31-35/2021 
Dear readers, The term yo-yo effect already exists, so I can’t coin it for this year so far – even though it would be highly suitable do describe 2021. We remember well how, in the last year before the outbreak of Covid-19, overcapacities in the maritime affected... more
27-30/2021 Business and football
The ball is rolling again. We’re still wondering how Switzerland managed to kick the top favourite, World Champion France, out of the European Championship. Looking beyond football for a moment we can ascertain that Switzerland seems to have come through the outbreak of ... more
23-26/2021
Dear readers, Often it’s the small steps that are taken that can have the biggest impact. I’m talking about the (overly) cautious rapprochement between Iran and its North American-European trade partners. The actual breakthrough for an end to sanctions and for free trade... more
21-22/2021
Dear readers, It would have been my pleasure to tell you all about the latest airfreight industry trends that are discussed at the Air Cargo Europe trade fair every two years. As you know, the meeting didn’t take place physically in Munich this year, however. In our next... more
19-20/2021 Like a phenix from the ashes
We all long for a return to personal meetings. The signs all seem to be pointing towards the chance that we’ll be able to catch up again on this front in the course of 2021. For now we have to continue to depend on other forms of communication. Munich’s ‘Transport... more
17-18/2021
Dear readers, The coming of spring in the planet’s northern hemisphere allows our dreams to blossom again after the long and dark winter months. Something similar can be said of the transport and logistics industry’s expectations. The distribution of vaccines as a passport... more
15-16/2021
We’re really living through extraordinary times. Who would have thought just a short while ago that states such as Israel on the one hand, and Bahrain and the UAE on the other, would come to a peace agreement? Diplomatic ties and direct bilateral trade have started; for weeks... more
13-14 /2021
As the outbreak of Covid-19 slowly – slowly! – comes to an end and 2021 is now fully up and running the general motto has to be to look to the future. Guillaume Halleux, chief officer cargo of Qatar Airways, gave us a good taste of what’s to come in an interview... more
11-12/2021
It seems to me that space and time have somehow become simultaneously stretchable and constricting parameters in the pandemic. Closed borders, social distancing and quarantines all restrict the radius of our movements. An end to the measures to combat Covid-19 is only coming... more
09-10/2021
We always live in interesting times – but we don’t always live in as extraordinary times as these! Some of the facts the industry has never faced before include – the price of transporting a box by sea has skyrocketed in just two years; from USD 2,000 to USD 10,000 today.... more