Demag welcomes improved offer from Terex
NewsIt looks as though a substantially-improved offer and a number of business guarantees could land Terex Corp the prize of Demag Cranes AG...
New rail company in Sassnitz
NewsFährhafen Sassnitz GmbH and TME Torsten Meincke Eisenbahn GmbH have jointly established a new railway operating company, Hafenbahn Mukran B...
Lehnkering acquires Buss Safelox
NewsHamburg-based Buss Group has sold its Safelox arm to steel and chemicals industries logistics specialist Lehnkering, for an undisclosed pric...
New owners for Flensburger shipyard
NewsFlensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft has been acquired in a leveraged MBO...
Maersk boss shows interest in Hapag-Lloyd
NewsAccording to a report in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Maersk’s chairman Eivind Kolding has expressed interest in a takeover of Hapag-Lloy...
Klaus-Michael Kühne criticizes German government on Hapag-Lloyd deal
NewsKlaus-Michael Kühne, owner and chairman of the world’s biggest NVOCC Kühne & Nagel, and also the biggest investor in the Hamburg-based A...
RTG sales stay strong
NewsGlobal RTG output has continued strong throughout 2003 and a number of manufacturers are reporting sizeable orders for delivery in 2004...
DB forms BTS Kombiwaggon
NewsDB Cargo has merged two subsidiary companies, Buss Trans Container Service GmbH (BTS) and Kombiwaggon Servicegesellschaft für den Kombinier...
Hoyer bags De Haan
NewsHamburg-based Hoyer has boosted its presence in the mineral oil logistics market by acquiring the Dutch Abram De Haan forwarding group....
KCI takes KUBI..
NewsKCI Konecranes has further strengthened its presence in the crane service and maintenenace market in Germany by acquiring crane service comp...
Gottwald changes hands
NewsOne of the biggest questions in the ports industry in recent months has been answered....
New owners for Windhoff
NewsAiling Windhoff AG in Rheine, known for its special purpose vehicles for railway maintenance including Cargo-Sprinter MPVs, has been taken o...
Enter the Railog
NewsConventional railfreight business rarely makes headline news, but when, following the recent launch of Railog as a 50:50 joint venture betwe...
Save talking for later
NewsExplaining the decision to wind up merger talks with BLG Logistics (last month's WorldCargo News, p10), HHLA boss Peter Dietrich said that t...
HHLA/BLG merger ruled out
NewsFollowing a round of talks between the Hamburg and Bremen Burgermeisters, the conclusion has been drawn that a merger between HHLA and BLG "...