by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Logistics, Transport & Infrastructure, Startup
⚡ TL;DRHamburg is Germany's largest port and it sits over a hundred kilometres up a river that must be continuously dredged to admit the vessels the industry now operates. Rotterdam and Antwerp sit on deep water with better inland connections. The result is...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Logistics, Transport & Infrastructure, Startup
⚡ TL;DRContainer shipping alternates between periods of extraordinary profit and periods of losses that destroy carriers, and the cycle is driven almost entirely by the gap between vessel ordering decisions and vessel delivery three years later. Hapag-Lloyd,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Logistics, Transport & Infrastructure, Startup
⚡ TL;DRLufthansa received a state support package of around nine billion euros in 2020 including equity, repaid it early with the state exiting at a profit, and emerged as a group operating multiple national airlines under one holding structure. The multi-brand...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Logistics, Transport & Infrastructure, Startup
⚡ TL;DRDeutsche Post was a state postal monopoly with declining letter volumes and a large fixed network. It used the cash and the network to buy its way into international express, freight forwarding and contract logistics, becoming one of the largest logistics...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Logistics, Transport & Infrastructure, Startup
⚡ TL;DRDeutsche Bahn long-distance punctuality fell to around sixty per cent in 2025 and slightly below that in the first half of 2026, against roughly seventy-four per cent a decade earlier. The group reported a net loss of about two point three billion euros...
