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ITJ
International 43 · 44 | 24 October 2014
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Special:
Israel 21
Additional capacity
Terminal investors wel-
comed with open arms in
Mexico and Costa Rica 13
Growing family
Garuda Indonesia an-
nounced plans at the Tiaca
in South Korea to join the
Skyteam Cargo alliance 17
Changes for ports
In Israel rising shipping
volumes are pitted against
the government’s privatisa-
tion plans for ports 25
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International Transport Journal 43-44 2014 Contents 3
5 Editorial Special in this issue
6 People & Companies Israel 21
8 Comment
9 Ports & Shipping
9 Drewry looks to the future
9 FMC, Zim, Bilbao, Antwerp
12 Scandlines’ hybrid ferry wins award
13 From Mexico to Costa Rica: APMT expands
13 Anti-pirate enters new round
14 Aviation
15 Report from Seoul: the Tiaca Air Cargo Forum New friends 11
15 Boeing takes off
15 Airbus relies on China Now it is official: the two US west coast ports of
17 Garuda Cargo in new partnership Seattle and Tacoma are entering into the first so-
18 Hot August for freight handling in Europe called Seaports Alliance and are thereby following
18 Airbus, ABC, Etihad Cargo the trend of lines. Will this strategy help to win
market share back from Canada?
18 Logistics & Forwarding
18 Seafoodways expands network
18 Singapore Post wit new online hub
18 From Switzerland to Germany On tour with Julio Iglesias 23
19 Rail / Inland Shipping / Road Haulage Work with entertainment value: the Israeli lo-
19 Better margins for rail thanks to technology? gistics services provider Ordan-Cargo is now the
19 New intermodal link to Romania representative of Horizon Entertainment Cargo.
But the classic freight forwarding business is not
20 Focus on Switzerland neglected.
21 Israel Special
28 Regional Focus
Partner in east and west 28
28 Nordic and Baltic States / Central Europe
Lithuania has reason to celebrate: the EU is sup-
30 Miscellaneous / Masthead
porting its efforts to switch freight transport from
road haulage to rail and the US is now permitting
31 A Time for Reflection / Advertisers’ Index
agricultural imports. The country’s transport as-
sociation is also cooperating with Belarus.
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International Transport Journal 43-44 2014 Editorial 5
Dear readers,
Seoul is not exactly considered to be a top travel destina- head Glyn Hughes as well as the secretary-generals of Icao,
tion – at least not in Europe: three quarters of foreign visitors Raymond Benjamin, and of the World Customs Organisation,
to South Korea come from Japan, China, Hong Kong and Kunio Mikuriya. Together with these partners and the super-
Taiwan, according to official statistics. For me personally, the visory authorities, reliable data systems are to be developed,
country and its people deserve far more attention, consider- which send dispatch information already before the departure
ing that they offer untouched nature and both old as well as and make airfreight even safer. Environmental and e-com-
postmodern culture. For the first time ever, Seoul was now merce questions were further key subjects of the activities,
recently the venue for holding the Tiaca airfreight forum, which are also being discussed within Gacag. Responsibility
and my summary of three eventful days is: the attendees for them was passed on from Tiaca to Iata
certainly missed something! Apart from local industry repre- in accordance with the schedule.
sentatives and other Asians, at least some US exhibitors and The 52nd world congress organised
visitors of «Hallyu», the so-called Korean wave, were swept in the following week in Istanbul by
in and followed the call across the Pacific. the freight forwarders associa-
In addition to valuable contacts, the biannual event this tion, Iata, was welcomed with a
time round again provided the world airfreight association lot more enthusiasm. We also
with a stage to present its numerous activities (see report attended this fair, and will
on page 15). Above all, the focus was on reviving the two report about it in the coming
committees which oversee the subject areas of education issues.
and industry matters. For instance, the sub-committees of
the latter were filled with experienced sector specialists who
should reflect the range of members of Tiaca which is broad
both in terms of geography and as regards their orientation.
The association is clearly attempting to open up new op-
portunities for the crisis-riddled transport carrier and trying
to transcend traditional boundaries. This was exemplified by
Andreas Haug
the attendance and active involvement of the Iata freight Editor, Airfreight
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6 People & Companies International Transport Journal 43-44 2014
Europe Quickly in and quickly out
The previous chairman of the board of KLM, Camiel
Eurlings, has resigned from his role early, approximate-
ly six months before the expiry of his agreement and
For all subsidiaries only 14 months after assuming his position. Political
and business disagreements with the shareholders are
Cécile Cloarec is the new head of hu- assumed to be the reason for this. The new CEO will
man resources at FM Logistic Group be the previous COO Pieter Elbers.
with the task of implementing the hu-
man resources policy for all 12 FM Lo-
gistic subsidiaries. She reports to Jean- Managing director for Germany
Christophe Machet, the chairman of the Cécile Cloarec
group. Cloarec, who started her career in Photo: FM Logistic Mario Cavallucci, who has worked for Yusen Logistics
1993 as a business analyst with the As- Germany since May 2014, has been the new managing
sociation for State Construction Projects, had worked director based in Düsseldorf since October 2014. Yus-
for Monoprix as director of human resources and en Logistics has eight sites across Gemany. Cavallucci
communication since 2011. FM Logistic is a France- previously worked at an international level for Agility
based, internationally active family-owned business Logistics, most recently as the CEO of the Canadian
for logistics in the foods industry, trade, personal subsidiary.
care, cleaning products, health care and industry ar-
eas with 18,730 employees and turnover of more than
one billion euros by the end of the financial year on Sales in fresh hands
31 March 2014.
Igor Atanasov has been appointed as the
new sales head of Dachser Spedition in
Change at Wallmann Regensdorf. Atanasov assumes his new
position in October 2014. He has long-
Hubertus Ritzke is the managing director with sole rights standing management experience in the
of representation for the Hamburg-based throughput logistics sector. Over the past four years,
and warehouse operation Wallmann & Co. The former he worked for DHL Logistics Switzerland,
long-standing managing director of the port of Hamburg also in Regensdorf, in various roles. Previ-
business association has been working for Wallmann al- ously, he worked for five years at SG Spedi-
ready since February this year. The managing partner, tion in Schaffhausen, where he was active
Hans-Dieter Wilde, was delighted about the new hire. Igor Atanasov in the marketing and sales areas.
