 22). Those of us whoChristianDoepgenEditor-in-chiefare familiar with the frequently (all too) careful formulationsemanating from Brussels were particularly happy toread about a «commitment to growth and a focus on ourability to compete» which the EU wants to promote in its28 member states. For once subjects such as noise pollution,health, safety and security that are usually addressed– and rather defensively at that – weren’t at the forefront,but rather the work to promote trade and change in thefuture. This is a good thing.The new TEN-T guidelines are worthy, but it is by thedeeds of every EU member state that the programme willbe measured. EU co-funding for TEN-T projects amountsto around EUR 26 billion through to 2020, but this isexpected to cover only about 10% of requirements. So aHerculean task still faces the debt-ridden EU members.Infrastructure expansion is something that future generationswill be grateful for, however – which is an aspectthat can easily be lost from sight when engaged in shorttermplanning. And «old» Europe is ahead of the USAon this count. The US transport ministry’s Tiger supportprogramme received 585 applications from 50 states thisyear. The scheme supported 52 transport projects withEUR 352 million.9Zürich · Basel · St. GallenTop – Stellen für Spediteure & Logistiker unter Diskretwww.fctkader.chFISCHER Kaderselektion GmbHDorfstrasse 13a · Postfach 178 · CH-8155 Niederhasli ZHTel. +41 (0)44 850 25 25 · E-Mail reto.wieser@fctkader.chPersönlichIndividuellTransporteur für Europa+49 68 67 500www.fixemer.com

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International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Shipping, Ports & Terminals11Rate increases early in NovemberDoubled to a two-month highNews about positive developments concerning freight rates between Asia and Europehave been few and far between in the past few months. Now the WCI has more thandoubled to 7 November, however. Can a higher rate level be sustained?On 7 November the World ContainerIndex (WCI) more than doubled from itsprevious level. The freight rate for cargocarried on the Shanghai–Rotterdam tradelane increased from USD 1,284 per feuin the previous week to USD 2,687 perfeu on 7 November. This follows a periodof tumbling prices in which the WCI’sShanghai–Rotterdam rate fell by a totalof more than 55% since its last peak earlyin August this year.These latest developments confirmedthat price increases of between USD 750and 1,000 per teu announced by containershipping lines, which took effecton 1 November, were largely accepted bythe market. According to Richard Heath,director of the World Container Index,World Container Index4,0003,5003,0002,5002,0001,5001,000500JanFebMarchthe price recovery comes at a particularlycrucial time for ocean carriers, namelyin the middle of negotiations being heldfor the 2014 contract rates. «Carriers maywell attempt to use the rally in spot ratesas leverage in contract negotiations withshippers,» he said.Overcapacity remainsMartin Dixon, Drewry’s research managerfor freight rate benchmarking, is notsure how long the increased freight rateswill last. He believes that the sustainabilityof the current rate levels dependsentirely on what measures shipping linestake to limit the tonnage overcapacitiesprevailing in the market. As many ultralargecontainer vessels (ULCVs) are dueShanghai–Rotterdam container freight rates (USD/feu)AprilMayJuneJuly2012 2013AugustSeptOctNovDecSource: World Container Index/ DrewrySome rates for the shipping of containers fromAsia to Europe have more than doubled recently.to enter service next year, Drewry haswarned the industry that a reliance onskipped sailings alone will not preventrate erosion or balance the relation betweensupply and demand.Prospects for the trade between Asiaand the east coast of North America arevery promising, according to Drewry’sContainer Insight weekly report. Someoperators may have reported unsatisfactorypeak seasons, it’s true, but this factis not yet reflected in the statistics for thefreight volumes concerned.Drewry has concluded from this thatskipping sailings, as practiced by somelines, are not only down to preparationsfor the winter season. By leaving out somesailings lines can increase their vessels’utilisation factors to an unnatural extent.This in turn means that some shippershave to expect their bookings to beshifted to other sailings than originallyplanned.Antje Vereggewww.drewry.co.ukPhoto: thinkstockFrench tonnage tax regulations to be examinedThe European Commission has openedan in-depth investigation, to examinewhether changes to the French tax rulesfor maritime companies are in line withEU state-aid rules.In particular, the Commission wantsto investigate the inclusion of time-charteredvessels sailing under the non-EUflags of third countries in a favourablenew French fiscal regime based on thetaxation of a fleet’s tonnage. The termtime chartering refers to transportationservices provided with vessels and crewtemporarily rented from other companies.The opening of an in-depth investigationgives interested third parties thepossibility to comment on the measureunder assessment – but does not prejudgethe outcome of the investigation.EU versus non-EU-flagged vesselsIn 2003 the Commission had approveda French tonnage tax scheme (case SA14551). For shipping companies that optfor this taxation scheme the tax base forits corporate income tax is calculatedon the basis of the tonnage of its fleet,rather than on the actual profits of thecompany. The scheme, which is in linewith the applicable 1997 EU guidelineson state aid to maritime transport, hadlimited the eligibility of time-charteredships not flagged in the EU, however.At this stage the Commission believesthat specific limits should be maintainedon the eligibility of time-chartered shipsnot sailing under an EU flag.Antje Vereggewww.europa.eu

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Shipping, Ports & Terminals13Worldwide container throughput increasingKarachi ensures healthy growthTerminal operator ICTSI’s positive resultsin the first nine months have underlinedthe important role that emerging economiesplay in the box handling business.ICTSI’s throughput has grown in 2013.Container throughput in Antwerp andRotterdam may be declining (see page 17),but the Filipino company InternationalContainer Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI)was pleased to report positive results forits container activities in the first ninemonths of 2013.The company reported USD 625 million(EUR 465 million) in revenues fromport operations for the period under review,an increase of 19% in comparisonwith the like-for-like period last year. Itsearnings before interest, taxes, depreciationand amortisation (ebitda) came tothe equivalent of EUR 212 million, 26%higher than the figure for the first ninemonths of 2012. Net income attributableto equity holders came to EUR 96 million,up by 22%. The corporation saidthat this higher net income was mainlydue to strong revenue growth and marginimprovements in certain key terminals, aswell as the contribution of a new terminalin Karachi (Pakistan). The company’sseven key terminals are located in Manila(Philippines), Brazil, Poland, Madagascar,China, Ecuador and Pakistan. Theyaccounted for 79% of the group’s consolidatedvolumes in the period under reviewAll in all, ICTSI handled 4.6 millionteu in the first nine months of 2013, 13%more than the 4.1 million teu handled inthe same period in 2012. The increase wasmainly due to good growth in internationaland domestic trade flows in mostof the company’s terminals, as well as thenew volumes generated by the PakistanInternational Container Terminal (PICT)and PT Olah Jasa Andal, a new facilityin Jakarta (Indonesia). Excluding thesetwo new hubs, as well as the terminationof operations in Syria in January 2013,organic volume growth stood at a mere1%, however. www.ictsi.comPhoto: ICTSIIn briefOpened. London Gateway, England’s newestmajor port, welcomed the first scheduledcall from a ship on 7 November, when the«MOL Caledon», operated by the SouthAfrica Europe Container Service (SAECS),arrived from South Africa. DP World’sLondon Gateway can handle the latestgeneration of ultra-large container vessels,with capacities of 18,000 teu and lengths ofup to 400 m. www.londongateway.comExtended. The Aqaba Container Terminal’sUSD 140 million berth-expansion project,which has doubled the capacity of Jordan’slargest Red Sea port, was ceremoniallyopened by King Abdullah II recently. Thehub’s throughput capacity has been doubledto 1.5 million teu annually and its quaysextended to 1,000 m. The Aqaba ContainerTerminal (ACT), which has reported annualgrowth rates averaging 16% over the pastthree years, handled 817,000 teu in 2012.www.apmterminals.comPleased. The German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd reported a positive result of EUR 16.6million in the third quarter of financial 2013.The company said that despite the fact thatfreight rates had continued to deteriorate ithad nevertheless been able to make substantialcost reductions. Over and above thisit registered a slight decline in the price ofbunker oil, as well as an 8.6% increase inthe volume of goods transported, from 1.28to 1.39 million teu. www.hapag-lloyd.comIhre beste Verbindungnach SkandinavienGöteborgStockholmPART OF YOUR WAYwww.scandlines-freight.comDer direkte Weg von Deutschland nachDänemark und Schweden. 250 tägliche Abfahrtenfür höchste Flexibilität und eine einfacheDisposition quasi unabhängig von Fahrplänen.Alternative Logistiklösungen zur Steigerung derEffizienz. Und nicht zuletzt die beste Balance zuroptimalen Nutzung von Ruhezeiten. Das sind nurfünf von vielen guten Gründen für den Skandinavien-Verkehr über das Routennetz von Scandlines.HamburgBerlin

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International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Shipping, Ports & Terminals15Long Beach – focusing on sustainabilityAiming to become a zero-emissions portThe Californian Port of Long Beach is currently implementing a comprehensive expansion programme. Thomas Fields, the president ofLong Beach’s Board of Harbor Commissioners, discussed environment-friendly goals and the expected growth in competition after theexpansion of the Panama Canal has been completed with the ITJ’s Lutz Ehrhardt.Mr Fields, last year the Port of LongBeach announced a giant investmentprogramme worth about USD 4.5 billion(EUR 3.33 billion). Can you updateus on the latest developments?We are now two years into our ten-yearcapital programme and have made greatprogress. The two biggest projects are ourMiddle Harbor terminal redevelopmentproject and the replacement of the agingGerald Desmond Bridge. Installing shorepower and rail improvements is also wellunderway.Can you describe these projects in detailplease?Construction on the Middle Harborproject began in 2011. This undertakingcombines two aging container terminalsinto one 123 ha (305 acre) super-terminal,which will be the centrepiece of our newinfrastructure in the era of big ships. Itwill cut air pollution in half from currentlevels, while doubling the capacity ofthe two terminals it replaces to more than3 million teu. The first phase is expectedto be completed by 2015.Construction of a replacement for theGerald Desmond Bridge began in July,with the demolition of an off-ramp thatwas in the path of the new span. Thisfour-year project, which will cost approximatelyUSD 1.1 billion (EUR 815 million),willproducethesecond-tallestcablestayedbridge in the United States, with atotal length of about 2.4 km (8,000 ft). Its62 m (205 ft) clearance over the water willbe the highest of any cable-stayed bridgein the country.This will allow the new generation ofgreener, bigger and taller ships to accessthe port’s back channel.What role do railway projects play inthe expansion programme?We are investing around USD 1 billion(EUR 740 million) in rail projectsin our capital programme. In May welaunched our green port gateway project,a USD 84 million (EUR 62 million) effortThe port of Long Beach handled approximately 6 million teu last year.to remove a railroad bottleneck and buildadditional on-dock rail capacities.These are pretty comprehensive plans.The Port of Long Beach has been capableof handling 13,000 teu vessels forsome time now, however. Is that notenough?The fact that our port is ready to handlebig ships and is already able to accommodatethese giant vessels provides us withThomas Fields, president of the port of LongBeach’s Board of Harbor Commissioners.Photo: Port of Long Beacha huge competitive edge. But our capitalinfrastructure programme is neverthelessnecessary to upgrade our facilities evenmore in order to remain competitive asvessels continue to grow.Do you need to carry out further dredgingor acquire larger gantry cranes?We have some of the deepest waters in thenation’s ports, but we plan to continuallycarry out further maintenance dredging,and there will indeed be additional dredgingin the Middle Harbor and at otherlocations too, to accommodate the newlarge ships.Nearly all cranes are owned by terminaloperators. We have begun a project toraise our cranes and new, taller ones witha greater reach have been ordered for theMiddle Harbor.Your port has been at the forefront ofenvironment-friendly programmes formany years now. What have the experiencesand results been and what areyour future plans?In August we released the results of our2012 emissions inventory, and were veryhappy to report the sixth straight yearcontinued on page 16Photo: Port of Long Beach

16 Shipping, Ports & Terminals International Transport Journal 47-48 2013continued from page 15of improved air quality. Since 2005, wehave managed to cut diesel emissions by81%, for example. Our long-term goal isto become the first port in the world tooperate with zero emissions.How do you plan to achieve this?Vital to achieving our environmentalcommitments is the installation ofcold-ironing shore-power facilities inour terminals. We are currently completinga USD 100 million programme(EUR 74 million) to equip all our containerterminals with shore power, so thatwe can reduce air pollution even further.«Orders for ever bigger shipsare the real game changer for us.»Everyone is talking about the expansionof the Panama Canal and the project toconstruct an inter-ocean inland waterwaythrough Nicaragua. Do you expectto lose substantial business to US eastcoast ports as a result?We do not expect the expanded PanamaCanal to change Long Beach’s marketshare much, if at all. About 70% ofAsian cargo comes through west coastports, and that figure is likely to remainrelatively stable. The game changer forus – and for the industry as a whole –is not the Panama Canal, but the ordersthat are being placed for bigger and everbigger ships. The Port of Long Beach alreadywelcomes ships that are too big tofit through the expanded Panama Canal.Last year Long Beach handled 6 millionteu. What do you reckon will be yourthroughput in 2013 and beyond?Good relationsBusiness has been steadily improving andour container volumes have recoverednicely in 2013. We were able to improveour volume by 13% in the first sevenmonths of 2013, and then August becameour busiest month in six years.We are conservatively projecting anoverall throughput of 6.7 million teu forthe entire year, about 11% higher thanin 2012. Our long-term forecast has beenfor cargo growth of more than 5% a year.We are about to begin a review of ourforecast, however, given the recent globaleconomic changes.Lutz Ehrhardtwww.polb.comThe Californian Port of Long Beach (USA) and South Korea’s Busan Port Authority signed a sisterportagreement early in November. The aim of the deal is to establish «the mutually-beneficialexchange of technology, ideas and culture», in order to modernise, improve services and reducethe hubs’ impact on the environment.The port of Long Beach already has a sister-port agreement with the port of Qingdao (China),as well as with the ports of Hualien and Taichung (Taiwan). Long Beach has memoranda of understandingwith the port of Rotterdam (Netherlands), the Panama Canal Authority, Yantian internationalcontainer terminals in Shenzhen (China), and China Merchants Holdings International,China’s largest public seaport operator.av

