ITJ 45-46/2024 
Dear readers, This week we once again have the pleasure of presenting our Turkey Special, as we do every year on the occasion of the Logitrans trade fair in Istanbul. We expect to be involved in many valuable exchanges at the Bosphorus on... more
International Transport Journal - ITJ 43-44
Dear readers, Miami is definitely a promising locale for Messe München. The organiser of Transport Logistic (TL), the world’s leading logistics trade fair – in which you may also be planning to participate in June next year – is really keen on it. As... more
ITJ 41-42/2024
Dear readers, Germany is trade fair country for the transport and logistics industry. Two key events for us – IAA Transportation in Hanover and Innotrans in Berlin – took place in September, and now two more meetings in Germany come hard on their heels in... more
ITJ 39-40/2024
Dear readers, Do you suffer from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13? Does the advent of Friday the 13th trigger panic attacks and crippling fear in you, because you believe 13 brings bad luck? Don’t despair! The opposite can be said to be true too.... more
ITJ 36-38/2024
Dear readers, You may remember our story (in the ITJ Daily of 4 September 2020) about the roughly 400 pigeons that helped found airmail services by flying messages in and out of besieged Paris between September 1870 and January 1871. Do you know about Martha... more
ITJ 31-35/2024
Dear readers, I hope you’re also enjoying the short hot summer that’s finally taken hold of our region here too! Perhaps you were, or still are, on holiday with your car or van. Whilst following the news over the last few weeks I came across the remarkable fact that car... more
27-30/2024 – 85 years, 76 pages
Dear readers, Swiss economic analysts regularly focus their attention on people’s wrists, because the products of the country’s world-renowned watch industry are considered an important indicator of the state of the nation’s economy. In May, exports in the segment fell by... more
ITJ 23-26/2024
Dear readers, Now that was a rather rainy spring this year, wasn’t it? Dear Saint Peter nevertheless meant well with us. Looking at the images on television every day of the heavy floods that have occurred in many places, then we here in Basel are glad to have been... more
ITJ 19-22/2024
Dear readers, Slowly but steadily we’re approaching the 85th birthday of the ITJ, which we’ll be happy to celebrate with you in issue 27-30 / 2024, due out on 5 July. In the meantime, I’d like to draw your attention to two other transport-related anniversaries these... more
ITJ 17-18/2024
Dear readers,The shortage of skilled workers is felt very painfully in many of the supply chains in our industry – be it in inland waterway (page 7) or road transport (page 15). I’m therefore pleased to inform you that the editorial team of the ITJ will be fortified again soon.A... more