July/August 2019
transport logistic Review
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Hoyer displayed its safety training tank container
Currently, 21 percent of all jobs in freight transport alone are
vacant.
Five discussion forums were devoted to this issue alone. IRU
launched a ‘Tackling Driver Shortage in Europe’ campaign to raise
public awareness of the importance of this issue and to provide
solutions and attract new talent to the sector. The least used talent
pools are young people and women, so the challenge is to recruit
these types of candidate while keeping experienced drivers at work.
These and other major challenges facing the industry were
discussed at the opening of a high-profile round panel discussion.
“We need to make the growing traffic flows more efficient and
affordable as well as environmentally and climate-friendly,” said
Federal Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer.
In reference to the global economy, DHL head Dr Frank Appel
expressed restrained optimism, “even though current relations
between governments in the US and China are not conducive at the
moment.” However: “Goods find their way despite customs
disputes,” he said. The situation is currently also challenging for air
freight, “which is a very volatile business. We have to be open to
options and think in the long term,” said Dorothea von Boxberg,
managing director product and sales at Lufthansa Cargo.
Alexander Doll, director of finance, freight transport and logistics at
Deutsche Bahn, distinguished between global and intra-regional
trade flows: “We still see decent growth in the latter”. And Rolf
Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, explained that his company is
well prepared: “We have been an active driver of consolidation in
our industry over the past five years, enabling us to strengthen our
overall market position significantly.”
At transport logistic 2019, 2,374 exhibitors from 63 countries were
present, an increase of 10 percent (2017: 2,162). Around 64,000
visitors from 125 countries attended, an increase of 5 percent (2017:
60,726). Around 30,000 visitors came from abroad. The exhibition
covered 10 halls and an outdoor area, totalling 125,000 sqm.
The top 10 exhibitor countries after Germany were: Netherlands,
Italy, Belgium, France, Poland, China, Austria, Spain, UK, and the
Czech Republic.
There were some 25 international joint pavilions, including Sri
Lanka, Romania, Lithuania, Poland and Turkey.
Village life
As usual plenty of visitors came to the ITCO Tank Container Village.
With 68 booths and 73 ITCO members exhibiting, this was the
biggest Tank Container Village so far organised by ITCO.
The opening day concluded with a cocktail reception and dinner in
the Village, sponsored by CIMC. Visitors were welcomed to the
Reception by CIMC Tank general manager Jee (Guoxiang Ji) who
thanked them for their long-term co-operation.
Thanking Jee for sponsoring the welcome reception, Reg Lee, ITCO
President, wished CIMC every success for the future.
On day two of the event, Perolo hosted its usual wine tasting
reception following the close of business.
Outside the exhibition hall, Hoyer once again displayed its ‘open’
tank which is used for safety training. The three compartment swap
body tank with a length of 7.15m is used for training course,
presentations and at trade fairs. Hoyer also makes it available to
emergency services, public authorities, organisations with safety-
related tasks and to customers, so that they can familiarise
themselves with the structure of a tank container.
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