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Shipping, Ports & Terminals17Throughput in the largest Dutch and Belgian portsLess containers in the westRotterdam and Antwerp, Europe’s twolargest maritime ports, handled lessboxes in the first nine months of the yearcompared to the same period in 2012.The port of Rotterdam (Netherlands), thecontinent’s largest container hub, saw itsbox volumes decrease in the first ninemonths of the year. The loss in terms ofteu came to 1%, bringing the overall figureto 8.84 million teu. The port handledaround 92.2 million t of containersoverall in the first nine months, a 2.7%decrease in tons compared to the firstnine months of 2012. The figure in teufor deepsea containers fell by 2.5%. Aspokesperson said that this was a result ofa reduction in ship capacities on a numberof services between Asia and Europe.The port of Antwerp (Belgium) alsohandled fewer containers in the first ninemonths of 2013 compared to the samePhoto: Antje Veregge/ITJRotterdam handled less cargo in the first ninemonths than in the same period in 2012.period last year. In teu the number fell by1.7% and ended up at 6.4 million units.Measured in tons the decrease came to2.8%, bringing the total to 76.5 million tin the period under review. The quantityof ro­ro consignments transported viaAntwerp declined by 5.3% vis­à­vis thelike­for­like period last year, to 3.4 milliont.www.portofantwerp.comwww.portofrotterdam.comHigher operating costsA survey conducted by the internationalaccounting and consulting networkMoore Stephens has found that vesseloperatingcosts are expected to rise bymore than 3% in both 2013 and 2014.The company said that the survey isbased on responses from key players inthe international shipping industry, predominantlyshipowners and managersoperating from Europe and Asia. Theresponses revealed that crew wages andP&I insurance are the cost categories thatare likely to increase most significantlyin the coming two years. Expenditureon spares is also expected to grow, whilerespondents also anticipate a rise in thecost of repairs and maintenance, storesand drydocking.«It is clear that the cost of sustainingour industry will go up, that funding willbecome increasingly difficult and thatmore small and medium­size companiesare set to disappear,» was how one surveyrespondent summed up the rather bleakperceptions of the industry’s short­termfuture. www.moorestephens.co.ukWherever you want...Euro-Med ServicesTRANSPORT OF ANY TYPE OF VEHICLE, EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT, FORESTRY PRODUCTS,STANDARD AND SPECIAL CONTAINERS, PROJECT AND HEAVY LIFT CARGOProfitieren Sie mit,von unseren täglichen Direktverbindungen an dieSeehäfen Rotterdam, Antwerpen, Bremen und Hamburg.Wir garantieren Termintreue, attraktive Konditionen und absoluteNeutralität. Schnell und kompetent übernehmen wir die professionelleErledigung sämtlicher Zollformalitäten und sind in Basel und Zürichzugelassener Zollgutempfänger und Versender.Kompetenz die sich für Sie bezahlt macht.Transfreight AG,Leimgrubenweg 6, CH-4023 BaselTelefon: +41 (0)61 337 22 22Telefax: +41 (0)61 337 22 00Mail: info@transfreight.chwww.transfreight.chDirect weekly service from /to:• Alexandria • Esbjerg • Malta• Antwerp • Flushing • Mersin• Ashdod • Gemlik • Palermo• Hamburg• Beirut• Piraeus• Izmir• Bristol (Prby) • Lattakia • Salerno• Civitavecchia • Limassol • Savona• Cork • Livorno • SetubalANTWERPGrimaldi BelgiumTel: +32 35459430Fax: +32 35414275HAMBURGGrimaldi GermanyTel: +49 40 789707 12Fax: +49 40 789707 71NAPLES GRIMALDI HEAD OFFICETel: +39 081 496111 Fax: +39 081 5517401• Southampton• Tartous• Tripoli (Lebanon)• Tripoli (Lybia)• Tunis and Rades• Valencia• WallhamnLONDONGrimaldi AgencyUKTel: +44 207 9305683Fax: +44 207 8391961www.grimaldi.napoli.it

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International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Shipping, Ports & Terminals19The role of European sea portsA strong link in the chainEurope’s ports are the linchpin for the flow of goods across the continent. The significance of their role in a functioning supply chainwas demonstrated recently at an event staged by the Alliance for European Logistics association. Investment in equipment by terminaloperators as well as the expansion of hinterland connections by the EU are both required.Europe’s ports are a fundamental elementof an efficient and sustainable deliverychain, as well as a crucial backbone forbusiness and trade on the continent.This conclusion was reached by the participantsin an event staged by the pan-European logistics body Alliance for EuropeanLogistics (AEL), which was heldearly in November in the European Parliamentin Brussels (Belgium). Membersof the European Parliament, membersof the permanent representations fromseveral states of the EU, representativesfrom the European Commission as wellas of some of the continent’s largest portsparticipated in the event.About 75% of European trade is handledvia maritime trade routes. Ports inEurope are linked to 848 ports in the FarEast and 629 ports in Central and SouthAmerica. In 2011, a total of 3.7 billion t ofgoods were processed through Europeansea ports.Investment in infrastructureDespite these impressive figures, the publichas in the past paid little notice to portand terminal operations in Europe andtheir supporting role in European trade.In the view of the members of the AELthis needs to change.The event furthermore aimed to offerperspectives on port operations fromvarious points of view. For example, itwas made clear that the port sector needsto make significant investments in connectionsto the inland areas, as well asThe AEL believes that the role of Europe’s maritime ports in the supply chain should be more visible.in IT technologies that can support processesacross the entire delivery chain.Sea ports are an important entry pointand gateway to the EU, and inland portsserve as connecting points and as inlandhubs. As such they help to substantiallystrengthen the flow of goods.A policy frameworkThis means that functioning processes inmaritime and inland ports, supported bythe concomitant policy framework, couldbenefit all the sectors that are directly orindirectly linked to each other throughthe global delivery chain.During AEL’s Brussels event ErichStaake, the executive chairman of thecompany Duisburger Hafen, which ownsand manages the largest inland port inthe world in Duisburg, stated that, «portsguarantee Europe’s ability to compete.Thanks to more intelligent intermodalconcepts, industry and enterprises willcontinue to invest in Europe, which inturn benefits the entire economy.»In addition Staake noted that infrastructureinvestments based on objectivecriteria must be put into place. RobBagchus, head of public relations andpublic affairs for ECT Hutchison PortHoldings, commented that Europe needsto invest in efficient inland connectionsin order to provide seamless transport optionsthroughout Europe.avwww.duisport.dewww.hph.comPhoto: HHM/M. LindnerEthiopian Shipping & Logistics Services EnterpriseRegular Liner Services to/from Djiboution inducement direct calls toPort Sudan -Hodeidah -AdenE.S.L. Delegation for Europe: P.O. Box 23118, 3001 KCRotterdam -Dienstenstraat 15, 3161 GNRhoonTelex: 24 123,Tel.: 413 7455, Fax 413 34 91, E-mail: esLsc@planet.nlHAMBURG BREMEN TILBURY MIDDLESBROUGH ANTWERP ROTTERDAM MARSEILLE LE HAVRECargo-Levant Cargo-Levant Cory Brothers Cory Brothers Overseas Maritime Steder Group Société Maritime Société MaritimeLinienagenturen Linienagenturen Shipping Ltd Shipping Ltd Transport NV Liner Agencies BV International InternationalGENOA LEGHORN TRIESTE BARCELONA GOTHENBURG OSLO COPENHAGENFratelli Fratelli Fratelli Romeu &Cia. S.A. Freightman Linjeagenturer AS. Scan ShippingCosulich Cosulich Cosulich

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Aviation21Photo: US defence departmentNew aircraft deployed in the PhilippinesRelief following HaiyanOn 7 November one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded left a trail ofdestruction in the Philippines, and on the Visaya archipelago in particular, where it wasnamed «Yolanda». International assistance is has been arriving by air.The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is famous for its VTOL and STOL capabilities.The forces of nature are not allowing thePhilippines much respite. Just three weeksafter the Bohol earthquake on 15 October,whose official death toll of 222 madeit the Asian country’s worst for 23 years,the eye of a typhoon made land almost200 km northeast of that event’s epicentre.Whilst the meagre emergency sheltersof the first disaster were only marginallyaffected by the impact of the second, theextent of the damage caused was difficultto estimate even a week later.A state of emergency was declared inseven provinces. The regional and nationalauthorities released funds and provided13,000 aid workers, 800 vehicles, 40 shipsand 24 aeroplanes, but were still unableto cope with the preparatory phase of thelogistical task, as affirmed, in light of anarchicconditions, by critics in the daysfollowing the disaster. Relief also camefrom abroad.International mobilisationShips from the USA and Japan (includingsome deployed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines,see ITJ Daily of 12 November) are nowproviding emergency assistance where,69 years ago, those nations fought thenaval battle of Leyte Gulf – consideredone of the largest naval battles in history.Whilst Tacloban City, the capitalof the island province of Leyte, and itsport were the initial focus of attention,it was several days before aerial photographsprovided by the Philippine armyshowed that the city of Guiuan, locatedat the southeastern tip of the island ofSamar, had been particularly exposedand apparently completely destroyed. Asits airfield’s 2,800 m runway, which alsohandles cargo services on a regular basis,could not receive any relief flights, effortsfocused on Tacloban City’s airport,which is located 150 km to the west andhas also been damaged. Until recently,this city boasted one of the fastest-growingeconomies in the country.Asian (with Japan Airlines) and Europeanairlines (with Lufthansa Cargo,whose «providing faster aid together»initiative was the first visible sign of emergencyassistance cooperation, see ITJ09-10 / 2013, page 18), charter operators(Air Charter Service) and express serviceSWISS °Celsius PassiveForyour temperaturesensitivesupply chainSWISSWORLDCARGO.COMproviders (UPS) have organised airbornerelief. The US defence department hassent several ships to the region, includingthe aircraft carrier USS George Washingtonwith 80 planes on board, including C-130transporters and four V-22s.The US Navy’s tilt-rotor aircraft withVTOL and STOL capabilities, whichhave not so far been known for their stability,could prove to be highly effectivein the difficult terrain.ahMerger authorised andFreighter operators downNovember 2013 will be recorded as botha good and a bad month in the annals ofthe US aviation industry. On 12 Novemberthe merger of US Airways and theAMR Corporation, the parent companyof American Airlines Inc (AA), was authorised,subject to certain requirements.Litigation brought by the justice departmentand several US states had challengedthe USD 11 billion merger ofAMR and US Airways (see ITJ Daily of15 August 2013). Together the two airlinesserve more than 330 destinationsworldwide, deploying around 1,500 aircraft.Now AMR and US Airways haveagreed to divest themselves of slots, gatesand related facilities at seven large airportsin the country as a condition for themerger to go ahead. These are in Boston,Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami,Washington DCA and New York LGA.The settlement will enable the mergerto be completed in December. NewAmerican Airlines expects it to generatemore than USD 1 billion in annual netsynergies from 2015 onwards.Freight business wiltingWhilst the merger represents a way out ofinsolvency for AMR, two other US fullfreighteroperators would appear to beheaded that way. Global Aviation Holdings,the parent company of both WorldAirways and North American Airlines,filed for bankruptcy protection underChapter 11 of the USA’s bankruptcy codeon 12 November. The Georgia-based enterprisehad only just emerged from asimilar procedure in February. GlobalAviation Holdings has six all-cargo aircraftin its fleet (four MD-11Fs and twoBoeing B747-400BDSFs), which are frequentlyin action for the US army.There are also rumours that all-cargocarrier Evergreen International Airlinesfrom Oregon will terminate operationsat the end of November. The rumourswere denied by the firm on 8 November,but it looks like the financial difficultieswill become too much for it. The loss ofits customer Boeing in 2010 triggered theproblems (see ITJ 13-14/2010, Specialpage 13), and they were accentuated by aFAA civil penalty in the same month (seeITJ Daily of 29 September 2010).www.newamericanarriving.comwww.evergreenairlines.com; www.glah.com

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International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Aviation23ABC banking on gentle growthStrengthening its positionThe Russian freighter operator AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) expects to improve thevolume of consignments it handles only modestly this year. To this end it is focusing onstrategic capacity increases and closer links between its domestic market and Europe.On 1 November AirBridgeCargo Airlines,which says it is Russia’s largest internationalcargo airline and which is apart of the Volga-Dnepr Group, increasedthe number of flights it offers betweenMoscow and both the Milan Malpensaand Paris Charles de Gaulle hubs. ABC,which has operated on these routes sinceSWISS °Celsius ActiveForyour temperaturecontrolled supply chainSWISSWORLDCARGO.COM2009, has added a weekly service to thetwo flights on offer to and from Parisevery seven days. In addition to threeweekly frequencies between Milan andMoscow, ABC now operates two moreoptions. The decision to introduce frequenciescame about as a result of consultationwith customers and the monitor-ing of market trends. The frequencies willmeet increased demand for the transportof raw materials, automotive parts andfashion industry goods. ABC’s tonnagefrom Milan to Moscow has shown a 52%increase in the last nine months (the marketshowed a mere 25% increase), whileParis–Moscow tonnage was 20% higher(the market recorded a 2% drop).Focusing on qualityAirBridgeCargo’s figures for goods thatwere delivered as promised on theseroutes were also above average, comingin at more than 90% in 2013. ABC isplanning to focus even more on quality.It is aiming to attain a 90% success ratein execution and an 80% punctualityrate. This will be achieved by acquiringnew aeroplanes (a fifth Boeing B747-8F isdue next year), providing better groundinfrastructure and establishing smoothslot and maintenance planning, the firmsaid at the German logistics congress.Photo: Air Bridge CargoFour of ABC’s eleven aeroplanes are B747-8Fs, afifth is scheduled for delivery in 2014.Volga-Dnepr’s maintenance hangar atLeipzig /Halle airport can now welcomeB747-400s too, with B747-8Fs expected tojoin them soon. ABC’s services in Germanyremain the same as last year. Tomeet rising Russian demand ABC wantsto add more direct European links – oneof the carrier’s unique selling points –including services from Amsterdam toYekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarskand Khabarovsk. ABC’s domestic networkwill also be expanded and a new hubmay be established in southern Russia, inKrasnodar or Sochi. All of this shouldbring ABC’s freight performance for theyear to approximately 350,000 t, around5% more than in 2012. ahwww.airbridgecargo.comEuropean air cargo hubs slowly gathering steam againIn September the volume of airfreighthandled at European airports rose by0.9% vis-à-vis the like-for-like month lastyear. This «timid» growth, as ACI Europe,Freight throughput at leading European airports in September 2013Rank (September 2012) Airport Country Airfreight in t ±%1 (1) Frankfurt DE 169,735 +0.12 (2) Paris (CDG) FR 154,610 –7.43 (3) Amsterdam NL 130,631 +3.94 (4) London (LHR) GB 115,547 –4.65 (5) Leipzig/Halle DE 73,360 +2.86 (6) Cologne/Bonn DE 59,836 –4.97 (8) Istanbul (IST) TR 55,737 +18.78 (7) Luxembourg LU 53,875 +7.09 (9) Liege BE 44,815 +3.710 (10) Milan (MXP) IT 34,019 +4.5Freight throughput at Swiss airports in September 2013the continent’s airport association, put it,was too weak, however, to bring the hubsback to the volume of goods that theyhandled in 2010.1 (1) Zurich CH 24,812 +2.92 (2) Geneva CH 3,688 –2.73 (3) Basel CH 3,227 +0.8Source: ACI Europe, ADVThere were no changes – neither vis-à-visAugust 2013 nor in comparison with September2012 – in the standings of the fiveleading European hubs. Both Paris Roissy(–5.4% to a total of 1.37 million t in thefirst three quarters) and London Heathrow(–4.4% to a total of 1.047 million t)lost ground to the competitors rankeddirectly above them, namely Frankfurt(+0.8% to 1.485 million t) and Amsterdam(+1.6% to 1.12 million t).The month’s big winner was once againIstanbul Atatürk, which was able to overtakeLuxembourg airport, even though thelatter has been reporting very satisfactoryfigures for the past few months. Resultswere rather mixed in the south of the continent.The ITJ will be reporting directlyfrom Madrid soon to explain difficultiesthere (–8.5% to 26,613 t), whilst developmentsin Milan, and Italy, are analysed onpage 52.www.aci-europe.org

