The transport service provider Krummen Kerzers aims not only to keep pace with changes, but also to be at the forefront, particularly in the areas of digitalization and sustainability. To successfully manage the transformation in the transport sector, the management team is currently being strengthened.

Schneider Environmental Services in Volketswil has 140 heavy commercial vehicles registered. To achieve a 90 percent electric vehicle conversion rate by 2028, they already have seven battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in operation. Their own e-charging park, with 800 kW capacity and 16 charging points, has now gone into operation.

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Deutsche Bahn has filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg, demanding that the state, Stuttgart itself, and the airport contribute to the additional costs of the Stuttgart 21 project. According to current estimates, the costs are expected to rise from the originally planned €4.5 billion to over €10 billion.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued regulations mid-week for the qualification and training of pilots who will be allowed to fly air taxis in the future. It is described as "the first completely new category since the introduction of the helicopter in the 1940s.".

67 percent of 90 surveyed companies from the German transport and logistics sector have recently been affected by the consequences of climate change, according to a recently published study by KPMG - Wirtschaftsprüfungs-Gesellschaft and the German Logistics Association (BVL).

Railway manufacturer Stadler is supplying four new locomotives for passenger transport and two identical hybrid locomotives of type Ge(m) 4/4 for railway service and infrastructure maintenance to the Montreux-Berner Oberland-Bahn (MOB), which are intended for traffic between Montreux on Lake Geneva and Zweisimmen in the Bernese Oberland.

TractEasy builds autonomous towing solutions for aviation and industrial customers who rely on driverless technology. At Spartanburg Airport in the US, an EZTow now transports cargo along a 1.6 km route in mixed traffic for loading and unloading cargo jets on the apron.

High-ranking representatives of Deutsche Bahn, federal, state and local politics, the European Commission and Stuttgart Airport celebrated the topping-out ceremony for the shell construction of the new long-distance and regional train station at the airport on the Filder plateau and the state trade fair grounds - which is also the home of LogiMAT.

Where millions of tons of coal were once handled, the Duisburg Gateway Terminal (DGT) is opening a new chapter for the logistics of the future. The recently opened tenth terminal, ideally located on the Rhine, is slated to become the largest in inland Europe upon completion.

According to a survey conducted by the German Logistics Hall of Fame in cooperation with the Schunck Group, a large majority of logistics companies consider the risk of suffering harm from the consumption of alcohol or cannabis in the workplace to be low to very low. Only one in ten is skeptical.

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DB Schenker is introducing a new supply chain monitoring system to offer ocean freight customers planning certainty down to the ship, shipment, and container level. On an interactive map, "Ocean Bridge" displays AI-based data on the departure, arrival, and docking times of ships, as well as their port rotations.

Over 600 participants in the cycling campaign organized by transport company Gebrüder Weiss covered a total of more than 768,800 km – equivalent to the distance to the moon and back. As a bonus, 7,000 new trees were also planted for a company forest in Nicaragua.

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Headlines about the loss of up to 14,000 jobs and optimistic statements about modernization don't quite add up. Now the gearbox manufacturer is revising its forecasts. The impact of the market and sales declines is higher than previously assumed.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer IML have been investigating the noise emissions of alternative drive systems (battery-electric, gas, hydrogen) during delivery processes in urban areas for some time. This research has resulted in a "Handbook for Low-Noise Logistics," which has now been presented to the Ministry of the Environment in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Over 170 experts in the field of driverless transport systems met this week at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics to exchange information on current developments in the segment of flexible automation and human-machine cooperation at the AGV conference.