Our daily coffee

For a few it is a bitter brown-black broth. But for most it is an enjoyment, a stimulant and an afternoon companion. Coffee. Whether pure as filter coffee, espresso or mocha or with milk as cappuccino, latte macchiato or one of the many sweet varieties of coffee shop chains - it is part of our daily life. Only 1% of the world's agricultural land is reserved for coffee cultivation. This…

How to use travel times for yourself

Get up in the morning, get ready, have breakfast - and off you go to work. To arrive at the office, many people first have to cover a distance, because very few live around the corner from their workplace. Commuters sometimes spend a lot of time every day driving to work and back home, some up to three hours or more a day. That's time that can't be properly classified anywhere. A state of…

Shanghai. Port of Superlatives

China. The Middle Kingdom is the largest in the world in terms of the population of 1.4 billion people. Also its surface is huge, 9,596,961 km² give it the fourth place on the list of the world's largest countries. Every year, the economy grows at much higher rates than Western economies. Today, China is the world's largest export nation with an export volume of US$ 2.157 trillion in 2017 (out of …

Containers. The revolution in world trade

The first container ship docked in Hamburg 50 years ago. This marked the beginning of the containerisation of the Port of Hamburg, which, like in many other ports around the world, has enormously boosted transhipment and changed the port economy. Therefore, we would like to take a look at the history of development and some special features around the container. At the end of the 1930s, the…

Fresh fish in flight

Although resources are becoming increasingly scarce, fish consumption has increased worldwide in recent years. As part of a conscious diet, as a source of protein for people who reduce their meat consumption, or simply as a tasty food that can be prepared in a variety of delicious ways - fish is still in vogue. In Germany, annual per capita consumption in the last ten years has fluctuated between…

The banana and the logistics

Thursday afternoon, about 4:00 pm. Lunch was a few hours ago. The energy boost from the colourful salad, some bread and a grilled fish followed by an espresso, which was served in the chic bistro around the corner, slowly fades away and makes way for the afternoon depression. But the end of the day is not yet in sight, and so a solution must be found to keep up the next few hours and to complete…

FIFA World Cup 2018 and the logistics

About every four years, there is a virus circulating for a while. It is called the World Cup virus. It definitely broke out globally with the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia on 14th July. The national teams of 32 countries take part in the contest for the trophee that will be bestowed after the final in the Luzhniki-stadium of Moscow on 15th July. The terrific number of…

Curiosa from the harbour of Hamburg

We from Transport Talent have our location in the heart of Hamburg St. Pauli. Today it is one of the city‘s trendy neighbourhoods, but it used to be home to dock workers in earlier times. Hamburg without its harbour, that is something completely unthinkable. So, within our column „From the Gate to the World to the Harbours of the World", it seemed natural to write about our own city at least onc…

A harbour in the cradle of Europe

It is probably the oldest harbour in Europe. The oldest one in this function till today, without interruption. And it is situated in the country with the oldest culture in Europe – Greece. The founding of Piraeus as a port goes back more than 2500 years. There are the first settlements in Piraeus in 1300 BC. From 560 BC onward, a route network from Piraeus to the hinterland, the Attica peninsula a…

Montreal—old and new

Very often the new things, the contemporary and common things emerged from an older version. The modern transportation system of containers with RFID chip has its roots in a simple system of boxes and palettes, sorted and consigned by hand and lifting devices. The promising container ship of new times that runs with electricity from renewables, until now seems to be at the end of a long chain of…