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“It’s about recognising potential vulnerabilities”

“It’s about recognising potential vulnerabilities”

Thomas Manigk, Managing Director of Kopf & Lübben, and his company have been providing transport services at sea, by air and over land for almost 50 years. This means he is familiar with international business supply chains – and the consequences that maritime...
Container overboard

Container overboard

With a novel combination of a tracking unit and a communication platform, Jade University aims to make it easier to locate containers lost at sea in future. Credits: Jade Hochschule (2x), Rainer Schulz und Johan Krol Review: In January 2019, while in heavy seas in the...
The best possible remedy

The best possible remedy

Whilst the bridge collision on the River Hunte in Elsfleth poses an enormous challenge for the port industry, it has also revealed what is possible if everyone involved and those affected in business and politics work together to achieve solutions. Credits: DB AG/Tim...
A promising niche

A promising niche

The Bremen-based company Carl Ungewitter has specialised in importing natural asphalt and the logistics related to it since it was founded 146 years ago, but also offers transport services for the North African crude oil supply industry and has developed a patented...
Leschaco: Fahrenholz succeeds Oestreich as COO

Leschaco: Fahrenholz succeeds Oestreich as COO

BREMEN. In April, Nils Fahrenholz (left) succeeded Oliver Oestreich (right) as COO and thus as a management board member in the Leschaco Group. “We owe a great debt of gratitude to Oliver for his valuable contributions and his exemplary management over the past two...