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Dorothea von Boxberg to take over as CCO of Lufthansa Cargo

Alexis von Hoensbroech, chief commercial officer of Lufthansa Cargo, is to move on to become CEO and chairman of Austrian Airlines from August 1.
Formerly an astrophysicist, he has been with Lufthansa’s cargo division since 2014 and with CEO Peter …


COSCO takeover of OOCL threatened by China-US trade spat

The $6.3bn COSCO takeover of Orient Overseas International Lines (OOIL) and its container line arm, OOCL, could be stymied at the eleventh hour by a perceived threat to US national security interests.
COSCO Shipping, set to acquire 90.1% of the …




HHLA must look elsewhere for growth as port of Hamburg volumes weaken

German terminal operator HHLA is increasingly eyeing international acquisitions as a means of mitigating against future volume weakness in its home port of Hamburg, Drewry Maritime Financial Research argued today.
Although 2017 saw HHLA post “inspiring results”, with revenues up …