Ritzke, who has long-standing industry and technical Photo: Dachser
expertise, is initially being accompanied by Wilde in
his role. Gerd Schüler was also appointed sole proxy of
Wallmann & Co. in October 2014. Having worked for Future expansion of the board
the company since 1970, he has overseen commercial
operating management since 1999. As of 1 February 2015, CEO Detlef Trefzger at Kühne
+ Nagel will be getting some relief. He will hand over
the area of contract logistics to Gianfranco Sgro. The
Gray with multiple responsibilities Italian national Sgro currently works for the tyre manu-
facturer Pirelli as the regional COO based in São Paulo,
Hylton Gray has been appointed to the owner-led logis- where he is responsible for production, sales and cus-
tics company Röhlig. He succeeds Quentin tomer support. Previously, he held various positions at
Lacoste, CEO for Europe, who is departing Ceva Logistics from 2007 to 2012, i.e. as president for
the company at the end of the year follow- Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as managing
ing 20 years of service to the business for director for Italy.
personal reasons. Gray, who will manage
the global airfreight sector as well as the
two regions of Europe and Africa from his Second term
office in Johannesburg, has already worked
as managing director of Röhlig-Grindrod Michael Kerkloh, who has been the managing director
in South Africa and of Weiss-Röhlig USA of Munich airport for twelve years, will also head up the
in the past. Before his latest appointment, Working Group of German Airports Association (ADV)
the South African national headed up the in the coming two years. Within the framework of their
logistics and overland haulage sectors of annual meeting in Brussels, the members of the board
South Africa’s Grindrod Group from June Hylton Gray of the German airports unanimously elected Kerkloh for
2011. Photo: Röhlig a second term as their president.
International Transport Journal 43-44 2014 People & Companies 7
Global car industry
Laurent Le Mercier is the first vice-
America
president of Global Automotive at Chep
Automotive and Industry, a newly estab-
lished unit for the pooling of standardised From Inchcape to WGMA
multiple-use containers in the car industry.
Before assuming his new role, Le Mercier As the new director for shipping matters, Robert Hawn is
worked for Chep as head of the French switching to the West Gulf Maritime Association (WG-
subsidiary for four years. From 2004, he MA), in Houston (Texas). Hawn is currently the manag-
had overseen the activities in Poland and ing director of Inchcape Shipping Services in Houston.
Central Europe as a major customer advi- He is considered to be a veteran of the industry and will
sor. Le Mercier comes from Peugeot, where Laurent Le Mercier replace Niels Lyngso in the company, who recently left for
he held various different roles in sales and Photo: Chep age reasons. Established in 1968, WGMA combines the
the operating business in Europe. local associations of the ports of Houston, Galveston and
Brownsville in Texas. Today more than 160 members co-
operate in the registered association, i.e. inland shipping
Middle East operators and terminal companies in Texas to the port of
Lake Charles (Lousiana).
Fresh blood for Hueneme
New managers at Zim
Dona Toteva Lacayo is the new director for business
Flemming R. Jacobs now works for the Israeli shipping development in California’s port of Hueneme. Lacayo
line Zim Integrated Shipping Services as a member of joined the only deep-water port between Los Angeles
the board of management. The company has announced and San Francisco after sales activities at Hapag-Lloyd
that his appointment marks the end of a comprehensive and Horizon Lines.
human resources renewal at the level of the board of
management (see ITJ Daily of 4 July 2014). The board of
management now includes, in addition to Jacobs, Yoav End to public security
Sebba, Regina Ungar, Shlomo Sharon, Karsten Liebing,
Birger Meyer, Dimitrios Chatzis and Rafi Danieli as the John S. Pistole, administration head of
CEO. Jacobs, who has joined in replacement of Nir Ep- the US Department for Transport Safe-
stein, most recently worked as the secretary-general for ty, is withdrawing from his office by the
the event Danish Maritime Days. As a representative of end of the year. Pistole, who worked for
the container shipping industry, he knows the business the FBI from 1983 until 2010 and was
from his times as a partner of AP Moller-Maersk as well most recently its deputy director, was
as president and CEO of the shipping line of NOL in appointed head of the Department for
Singapore. Transport Safety by Barack Obama in
In addition, Aharon Fogel has assumed his activity 2010. Amongst other things, he was re-
as chairman of the supervisory board of Zim. He was Paul S. Pistole sponsible for the security at 450 airports
elected in September (see ITJ 37-38, page 7). Photo: Tiaca/Meantime across the US.
