07-08/2020 
We live in a world of ever more rapid change. The USA under president Donald Trump – will he still be in office in a year? – recently signed a trade agreement with China that logisticians have hoped for for a long time – as it could give global trade a new... more
05-06/2020
Collaboration across the boundaries of each individual mode of transport and looking beyond the horizon are amongst the orders of the day today. The representatives of Nunner Logistics and of the Port de Sète, with whom we conducted interviews for this issue, are both good... more
01-04/2020
A happy new year from the team here at the ITJ! Some of the details of what 2020 holds in store for us all have already spread. Every new beginning contains as much magic potential as it does doubt. Overall, the augurs have been rather reticent and subdued concerning... more
49-52/2019 The race is on
Berlin airport now has a new yardstick by which to measure its completion. The construction phase of the larger projects in Istanbul (see also page 12 of ITJ 17-18 / 2019) and Beijing (see also page 9 of the Aviation Special in ITJ 43-44 / 2019) began later and ended... more
47-48/2019 From the Mediterranean across the Atlantic
Over the past months the Italian Peninsula has created fat political headlines – which sometimes drowned out the good news concerning economic progress. Railfreight operations, for example, is one of the foci of investment for the state-owned rail enterprise Ferrovie... more
45-46/2019
Over the past few years, Turkey has invested extensively and massively in its logistics infrastructure. Now this effort is bearing fruit. Many a company from Asia and Europe has set up a hub for goods flows in the country of late, enabling the local transport and logistics... more
43-44/2019 Plants in place of numbers
Who would have thought that climate could ever steal digitalisation’s show? Now it’s happening, not only on the big political stage, but also in our modest industry. It was to be expected that the reduction of the maximum sulphur content allowed in heavy fuel oil used as... more
41-42/2019 Hold on to your hats!
The beginning of autumn also sees the start of the transport and logistics industry’s conference season. Early in October the global forwarders’ fraternity met up for Fiata’s World Congress in Cape Town; temperatures hovering around the 20°C mark will be sure to create a... more
39-40/2019 The star of Africa
The general coverage of Africa, a continent of many facets, has become more subdued again of late. Wrongly so, I believe, because there’s more to hear about Africa than the much-talked-about potential of its many middle-class consumers and their growing purchasing... more
36-38/2019
I hope you’re relaxed and rejuvenated after your summer holidays. You may not have been able to cut all ties to everyday business in your leisure time – even if it was only to solve the cryptic crossword in our anniversary issue 27-30. You’ll find the solution and prize... more