ITJ 11-12/2023 
Dear readers,Even three years after the global spread of Covid-19 set in some of our contemporaries still don’t seem to have got tired of wearing a mask. According to Germany’s statistics bureau, carnival and entertainment articles worth EUR 114.9 million were imported into... more
ITJ 09-10/2023 
Dear readers,No, not “all good comes from above”... Relief supplies after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria on 6 February did, of course, but so do bombs and missiles. I learned at first hand what the invasion of Ukraine has meant for a logistics company for the past year.... more
ITJ 05-08/2023
Dear readers,The day was always coming – now it has finally come. As we put this issue to bed Boeing handed over to Atlas Air the very last one of its B747s. The fact that it was a cargo version and that 80 or so originally passenger versions of the Jumbo still flying today move... more
ITJ 01-04/2023
Dear readers,I hereby declare war on any quiet frustration arising when looking at the forthcoming – and still long – year 2023! Yes, the problems are many and the difficulties are great – but was it any different at the beginning of 2021? Let’s look ahead and implement an... more
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