The European Transport Organisation
8 People & Companies International Transport Journal 43-44 2014
Congratulations Comment
Big Data and the future
Moving up the hierarchy Pessimists are a terrible thing. They constantly moan
about everything, spoil the mood and
Mona Bawarshi, CEO of the Gezairi when they turn out to be right and
Transport group of companies, has been vindicated at the end there is no limit
awarded the title of fifth-most influen- to the irritation on senses. One feels like
tial woman of the Arabic world in the shouldering some of the blame oneself
area of family-owned business by Forbes when one hears in this context the buz-
Middle East magazine. In the rank- zword of Big Data, which is also be-
ing of the «200 most powerful women coming popular in the area of logistics.
in family-owned businesses in the Arab How can one become enthusiastic about Christian
world», which is published annually, she the possibilities that data collection and Doepgen,
improved her standing compared to the analysis provide in logistics of all areas: ITJ editor-in-chief
previous year by six positions (see ITJ Mona Barwashi new ways of exchanging knowledge,
Daily of 11 April 2013). Bawarshi was one Photo: Gezairi transparency, simulation and decision-making support
of the first women to manage transport in the supply chain. In real time. Do you know how
companies in the region. The logistics and freight for- much 1,000 terabytes is? One petabyte. The sky appears
warding company Gezairi Transport, whose head office to be the limit.
is in Lebanon, has further branches in Turkey, Jordan, The mathematician Dirk Helbing, who works at ETH
Iraq and Cyprus. Zurich, is one of those people who the ability to spoil par-
ties with his analyses. He explains that security systems,
encryption technologies and passwords are in the mean-
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Looking to the future In brief
Costs and capacity Approval. The US regulator Federal Mari-
time Commission (FMC) has given the green
light for the planned 2M alliance of Maersk
Line and MSC on expiry of the 45-day
The recovery will come for liner shipping. That, at least, is certain for Drewry. The analyst deadline. This means that 2M will be able to
argues, however, that an upswing will be based on other foundations than usual in the establish itself as a legal unit in the US with
immediate effect. Four of the five members
industry in the past. The focus will be on costs, not on earnings.
of the committee in charge voted for this
approval, while a fifth party entitled to vote
took the view that further information on
the impact of the alliance would be needed
for a decision. Rulings by anti-trust offices in
Europe and China are currently still out-
standing.
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www.maerskline.com
Outsourcing. Israel Corp plans to outsource
some of its less profitable business areas,
Photo: Thinkstock
such as the Zim shipping line, into a sepa-
rate holding by the end of the year, in which
it will invest USD 100 million. It is to be
listed on the stock exchanges of Tel Aviv and
The recovery for shipping lines is coming, but Drewry claims it will be different than hoped.
New York. With this decision, the company
aims to expand the group of potential inves-
Container shipping will likely recover to- 100 units with capacities ranging from
tors. Avisar Paz, the current CFO of Israel
wards the end of 2016 or from 2017 on- 8,000 to 10,000 teu are being brought Corp, will be appointed CEO of Israel Corp
wards. So much for the good news that into service at the same time. A simi- after the completion of the reorganisation.
Drewry offers us in its Container Annual lar number of vessels is being cascaded www.israelcorp.com
Review & Forecast 2014/15, which was re- form Asian to northern Europe routes to www.zim.com
cently published. other areas in this connection. Costs and
But the problem of this growth’s na- capacity, this may be a way of reducing Volume increase. The Spanish port of
ture is also immediately presented in the expenditure per container, but the like- Bilbao ended the first six months of the year
following section: instead of supply and lihood of excess tonnage in some route in positive territory. At 15 million t
demand in the various routes coming areas also increases. in total, it has handled 1.6% more cargo
into balance, better results will only be Drewry assumes that freight rates will than in the corresponding period in 2013.
achievable by establishing new, so-called contract by up to 3 to 4% compared to This increase comes, in particular, from the
mega alliances. The buzzword is cost ef- this year. However, as the costs per unit share of intermodal transport: between Jan-
ficiencies per unit transported. This will shipped will drop about approximately uary and June, 4.8% of import boxes were
result in a different kind of market recov- 6% over the same period, more lines than moved to the hinterland by rail, whereas this
ery than seen in the past, and it will not in 2013 may manage to post positive fig- type of transport stood at merely 4.4% over
be based on improvements in freight rates ures again. The trend of falling rates is the entire period of last year.
transported. Shipping lines’ order books continuing in the meantime (see WCI www.uniportbilbao.es
include at least 53 and 45 ULCVs for de- below).
livery in 2015 and 2016. What is more, av Agreement. Europe’s second largest port
of Antwerp and the Chinese giant Shanghai
have signed a memorandum of understand-
World Container Index: Shanghai–Rotterdam container freight rates (USD/feu) ing on deepening their collaboration in the
4000 future. The agreement includes, amongst
other things, the exchange of information
3500
on the relevant hinterland, united marketing
3000 activities as well as training programmes for
2500 employees. The two ports have been linked
Source: World Container Index/Drewry
by a close relationship since the beginning of
2000
their partnership in 1985. For instance, the
1500 APEC-Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center
1000 has trained approximately 240 Chinese port
employees.
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Seattle and Tacoma bury the hatchet
New friends
on the Pacific
It is not over yet, but it can already be stated that the
maritime year 2014 is very clearly characterised by alli-
ances - of ports, as well.
Photo: Thinkstock
First came the liner companies, now it is the ports. New
alliances and cooperation between the largest container
shipping lines have already been dominating the head- Although the two ports of Seattle and Tacoma have not moved a mountain, they
lines for some time. Now, for the first time, ports are have nevertheless dropped their long-standing competition. They are now partners.
catching up: the traditionally fiercely competing ports
of Seattle and Tacoma, located near each other on the measurements and organisational structures. After the due diligence
Puget Sound, are set to form a «Seaports Alliance» going period has been completed, the two ports finally intend to present a
forward. That alliance will jointly operate both ports’ detailed plan by late March 2015 that specifies the particulars of the
most important loading terminals. In doing so, the two cooperation.
facilities plan to strengthen the region as a portal for The Seattle and Tacoma ports together form the third-largest con-
cargo to and from the United States and hope try to tainer port in north America. However, recently they had to record
attract higher shipping volumes. sustained losses of market share to Canadian ports.