24 Aviation International Transport Journal 47-48 2013In briefLicensing agreement. The US aeroplanemanufacturer Boeing and the Bedek AviationGroup, a part of Israel Aerospace Industries(IAI), have signed an agreement regulatingpassenger-to-freighter conversions of BoeingB767-200/300s and B747-400s. Operatorsof so-called BDSF short and long-haulfreighters who wanted to use Boeing’stechnical support database have beencharged USD 50,000 to 250,000 access feesper aircraft by Boeing since 2009.www.iai.co.il; www.boeing.comNew alliance member. Aerolineas Cargo,the airfreight division of Aerolineas Argentinas,has become the twelfth airline to jointhe SkyTeam Cargo alliance. The move wascelebrated on 6 November at the Air CargoAmericas exhibition and conference heldin Miami (USA). Aerolineas Cargo addedmore than 30 Latin American destinations toSkyTeam Cargo’s global network.www.skyteamcargo.comwww.aerolineas.comSecond runway. A new 3,000 m runwaythat is 45 m wide was opened at Johannesburg’sprivately-operated Lanseria airporton 12 November. The new facility is meantto enable larger (freighter) aircraft divertedfrom the city’s main O.R. Tambo airport toland at the second-largest hub in the SouthAfrican centre of trade and industry. Onlymedium-haul units up to the size of theBoeing B757-300 were able to use Lanseriaairport so far. www.lanseria.co.zaNext national carrier. Armavia, thenational Armenian airline, went bankrupt inspring. Now Air Armenia is seeking to followin its footsteps. The carrier recently addeda Boeing B737-500 and an Airbus A320-200 to the five full-freighters (four AntonovAN-12s and an AN-32) it already operates.Air Armenia was founded as an all-cargooperator in 2003, on account of the officialexclusivity of its erstwhile competitor.www.airarmenia.netNew destinations. Egyptair is set to focusmore on airfreight. Its four freighters (twoAirbus A300-600s and two A300B4s, one ofwhich is parked at the airline’s hub in Cairo)carried more than 200,000 t of freight in theyear to 30 June 2012, more than ever before.The airline will now have some of its sevenA330-200s converted to full-freighters. TheA330-200F can carry almost 60 t, or up to20 t more than Egyptair’s existing all-cargounits. www.egyptair-cargo.comEtihad suspends Libya flights and launches Medina linkIntra-Arab connectionsThe three large Gulf carriers do not have the same approach to services to and fromLibya. Etihad has announced a new link to neighbouring Saudi Arabia.It is not clear yet whether Etihad will have resumed its Libyan services by the time it launches itsnew scheduled Medina link.SkyCargo, the airfreight operator of theairline Emirates, has served the Libyancapital Tripoli since May 2012. In Septemberthe carrier’s passenger divisionalso resumed long-haul flights to the cityafter a two-year hiatus, deploying BoeingSWISS °Celsius PassiveForyour temperaturesensitivesupply chainSWISSWORLDCARGO.COMB777-200ERs via Malta. Qatar Airways isstill negotiating with the authorities aboutits return to the Mediterranean country,however. On 31 October Etihad temporarilysuspended services to Libya withThai launches Sendai linkThai Airways is launching a thrice-weeklyservice between its Bangkok hub and Sendaiairport on 1 December. The port city,which is located on the Pacific Ocean300 km north of Tokyo, will be the carrier’sseventh Japanese destination, beingadded to a network that already includesTokyo Haneda, Tokyo Narita, Fukuoka,Nagoya, Osaka and Sapporo. Sendaiis the political, economic and logisticscentre of the Tohoku region, whose coastwas devastated by the largest earthquakein Japan’s history on 11 March 2011.www.thaicargo.comimmediate effect. The Emirati nationalairline had offered three weekly passengerflights and two weekly cargo optionssince it resumed services to Tripoli in January2012. Captain Richard Hill, EtihadAirways’ COO, said that the company’sassessment of the safety at Tripoli airportprompted the move.In contrast, Etihad was pleased to announcethe introduction of a new connectionto Medina (Saudi Arabia). Theholy city will be served on a daily basisfrom 1 February 2014. The new destinationbrings the number of weekly linksbetween Abu Dhabi and Etihad’s fourdestinations in the UAE’s neighbouringArab Peninsula country (including Dammam,Jeddah and Riyadh) to 50.www.etihadcargo.comC.A.L. teams up with De RijkC.A.L. Cargo Airlines, an all-cargo operatorthat claims a 22% share of theIsraeli airfreight market, has signed atwo-year deal with the Dutch firm JanDe Rijk Logistics to operate road feederservices to and from Liège airport (Belgium).C.A.L. operates six to eight scheduledweekly flights between Tel Aviv andLiège, and daily flights between Liègeand New York JFK (USA). C.A.L. alsolands in Larnaca (Cyprus) twice a week,as part of a cooperation deal with CyprusAirways. It also offers charters flights.www.cal.co.il; www.janderijk.comPhoto: Etihad Airways

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Forwarding & Logistics25Streck pressing ahead with expanding business in Switzerland«Focused on growth»The international forwarding and logistics service provider Streck Transport, which is based in Möhlin near Basel (Switzerland), recentlystarted operations in a new distribution centre and office building in Pfungen in the canton of Zurich. Thanks to the modern new facilityStreck now has its own premises, allowing it to improve its services in eastern Switzerland.Anyone approaching the town of Pfungen– located amid tranquil hills andfull of listed buildings – by car via themain road cannot help but immediatelynotice the extensive new logistics zoneson both the eastern and western fringesof the town. In recent years Pfungen, anaspiring community close to Winterthurin eastern Switzerland, has made a greateffort to attract transport and logisticsservices providers in particular – with agreat deal of success.Pfungen has become a major logisticscentre at the point where the large Zurichcentre of trade and industry meets easternSwitzerland. In addition to Streck, othercompanies from the transport, freight forwardingand logistics industry have alsorecently opened sites in Pfungen – suchas Swiss Post (see ITJ 35-36/2013, page35), Andres and Stoll Transport and DBSchenker, for example.New building in the countrysideOwner-operated Streck Transport previouslyoperated from a site in Embrachin the Zurich area. However, Streck hadclearly outgrown the outdated handlingfacility it rented there.That is why its management team, consistingof Herbert Boll, chairman of theboard of directors of the Streck Group,and Manfred Haas, director of StreckTransport Schweiz, took the decision toconstruct a new building on a greenfieldsite in Pfungen. The functional logisticsterminal, with a view over lush, greenmeadows and dense forests, has been inoperation since the end of October.The construction of the CHF 13 millionbuilding was completed in less thaneight months. The 30 employees fromStreck’s former site in Embrach have relocatedto Pfungen.A distribution warehouse which coversa handling area of 2,000 sqm, a 800 sqmlogistics area with shelving and block storage,as well as two hazardous-goods facilities,has been built on an 18,300 sqm plotof land which is owned by Streck. TheStreck Transport’s new logistics centre in Pfungen.depot’s facilities include 33 truck loadingand unloading bays and five hazardousgoods bays.An office building consisting of820 sqm of office space and 220 sqm ofcommunal area has been built next door,in accordance with Switzerland’s Minergielow-energy-consumption constructionstandards. The facility meets demandingsecurity requirements, having an accesscontrol system, automatic location system,surveillance cameras, smoke detectors anda sprinkler system.In addition, the building is equippedwith daylight-dependent lighting controls,heating which uses heat pumps, controlledventilation with heat recovery and a waterinfiltration system.Bursting at the seamsDuring the official guided tour, Haas toldthe ITJ that «at our old site in Embrach,we were literally bursting at the seams,and therefore had absolutely no moreroom for expansion. Because our companyis strategically focused on growth,our only option was to find some landof our own where we could construct ourown building.»Happily, the company was successfulin this endeavour. «Our new building inPfungen posed a real challenge for StreckTransport, because the layout of the plotwasn’t ideal. Right from the pre-planningstage of our logistics centre in Pfungen,our objective was to get the very best wecould out of this irregular-shaped plot.»The firm is pleased with the results ithas achieved. «Thankfully, I believe we’vemanaged to do this quite well. Ultimately,we invested a great deal of time in theplanning stage. Therefore, our experiencein Pfungen also demonstrates that youshould always consider every last detailwell in advance of such a constructionproject, before starting the actual buildingwork,» Haas added.Capacity for extensionIn Pfungen, Streck Transport providesnational and international groupage andscheduled services, warehouse managementand value-adding services. Everyday, it handles around 90 shipments there(well balanced, with 45 incoming andoutgoing shipments), of which local shipmentsaccount for 60 and internationalshipments for 30. If required, the buildingcomplex could in future be extendedby an additional 1,200 sqm.Robert Altermattwww.streck-transport.comPhoto: Robert Altermatt

26 Forwarding & Logistics International Transport Journal 47-48 2013German Association for Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (AMMPL)Markets remain unpredictableAt this year’s 48th AMMPL symposium on purchasing and logistics that took place in mid-November in Berlin, 2,200 participants,primarily purchasing and logistics managers, met to swap stories about their experiences. They discussed the challenges andpotential in the procurement sector.Horst Wiedmann, chairman of the GermanAssociation for Materials Management,Purchasing and Logistics (AMMPL)is glad that the global economy is slowlygaining momentum again. Decliningcommodity prices and signs of industrialrecovery in the euro zone gave procurementdepartments in the various participatingcompanies some optimism goinginto next year. He said that it is importantto make use of these opportunities and atthe same time to keep present and futurerisks in mind.Wiedmann also warned his audiencenot to underestimate stormy weather inwhat might appear to be calm waters.«The markets will certainly continue tobe unpredictable,» he said. Managers whofind themselves unprepared could beconsidered negligent. «Natural disasters,political unrest, commodity shortagesand currency fluctuations will increaseand will negatively affect supply chains,»Wiedmann added. He said it was essentialfor companies to use risk managementmethods and to study market price variations,forecasts and analysis in order tokeep up to date with risks. It is incumbenton buyers nowadays, he believes, to demonstrateextensive expertise. If they donot have this then they will not be consideredcompetent partners in importantcompany decisions, including the choiceof production site locations. Wiedmanncalled on representatives to generate moreadditional knowledge on the functioningof global markets, and to correspondinglymake sure their staff continuously upgradetheir skills to make them sufficiently qualifiedto deal with the increasingly toughchallenges ahead. They needed to holdtheir own against the competition.«In many companies the understandingof new requirements from buyers isfar from being sufficiently anchored,»Wiedmann continued. Often buyers lackknowledge of what is beyond their immediatehorizon, and there is a lack oftransparency in processes. «We know frombenchmark comparisons conducted bythe AMMPL that many large corporationsDESIGNED FORPERFORMANCEPerformancetranslatestohighest qualityandmaximum efficiency. We areyour dependablepartner fortransport- and logistics solutions.72 Offices. 2000 Professionals.Logistics connecting continents.ASIA HEADOFFICEM+R Forwarding (Hong Kong) Ltd.Rm 3501, 35/F,Manhattan Place23 Wang TaiRoad,Kowloon BayHong Kong+852 2591 0677www.mrspedag.com

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Forwarding & Logistics27Photo: AMMPLThe packed auditorium at the opening session of this year’sAMMPL symposium in Berlin.are negotiating worse prices than those that some largerSMEs are achieving. Buyers and purchasing departmentsshould actually have the quality, structure, processes andcost data at their fingertips as part of their daily businesspractice.» It is the comparison with competitors for thesame tender that makes it possible for a company to have areliable overview over its own performance, the chairmanof the AMMPL concluded.www.bme.dePlanzer taking over Maier SpeditionPlanzer Holding, a Swiss transport and logistics firm based in Dietikonnear Zurich, has recently been engaged in ongoing negotiations concerninga possible participation in the German forwarding company MaierSpedition, as part of the latter’s plan of succession. It has now becameclear that on 1 January 2014 Planzer Holding will acquire all of the sharesin Maier Spedition, which is headquartered in the southern German townof Singen, as well as in the forwarding firm Spedition Maier. The twoMaier entities will retain their employees and do business under theirexisting names and legal standards in the Pflanzer group of companies.The enterprise Maier Spedition operates locations in Singen and Hagen(Germany), Ramsen (Switzerland) and Budapest (Hungary). rawww.spedition-maier.de; www.planzer.chSkiing body FIS selects new logistics partnerThe International Ski Federation (FIS) has placed the association’s logisticsneeds in the hands of Conceptum Sport Logistics (CSL). Collaborationwith the Frankfurt-based German logistics company covers severalyears. Conceptum will handle the logistics challenges posed by FIS eventsand World Cup competitions in alpine skiing, Nordic combined, snowboard,ski jumping and freestyle skiing events. The agreement covers thetransport of sport equipment, team kits and other freight items, as wellas travel supervision for teams.rawww.fis-ski.comwww.conceptum-sport-logistics.comIn briefSDV building new warehouse in Dubai. The French logisticsservice provider SDV recently laid the first stone of a newbuilding in Dubai airport’s free trade zone in the United ArabEmirates. The new facility, which will be built on a 5,000 sqmplot of land, is slated to fulfil all of SDV’s network requirementsfrom Q2 / 2014 onwards. The centre will specialise inspare parts management and aeronautics after-sales services.SDV aims to be positioned at the heart of the aerospaceindustry, and is thus continuing to develop its strategicallylocatedaeronautics platforms.www.sdv.com Agility improves profits. Agility, a Kuwaiti transport andlogistics corporation with international operations, reportedthat its Q3 / 2013 turnover fell by 10% to KWD 327 million(EUR 859 million). The company succeeded in boosting its netprofits to KWD 12.1 million (EUR 31.9 million) in the periodunder review, however, which represents a 26% increasecompared to Q3 / 2012. Its operating profit (ebitda) grew by10% to KWD 23.6 million (EUR 62 million).www.agilitylogistics.comDP DHL doing well. The mail and logistics service providerDeutsche Post DHL saw its turnover drop in Q3 / 2013. Salessank to EUR 13.5 billion, 2.5% less than in the same quarterin 2012. Its earnings before interest and tax (ebit), in contrast,increased by 7% to EUR 646 million. And finally, group profitsrose by nearly 6% to approximately EUR 399 million betweenJuly and September this year.www.dp-dhl.com

28 Forwarding & Logistics International Transport Journal 47-48 2013E-commerce and logistics real estateCentral Europe high on the agendaThe US online retailer Amazon is building two new logistics centres in Czechia. Thecompany may create up to 5,000 jobs in the process. Three more centres are setto be built by 2015 in Poland too.Amazon’s new facilities will be locatednear Prague airport and in the city ofBrno, and they should go on stream by2014. The company, which says it is theworld’s largest online trader, has statedthat it wants to establish work stations for2,000 permanent employees and 3,000seasonal staff in Czechia. The objectiveof establishing the sites is to initially alleviatethe work load at eight logistics centresin Germany, and subsequently bringrelief to the entire European network.Amazon said that this is the only wayto «manage ongoing growth in Europe.»Italsempione the new partner of Navis in ItalyThe Hamburg-based German companyNavis Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Aktiengesellschaft,an independent family-managedfreight forwarding enterprise, hasstarted collaborating with a new partnerin the overland services segment to andfrom the greater Milan region. The Italianforwarder Italsempione, which wasfounded in Domodossola in 1955, will cooperatewith Navis in the trade betweenMilan and Hamburg, offering scheduledservices between the two cities. rawww.italsempione.comwww.navis-ag.comPhoto: AmazonA logistics centre that Amazon runs in theGerman town of Bad Hersfeld.The same applies to three logistics centresthat are set to be built in Poland by2015. There are no plans to shift Germancapacities to Eastern Europe, however.Some publications had speculatedthat the new dispatch centres in EasternEurope would replace Amazon premisesin Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig (Germany).There has been a series of strikes at thoselocations in recent months, as employeesthere have demanded to be paid accordingto Germany’s mail-order businesstariff contract. Amazon insists on payingthe wages and salaries prevalent in thelogistics sector, however.rawww.amazon.comOur globaltransportationsolutions…create valuefor ourclients…by providingair and ocean…FTL and LTL…customsbrokerage…and now,our new NorthAmerica…

