09-10/2019 Blooming and wilting aviation 
Germany cultivated a mere 323 ha of roses in 2017, which corresponds to 450 football pitches – on which the German team didn’t exactly cut a cavalier figure at the football World Cup in Russia last year either. So lovers in Germany as well as in the rest of Europe,... more
07-08/2019 The merits of talking
Albert Camus believed that “talking is the only bridge between people.” We don’t know whether the Chinese and US governments are familiar with the French writers’s work – but at the end of January the two countries nevertheless resumed talks to end their trade war. The ... more
05-06-/2019
Sometimes it’s easier to find out the industry’s mood on your own doorstep than at a high-profile yet distant conference. At a new year event put on by Spedlogswiss, the Swiss forwarders’ association, president Thomas de Courten and managing director Thomas Schwarzenbach were... more
01-04/2019
I hope you feel suitably regenerated for the start of the new year! You don’t quite have to be clairvoyant to predict that we’re setting out on a rather challenging twelve months. Digitalisation in all its facets, and especially its effects on logistics, will be one subject at... more