The current plan is for the alliance to share the han- av
dling of investments and processes at the most important
terminals in both ports. Each port authority, however,
will retain its existing administrative structures and as-
set base.
Forging new paths
With this type of cooperation, the two largest seaports
Euro-Med Services
in Washington state in the United States are entering
uncharted territory. The motivation is once more the
increasingly stricter competition and, related to it, the TRANSPORT OF ANY TYPE OF VEHICLE, EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT, FORESTRY PRODUCTS,
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dent of the Seattle port authority, putting it in a nutshell.
«Instead of competing with each other, we will combine
our strengths, starting now.»
Clare Petrich, president of the Tacoma port authority,
explains the decision in more detail: «The Seattle and
Tacoma ports are under strong competitive pressure from
other ports in north America. The background is that
shipping lines are forming new associations, which are
sharing spaces on ever bigger ships. As a result, they also Direct weekly service from / to:
call at fewer and fewer different terminals.» • Alexandria • Esbjerg • Malta • Tripoli
• Antwerp • Flushing • Mersin (Lebanon)
The plans for an alliance, which are now being pre- • Ashdod • Gemlik • Palermo • Tripoli (Lybia)
sented, are the result of meetings led by the Federal Mari- • Beirut • Hamburg • Piraeus
• Tunis and
time Commission (FMC). This independent federal au- • Bristol (Prby) • Izmir • Salerno
• Civitavecchia • Lattakia • Savona Rades
thority is responsible for controlling maritime traffic in • Cork • Limassol • Setubal • Valencia
the United States. However, not all evaluations and in- • Derince • Livorno • Southampton • Wallhamn
vestigations related to the alliance have been completed. ANTWERP HAMBURG LONDON
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Development of sustainable maritime technologies
Award-winning drive technology
Reducing emissions is one of the key pressing issues shipping lines are currently facing, particularly in light of stricter fuel consumption
regulations in emission control areas which to come into force in January. Thanks to its hybrid ferries, Scandlines is one of the most in-
novative companies in this area, and recently even received an award for this concept.
When it comes to technologies for reduc- the award. Furthermore, the operation
ing emissions in the shipping industry, of a hybrid ferry of this magnitude is a
there is currently still a lot of uncertainty novelty. The system output of one unit
in this sector. However, Scandlines, the is equivalent to around 600 hybrid cars,
German-Danish shipping line, is delight- and allows the 6,600 t ferry to operate for
ed to have received acknowledgement: about 30 minutes at a speed of 14 knots
the conversion of its ferry, the Prinsesse without using any diesel.
Photo: Thinkstock
Benedikte, to a hybrid drive system which Scandlines considers the award to be
combines a traditional diesel engine with confirmation that lithium polymer bat-
electric battery operation, has won the teries are a safe, reliable and cost-effective
2014 Ship Efficiency Award presented The use of hybrid ferries contributes to the means of reducing greenhouse gases in the
by Fathom, a British shipping industry reduction of emissions in shipping. shipping industry. The company operates
expert. the largest fleet of hybrid battery-driven
This award recognises the hybrid fer- greenhouse gases, the vessel also marks an vessels in the world with its four ferries,
ry’s significant increase in efficiency and important milestone in the development the Prinsesse Benedikte, the Deutschland,
associated reduction in fuel consump- of sustainable maritime technologies, ac- the Schleswig-Holstein and the Prins Rich-
tion and emissions. In terms of reducing cording to the explanation provided with ard. av
Dunkerque : the port for fresh products
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Tél : +33 3 28 28 77 20International Transport Journal 43-44 2014 Ports & Shipping 13
New container terminals in Mexico and Costa Rica
Promising markets in Latin America
Although the growth of emerging markets has not everywhere fulfilled the expectations held by investors only a few years ago, many
container terminal operators are nevertheless focusing on the construction of new facilities in up-and-coming nations. APMT, for in-
stance, reports successful initiatives in Mexico and Costa Rica.
Terminal operators are now increasingly
turning their attention to Latin America,
a region where current growth rates hold
out the promise of relatively good busi-
ness. Container traffic at Mexican ports,
which is dominated by Manzanillo and
Lázaro Cárdenas on Mexico’s Pacific
coast, grew from 4.21 million teu in 2011
to 4.87 million teu in 2013, reflecting a
growth rate of 15%. This is more than
twice the overall Latin American con-
Photo: APMT
tainer volume growth. Mexico’s imports
more than doubled from 2000 through
2013, from just under USD 180 billion to A new container terminal is being built in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas by mid-2016.
approximately USD 390 billion.
However, Mexico is not only attrac- Mexican government plans to double the date very large container vessels. What is
tive as an emerging market. The country country’s port capacity over the next six more, the terminal will be linked with
is also of growing significance as a hub years to meet anticipated trade growth, APMT’s own intermodal facility in Mex-
for transport operations. Manzanillo, the particularly in the trans-Pacific trade ico City.
country’s biggest container port, handled lane. In 2012 APM Terminals already The first 300 metres of quay to be con-
a remarkable 2.1 million teu last year, fol- signed a 32-year concession for the de- structed are scheduled for completion in
lowed by the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, sign, construction and operation of a new the first quarter of 2015. The finished ter-
which is located 350 km further to the deep-water terminal at the Port of Lázaro minal, which will add 1.2 million teu of
south in the state of Michoacán and Cárdenas. annual throughput capacity, is projected
recorded overall throughput levels of a to become operational in the first half
solid 1.05 million teu. ULCVs welcome of 2016.