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Forwarding & Logistics29Interport specialises in road feeder services to and from Spain and Portugal.New road feeder servicesFocus on the Iberian PeninsulaThe Dutch transport enterprise Interport recently commenced regular road haulageoptions from Switzerland to the Iberian Peninsula. The option is particularlywell-suited for Swiss pharmaceutical goods.The Dutch air cargo trucking companyInterport, which is based at Amsterdamairport’s Schiphol Rijk industrial estate,recently established three new consolidatedweekly trucking options from Basel’sEuroairport and Zurich’s Kloten hubs inSwitzerland to Barcelona and Madrid.The transit times of the new road feederservices (RFS) from both Swiss stations tothe two Spanish destinations have beenPhoto: Interportgiven as one to two days. In the initialstages Interport also offers full truck loadsolutions from Geneva airport.As Interport operates temperaturecontrolledbox trucks equipped with GPSunits, the service is especially attractivefor pharmaceutical shipments, a majorSwiss export commodity. The companysaid that its services comply with allGDP guidelines for the transportation ofpharmaceutical products. The calibratedcooling engines of the company’s trailerskeep the ambient temperatures for theconsignments at the required levels duringthe journey.Wilma Bram, Interport’s managingdirector, told the ITJ that her companyhas specialised in transport solutionsfor high-value and time-critical goodsbetween Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourgand Germany and the IberianPeninsula for more than 20 years. Bramunderlined the fact that Interport, whichhas been certified in accordance withTapa A and AEO procedures, has recordedan on-time delivery performanceof 99% (measured on an individual shipmentbasis) over the past five years. rawww.interport-trucking.comDistributionservice…to meet yourdiverserequirements…on budget…and on time,all the time.Not aweak linkin the chainMeet some of the thousands oftransportation professionals atUTi with the experience andprofessionalism to handleany and all of your globaltransportation and supplychain management needs. Findout moreabout which UTi solutionwill best deliver for your customerswhile we deliver savings to yourbottom line and the assurance thaton our team, there’s never aweaklink. View our team UTi videos andvisit us at go2uti.com.

30 Forwarding & Logistics International Transport Journal 47-48 2013Transport markets in the East«Competitors keep us on our toes!»The ITJ spoke to Nicholas Minde, the managing director of DHL Freight Switzerland, whose office in Buchs has been considered one ofSwitzerland’s most important gateways to the East for many decades now. Minde spoke about the logistical challenges associated withdoing business in Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Middle East.DHL Freight Switzerland is a smallcompany. How important is the EastEuropean market is for you?You’re right – compared to large organisationssuch as DHL Freight Germany we’rea boutique business. But that is preciselyour strength. It enables us to maintainclose customer contact and offer customtailoredservice solutions. Transport toand from the East is a core expertise inthis context. Even before the fall of theIron Curtain we were active in the region.«We also offer cross-trade optionsbetween Europe and the CIS.»Today, we have branches in many EasternEuropean countries – in Belarus and Russia,for instance – and also have offices inKazakhstan and Turkey. Our own branchoffices there help us to get shipmentsquickly and safely through customs barriersthat still exist. In Russia, for example,a single false customs document canvery quickly give rise to big problemsand can become very expensive. Our indepthknowledge enables us to handlecross-trade transactions between Europeand the CIS, the Balkan states, Turkeyand the Middle East from our locationin Buchs, near St Gallen (Switzerland).Nicholas Minde, managing director of DHL Freight Switzerland.Economic growth in Russia was weakin the first half of 2013. How has thataffected DHL Freight Switzerland?DHL Freight Switzerland used to have alarger market share in traffic to and fromRussia. Together with our Russian colleagueswe want to get back to that stateof affairs. Many international companiesnow manage their business in the Eastfrom Switzerland, which is why most ofthe transport jobs to the East that wecarry out are for Swiss customers.The issuing of licenses is veryimportantin Russia. There are many more providerstoday than a few years ago. How ismore competition affecting you?Competitors keep us on our toes! We canalso benefit from an increase in forwardingcompanies in the market, as they havevehicles available for international trafficbetween the EU and the CIS. Withoutthis additional cargo capacity, it wouldbe impossible to handle the volume oftraffic we see today.Photo: Claudia BenettiTransit via TURKEY to IRAQinfo@geneltransport.com.tr

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Forwarding & Logistics31Let’s talk about TIR carnets. How arethe new customs policies affecting yourbusiness activities?Such problems are a part of our day-todaybusiness. We constantly have to lookat alternatives and ensure that we havethe capacity to redirect shipments, if necessary,in the event that some new hurdleis suddenly introduced in a country.We’re architects of traffic flows, andultimately we have to see to it that thebuildings required get built. We can reactvery flexibly because we now work mainlyin networks, and less in old forwardingstructures.Logistics real estate in ChinaA new distribution centreThe logistics real estate developer Goodman has established a 33,300 sqm logisticscentre in Hebei province in the north of China for BMW Brilliance Automotive, aSino-German joint venture.Are trade barriers the biggest problemin east-bound traffic?Not necessarily. Low volumes also presentus with challenges.«The supply chain is getting longer.»It’s particularly difficult to deliver generalcargo shipments at an acceptable price ineastern countries when customers requestgroupage deliveries that have to be madevia customs transit. For example, in Russiaand the Ukraine we can’t combinegoods in customs transit with domesticshipments, which prevents us from optimallybundling the flow of goods inthose countries.What tasks remain to be tackled in youreastern business?The challenges ahead will depend on developmentsin the individual countries. Ifthe market in Turkey continues to boomas it has over the past few years, we willestablish new transport connections.We’ll also face new challenges as productioncontinues to shift to low-wagecountries in the East. As the supply chaincontinues to become longer it could simultaneouslybecome more difficult totrack deliveries and to react if somethingshould go wrong on the road.Claudia Benetti/rawww.dhl.chThe Goodman Citylink logistics park in the northern Chinese province of Hebei.BMW Brilliance Automotive, a jointventure between the German automobilemanufacturer BMW and the Chinesecar maker Brilliance China Auto, isset to make use of a new logistics centrein northern China to supply the entireregion with car auto parts. The metropolisesof Beijing and Tianjin are but two ofthe major industrial centres in the provinceof Hebei. BMW Brilliance Automotivelooks after the production, distributionand sales of BMW cars in China.Goodman is currently optimisingBMW Brilliance Automotive’s logisticsnetwork in two locations on two separatecontinents. In Leipzig (Germany) a145,000sqmlogisticsparkhasalmostbeencompleted. It will be used in its entiretyfor BMW’s worldwide logistics as well asfor production supplies to a car manufacturingplant nearby. The new distributioncentre in China, in turn, forms a part of amajor project called Goodman Citylink,which is being established in the developmentzone of the city of Yanjiao in theprovince of Hebei. Goodman Citylinkincludes a 26,500 sqm warehouse – on along-term lease to a multinational retailer– and another four single-storey warehousesthat are still under construction.Once it is completed in mid-2014 GoodmanCitylink will provide a logistics areaof 130,000 sqm. A total of approximatelyUSD 90 million is being invested.Goodman says that is currently expandingat a rapid pace in China, withthe development of around 530,000 sqmof logistics real estate in progress inkey cities, including Shanghai, Tianjin,Chengdu, Langfang, Changzhou, Hefeiand Nanjing. Over and above this thegroup has a land bank covering 4.3 millionsqm. The company thus has the capabilityto increase its development bookto approximately 800,000 sqm over thenext twelve months.rawww.goodman.comPhoto: GoodmanDie führende Software für ZollabwicklungImport, Export und Transitwww.sisa.chNutzen Sie die Vorteile der eVV Import bereits heuteBasel ·Lausanne ·Lugano

32 Forwarding & Logistics International Transport Journal 2013In briefWallenborn now GDP certified. The Luxembourgian transportand logistics firm Wallenborn recently obtained GDPcertification. The good distribution practice certificate (GDP)meets the standards of the USA’s Food and Drug Administrationand those of the European Union for the distribution ofpharmaceuticals.www.wallenborn.comAramex swinging high. Aramex, an Amman-based Jordaniantransport, CEP and logistics service provider, boosted itsQ3/2013 turnover to AED 827 million (EUR 167 million), a 9%increase compared to the corresponding three months in 2012.Net profits also rose, namely from AED 53.1 million (EUR 10.7million) to AED 59.9 million (EUR 12.1 million). Aramex augmentedits business activities in Africa and Asia (specifically inIstanbul, Johannesburg, Hong Kong and Mumbai, as well as atother sites) in the period under review. www.aramex.comDSV progressing well. The Danish transport and logisticscorporation DSV, based in Brøndby, near Copenhagen, wasable to slightly improve its turnover from DKK 11.3 billion(EUR 1.5 billion) in Q3/2012 to DKK 11.5 billion (EUR 1.5billion) in Q3 of the current business year. Q3 earnings beforeinterest and tax (ebit) came in at DKK 691 million (EUR 93million), which was on a par with the figures in the samequarter last year. DSV’s third-quarter profits before tax fellfrom DKK 608 million (EUR 82 million) to DKK 570 million(EUR 76 million) in the same period this year. www.dsv.comTurbulent times for TNT. The CEP service provider TNTExpress has not been able to get business moving satisfactorilythis year. Its Q3/2013 turnover sank by 6.6% to EUR 1.621billion (down from the EUR 1.736 billion noted in the sameperiod in 2012). Net earnings slumped by 25%, from EUR 8to 6 million. The company stated that the main reasons for itsdeclining profits lay in decreasing sales and the fact that it setaside higher reserves.www.tnt.comEkol Logistics expanding to HungaryEkol Logistics sees Hungary as a key growth market in Europe.The Turkish service provider Ekol Logistics has founded Ekol Hungary,its new national subsidiary in the Eastern European country. The companyhas said that Ekol Hungary will serve as the corporation’s strategichub for its European intermodal network. The national subsidiary EkolHungary, which is headquartered in the Hungarian capital Budapest,where it has a 1,500 sqm warehouse at its disposal, commenced operationson 1 October.Ekol’s Hungarian branch offers its customers international roadhaulage options, intermodal transport solutions, customs clearance and3PL services. Ekol Hungary expects to generate sales amounting toapproximately EUR 7.5 million in 2014. The number of Ekol Hungary’sstaff is expected to rise from 10 to around 50 by the end of 2014. rawww.ekol.comNewdangerous goodswarehousePlay it safewith chemicalsTransportation and warehousing servicesfor hazardous materialsPhoto: Ekol LogisticsPaul Leimgruber AGCH-4133 PrattelnTel. +41 (0)61 337 3737www.leimgruber.ag

International Transport Journal 2013 Forwarding & Logistics33UPS reports favourableresults in third quarterBusiness was favourable for the integratorand parcel service provider UPS inQ3/2013. Growing export volumes in Europeand booming online trading in theUSA ensured that the Atlanta-based UScorporation’s results were highly satisfactory.The costs cuts that the corporationhad implemented in the period underreview contributed substantially to thegood news, as did the lapsing of expensivespecial items.Net profits soared by 134% to USD 1.1billion, from USD 469 million in the Q3a year ago. Sales rose to USD 13.52 billion,an increase of 3.4% compared to theUSD 13.07 billion in this period 2012. Inthe three months under review UPS dispatchedmore than 1 billion parcels, 4.6%more than Q3/2012. In the US domesticmarket UPS forwarded 3% more parcels,whilst packages in the international businessfield jumped by 6.5%. Export shipmentsfrom Europe grew by 10%. rawww.ups.comTransnatur opens Bilbaobonded warehouseTransnatur Norte’s new facility innorthern Spain.Transnatur Norte, a company that isowned by the family-managed BarcelonabasedSpanish transport and logisticsservice provider Transnatur, has commencedoperations in a new 2,400 sqmbonded warehouse, located in the industrialzone of Zamudio, a few kilometreseast of the city of Bilbao in northernSpain. Transnatur said that the new facilityhad become necessary on account ofclients’ increasing needs.www.transnatur.comPhoto: TransnaturIn briefHigher sales, lower profits. The USforwarder and logistics service providerC.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc boosted itsQ3/2013 turnover to USD 3.32 billion, a15.1% increase compared to the USD 2.88billion for the same quarter a year ago. Netearnings fell by 7.4%, however, from USD116 million in Q3/2012 to USD 108 millionthis year. www.chrobinson.comHigher profits, lower sales. Logwin, aninternational logistics service provider basedin Grevenmacher (Luxembourg), reportedthat its turnover fell from EUR 1 billion toEUR 932 million in the first nine months offinancial 2013. The company succeeded inimproving its operating result (ebita), however,from EUR 16 to 19.4 million.www.logwin-logistics.comNew members. The worldwide freightforwarders’ network Waco System has welcomedtwo new African members, namelyZereyad Group Transit and Forwarding, fromEthiopia, and Speedlink Cargo, fromZimbabwe. www.waco-system.comThe difference is in the impact. Worldwide.Send your international mail from Switzerland and score points with your target group in twodifferent ways. Firstly, your promotional mailings stand out much more inthe destination countrythan items sent through the usual postal service. Secondly, you emphasize right on the envelopethat this is top quality from Switzerland.Facts and inspiration: swisspost.ch/directmarketing-internationalIn cooperation with:

34 Rail / Inland Shipping / Road Haulage International Transport Journal 47-48 2013European professional truck drivers’ surveyBad driving habitsA survey of truck drivers by Mix Telematics has revealed a general carelessness in the attitudes of professional truck drivers in theUnited Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain. The careless attitude is shared by both drivers and their employers. The conclusionsof the study underscore the need for telematics systems in order to save fuel and improve driver behaviour.Mix Telematics, a leading provider of management solutions for vehiclefleets and mobile assets with customers in 112 countries around theworld, conducted a survey of 200 drivers in four countries – the UnitedKingdom, France, Germany and Spain – in September. 90% of the 800drivers interviewed stated that safe and prudent driving with regard toother vehicles on the road is very or fairly important to professionallorry drivers.Just 25% of the drivers said that they adhered to guidelines fromtheir supervisors designed to improve their driving. Only 10% of therespondents reported that their vehicles were equipped with technologycapable of monitoring their driving style.Driving with styleFurthermore, 19% of the drivers in the survey stated that driving stylewas a significant factor in the assessment of their performance. Amongthose drivers who attested to the importance of driving style, 14% saidthat they were rewarded for good driving behaviour, while 13% reportedthat they had been penalised for bad driving. When asked how theirdriving style was monitored, 61% responded «through observation.»Among employers who have a more systematic approach to drivermonitoring and have opted for a telematics system, driving events suchas speed, sudden acceleration, hard braking, excessive idle times, andexcessive high-speed driving are measured and generally provide thebasic data for setting policies.Financial incentivesWhen asked how they could be urged to improve their driving, themajority of the drivers said that it would work well «through a rewardssystem.» However, only 14% of drivers reported that their employersused this method. Most of these awards were given to drivers in theform of monthly or annual cash payments or bonuses.On the other hand, 40% of survey participants reported that theyhad been punished with a warning for bad driving behaviour. Driverswere penalised more frequently in Spain (50%) and France (45%) thanin Germany (30%). Other findings of the survey included the factthat almost a quarter of the drivers surveyed considered a fuel-savingPhoto: SputnikTelematics systems on board lorries enable employers to monitordriver behaviour – and draw constructive conclusions therefrom.driving style to be irrelevant or unimportant. To 17% ofthe surveyed drivers, leaving the public with a positiveimpression of their employers was considered either irrelevantor unimportant. Only 16% of the drivers hadundergone training provided by their employers to improvetheir driving style.Driving style plays a role«It is worrying to see how few drivers receive driver training,and that just 10% of drivers surveyed are equippedwith an on-board control system that helps them todrive better and more safely. This is particularly troublingconsidering that twice as many drivers indicatedthat their driving style plays a role in their performanceassessment,» said Steve Coffin, Mix Telematics Europe’smarketing and operations director.ahwww.mixtelematics.comMore boxes in Basel’s Rhine portsDAS RÄDERWERKDER LOGISTIKwww.ennshafen.atThe Port of Switzerland, the operator of the Swiss inlandports on the River Rhine, reported a total throughput of78,802 teu in the first nine months of the year, a 1.4%improvement in comparison with the like-for-like periodlast year. July was a particularly strong month, with 9,981teu handled. Whilst the number of imported boxes roseby 13% to 43,258 teu, export volumes declined by 10%to 35,544 teu.avwww.portofbasel.ch

