WILHELMSHAVEN. In April and June, Jade Car Logistics and Jade-Dienst successfully handled two shipments of used cars to North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.

BREMEN. Subject to the approval of the competition authorities, Austria-based international logistics firm Gebrüder Weiss (GW) has acquired parts of the sea and air freight business of Bremen-based Ipsen Logistics.

OLDENBURG. The first half of 2020 saw an an eleven percent decline in maritime traffic for Lower Saxony’s nine seaports. The port group handled a total of 24 million tonnes.

BREMERHAVEN. Chinese start-up Aiways has chosen AutoTerminal Bremerhaven as the first transshipment port for its electric SUVs.

LEER. The 4,000 square meter transshipment centre for Karl Huneke Straßen- und Tiefbau is intended to give an economic stimulus to the port of Leer.

BRAKE. The J. Müller group has commissioned two new warehouses directly on the water at Lower Saxony quay, creating a total of almost 30,000 square metres of covered storage space.

HAMBURG/BREMEN/BREMERHAVEN/WILHELMSHAVEN. Hamburg’s senator for economics Michael Westhagemann has recently highlighted a topic that has occupied the North German seaport transport industry for over 20 years.

BREMEN. At the start of September, TFG Transfracht opened up its Bremen location to all 22 terminals in its nationwide AlbatrosExpress network.

HAMBURG/BRAUNSCHWEIG. Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) and the Braunschweig port operations company have signed up to a strategic partnership to promote inland shipping for container hinterland traffic between the two ports.

BREMEN. Although inland navigation offers viable and sustainable transport alternatives, it can be something of a niche sector, at least in the tributaries off the Rhine.

BREMEN. After a construction period of around three years, the west quay in Kaiserhafen III has finally been opened by the senator for science and ports, Claudia Schilling.

OLDENBURG. On 1 June André Heim was appointed new managing director of the Seaports of Lower Saxony.

HAMBURG. Since the beginning of August, Claus Brandt has been the new managing director of the German Maritime Centre (DMZ) in Hamburg.

HAMBURG. The supervisory board of Hapag-Lloyd has extended the contract of Joachim Schlotfeldt, executive board member responsible for personnel and purchasing, until 31 March 2023.

BREMEN. Hanspeter Stabenau died in June at the age of 85. He was a founding member and long-standing chairman of the board of the German Logistics Association (BVL).

BREMEN. The latest Scandinavian edition of LOGISTICS PILOT contained an error.

BRAKE. In June repair work was unexpectedly required for the inland gate of the Brake lock.

BREMEN. In July bremenports was nominated for the 13th German Sustainability Award and can therefore be considered one of the most sustainable SMEs in Germany.

BREMERHAVEN. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, ZDF had to interrupt shooting in March for the new episodes of the TV series Das Traumschiff.

BREMEN. In June bremenports was once again recognised for its family-friendly HR policies as part of the “berufundfamilie” audit.

BREMERHAVEN. According to research by Peter Marschalck, who founded an inventory of emigration records in the Bremen archives, more than seven million people have emigrated via Bremerhaven in the past two centuries, around ninety per cent of them to America.

EMDEN. The final event of the WASh2Emden innovation project took place in May.

OLDENBURG. At an online conference in May, NPorts presented its perspective papers for the seaports of Cuxhaven and Stade.

BREMEN. In June, the Bremen Senate voted to create an additional onshore power supply in Bremen’s ports.

BREMEN. Due to the pandemic, the 140th GM of BLG Logistics in June was also its first virtual general meeting.

HAMBURG. Despite the current uncertainties in international shipping, Hapag-Lloyd aims to generate earnings before interest and tax of between €500m and €1bn this year.

BREMEN. In May, Mercedes-Benz used the coronavirus-related shutdown – and its technological expertise – to produce face shields using a 3D printer. A few days later, Michael Friess, site manager and head of production at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen, presented...

WILHELMSHAVEN. May saw the approval of the application by the JadeWeserPort companies for funding for a research project to test fully automated shunting in the freight traffic centre in Wilhelmshaven.

BREMEN. In June the Bremen Port Authority (BHV) expressed considerable concern about possible cooperation between terminal operators HHLA and EUROGATE.

BREMEN. At the beginning of June bremenports received the NordWest Award 2020, worth €10k, from the Northwest Metropolitan Region for its CO2-Neutral Port of Bremen/Bremerhaven project.