APMT, the terminal arm of the Dan- The project will represent an overall in- However, the activities of APMT are
ish Maersk group, already jumped on this vestment of USD 900 million. The first not limited to Mexico: things are now
bandwagon some time ago and is step- phase involves the construction of a sec- also moving forward in Costa Rica, for
ping up its activities in Latin America. ond container terminal (TEC2), which example, which until now has been a
For the terminal operator, Mexico, in par- will include 750 metres of quay, five problem area for APMT due to a legal dis-
ticular, is a key location in its investment ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, 22 automatic pute between the country’s government
planning. In this connection, the Danish stacking cranes and two railway cranes, and APMT, on the one hand, and the
company can count on local support: the and will have the capacity to accommo- portworkers’ union, on the other hand.
In mid-October the country’s supreme
court ruled in favour of the operators of
the new facility, which means that the
New anti-piracy guidelines construction of the new Moin Container
Terminal (TCM) in Limón on the Car-
The shipping associations Bimco, from Angola in the south to Sierra
ibbean coast can now go ahead. APMT
ICS, Intertanko and Intercargo Leone in the north. The attacks are
has signed a contract with JAPDEVA, the
have issued a revised version of the becoming increasingly violent and
state port authority, to design, finance,
«Guidelines for owners, opera- often involve the use of firearms.
construct, operate and maintain this new
tors and masters for protection Kidnapping for ransom is also on
against piracy in the Gulf of Guinea the increase. The international
facility. In the final phase of the construc-
region». shipping industry has therefore tion project, the terminal will have 1500
As is well known, piracy and armed rob- unanimously resolved to revise its guidelines metres of quay wall, 80 hectares of yard
bery have developed into a serious problem on the problem of piracy in order to address and nine container gantries. It is fully
in the waters off the west African coast, with this «completely unacceptable security situa- owned by the state of Costa Rica, which
reports of incidents in a range extending tion». av has granted AMPT a 30-year concession.
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We were at the 27th Tiaca Air Cargo Forum in Seoul Double the volume
«More class, less mass»
For the US American aircraft manufac-
turer Boeing, the aerospace industry has
emerged from its lows. «After three years
of weak demand, we are now poised for
There were blue skies over Seoul for three days during the 27th edition of the Air Cargo an exciting period of growth,» said Boe-
Forum from 7 to 9 October, which Tiaca CEO Oliver Evans characterised as a good omen ing’s vice-president for marketing, Randy
Tinseth, to the herds of journalists gath-
in his opening speech at the event. But it was not all rainbows and sunshine. ered in Seoul. In the first seven months
of 2014, he said, volume had increased by
4.4% over the same period last year and
had thus finally returned to the long-term
trend which projects an annual growth
rate of 4.7% to 2033. That translates as a
doubling of today’s air cargo capacity to
RTK 521.8 billion, according to the cal-
culations of a team of analysts Tinseth
leads.
According to the analysts, dominant
Photo: Tiaca
goods flows would continue to be those
between Asia and North America, as well
From left to right: the secretary generals of Tiaca, WCO and Icao, Doug Brittin, Kunio Mikuriya as Europe and Asia, with the intra-Asian
and Raymond Benjamin, demonstrate unity along the airfreight supply chain with Wan-Su Park, and Chinese traffic levels registering the
the president and CEO of Incheon airport, the South Korean transport minister Seoung-Hwan Suh highest growth rates. In order to meet this
and the Tiaca chairman Oliver Evans and his deputy Enno Osinga. demand, he said that 840 brand-new full-
freighters would be needed, of which 590
Approaching the lobby of the Air Cargo dean of the Graduate School of Logistics would be large-capacity aircraft with a
Forum (ACF) on day three of the event, in Northeast Asia, pointed out that by payload of more than 80 t and a list price
which took place concurrent to several cutting off the land route to the south- of USD 190 billion. Some 250 of these
other fairs and conferences in the cavern- ern part of the peninsula, North Korea, aircraft would be middle-sized planes
ous, contemporary exhibition and shop- located just a few kilometres from Seoul, (40-80 t, USD 50 billion). Added to this
ping complex called Coex, was a rather had in effect made South Korea into an figure would be 1,330 passenger planes
lonely feeling and one could hear the island and thus pushed the country to- retrofitted as freighters, most of which
few straggling visitors speaking in hushed ward investments in air and sea transport. (960) would be in the so-called standard
tones of «disaster». Indeed, at the last two But the development of South Ko- size of less than 45 t.
editions of the event — in Atlanta (USA) rea in the area of logistics commanded The World Air Cargo Forecast, which
2012, and Amsterdam (Netherlands) the greatest respect amongst the visitors is updated every other year for the subse-
2010 — there was considerably higher for other reasons as well. Kersti Krepp, quent 20 years, is based on a projected an-
participation from exhibitors and visi- the vice-president of Polar Air Cargo re- nual growth rate in global GDP of 3.2%.
