ITJ 45-46/2022
Dear readers,The flywheel of price increases is starting to claim its first victims in the transport and logistics industry, and unfortunately they definitely also include interesting players in special niches.At the end of this golden October the state-owned Swedish railfreight... more
ITJ 43-44/2022
Dear readers,The news qualifies as a veritable public relations coup. The 2029 Asian Winter Games are going to be held in Saudi Arabia! The venue, called ‘Trojena’, is in the northwest of the kingdom where, at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,600 m above sea level, it’s supposed to be... more
ITJ 41-42/2022
Dear readers,Are analysts and speculators bringing things to light while the logistics industry remains lulled in a false sense of security, shippers are wringing their hands over a lack of services and final customers remain in a beauty sleep?FedEx accompanied a recent profit... more
ITJ 39-40/2022
Dear readers,First we lost Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) and then the Queen (21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022). We thus had to say goodbye to two personalities who significantly shaped the 20th century, became icons of an era and witnesses of the... more
ITJ 36-38/2022
Dear readers,France’s famous ‘rentrée’ has come to all of Europe – the return from our holidays and the return to school. The end of the hottest part of summer sees wage slaves as well as free-lancers return to their desks and workshops. I don’t want to throw salt in anyone’s... more
ITJ 31-35/2022
Dear readers,I hope that those of you who returned from your summer holidays recently did so in good health and nicely regenerated. Perhaps you had the opportunity to feel ‘infinitely’ refreshed in an ‘infinity pool‘. You must have heard of such pools before – but have you also... more
ITJ 27-30/2022
Dear readers,At the moment it seems a bit as if the world is holding its collective breath. The ongoing disruptions are likely to preoccupy us a little longer. Measures taken to combat the outbreak of Covid-19 in China, the war in Ukraine and the conflict between China and the... more
ITJ 23-26/2022
Dear readers,Transport and logistics are essential vectors of globalisation. You felt it in your daily lives, when virtually no corner of the world was untouched by the outbreak of Covid-19. And it’s a similar story with the next crisis – no matter how far you are from the... more
ITJ 21-22/2022
If silence is golden, as the saying goes, then knowledgeable conversation must at least be silver. We tested this newly-coined adage for you by including no less than ten interviews in this issue of the ITJ – an in-house record. On top of this we offer you our reports from live... more