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Rail / Inland Shipping / Road Haulage35Railfreight from Asia to EuropeAction in the EastThe declared aim of RZD and its partner companies is tomake container transport by rail from China to Europeable to compete with ocean freight.The company Far East Land Bridge (FELB), operatedby RZD and Transcontainer in collaboration with DBSchenker, the Chinese entity CRCT, PKP Cargo, RailCargo Austria and other partners, recently celebratedan important debut. The first blocktrain was dispatchedfrom Suzhou (China) on 30 September. It reached Russianterritory on 4 October and finally rolled into theCargosped terminal in Warsaw on 14 October. The service,which mainly used the trans-Siberian railway route,illustrated that it is indeed possible to operate a 14-dayChina−Europe high-speed railfreight connection, withtrains covering up to 1,000 km a day.This transit time includes the necessary switch fromwide to normal-gauge tracks. Thomas Kargl, the chiefexecutive officer of FELB, which has provided suchscheduled services since 2008 and which hauled a totalof 35,000 teu in 2012, was delighted with the latest success.He underscored his intention of offering weeklyblocktrains with a 14-day transit times instead of thecustomary 24 days from March 2014.Seven days – seven yearsThe utmost priority of this project, entitled «trans-Siberianin 7 days», was underscored by the presidents of therailway companies involved from Russia (RZD), Belarus(BC) and Kazakhstan (KTZ) at the beginning of November,when they signed a schedule of activities to createthe United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC)in Astana (Kazakhstan). The above-named members ofthe states of the Common Economic Space (CES) willall hold shares in this logistics company, which is expectedto start operations in the first quarter of 2014.UTLC is considered a key enterprise for successfulrail transit transport services from China to Europe,because a single flat rate for container per kilometreand simplified customs procedures are prerequisites toensure the service is competitive (see ITJ 27-30 / 2013,page 28). A working party comprised of representativesfrom the three railways, as well as from the companiesTranscontainer and RZD Logistika, are currently preparinga shareholder contract. The future operators do notlack ambition. According to the business plan the totalvolume of traffic handled by UTLC will exceed 4 millionteu in seven years. The national railway companiesexpect to earn around EUR 1.2 billion a year for the useof their infrastructure alone, and the GDP in the CESmay actually rise by around EUR 8.4 billion.Successful IPO for PKP CargoPKP Cargo, the operator that received the FELB blocktrainfrom China on 14 October in Poland, succeededThe first blocktrain that travelled from Suzhou to Warsaw in 14 days.in selling a 49.9% stake in the company on the stock exchange on30 October. The shares, a fifth of which were snapped up by foreigninvestors, were oversubscribed six-fold and generated around EUR 345million (PLN 1.42 billion) for the freight railway. Lukasz Boron, whohas been PKP Cargo’s chief executive since March 2013, is steering hiscompany towards expansion in markets in Hungary, Czechia, Austriaand Germany.Christian Doepgenwww.fareastlandbridge.com; www.rzd.ruwww.railways.kz; www.rw.by; www.pkp-cargo.plvia the rhine riverStrasbourgto the most distant destinationsin the worlDPhoto: Far East Land Bridgefor heavy liftP&project cargoTwoterminals with dedicated cranes,lifting capacity of 200t in Lauterbourgand 450t in Strasbourg.Ro-Ro ramp in Lauterbourg.Easy access to truck, barge and rail.Storage area.contact :l.husser@strasbourg.port.fr

36 Asia Special International Transport Journal 2013State to take stakes in Japanese ports?Competition from across the Sea of JapanJapanese ports are feeling the effects of the steady growth of the South Korean port of Busan rather distinctly. More and moreshipping lines have decided not to run direct services to Japan and are instead opting for transhipment via Busan. In order toregain market share the government of Japan is considering taking stakes in the Keihin and Hanshin port conglomerates.Both Japan’s container ports as well as its boxlines have reported losses so far this year.Japan wants to make its ports a betterbusiness proposition. Despite severalattempts by the state to make the country’shubs more attractive as internationalhandling centres for liner shipping services,a great number of large box ships currentlypass the country by. The competitionfrom Busan (South Korea), whichhas established itself more and more as atranshipment port in the last few years,is particularly strong.For this reason the Japanese transportministry is currently assessing plans to acquirestakes in the companies that operatethe two major container ports in Tokyoand Osaka. Japanese business interestsare exerting increasing pressure on thePhoto: thinkstockgovernment to make the move. They areafraid that the country will irretrievablylose its competitive edge in internationalmaritime transport. The pressure is onthe government to invest in the Keihinports enterprise, consisting of the centresin Tokyo, Kawasaki and Yokohama, andin the Hanshin ports company, coveringthe ports of Kobe and Osaka. Statisticsshow that in the period 1994–2012 everfewer container ships heading for Europeand North America made a stop in Japan.Many opted instead to cut costs and callin South Korea.Subsidised by the stateThe South Korean port of Busan receivesmuch more government support than anyJapanese port. The hub receives an estimatedJPY 4 billion (EUR 30 million) insubsidies from the South Korean government.These state subsidies combine withlower personnel costs compared to Japanto allow South Korean shipping lines tooffer lower rates to customers, and thusachieve a greater market share for SouthKorea.Both the Keihin and Hanshin megaports,on the other hand, are operatedby local authorities that only have negligibleinfluence on central government.The transport ministry is thus planningto revise Japanese port law in the comingyear, to allow the government to takestakes in the two most important portoperators in the country. Analysts expectthe central government to buy shares inKeihin ports as early as 2014, which iswhen the ports of Tokyo, Yokohama andKawasaki are due to be consolidated.According to statistics published bythe ministry of economy, trade andindustry, three Japanese ports wereamongst the world’s 20 largest hubs in1994 (when measured by the number ofcontainers handled). In the meantimethere is not a single Japanese port to befound in the list of the world’s top 20hubs.The port of Kobe handled 2.6 millionteu last year and was ranked 52nd inthe world, whilst Osaka came 57th, witha throughput of 2.4 million teu. Tokyomade it to 28th, with a volume of almost4.8 million teu.The port of Busan, on the other hand,is number five in the world, with 17 millionteu handled in 2012. The most importantports in South Korea after Busanare the port of Gwangyang and Yeosu,which handled 2.15 million teu in 2012,and the Incheon hub, with a throughputof 1.98 million teu in the same year.Barbara Odrich /Antje VereggeMoving business forward!Enjoy the reliability of world-classprofessionalism and serviceby China Airlines Cargo.Tel. +352 34 83 63-1 or please consult our website www.china-airlines.com

International Transport Journal 2013 Asia Special37Ports in China’s Pearl River DeltaHong Konglosing ground?The port of Hong Kong is expected to lose its positionas the world’s third-largest container hub (measuredby throughput) this year to the neighbouring Chinesemaritime centre of Shenzhen.According to Transportintelligence, an English providerof logistics industry market research and analysis, theChinese port of Shenzhen is set to overtake its domesticrival Hong Kong this year in terms of the number ofcontainers handled.Hong Kong’s throughput of 23.12 million teu in 2012placed it third on the list of the world’s largest containerhubs for that year. Shenzhen, whose volume came in at22.94 million teu for the same period, was only marginallybehind, however. The latter centre was particularlyable to benefit from a strike in Hong Kong this year,which caused many a ship to set its course for Shenzheninstead.The conditions for doing business in the centre aregood enough in and of themselves, however. For onething, the Chinese government has been investing heavilyin the country’s sea ports for some years now. On theother hand, Chinese manufacturers have to pay aboutUSD 200 more when sending goods through the port ofHong Kong, compared with transit through Shenzhen.There are also frequent delays at border crossings betweenthe Hong Kong Special Administrative Regionand the People’s Republic of China, as Chinese truckshave to re-load their goods onto vehicles from HongKong there. Most of the cargo handled in both hubscomes from factories in the Pearl River Delta. HongKong counters its disadvantages with its status as a freetrade zone and the frequency of its liner services.The volume of goods handled in Shenzhen grew by1.2% in the first eight months of 2013 in comparisonwith the same period last year, whilst Hong Kong sawThe port of Hong Kong was hit hard by a dockers’ strike this year.nearly 7% less boxes cross its quays in comparison with 2012. Additionalcompetition for the hub also comes from other ports in theregion. Singapore and Busan (South Korea), in particular, are bothregistering continuous growth.Transportintelligence’s analysts believe that, in the medium term,that sea port will gain most which can offer the best links to and fromlocal and regional manufacturing centres. These are increasingly movingto western China as well as to Southeast Asia. Antje Vereggewww.transportintelligence.com; www.pdc.gov.hkwww.szport.net; www.portbusan.go.kr; www.singaporepsa.comSKILL &ShipAgency:CustomBroker:Shipowner:EFFICIENCYPhoto: thinkstockPSA investing in LianyungangDepot andContainerRepair Centre:Terminal operator PSA International has made its firstmajor foray into the Yangtze River Delta region by acquiringa stake in a new container terminal firm in theport of Lianyungang. To this end PSA has entered intoa joint venture with the Lianyungang Port Group, whichwill take over the box terminal project with a capacity for2.8 million teu from China Shipping Container Lines,following completion of the deal, which is subject toregulatory approval. www.internationalpsa.comTerminalOperator:LogisticOperator:AddressP.zza G.Alessi, 2/2016128 Genova ItalyPhone+39.010.5361.1Fax+39.010.585811E-mailfinsea@finsea.itWebwww.finsea.it

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Asia Special39India remains a tough nut for the aviation industryNot all is rosyThe Indian Subcontinent entices and confuses interestedinvestors. An attempt at an overview.The Hindu world celebrated Diwali, the festival of light,in November – but not much light has been shed onthe confusing world of Indian aviation recently. A largepart of the blame for this lies with the authorities andpoliticians of the world’s largest democracy. One exampleis the fact that the directorate general of civil aviationfollowed security fears voiced by Icao and withdrewpermission from every national charter service providerto fly abroad practically overnight. Domestic critics areIn briefLCC’s big belly. The Filipino low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific Airis improving its freight offering. Having taken over two newAirbus A330s it is now set to deploy these long-haul unitsfrom Manila to Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Seoul (SouthKorea) and Singapore. In December Cebu Pacific will additionallyreceive airfreight containers manufactured by the Norwegiansupplier Nordisk.www.cebupacificair.comwww.nordisk-aviation.comSanctions in Sydney. The Dubai-based carrier Emirates isexpected to be fined approximately EUR 400,000, for thricehaving contravened a night-time flying ban that applies atSydney’s Kingsford Smith airport. The infringements tookplace between the end of 2011 and January 2013. The fifthcontinent’s busiest airport handled 444,000 t of airfreight in2012. It only allows a few freighter aircraft to take off andland under certain conditions between 23.00 and 06.00.www.sydneyairport.com.auHungary’s Wizz Air is striking out to new horizons. It could land in India next year,thanks to a new bilateral Indo-Hungarian agreement.concerned that the resultant opening to foreign firms could lead to the«holy cow» Air India being sacrificed soon on the altar of privatisation.The path to foreign investment in the Indian aviation industryis strewn with hurdles, however. Etihad Airways for example, whichbought five of Air India’s eight Boeing B777-200LRs in October, thusgiving the beleaguered carrier a financial boost, thought it had a 24%participation in Jet Airways all sewn up. But in November two competitionauthorities voiced their concerns.Wizz Air is also looking into its options. After the signing of abilateral agreement between India and Hungary the Hungarian airlineis now hoping to enter the Indian market. Wizz, which was the firstpassenger operator to land at Dubai’s new airport on 27 October, mayextend this service across the Arabian Sea to India.Civil aviation minister Ajit Singh believes that «India will be theworld’s third-largest aviation market by 2020.» The likelihood of himbeing the minister in charge at the time is even smaller than that ofhis prediction coming true. National elections in spring 2014 point toa changing of the guard in the capital New Delhi.ahAre you looking for owner managedethical forwarder in BANGLADESH?Photo: Wizz AirUNISPEDQUALITY IN FORWARDING AND LOGISTICSবাংলাদেশAirfreightLogisticsHere we are:EUROPEAN FREIGHTSYSTEM LIMITEDSurfaceHead quarterP.O. Box 1379 • CH-8021 Zurich/SwitzerlandTel. +41 44 245 44 88 • Fax +41 44 245 44 77E-mail info@unisped.ch • www.unisped.chSeafreightBranch officesHong KongBeijingDhaka159,Santi nagar,5 th floorDhaka 1217, BangladeshTel.: +8802-9335361Fax: +8802-9330477H/P: 8801711-560731Email: efs@bangla.netChittagongSouthland Centre 11 th floor5, Agrabad C/A, ChittagongTel.: +88031-2515920Email: efslctg@globalctg.net

40 Asia Special International Transport Journal 47-48 2013Panalpina is banking on the greater use of seafreight container services in Asia.Development of seafreight groupage container connections in AsiaMore flexibility and controlThe global logistics corporation Panalpinarecently established 26 new direct lessthan container load services in Asia.Panalpina has started offering three sailingsa week on many of its point pairs toand from Asian destinations, includinglinks between Hong Kong and Singapore,Shanghai (China) and Busan (SouthKorea), as well as Singapore and Hamburg(Germany), amongst others. Informationfrom the company has it that thenew links in the Asian region provide itsseafreight customers with a consistentand reliable service that simplifies supplychain planning. The Basel-based Swisslogistics service provider is continuing toIn briefNew member. Famous Pacific Shipping Group(FPS), a global freight forwarding and nonvessel-operatingcommon carrier network, hasaccepted the Indian firm Global Logistics as itslatest new member. Global Logistics’ headquartersare located in Mumbai.www.fps-group.netPhoto: Panalpinadevelop its global less than container load(LCL) network to meet growing demandfrom customers for cost-saving alternativesto airfreight.Panalpina’s LCL hubs in Singaporeand Busan are central to the company’srecent expansion. They take Panalpina’stotal services to and from Singapore to125 and to and from Busan to 75. Theoptions aim to give customers more flexibilityand supply chain planning control,particularly on the key strategic pointpairs that Panalpina has introduced. LCLshipments through Panalpina’s Singaporeand Busan hubs are mainly from thehigh-tech, consumer, retail, fashion andautomotive sectors. www.panalpina.comDamco in Indonesia. The logistics serviceprovider Damco recently opened a newwarehouse and cross-docking terminal inSemarang, on the island of Java (Indonesia).The centre will handle containerised freight forclients in the footwear and apparel industries.www.damco.com