tors, and attendance at this year’s event sponsible for sales and marketing in the ah
seemed miles off the announced target of Asia-Pacific region, summed up a num-
«3,000 participants». The reason for the ber of the benefits of the location: «Geo- Airbus builds increasingly with Chinese
poor attendance is anyone’s guess. Some graphic arguments, such as accessibility
said that it was down to the event being with maximum load capacity, the good The European aircraft manufacturer Air-
scheduled so close to Air Cargo China, intermodal connections, and the mild cli- bus is expanding its cooperation with the
which was held in Shanghai in mid-June; mate, coupled with the liberalised market Chinese state-owned company Avic and the
others chalked it up to the Korean cal- and unattractive mix of goods». Tianjin free-trade zone and is extending its
endar, which listed holidays both before joint efforts, previously limited to the A320
and, at the last minute, during ACF. Rising to challenges medium-haul model, to include its A330
«Unity» was the buzzword at the event, wide-bodied aircraft. The parties signed a
letter of intent on 10 October in the presence
Exemplary host country repeated time and again by some of the
of the German and Chinese heads of state
The city, which for years was known to be leading minds in the industry at the fo-
in Berlin for the construction of a finishing
the site of this year’s forum, offered ideal rum which bore the motto «Breaking bar-
and distribution centre in Tianjin. Currently,
conditions for a successful event. Seoul riers, creating opportunities». After all,
Chinese companies operate more than
airport, which is located just outside for Evans the quality of ACF as a forum
1,000 Airbus aircraft, some 140 of which are
Incheon, has helped put South Korea, offering a platform for the air cargo in- A330s. Airbus anticipates regional demand
one of the world’s largest cargo hubs, «at dustry to speak with a single voice was far to reach 5,300 new units by 2033. Today,
the centre of global trade», as Evans and more important than the quantity of its Airbus says that it has a market share in
a raft of other speakers and interlocutors attendees. In Paris (France) both of these China of 49%.
at the event said. Seung-Bum Ahn, the requirements may be fulfilled in 2016.International Transport Journal 43-44 2014 Aviation 17
Garuda Indonesia Cargo wants to join Skyteam Cargo In brief
Freight family grows Record order. After Boeing won a record
order of 240 B737s from Indonesia’s Lion Air
three years ago and was ahead on new or-
ders in 2014, Airbus not only pulled level on
Garuda Indonesia Cargo, a strategic business unit of southeastern Asia’s Garuda Indo- 15 October, but also set a new record with
nesia (GA), officially declared its intention of joining the Skyteam Cargo alliance at the the declaration of intent from the Indian
airline Indigo to buy 250 A320s. According
Tiaca-ACF. The formalities are to be completed by the end of June 2015.
to the list price, the order volume stands at
about USD 25 billion. The Delhi-domiciled
«Today is a very special day, as we estab- before. This alliance, which has grown to LCC claims to transport 5,500 t in additional
lished our freight alliance here exactly 12 members, is now being expanded by cargo. cargo.goindigo.in
14 years ago,» explained Chong Choy, GA Cargo.
the chairman of Skytem Cargo, on 8 «Thanks to the expansion by 63 new Aircraft takeover. Russia’s Air Bridge Cargo
October in Seoul. In September 2000, destinations, GA Cargo will strengthen Airlines (ABC) took delivery of its sixth full
in Korean Air Cargo, Delta Air Logis- our network in Asia-Pacific and boost freighter of the B747-8 type on 17 October.
tics, Air France Cargo and Aeroméxico global trade between the dynamic Indo- In addition to the latest aircraft of the B747
Cargo, four airlines joined forced in the nesian market and the rest of the world,» family, the ABC fleet includes another four
Korean capital, which had established the expects Chong, who has himself lived in B747-400ERFs and three B747-400Fs.
Skyteam passenger alliance three months Indonesia for many years. www.airbridgecargo.com
Programme success. Etihad Cargo has
welcomed the 3000th member of its web-
based Cargo Connect loyalty scheme. The
Photo: Andreas Haug
procedure rolled out in July 2013 following
Etihad Guest, the bonus programme for pas-
sengers of the airline from Abu Dhabi (UAE),
is specifically designed for SME customers of
Etihad Cargo.
A growing family: GA Cargo vice-president Rajendra Kartawiria (7th from left) and Chong Choy www.etihadcargo.com
(7th from right) amongst the representatives of the previous Skyteam Cargo alliance members.
Nearly all European freight airports in the black in August
As the ACI Europe airport association Nationally, the Bavarian metropolis was The airport of Tel-Aviv (Israel), which is
announced at the beginning of October, ahead of Frankfurt-Hahn (9103 t, –1.8%), also included in the regional version of
its more than 200 members posted freight whose sales head Christoph Goetzmann ACI and ranks 15th, rose in August by
volume increases of 3.3% in August com- presented at the Air Cargo Forum in 2.7% to 22,501 t. Its total volume for the
pared with the same month last year. The Seoul the benefits of a new Airport Car- first eight months was therefore more or
ten leading airports, whose order of rank- go Shuttle to run between Hunsrück and less unchanged at 178,834 t.
