GermanyReview time:matters adds connections


Frankfurt-based speedy logistics specialist time:matters has agreed a deal with German- wings that is seeing it add more connections to its network and offer faster deliveries. The network co-operation


deal agreed with the German carrier will allow time:matters to offer its customers additional flights out of Cologne and Stuttgart International airports to several destinations. time:matters CEO Franz-


Joseph Miller pointed out: “Due to the co-operation with Germanwings, we are consis- tently expanding our services and creating positive synergistic effects for our Sameday Air network. “From now on, additional direct flights allow


Miller: “creating positive synergistic effects”


our customers with highly urgent shipments to save valu- able time on even more routes – in some cases even up to four hours,” he went on. “Through the co-operation


with Germanwings we are able to offer a total of 236 additional flights to 33 destinations daily, which makes our network even more attractive to our cus- tomers,” Miller noted. In other news from


time:matters, the company was quick to observe that it handled a number of urgent shipments during the recent European football championship and will


be well placed to do the same during the Tour de France, the impending London Olympics and other big sporting events.


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HAMBURG-HEADQUARTERED logistics ser- vices provider Senator International has gone live on the CargoWise fully-hosted ediEnterprise management platform at its offices in Switzer- land. The plan is to roll out the system across more than 1,000 Senator users across the globe.


LEIPZIG/HALLE International airport strength- ened its position as Germany’s second-busiest air freight hub in the first half of this year, handling 422,315 tonnes of cargo over the six months. That total represented a 15 percent year-on-year


increase. Leipzig/Halle handled 760,737 tonnes of cargo over the 12 months of 2011, a large part of it due to the volumes carried through the gateway by express services giant DHL.


AIRBERLIN IS TO inaugurate a new non-stop operation between Chicago O’Hare and Berlin on 23 March next year. The German carrier will fly the route three times a week upon launch, but the service is expected to upgrade to an A330- 200 flying a five times a week frequency in May 2013.


Düsseldorf offers ‘wide range of belly capacity’


Describing Düsseldorf as “the lower-deck specialist airport”, the gateway’s manager mar- keting and sales Thomas Schürmann said: “The airport has become a busy hub con- nected to a growing number of intercontinental destina- tions, making it increasingly important for the big for- warders and logistics companies. “The airport’s ready access


to a wide range of lower- deck capacity, together with an independent trucking network based in a high potential catchment area is stimulating Düsseldorf’s further cargo growth.” Among the latest improvements to the German gateway’s bellyhold connections is an


upgrade by Turkish Airlines, which switched to widebody aircraft on its four times a day flights to Istanbul’s Ataturk airport in April. Using A330, A340 and B777s on the route, Turk- ish offers 15 to 20 tons of capacity per flight in each direction. Furthermore: “The potential for developing maindeck freighter traffic provides a useful addition to the bellyhold capacity,” Schürmann pointed out.


Weinheim-based contract logistics specialist trans-o-flex Logistik-Service has begun con- struction of a new facility in Alzenau, in the north of Lower Franconia in Germany. Designed specifically to meet the needs of


trans-o-flex begins building Alzenau facility “Our new logistics centre in Alzenau will


the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, the warehouse is located conveniently close to Frankfurt-Main airport – about a 30-minute drive, the company says. Cross-docking equip- ment is available to speed air freight shipping through the warehouse.


allow us to enhance our capabilities again and, thanks to its excellent location, also use this as an ideal basis for the implementation of inter- national logistics concepts,” commented Oliver Rupps, spokesman of the board of managing directors of the trans-o-flex Logis- tics Group. Boasting a high level of security and


temperature-control systems, the facility is expected to open in January next year.


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