ITALY43 Contship pleased with itsterminals’ good 2013 results44 TEN-T leaves a mark on Italy47 Planned logistics platformin Trieste taking shape48 M & M in the air and at sea51 The «core port» of Ravennahas steamed ahead this year52 Airfreight trends not uniform53 CNH Industrial goes abroadPhoto: thinkstockItalian logistics market enjoying light tailwindReturning to confidenceThe Letta government was confirmed in office in October 2013, and now Italy is gettingback to work, with the cabinet adopting an infrastructure package. After eight quartersof a shrinking economy there are now signs of economic recovery.Italy seems to be realising the importanceof logistics these days. If the upstreamand downstream sectors of the logisticsindustry are added to the big picture,then the number of employees in the sectoris estimated at around 1 million. Togetherthey generate an annual turnoverof EUR 200 million, representing no lessthan around 13% of Italy’s gross domesticproduct. Corrado Passera, the transportminister in the Monti government in2012, noted that reforms in the logisticsindustry in Italy had to be accorded strategicpriority because inadequate infrastructureand organisational inefficiencywere estimated to be costing the countryEUR 60 billion annually.The cabinet has now provided his successorMaurizio Lupi with EUR 2 billionto spend on measures to improve Italy’sinfrastructure next year. Lupi, whosepassion for a «treno alta velocità» (TAV)high-speed railway link between Italyand France is well-known, has allocatedEUR 200 million to the expansion of selectedrail hubs. In addition to makingprovision for investments in motorwayexpansion, a EUR 300 million fund hasbeen set up exclusively for the rehabilitationof roads, bridges and tunnels.Photo: Christian DoepgenCan the Italian trend be turned around?Positive and negative trendsThere are signs of an economic turnaroundin Italy. Indicators such as retailsales and the purchasing managers’ indexthat have been declining for yearsrebounded for the first time in the thirdquarter of 2013, and the demand for warehousingand logistics capacities has alsobegun to improve.In addition to economic uncertainty,the politics of a very bureaucratic stateremain a key unknown variable in Italy.One example saw the Italian environmentministry giving international hazardousgoods transport firms just a fewdays notice to get themselves registeredin the country’s refuse tracing scheme«Sistema di controllo della tracciabilitàdei rifiuti (Sistri)» by 1 October (see alsopage 51). The Italian authorities provedintransigent and deaf to pleas for moretime, so the IRU and six transport associationsfrom six European states have fileda complaint with the European Commission.There is clearly some way to go untilthe flywheel of the Italian logistics marketturns again. Christian Doepgen

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International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Italy Special43Contship Group container terminalsA record and plenty of optimismItaly’s economy is still in the grip of recession, and there is no positive economic development in sight. Amidst these conditions, theContship Italia Group presented good container throughput results for its six terminals at the end of the third quarter. At the group’sheadquarters in Melzo in northern Italy its managers are also optimistic about the future.The first nine months of 2013 have beenvery successful for the Contship ItaliaGroup. All six of the companies belongingto the Eurokai group were able to increasetheir throughput figures (see boxbelow). According to the English analystDrewry the Contship-Eurogate Grouptherefore currently comes in tenth placein an international terminal operators’ranking.The growing container volumes are simultaneouslyalso creating a number ofchallenges for the corporation, however.«The most important issues concerningthe La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT)are the limited availability of land and ahigh concentration of container throughput,as gates, ships and trains all operateat the same time. The LSCT therefore hasto work efficiently and productively, inorder to fully exploit the existing resources,»explained Michele Giromini, generalmanager of the LSCT, in an interviewwith the ITJ.The fact that La Spezia is making goodprogress in this regard is demonstratedby its handling of the CSCL America lastsummer. Five cranes handled the ship’s8,498 teu at the speed of 91 movementsan hour – a new record for the terminal.Focusing on efficiencyThe high productivity is a result particularlyof the improved operating procedureswhich Marco Simonetti, the ContshipGroup’s vice-president for maritimeterminals, has gradually implemented inthe company. Simonetti, an industry outsider,joined the Contship Group in 1994from a construction company, bringingwith him a breath of fresh air.In addition to truck and rail handlingprocesses, the manager has also been responsiblefor improving procedures inrelation to customs and the Italian authoritiesin general. He managed to introducehis new system to La Spezia withintwo months, as well as to Cagliari. Thespeed at which Contship is advancing itsbusiness activities is based on the fact,Contship’s La Spezia Container Terminal can handle ships with capacities of up to 14,000 teu.amongst others, that the average age ofmanagers in the group’s terminals is 36.In other areas, however, the ContshipGroup also has reason to consider itselfa rather special company. The LSCT,which was founded in 1971, was Italy’sfirst private container terminal where, in1998, Contship introduced navigationsoftware for terminal operators. Sincethen, the Cargotec product has becomethe technology standard, with an 80%market share.Expansion in La SpeziaThe LSCT has a capacity of 1.2 million tand three wharfs with a length of up to512 m. The terminal covers an area of286,000 sqm. With a depth alongsideof 15 m and a total of ten gantry cranesextending over up to 20 berths, some ofwhich were modernised between 2009and 2013, the terminal is also ideallyequipped to handle large container shipswith a capacity of up to 14,000 teu. Inaddition the terminal is able to handletwo ships with a capacity of 14,000 and9,500 teu at the same time.Contship also has a number of ambitiousplans for the future. The port’s largewharf is due to be extended by another150 m, and the berth length by 530 m, inorder to better meet the requirements ofincreasingly large ships. In addition, theaim is also to increase the annual capacityto up to 2 million teu in the mediumterm.Even though Italy’s imports have fallenby approximately 13% so far this year,the Contship Group certainly has reasonto be optimistic. The country’s exportscontinued on page 44Container throughput in the Contship Italia Group’s maritime terminalsJanuary to September (teu) 2013 2012 ±%LSCT – La Spezia 771,000 749,000 +2.9%TCR – Ravenna 157,000 142,000 +10.5%SCT – Salerno 135,000 116,000 +27.5%MCT – Gioia Tauro 2,355,000 2,035,000 +16.8%CICT – Cagliari 484,000 433,000 +11.7%ET – Tangier 731,000 431,000 +69.7%Photo: Christian Doepgen / ITJ

44 Italy Special International Transport Journal 47-48 2013continued from page 43are on the increase, and around 15% ofItaly’s total container throughput is handledin the group’s terminals.Also looking to North AfricaWith a terminal in Tangier (Morocco) theContship Group is also looking beyondItaly’s borders. According to Girominiand Simonetti the main problems in thisregard, however, are the different subsidiesand competitive conditions for portsin the EU and North Africa.In their opinion, the EU needs to reviewthe framework conditions. In addition,increasing salary costs and a relativelystrong Islamic-French trade uniontradition are having a considerable impacton operating results. However, therapid re-industrialisation of Tangier since2004 is continuing to have a positive effect,and a free-trade zone has also beensuccessfully established.In 2008, the volume of containershandled there came to approximately80,000 teu, whilst in the first three quartersof 2013 the terminal has already handled731,000 teu – reason enough for thegroup to be optimistic about the start tothe coming year.av/ cdwww.contshipitalia.comTEN-T – From north to south and from east to westIn October the European Union announceda radical overhaul of its infrastructurepolicy (see ITJ 45-46/2013,page 22). The Commission identifieda total of nine principal transportationcorridors, four of which will run throughItaly. The route between the Baltic regionand the Adriatic is one of the majortrans-European road and rail corridors,as it connects industrialised areas such assouthern Poland, Vienna (Austria), Bratislava(Slovakia) and the eastern Alps withnorthern Italy.The Mediterranean transportationcorridor is located between the IberianPeninsula and the Hungarian/Ukrainianborder. Apart from Italy’s longest river,the Po, and some canals in northern Italy,this corridor mainly consists of road andrail routes, such as those between Turin(Italy) and Lyon (France) and Trieste(Italy) and Ljubljana (Slovenia), for example.Linked to North European sea portsThe route between Scandinavia and theMediterranean is a major north–southcorridor, which extends from Finlandto Italy and includes Italian ports andValletta (Malta). The construction of theFour out of the European Union’s nine TEN-Ttransport corridors run through Italy.Brenner base tunnel between Innsbruck(Austria) and Fortezza/ Franzensfeste(South Tyrol, Italy) is also one of themost important projects in the overhaul.Thanks to the Rhine–Alps corridor, oneof the busiest traffic routes in Europe, Italyis connected to the northern Europeansea ports, something which is particularlyimportant for the country’s industrialisednorth.www.ec.europa.euMap: EUWAREHOUSE LOGISTICEUROPEAN SERVICEIMPORT/EXPORTFULL LOAD SERVICEDOMESTIC SERVICESafe and economical storage of your goods in our ownwarehouse of 31 500 qm 2Groupage and full load traffic with subsequent distributionand logistic: Germany/Switzerland/Benelux/France/England/Italy/Turkey/Eastern and Southeastern EuropeEuropeanwide timely and safe delivery of full loads andhazardous cargosAustriawide full load and partload cargo door-to-doorSpeditions Ges.m.b.H.TVS-Strasse 2A-2353 GuntramsdorfTel.: +43/2236/8004-0Fax: +43/2236/8004-60 +70E-Mail: www.import@tvs-europa.at

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Italy Special45Investment increasing in Italian warehousingWanted: storage capacitiesInvestors who were still cautious at the beginning of the year have proved that theybelieve in Italy’s economic recovery in the third quarter of 2013. The retail sector’ssignificant increase in demand for storage space is an indicator of the upturn.Italy’s retail industry has required more storagespace since Q3/2013.In Q1/2013 the outlook for logisticsproperties that cater to the Italian marketcould not have been poorer. Demandfor logistics areas stood at 111,000 sqm,particularly from third-party logisticsproviders (3PLs), and was thus a massive60% lower in the first quarter of 2013compared to the same period in 2012.The regional focus of this demand wasin the Italian provinces of Lombardia,Veneto and Emilia-Romagna, which onlyserved to reinforce the impression thatany small improvement in Q1/2013 wasin the country’s industrial conurbations.The development after Q3/2013, withits end-of-year prospects, was quite different.CBRE, a global real estate researchcompany, announced that the latest figuresfor Spain and Italy are encouraging.Investments in the retail sector roseto approximately EUR 8.3 billion, theequivalent of an increase of 11.5% vis-àvisthe same quarter last year. Italy, witha significant increase of 128%, is one ofthe leading lights, after Spain.Investments in Italy include, for example,Blackstone’s EUR 130 millionacquisition of the Franciacorta Outlet inBrescia. In October a fund managed byMorgan Stanley bought a 200,000 sqmarea for EUR 635 million from the LillebasedFrench retail chain Auchan, whichoperates 15 shopping centres in Italy.An analysis published by Jones LongLasalle showed that demand for warehousingcapacities, which rose simultaneously,only found a dried-out marketin Italy, as the construction of new storagefacilities had dropped by up to 49%compared to the pre-crisis years of 2007and 2008. Logistics property providersare likely to be highly delighted with theimproved prospects.cdwww.cbre.eu/itwww.joneslonglasalle.euPhoto: ITE LogisticsMOVING INTO THEGLOBAL VILLAGEIL VOSTRO SPEDIZIONIERE PER IL MERCATO ITALIANOWe care, We handle,We move... WorldwideOUR SERVICES:• BENELUX• DENMARK• EASTERN EUROPE• FINLAND• GERMANY• GREAT BRITAIN• GREECE• IRELAND• NORWAY• BALTIC COUNTRIES• SPAIN• SWEDEN• SWITZERLAND• TURKEY• AIR FREIGHT SERVICE• SEA FREIGHT SERVICEWWW.TSTCARGO.COMwww.ctngroup.comwww.bookfreight.comT.S.T. - TRANSOCEAN SYSTEM TRANSPORT SAVia Lavizzari, 6 • CH-6830 Chiasso • SwitzerlandPhone: +41 91 69 57 260 • Fax: +41 91 68 25 360E-mail: tst@tstcargo.comITX Cargo S.r.l.Viale Espinasse, 1631-20156 MILANO, ITALYTel: +39 02 300.92.1Fax: +39 02 33.49.91.45E-mail: info@itxcargo.comP.IVA: IT04776230965ITX Cargo Overseas S.r.l.Viale Espinasse, 1631-20156 MILANO, ITALYTel: +39 02 87.25.18.1Fax: +39 02 87.25.18.99E-mail: info@overseas-itxcargo.comP.IVA: IT07500290965www.itxcargo.comITX Cargo Veneto S.r.lVia dell’Esperanto, 13/A1-37135 VERONA, ITALYTel: +39 045 862.29.55Fax: +39 045 862.29.59E-mail: info@itxcargoveneto.comP.IVA: IT13219370155

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Italy Special47An ambitious construction project in the port of TriesteThe wait is now over«Finalmente» – the day has finally come. After more than ten years of administrative, technical and financial preparations the tenderphase for the long-awaited new logistics platform in the port of Trieste has been launched. If everything goes according to plan thenew facility will commence operations in the course of 2017.A new logistics platform being built inthe port of Trieste will come to stand ona 247,000 sqm plot that belongs to thecity of Trieste. The site was previouslyused by companies from the steel andwood industries. The plan is to establish140,000 sqm of built-up logistics areas,including warehouses, a railway terminaland a container and truck depot. In additionthere is a plan for a large officebuilding covering 2,250 sqm, 90,000 sqmof parking space and a washing facilityfor trucks. The city will also take advantageof the planned works to build watertreatment plants and divert a river. It isexpected that the contracts for the workswill be awarded by the end of this year,and that the logistics platform is likely tobe completed by 2017.Of the construction costs ofEUR 132 million, EUR 70 million is expectedto be invested by the port authority,EUR 32 million by the Italian ministryof transport and EUR 30 million by thefuture operator. The scheme was a priorityproject in the European infrastructurepriority list TEN-T in 2004. According toMarina Monassi, chairman of the Triesteport authority, this project is not only importantfor the economic development ofthe region, but also for Trieste as a gatewayto European markets. Therefore, lastyear’s net operating profit of EUR 13 millionthat was achieved as a result of efficiencyimprovements will be utilised foradditional investments.Since 2004 Trieste Marine Terminal,with quays that have the deepest shippingchannels (18 m) in the Mediterranean region,has been in charge of container trafficin the port of Trieste. The terminal, whichis controlled by the T.O. Delta Group, isconnected to all of the Italian ports in thenorthern Adriatic Sea (Ravenna, Venice,Trieste) and with Koper (Slovenia) andRijeka (Croatia) by just-in-time feeder services.It is home to a rail terminal with five600 m tracks and the capacity to handlemore than 11,500 trains annually. Thisshipping terminal, located at quay VII, wasPhoto: Trieste Marine TerminalThe existing container terminal facility in the port Trieste.able to achieve the highest growth rates inItaly between 2004 and 2010. Since thenthere has been 60% more growth. In thefirst nine months of 2013 box throughputgrew by 14% to 348,640 teu. In Augustan increase of 17% was achieved, withvolumes rising by 35,280 teu. In 2012 anew record was achieved – throughput of394,338 teu.Quantum leapIn early August this year the Agamemnon,an enormous vessel belonging to MaerskLine, again called at the port. Its 318 mlength and 8,000 teu capacity make itthe largest ship ever to have called at anAdriatic Sea port. Now another quantumleap is set to take place from April nextyear. From then on 10,000 teu containershipsfrom the P3 Network, created by theamalgamation of operations by the shippingcompanies Maersk, MSC and CMACGM, will begin to be handled here.Last year the Trieste Marine Terminalspent EUR 7 million on the modernisationof two gantry cranes. Now an anotherEUR 7.5 million will be investedin the expansion of intermodal services.Over and above this there is moregood news from the Trieste intermodalterminal. The Europe Multipurpose Terminalentity, which came into being inOctober 2008 and is a member of theParisi Group of companies, celebratedthe arrival of its 1,000th blocktrain. Thecompany achieved this milestone at theend of the first six months of this year.Europe Multipurpose Terminal operatesfrom quai VI. The company has rapidlybuilt up its business and now handlesthree trains a day on seven days a weekfrom the Rail Traction Company, anenterprise with shareholders from Germany,Luxembourg and Czechia.The target set by the EU for the proportionof intermodal transport by railby 2050 has been achieved much earlier.Intermodal transport by rail reached 52%of total throughput for the first time in2012, thus meeting the target set by theEU Commission much ahead of time.In early October this year the intermodalfirms Kombiverkehr (Germany),Cemat (Italy) and Adria Combi (Slovenia)established a new intermodal transportservice. The goods dispatched fromGermany (Frankfurt) by shuttle train areforwarded to Greece (port of Patras) andTurkey (ports of Tekirdag and Pendik) byship (see also ITJ 43-44/2013, page 33).Harald Jung/rawww.porto.trieste.it

