ITJ 49-52/2022 
Dear readers,Are we witnessing a turning point in world trade? The OECD’s figures show that trade managed to return to its previous level after the global financial crisis of 2008 / 2009, but after the equally massive pandemic shock of 2020 / 2021, trade has exploded.From Q3 /... more
ITJ 47-48/2022
Dear readers,I’m sure you’ve heard the news too – there’s now 8 billion of us on our planet. And we all want and need to be supplied with the goods necessary for life, and also – and this distinguishes our species from almost every other one – with material things that (should)... more
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