ing remains unchanged, presented them- Frankfurt/Main. ah
selves in a way that has not been seen for a
long time, because volume increases were Freight throughput at leading European airports in August 2014
posted across the board from Frankfurt/ Rank August 2013 Airport Country Airfreight in t ±%
Main to Brussels. 1 (1) Frankfurt/Main DE 170,979 +3.5
This trend continued at the follow- 2 (2) Paris (CDG) FR 150,303 +2.2
ing airports: here, the southern Euro- 3 (3) Amsterdam NL 136,638 +6.2
pean freight-handling airports of Milan- 4 (4) London (LHR) UK 122,830 +7.5
Malpensa (30,857 t, +5.2%) and Madrid 5 (5) Leipzig-Halle DE 71,101 +1.6
(27,724 t, +6.6%) fared better than the 6 (6) Luxembourg LU 57,353 +2.8
Swiss hub of Zurich. Geneva was the only 7 (7) Cologne-Bonn DE 56,045 +2.5
one of the 13 airports examined in detail 8 (8) Istanbul (IST) TR 49,457 +1.3
to post a slightly falling performance in 9 (9) Liège BE 49,241 +7.1
the period under review, whereas Basel- 10 (10) Brussels BE 32,915 +5.6
Source: ACI Europe, ADV
Mulhouse saw, already before the start
Freight throughput at leading Swiss airports in August 2014
of two new full-freighter connections
in September, a virtually equally strong 1 (1) Zurich CH 25,456 +2.9
boost as Munich, which ranks 14th in 2 (2) Geneva CH 3,441 –1.1
Europe, of precisely +11% to 24,290 t. 3 (3) Basel-Mulhouse CH 3,100 +10.818 Forwarding & Logistics International Transport Journal 43-44 2014
Chilled alliance grows More online in Singapore Going north
The Seafoodways alliance, which was Two companies from northwestern Swit-
founded in spring by three European zerland have entered the market of their
chilled cargo specialists (see ITJ Daily of northern neighbour, Germany. Trans-
14 May 2014), now has six members with freight based in Basel is assuming the op-
effect from the start of October. At the erating business, long-serving employees
Conxemar trade fair held in Vigo (Spain), and some of the vehicles of VTA Logis-
the founding members Olano (Spain) as tik which is based in Karlstein am Main
well as the France-based Express Marée near Frankfurt. This will take effect from
and Stef, agreed to admit Kotra Logis- The warehouse is to start operating in 2016. 1 November. The logistics and forward-
tics (Holland), Med Frigo (Greece) and Photo: Singpost ing activities will be performed under the
O’Toole Transport (Ireland) as new mem- umbrella of a new company, Transfreight
bers. Their combined transport volumes Singapore Post (Singpost), which pro- Deutschland as a wholly owned subsidi-
of fish and seafood in 2013 came in at vides letter, logistics and e-commerce ary of Transfreight and will be run out of
some 1.25 million t. solutions in ten countries, is anticipating VTA’s current location.
The six partners in the network want growth in online trading and is creating Streck Transport from Möhlin near
to join forces to cover the most important a new hub for this expanding industry. Basel has started offering direct transport
production and sales markets in Europe With an investment of USD 143 million, services to and from Munich together
with their over 1,000 vehicles based in ten a 51,000 sqm warehouse on three floors with Rhenus Freight Logistics based in
countries. They aim to eneure transport with a fully automated picking system, Kirchheim (Germany). The forwarding
between these markets within 48 hours. 150 loading ramps and offices is being company offers daily departures from
To do this, they are harmonising their built in Tampines Logispark. It is to be Möhlin for goods and consignment sizes
services by jointly organising the end- completed in 2016. According to Sing- of all types and any weight. Urgent goods
to-end transport management from the post, the plant will be the first of its kind from northwestern Switzerland including
shipper (such as ports and fish farms) to in southeast Asia where online trading is Berne, Lucerne and Zurich for overnight
the consumer (such as wholesalers and set grow by be 41% to around USD 708 deliveries to the Munich area using the
retailers). ah billion by the time it is commissioned. premium service, Streck Classic24. ah
The difference is in the impact. Worldwide.
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Firstly, your promotional mailings stand out much more in the destination country than items sent through the
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Potential of broad and narrow gauge
Photo: Hans-Joachim Schramm
Automatic gauge switching?
Broad and narrow gauge are an obstacle to many transport operations, the process and
the margin in rail and intermodal transport. A study on the potential and marketability of
Representatives of six nations attended the
the automatic gauge switching technology was recently presented in Belgrade. meeting of the tariff experts in Belgrade.
At the beginning of October, an execu- a recently completed study, which had reservations due to the currently slow pro-
tive committee meeting of the Organiza- been commissioned by the UIC-OSShD cessing speeds at border crossings, which
tion of Tariff and Transport Experts was working group. It discusses the current cancels out any potential time gained
held in Belgrade, which was attended by experience and potential of automatic during the switching of the gauges. In
more than 50 transport experts. Within gauge switching technologies in rail trans- goods transport, there is potential at the
this framework, Hans-Joachim Schramm port services between European standard high-frequency border crossings in Brest
from the Institute for Transport and Lo- gauge (1435 mm) and Russian (1520 mm) (PL-BY) and Chop (HU/SK-UA), as these
gistics Management of the Vienna Busi- or Iberian (1638 mm) broad gauge. The border cities are expected to see increas-
ness University, presented the results of results show that many practitioners have ing transport volumes in the medium to
long term.
A survey of potential user groups re-
vealed, however, that it needs to come
Transeuropean service with a time benefit of more than 15% of
the total transport duration with a maxi-
At the end of September, the first train of Transmec and P & O Ferrymaster heralded mum increase in overall transport costs
in the new intermodal connection from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Curtici, Romania. The of 10%, which in turn is only possible
service has been running since October with three departures per week and a travel for journeys covering short to medium
time of 40 hours per journey. cd distances.
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Government accord with SBB
Corridor on
track
Photo: SBB Cargo
The Swiss government has approved an agreement with the federal rail-
ways for the creation of a 4-metre corridor on the Gotthard rail axis. This
sets out the details of the planning and engineering works to be carried A corner height of 4 metres throughout by 2020: intermodal
out in Switzerland, their financing and the schedule for their completion. transport at the Gotthard, here in Wassen.