48 Italy Special International Transport Journal 47-48 2013New national branch in ItalyExpanding air and sea freightThe global forwarding and logistics service provider Militzer&Münch recently set upa second company in Italy. The new Italian organisation will focus its activities on theinternational air and sea freight business.The newly-established company is calledM&M Militzer&Münch Air Sea Cargoand offers comprehensive services in theareas of air and sea freight. The new firmbegan operations in early October. Theheadquarters of Militzer&Münch Air SeaCargo are located at Italy’s largest airport,Fiumicino airport in Rome. The managingdirector of the new M&M group companyis Valter Crescioli, a senior manager withmany years of experience in the logisticsindustry who held management positionsin earlier years both at DB Schenker aswell as with Kuehne+Nagel.The company Militzer & Münch International,based in Arcore, northeast ofMilan, predominantly offers its customersroad transport services with a focus onPhoto: M&M Militzer&MünchM & M Militzer&Münch is set to improve itsairfreight offering in Italy.Maghreb routes. A new air and sea freightservices team based at the two M &Mlocations in Rome and Milan will handleglobal services for customers, with amajor focus on services to and from Asiaas well as North and South America.The establishment of the second Italiansubsidiary is a part of the group’scomprehensive strategy of expansion inthe air and sea freight business segment,Thorsten Meincke explained. Meincke hasbeen given management responsibility forthe air and sea freight business in M&MMilitzer&Münch International Holding.He added that his corporation wants to«further strengthen our air and sea freightactivities by providing customer-orientedproducts. Our locations in Italy are strategicallylocated in the country’s mostimportant economic regions. With theseexpansion activities we can now offer ourcustomers in Italy direct access to ournetwork. We’re of the opinion that ourcustomers have strong unmet demand formedium-sized and customer-oriented services,which we can provide.» rawww.mumnet.comGRUPPONUOVA TRANSPORTSWhereverYou Need us!Nuova TransportsS.p.AConcorezzoNuova TransportsInternational S.r.l.TorinoNuova TransportsAdriatica S.r.l.Civitanova MarcheInternational Transport & Logisticswww.gruppont.com

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Italy Special49Combi Line banking on its hubs in Singapore and New YorkWorldwide LCL servicesThe Italian company Combi Line, based in Segrate, near Milan, offersweekly LCL services to and from many destinations worldwide.Now it has expanded its network.Combi Line, an Italian provider of air,sea and overland transport solutions, recentlylaunched a direct groupage optionto and from Singapore, which it managesfrom its office in Livorno (northernItaly). Alessandro Troiani, the manager ofthe Livorno branch, told the ITJ that theweekly connection offers on-forwardingoptions in Singapore to numerous destinationsin China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,Thailand, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh,Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, theSeychelles, the Maldives and Mauritius.«We may also launch a direct Livornoimport link from Singapore next year,»the manager added. The company’ssouthern Italian office inNaples, which is managedby Gianni Velonà, willalso carry out direct LCLservices at weekly intervalsto Singapore, with on-forwardingto the same destinationsin the same FarEastern countries. Over and above thisthe enterprise also has a fortnightly linkto and from New York, with connectionsto many other US centres.Consignments are picked up by truckin Italy and brought to a customs-bondedwarehouse. Rapid customs clearanceis self-evident, Velonà assures potentialclients. The Naples office also offersCombi Line offers numerous pick-up and delivery optionswithin Italy.a weekly in-bound LCL services fromHong Kong and a fortnightly one fromShanghai directly to Naples. Velonà saidthat the goods are rapidly cleared througha customs-bonded warehouse in Naples.In Italy door-to-door truck options completethe cargo’s journey.itwww.combiline.itPhoto: Combi Line

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International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Italy Special51Grimaldi’s «Eurocargo Brindisi» calling at the port of Ravenna.Good news from RavennaNow a «core» European portThe largest port in the Italian province of Emilia Romagna was recently designated a«core port» of the European transport network TEN-T. In the period from January toSeptember the volume of goods handled increased by almost 3%.In the first nine months of 2013 morethan 16.5 million t were loaded or unloadedin the port of Ravenna, 2.9%more than in the same period last year.14 million t of imported goods (+2%)and 2.5 million t of exports (+8.7%) werehandled. «This makes Ravenna the leadingport in Italy for traffic to the EasternMediterranean and the Black Sea, and theeighth-largest port in the country,» Gallianodi Marco, president of the Ravennaport authority, said. He was speaking atPhoto: Grimaldithe Euromed Convention on the islandof Ischia organised recently by Grimaldi(see ITJ 45-46/2013, page 36).The number of containers handled atthe port increased by 10% or 15,749 teu,to come to 171,000 teu, and the numberof trailers grew by 113% or 17,775 units,to 37,800 units. The rise in the numberof trailers handled at the port is mainlydue to two services plying their trade betweenRavenna and Catania, operatedby Tirrenia Compagnia Italiana di Navigazioneand Grimaldi. The two servicesshipped 30,254 trailers (+74%).6,900 trailers had already been shippedon the new service linking Ravenna,Brindisi and Catania by September. Itwas launched recently by Grimaldi, deployingtwo new ro-pax ships (see photo).In the automobile sector 18,309 vehicleswere loaded and unloaded (+87%) atRavenna, according to di Marco.The port authority has also approvedits investment plan for 2014, which envisagesmaking EUR 200 million availablefor port infrastructure improvements, especiallyincluding extensive dredging. itwww.port.ravenna.itComplaint submitted to BrusselsForeign trucks have no longer been loaded with hazardouswastes in Italy since 1 October, forcing foreigndrivers and vehicles turning up on jobs to carry suchgoods to return to their home bases empty-handed. Thiswas due to a completely unexpected action by the Italianenvironment ministry, which had sent out a kind ofcircular (without letterhead or signature) ordering truckstransporting hazardous waste in Italy to be registered inthe state’s «Sistema di controllo della Tracciabilità deiRifiuti» (Sistri) and fitted with a telematics system virtuallyovernight with effect from 1 October.A diplomatic intervention to the environment ministryin Rome on 2 October did not result in a correctivemove. Thus leading European transport industry associationsdecided to file a joint complaint to the EuropeanCommission. They included the International RoadTransport Union (IRU) and industry bodies from Austria,Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark and theNetherlands. The submission was based on the fact thatnon-Italian operators are not able to fulfil certain conditionsat all for legal reasons, as the requisite technicalinfrastructure is not available abroad. The Commissionwas asked to check whether the Italian regulations arecompatible with EU law, and if necessary to intervenewith the Italian authorities concerned in order to havethem adjusted accordingly.itwww.bgl-ev.dewww.sistri.itYourMILANO –dynamicGENOVAnvocc– LIVORNOCombi Line International S.p.A.Via Fanin, 2 – 20090 Segrate (MI)info@combiline.it - www.combiline.itLCLFCLAIRinItaly– NAPLES

52 Italy Special International Transport Journal 47-48 2013Alitalia Cargo used to operate its own full-freighter aircraft, but today it only markets the bellycapacities of 131 passenger units in its fleet of 141 planes. The Airbus A319 pictured has thesmallest capacity of all of Alitalia’s aeroplanes. It can carry 27 cbm / 7 t of co-loaded airfreight.Alitalia at the crossroads • Airfreight volumes up slightlyOutlook remains uncertainWhilst Italy’s largest airline is once again running short of money, the country’s airportsare not in such a bad position in terms of airfreight throughput, and further transalpinesurprises cannot be ruled out.The positive signals from the euro areaare on the increase. Whilst Ireland andSpain are aiming to emerge from the protectionof the euro bailout scheme in thenext two months, the Italian economyalso appears to be on the road to recovery.One indication of this is the increasein freight volumes at the 38 airports inthe country organised in the Assaeroportiassociation. During the first three quartersof the year they handled 0.9% morefreight than during the same period lastyear (see ITJ 47-48/2012, page 39). Thisincrease of just under 1% is all the morevaluable as they suffered a loss in 2012(–5.5%), and is simultaneously a rathergood performance compared to the restof Europe. In recent months, Milan Malpensa,by far the country’s largest airport,has regained its place among Europe’s topten. In the meantime, European airlines’freight performance has improved by just0.6%, according to Iata.However, the performance of Italy’slargest airline is weak, and Alitalia stillneeds to do more to improve its performance.Following large losses – it haschalked up debts totalling more thanEUR 1 billion – it is urgently seekingEUR 300 million to sustain operations.A recovery plan presented on 13 Novemberdoes not go far enough for Alitalia’smain shareholder Air France-KLM(25%), however. AF-KLM first saved thePhoto: Airbusnational carrier from a crash-landing withan investment almost five years ago, butis now in the middle of a far-reachingrestructuring process itself. In order toreduce costs, it has proposed to streamlineAlitalia’s management. Its fleet ofmedium-haul planes is also expected tobe reduced in favour of long-haul aircraft,which are more suited to carrying freight.As it is doubtful whether the banks willprovide any loans without the support ofits major shareholder, Alitalia’s board ofdirectors has extended the deadline for itscurrent recapitalisation plans to 27 November,by when other potential investorsmight have declared an interest. China’sHainan Airlines has officially deniedany interest, but another frequently mentionedcandidate, Etihad, is attracting attention.The Swiss media has interpretedits 33.3% stake in Switzerland’s DarwinAirline (subject to regulatory approval) asa possible move towards a «new Alitalia».www.assaeroporti.itwww.alitaliacargo.comFreight throughput Q1-Q3/2013Rank Airport Airfreight in t ±%1 Milan (MXP) 314 741 +2.62 Rome (FCO) 105,848 0.03 Bergamo 83,463 –2.04 Venice 33,436 +9.65 Bologna 32,134 +8.16 Brescia 29,682 –3.87 Milan (LIN) 14,866 +1.28 Rome (CIA) 12,364 –0.39 Turin 7,619 –1.610 Naples 5,081 +29.4Source: Assaeroporti

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Italy Special53Commercial vehicle division of the Fiat group listed on Wall StreetOn the moveunder a new nameThe commercial vehicle division of the world’s third-largest capital goodscorporation has been doing business under the name CNH Industrial sincethe end of September. With a clear departure from its Italian market thegroup is realigning and setting up regional operations centres.It has been just about a year now since theItalian commercial vehicle manufacturerFiat Industrial reported the completionof the acquisition of the remaining sharesnot yet in its possession of the Dutchcompany CNH Global. Following therejection of its first bid for the US subsidiaryCNH, the company’s shareholdersaccepted an offer of approximatelyUSD 1.5 billion for just under 11% of thefirm in late November 2012.After completing the merger in September,and registering for a secondarylisting on the Borsa Italiana in Milan anda main listing on the New York StockExchange, the group provided the firstresults of the combined business when itpublished the report on its third quarterresults on 31 October.Engine revving up againAccording to the report the truck andcommercial vehicle division increased itsincome by 1.9% to EUR 2.1 billion, despiteweak demand in the third quarterof 2012. For the full year, however, theEUR 6.1 billion earnings generated representa slight decline in business of 2.6%.The division deliveredmore than 31,000 vehicles,almost 9% more units inthe third quarter than inthe same period last year.The business was markedby a very strong increasein the Latin Americanmarket (+30%) and a«modest recovery in Europeandemand», accordingto the quarterly report.Southern Europe, in particular,was still said to besuffering from a decline indemand for spare parts.This is precisely the baggage that theformer Fiat Industrial wants to shed withthe departure from its country of origin,however. The Fiat industrial corporation,whose car division has joined forces withthe US manufacturer Chrysler, has departedMilan because risk premiums thereare twice as high as they are in the USA.In addition, the group’s European headquartersare no longer located in Italy,but distributed across the continent’sregions.ahOne third of the total sales of CNH Industrial are generatedby the Industrial Vehicles Corporation (Iveco), which itself wascreated by the merger of various European truck manufacturersin 1975.Fiat Industrial becomes CNH IndustrialThe new name of the commercial vehiclecompany is taken from Case and New Holland,two major US manufacturers of agriculturalmachinery and construction equipment.In the transatlantic group, the Italians bringIveco truck, Magirus fire engines and theindustrial and marine engine manufacturerFiat Powertrain into the organisation. Witharound 45,000 employees worldwide, CNHIndustrial generates annual sales of aroundEUR 27 billion. www.cnhindustrial.comPhoto: CNH Industrial

54 Western Europe International Transport Journal 47-48 2013New article in French transport statuteMore transparency in air pollutionAt the beginning of October France introduced new disclosure rules for the level of CO 2 emissions arising from the transport of goodsor people. The information is now legally required to be available on all invoices issued for transport services delivered and received.The new law does not envision any violation sanctions, however.A new measure has been in force inFrance since the beginning of October2013. Since then carbon dioxide (CO 2 )emissions arising from the transport ofgoods and people shall be accountedfor in national inventories. The move isbased on decisions adopted at a climateconference in autumn 2007.As shippers and consumers nowknow the level of CO 2 emissions associatedwith the transport of their goods orthe conveyance of passengers, they willhenceforth be able to use the informationto choose the most sustainable means oftransport. The objective of the scheme isto reduce greenhouse gases and significantlydivert a large part of the goods thatare currently transported by road to therailways or to inland barges.The calculation for cargo transportis carried out on the basis of volume,distance hauled and the mode of transportused. The service providers are expectedto inform their customers of thefigures as early as possible, ideally at thetime of billing. Should the calculationprove to need more time, the companiesare required to send the informationwithin two months of dispatch of thegoods.Various levelsThe law envisages four levels of reportingaccuracy, mainly on the basis of the sizeof the transport firm. Those companiesfalling in the first category can choosedefault values for the various means oftransport, as listed in a manual providedby the transport ministry. An enterprisethat is required to comply with level tworeporting will have to apply mean valuescalculated by the industry. At levelthree this information will also have tobe broken down on the basis of the sizeof the client and also of the route profile.Finally, large companies that are requiredto use level four procedures will have toprovide the actual measured CO 2 emissionvalues, using specified measuringprocedures.Information concerning carbon dioxide emissions during transport will have to shown on the relevantbills in France in future.Reports suggest that it is likely that themajority of freight forwarding and transportundertakings will use the transportministry’s guidelines, at least for a transitionperiod and especially if they usesubcontractors, and will therefore havedifficulty determining the actual valuesquickly and accurately. But from 1 July2016 only small and medium-sized businesseswith up to 50 employees will beallowed to use level one procedures.Objections from the industryThe road haulage federation FNTR andthe transport and logistics federation TLFstrongly object to the new rules, citingthe excessive workload associated withthem and additional costs. To help theirmembers deal with the new rules the associationsare offering them web-basedcalculators to provide the necessary information.The state railway SNCF and AirFrance have been informing passengersof the amount of CO 2 associated withtheir travel for a year now. The law notonly covers French companies, but alsoforeign firms, provided either the port oforigin or destination is in France. Frenchtransport enterprises have an advantageover their foreign competitors though,because the default CO 2 values for thevarious means of transport in the manualprovided by the French ministry of transportare lower than the EU standards.The industry has predictably greetedthe new scheme with scepticism. But noone is too bothered, as the departmenthas decided neither to check up on who isimplementing the scheme, nor is it planningto impose any penalties if a companydoes not comply with the new law.Ralf Klingsieckwww.e-tlf.com; www.fntr.frICS questions CO 2 emissions reportingThe International Chamber of Shipping (ICS),a global association of shipowners, has writtento the French government about the requirementfor foreign shipowners to provideinformation to French customers about CO 2emissions. The ICS believes that the unilateralapplication by France of a methodologythat has not been discussed internationallyin its new reporting requirements cuts acrossthe «principles of global regulatory uniformity»,as well as the primacy of the IMO as theregulator of international shipping. The nextmeeting of the IMO’s marine environmentprotection committee in March 2014 willanalyse the development of a global systemfor the monitoring and reporting of CO 2emissions from ships.avPhoto: thinkstock

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Central Europe & Nordic Countries55Competition in SwedenJoy and sorrowIn Sweden the young company Rush Railhas embarked on an expansion trajectoryin timber transportation that is causingeconomic hardship to the national railwaycompany Green Cargo, amongst others.The Swedish enterprise Rush Rail is one of the new competitors on the country’s railway lines.Photo: Jürg StreuliState-owned Green Cargo is in crisis, with a 20% declinein transport volumes thanks to the efficient operationsof Rush Rail, which ensured that the companyestablished itself successfully. Rush Rail was founded in2010, moved away from container traffic where therewas too much competition for it to make a profit, andinstead began concentrating on timber transport forthe paper industry, a sector that remains important inSweden.In 2012 Rush Rail successfully negotiated a six-yearEUR 80 million contract with Trätåg, a logistics companyoperating in the paper industry. Up until then thestate-owned company SJ and then the freight divisionof Green Cargo had been carrying out those transportsfor 42 years. In 2013 Rush Rail expects its turnoverto climb to EUR 23 million, with volumes reaching3 million t. All signs point to further expansion. Rush Rail has 12 locomotiveswith 25 train drivers, and it has also rented 200 containerwagons from the Swiss company AAE 200.Jürg Streuliwww.rushrail.se; www.greencargo.comSBB Cargo and RCG cross the borderFrom 2014 Switzerland’s SBB Cargo and Austria’s Rail Cargo Group(RCG) will offer something new. From mid-January there will be a crossborderintermodal transport solutions for freight trains via St Margarethen(Switzerland). The service will run from Mondays to Fridays withregular links between Wels (Upper Austria) and Dietikon (Zurich). Anextension to Vienna, Geneva and Basel may follow.cdwww.sbbcargo.ch; www.railcargo.atCzechia seeking improvedaccess to maritime hubsAs a landlocked European country Czechia has renewedits hopes for the major Danube–Oder–Elbe canal. Inthe Czech waterways directorate in Prague there is talkof «a gap in the European waterway network» beingclosed, with the new inland waterways project providinga much-needed link to the main waterways of Europe.So far river transport has been a marginal mode oftransport in Czechia, with just 400,000 t of cargo beingtransported in 2012, a figure that represent a nigh-on20% decline compared to the previous year.Doubling Czechia’s inland waterwaysThe Czech transport ministry has now published calculationsand proposed project schedules for the newcanal. Officials estimate that around CZK 400 billion(EUR 16 billion) of investments are needed. The moneyis to be used to refurbish the Elbe, to make the Odernavigable at Ostrava in Czechia and to expand navigablewaterways from Hodonin to Ostrava and Pardobice.The planned new canal, which will have widths of40 m, will measure a total of 370 km, making it twicethe length of today’s inland waterways in Czechia. Thefeasibility study should be ready by the end of next year.However, even if the necessary resources are provided,the work is not expected to be completed until 2039. cdwww.rvccr.czSchiffahrts- und Speditions-AktiengesellschaftF I ATAwww.navis-ag.comHamburg · Bremen · Hannover · FreibergRotterdam · Antwerpen · Barcelona

56 Eastern Europe International Transport Journal 47-48 2013Two new Rail Cargo Austria services for the EastFrom Siberiato AustriaRCA has begun moving goods from Russia to Western and CentralEurope, using intermodal heavy goods transport as well as a newcontainer transportation option.Because heavy goods can easily be transported by rail over long distances,this mode of transport has seen volumes grow steadily in recentyears. Now the companies Rail Cargo Operator–CSKD (Czechia) andTranscontainer (Russia) have used a new transport concept to move2,300 t of timber by rail – the most environment-friendly form oftransport. The project saw the goods transferred from Russian broadgaugeto European standard-gauge tracks in Dobra (Slovakia). Theywere loaded on to four and six-axled container wagons tailor-made forheavy goods transport. They are then moved on, through Rail CargoOperator–CSKD’s terminal in Slovakia.At the border with Austria the intermodal train is handed over toRail Cargo Austria for the next leg to the port of Krems. The firm carriesout final preparations for delivery to customers there. RCA is plan-One of RCA’s two new services can carry timber directly fromSiberia to Central and Western Europe.ning to provide clients with five to six trains of this typeby the end of 2013. The goal for the new year is to offera long-term service for clients in the timber industry.Anotherlong-termprojectisforcross-borderrailfreightoperations, jointly developed with Transcontainer. Thisservice will be characterised by reliable and regular links.The goods transported from Italy will be collected fromthe Villach (Austria) terminal and organised to makeup a complete train. A stop at the central rail yard inVienna will allow goods to be added and capacity utilisationto be improved. The boxes will then be reloaded inDobra and readied for transport by train. The MoscowRail Express will leave Dobra once a week, travelling onRussian broad-gauge tracks.www.railcargo.comPhoto: RCAExclusive Transcamion Russian dealwww.zenit-spedition.atThere‘s no ‚No Can Do‘ with ZENIT ... we are the SpecialEast!Multimodal solutions for plant systems and projects.Western- and Eastern Europe .The Balkans .Turkey .Iran .CIS .CentralAsia .Mongolia .Near East .NorthAfricaZENIT -neutral handling guaranteed.A-5101 Bergheim .Tel. +43/662/45 40 41 .office@zenit-spedition.atD-Furth im Wald .Tel. +49/99 73/80 48-0 .office.de@zenit-spedition.atThe German company Transcamion Schiffahrtsagenturhas signed an agency agreement with the United Kingdom’sP&O Ferries to become P &O Ferries Freight’sexclusive representative in Russia. Transcamion, whichstated that it is one of the largest ferry freight agenciesin Europe, said that it will open an office in Moscow toboth represent P&O as well as to intensify market coveragein Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Armenia, Georgia,Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan andKyrgyzstan.George Smeets, P &O Ferries’s head of European salesand marketing, told the media that «Transcamion hasworked with us for several decades and has demonstratedits vision, which we share. With local sales staff and indepthmarket knowledge, it is the logical representativefor us in Russia.»Allan Flensborg, the director of Transcamion, whichwas established in Munich in 1977, pointed out that«teaming up with P &O allows us to approach the Russianmarket with logistics services that we believe willprovide a base for the healthy development of trafficfrom this part of Europe.»P&O Ferries says that it operates the largest fleet ofvessels to and from the UK, the most comprehensiveroute network (eight links) and more than 450 weeklysailings to and from the United Kingdom. ahwww.transcamion.ruwww.poferriesfreight.com

International Transport Journal 47-48 2013 Miscellaneous57A taste of Italy arrived in Hamburg this year, thanks to a section of a garden exhibition dedicated tothe port city of Brindisi, with the relevant containers visible in the background.Containers can also transport informationMarseille, Hamburg, Luzern...Several events held this year have proved that containers are not only perfect for thetransportation of goods, but can also transfer knowledge and emotions.October saw the end of two exhibitions inwhich the well-known but rather unspectaculartransport boxes played leadingroles. We already reported on the specialexhibition, entitled Cargo – the Fascinationof Transport, held in the Swiss Museumof Transport in Luzern (Lucerne),in ITJ 15-16 / 2013, page 40.The organisers of an international gardenexhibition, held on an island in the RiverElbe in the Wilhelmsburg part of Hamburgthis year, had a similar approach.Visitors to the event could stroll aroundthe world in 80 gardens, experiencing almostall of the planet’s vegetation beltsand many of its cultures.Photo: IGS HamburgThe 15 gardens included in the World ofPorts section of the show glittered as ifthey were a pile of colourful containers,and took travellers on a trip to the worldfamousport cities of Liverpool, London,Dover, Calais, Suez, Mumbai, Kolkata,Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Yokohama,San Francisco and New York. 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58 A Time for Reflection / Advertisers’ Index International Transport Journal 47-48 2013The best of all worlds«At that time many who sought righteousness and justice went to live in the desert.»1 Maccabees 2.29Granted, it may not seem particularlyjust at first sight that some people havebeauty, charm and intelligence, whileothers have nothing of all this, howevermuch they exert themselves. That schemingvillains bask in the admiration of theirfellow men, while virtuous and wise peoplesit at home alone. That a conceitedsnob gets a well-paid position and not weourselves. But it may just be necessary totry and look for the big picture in all ofthis. Quite how you’re supposed to managethat I do not know. You would haveto include all times and all places, fromthe beginning to the end of time, after all– which sounds very confusing. But oneperson succeeded in doing it.Interestingly enough, when GottfriedWilhelm von Leibniz (1646–1716) hadsurveyed precisely everything he cameto the conclusion that we live in the bestof all possible worlds. The emphasis ofcourse is on the word possible. One couldperhaps wish for a better world, but inreality it would surely have such seriousdrawbacks that it would end up far worsethan before. This is a proposition that alwaysmakes me think. Aside from the factthat there are so many excesses in ourworld that it could not possibly get anyworse, how can we ever even know whatthe consequences of a small change mightbe overall? If for example I could just oncebask in the admiration of my fellow humanbeings, who is to say that the whole worldwould be worse off because of it? Was thisfellow Leibniz an early chaos theorist?The problem with justice is that we basicallyjust want it for ourselves, more or less.The motto being that I finished what was onmy plate today like a good child, so the sunshould jolly well shine brightly tomorrow. Butwould this be just? And would it be possible?The question, after all, is whether everyoneor at least most of us have finished whatwas on our plates (provided we had anythingon them to start off with), or whether theweather fronts are going to follow whereplates were not filled, let alone emptied. Imean, as soon as the question of justice getsraised in relation to the whole world and youask about the details it gets a little complicated.But if you look for justice for yourselfits meaning ends up standing on its head.«Justice will only prevail if and when thosewho are not affected by the calamity arejust as outraged as those who are affected,»Plato believed.But even then, what exactly would a justarrangement be? That everyone receivesthe same? Where would the incentivebe then? And anyway, some people maywant something entirely different. Couldjustice, instead, be that everyone gets asmuch as he has contributed? But whatif something is easier for one person tocontribute than for another? How about ifeveryone gets what he deserves?May we, in the end, actually be betteroff if not everything is organised justly?There is after all a saying that there isjustice in hell. Or none at all. But maybethat’s not true either. For one, man is bynature rewarded for virtue and virtue is itsown reward. Or can a villain be as happyas an honest man? Secondly, good deedsoften have indirect consequences thateventually rebound, just as bad deeds do.I mean, if there is such a thing as a happylife, then those basking in it have notmerely been lucky. Or have they?This business of justice is and remainstricky. For all I know the purpose ofjustice is not for justice to be completelydone. Justice may be more a guide forbetter understanding. This doesn’t quitering true either. But one thing seems tobe sure, namely that if everyone gives uptrying to achieve it, it might be time to goand live in the desert. Iris Martin Issue 49-52/2013 of the ITJ, with Specials on Austria and Breakbulk/Heavylift (supplement),will be published on 13 December 2013 (deadline for printing data 2 December 2013).Advertisers’ IndexBianchi & Co S.A. Trasporti Internazionali . . . 50Birs Terminal AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18China Airlines Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Combi Line Int. S.p.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51D’ALESSANDRO Espace Méditerranée . . . . . . 40Direct Mail Logistik AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53duisport - Duisburger Hafen AG . . . . . . . . . . 10ECU INTERNATIONAL NV HeadquarterEcu-Line Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16EHG Ennshafen GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Ethiopian Shipping Lines Share Company . . . 19Etihad Airways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22European Freight System Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Evergreen Marine (UK) Limited . . . . . . . . . . . 38Finsea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37FISCHER Kaderselektion GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Fixemer Logistics GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Franzosini SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Furness Shipping Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Genel Transport Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30GeorgeBaker (Shipping) Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Grimaldi Cia di Navigazione . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Ignazio Messina & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46IMS - Intermove Systems Advanced ContainerlogisticsSpeditions- und Transport GesmbH . . . 50Italsempione S.p.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49ITX Cargo Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Paul Leimgruber AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32LKW WALTER Internat. TransportorganisationAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4NAVIS Schiffahrts- u. Speditions AG . . . . . . . 55Nuova Transports S.p.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Port Autonome de Strasbourg . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Port of Montreal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Post CH AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33PRISMA LOGISTICS SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Röhlig & Co. Holding GmbH & Co. KG . . . . . . . 8Russian Railways JSC RZD OAO . . . . . . . . . . 60Saco Shipping GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18SATI SA de Transports Internationaux . . . . . . 44Scandlines Deutschland GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . 13SDA Express Courier SPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42SISA Studio Informatica SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Spedag Freight M+R Spedag Group AG . . . . 26Swiss World Cargo Swiss Internat.Air Lines Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 23, 24Tarros International S.p.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Thai Airways International PLC . . . . . . . . . . . 20Transcamion Schiffahrtsagentur . . . . . . . . . . . 7TransContainer JSCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Transfreight AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17T.S.T. Transocean System Transport SA . . . . . 45Turnpoint (France) s.a.r.l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5TVS Europaverkehre Speditions GmbH . . . . . 44Ultra-Brag AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Unisped AG Internationale Transporte . . . . . 39UTi Logistics Switzerland Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28W.R. Zanes & Co. of LA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Zeeland Seaports NV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Zenit Spedition GmbH & Co KG . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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