Now that the long-standing question of a second road tunnel has been number of points including the engineering works to
answered (see ITJ 41-42/2014, p. 32), the issue of the upgrading of the be carried out by the SBB, the financing of the scheme
rail infrastructure through the Alpine massif has also been settled in and the time schedule.
parliament. The envisaged 4-metre corridor will enable semi-trailers The works covered by the agreement include the ad-
with a corner height of 4 metres to be transported by rail. This will cre- aptation of some 20 tunnels. The biggest single project
ate a stronger basis for the transfer of trans-Alpine freight traffic from is the construction of a parallel tunnel to the existing
road to rail. After the Swiss parliament has approved the construction Bözberg tunnel. In roughly 150 more locations, altera-
and financing of the 4-metre corridor on the Gotthard base tunnel tions to platform roofs, overhead power lines, signals
line and the relevant amendments to the law have come into force, and overpasses will need to be carried out. The gov-
the project will move into the implementation phase. On 8 October ernment will provide the rail operator with CHF 630
the government approved an agreement with the SBB which covers a million (EUR 519.7 million) for the implementation of
these measures. At the same time, the railway operator
has undertaken to prioritise a number of measures to
upgrade structures that are of major importance for the
4-metre corridor.
These include, for instance, adaptations of shorter
tunnels that would have been due irrespective of the
4-metre corridor. Their costs of CHF 59 million (EUR
48.7 million) are to be financed out of the funds that
have been placed at the disposal of the SBB under the
infrastructure works agreement 2013-2016. Under the
4-metre corridor agreement, the SBB is committed to
the completion of the corridor on Swiss territory by not
later than the end of 2020.
Cross-border investments
For works on the Luino line, Switzerland will place EUR
Highest level of expertise 120 million (CHF 145.5 million) at the disposal of the
for demanding freight Italian infrastructure operator Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
(RFI). Agreements with the Italian government and an
food & beverage logistics as an independent division of
implementation agreement with RFI have now been
international freight forwarder a. hartrodt allows us to
focus entirely on the specific needs of food and beverage signed. The costs of the investments on the Milan-Chias-
clients. Benefit from our reefer consolidation service so line, amounting to around EUR 40 million (CHF 48.5
(temp. controlled 15°C). million) will be met by Italy. The profile adaptations in
Italy will allow through transport to the transhipment
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The enlargement of the loading gauge profile on the
Documentation ▪ Overland Transports ▪ Sea Freight
Air Freight ▪ Purchase Order Management Gotthard axis is an important factor for Switzerland’s
policy of shifting freight from road to rail. It will permit
the through transport by rail of semi-trailers with a cor-
a. hartrodt (Schweiz) AG · Hofackerstrasse 40A · 4132 Muttenz ner height of 4 metres. The Swiss parliament has granted
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ahIsrael
23 Ordan new HEC member
23 Haifa as transhipment port
also hub for Sigmai
25 Privatisation of ports on
government’s agenda
27 Jacky Line: warehouse, logistics
and increasingly airfreight
27 El Al Israel and Jet Blue rely
on code sharing in the US
Photo: Thinkstock
ed instead. A further component of the
Israel also to seek its fortune in east-west trade strategy is a double rail line to and from
A bridge needs piles
another port near Eilat On the Red Sea.
Intermodal terra incognito
There is nothing new about this ambi-
Many states claim to occupy a strategic position between East and West. Israel sees its tious plan. A study published by UIC
geographical proximity to the Suez Canal as an opportunity to offer an alternative route. in 2008 on the potential of multimodal
cargo transport in the Middle East, pro-
But a whole lot of renminbi lie between the current status and actual implementation. jected that by 2020 one of three possible
east-west routes would lead through Israel
Some developments appear paradoxical. bidding process against competitors such and Jordan.
Although the recent Gaza conflict has as Shapir Civil and Shikun & Binui, pro- Even then, however, the lack of an in-
resulted in the weakest GDP growth in gressed to the contract-signing phase. termodal infrastructure on the route was
Israel in the past five years, at a rate of Following three months of negotiations, considered a stumbling block. Its current
just 1.5%, international confidence in the parties agreed to build a new port 975 km of rail lines do not connect to any
the country is unflagging. The rating in Ashdod, south of Tel Aviv. The new other state, which means that cross-bor-
agencies Moody´s, Fitch and S&P unani- southern port will cost USD 930 million der trade with Jordan takes place almost
mously confirmed their best ratings of A, and represents a strategic initiative. exclusively with trucks. The government
A1, and A+ for the Israeli economy in While in Latin America Nicaragua is railway company Israel Railways is cur-
early October. In view of the weak shekel, planning its alternative to the Panama rently investing some USD 265 million
analysts have gone so far as to predict a Canal (see ITJ 27-30/2014, page 20), Is- in new lines and rolling stock, but up to
further up-tick in the economy starting rael is entertaining similar ideas with now, of the 4 million t of cargo trans-
in 2015. Although there is much talk regard to the Suez Canal. The govern- ported by rail every year, most is bulk
about the high-tech and finance sectors ment is committed to building a secure cargo (see ITJ 13-14/2014, page 31).
in Israel, the logistics industry is expected and inexpensive connection between the That, too, is set to change. China
to play an increasingly important role in Red Sea and the Mediterranean designed has also identified the rail connection
future. to accommodate international cargo and between Ashdod and Eilat as a strategic
trade traffic. This land bridge is contro- investment. A letter of intent to this effect
By land and sea versial even in Israel and its critics say that was signed in April 2014 and provides for
On 24 September the scene was set. Pan it is excessively expensive. As recently as Chinese investments to the tune of some
Mediterranean, a subsidiary of China November 2013 observers had hoped USD 4.9 billion.
Harbour, which came out on top in a that the port of Haifa would be expand- Christian DoepgenYou can also read
