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Friday, 8.May, 17.10 a.m. at the Wismar Wismar location, the production begins on Monday under new hygiene regulations.After a month and a half of the CORONA break, around 50 employees under strict requirements for health protection. Efficient work processes under real conditions, as the company announced on Friday.Because of the spatial tightness, this would not be done on the ship global dream, but in section construction on the side place in the Dockhalle."This internal practical test should give us information about how we can gradually record the production," said Managing Director Peter Fetten.

This step is an important sign for the workforce and the suppliers.The upcoming test weeks should provide information for the future.Employees of suppliers and partner companies are not integrated into the manufacturing process during the preparation period.The biggest challenge for manufacturing under full load is in the distance regulation and contact avoidance, said Fetten.Therefore, teams would be created that alternate in the shift rhythm.The layers are limited to six hours to get by without a break and without changing your clothes.

Friday, 8.May, 14.35 a.m. Lufthansa is slowly giving more thrust after the Corona deep.From June, around twice as many planes are to be deployed at the Lufthansa, Swiss and Eurowings Group Airlines, the company announced in Frankfurt on Friday.The then 160 jets should bring the guests to 106 destinations at home and abroad.These include important sun destinations such as Crete, Mallorca, Sylt or Rostock.However, around 600 groups of the group are still unused on the ground.

Friday, 8.May, 12.8 p.m. The Scandinavian airline SAS promoted almost 96 percent fewer passengers in view of the Corona crisis last month than a year earlier.In April only around 94 traveled.000 people in regular flight operations with SAS, as the airline announced on Friday.That was a decline of 95.6 percent compared to April 2019.The utilization of the passenger machines fell by almost 48 percentage points to 26.6 percent, while SAS only maintained a very limited flight operations in Norway and Sweden.

"Our assessment is that it will take until 2022 before the demand reaches the level of before Covid-19," said SAS boss Rickard Gustafson.In the course of the crisis, the airline had already announced last week to have its staff by up to 5.000 jobs to almost halve.Should be affected by the step around 1.900 full -time forces in Sweden and 1.700 in Denmark and 1.300 in Norway.

Friday, 8.May, 12 Uhr „Die Corona-Krise beginnt im Außenhandel beispiellose Spuren zu hinterlassen.In the first quarter we got away with a blue eye.In the coming months we will have to get used to double -digit declines.Because the consequences of the lockdown of 50 percent of global economic performance, the closing of limits, especially in the European single market, the worldwide imposition of commercial and travel restrictions as well as massive disorders in the sea and air freight begin to leave their traces in the statistics."This explains Dr.Holger Bingmann, President of the Federal Association of Wholesale, Foreign Trade, Services (BGA), today in Berlin for the development of German foreign trade.

Friday, 8.May, 10 a.m. The environmental association BUND and the umbrella organization of critical shareholders require the German car manufacturers to do without dividend payments to shareholders if they demand purchase bonuses or other help from the state.The demands of the corporations for state aid are "absolutely inappropriate", it said on Friday in a joint message.

"Privatizing profits and socializing risks is the plan of car companies," said BUND traffic expert Jens Hilgenberg, who is also a member of the board at the umbrella organization of critical shareholders."Now the federal government is required not to allow this insolence.It must apply: no state aid for dividends paying corporations."Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW wanted their shareholders with a total of 5.8 billion.Participation in the 2019, financially successful year.

Friday, 8.May, 9.30 a.m. The online mail order company Amazon has announced that it would move to the highest court of France in a legal dispute over Coronavirus protection measures in logistics centers in logistics centers.Amazon had decided to contest the decision of an Appeal inVersailles in front of the France Court of Court at the end of April, the company announced on Thursday evening.The reasons for this would be presented to the parties concerned in court, according to the group.Amazon said that the discussions with employee representatives continued.

The French logistics centers are likely to be up to and including 13.May be closed in May, as the company continued.The final decision will be made on Friday at a meeting of the central works council.If this confirms the plan, the employees remained at home and received their full salary, according to Amazon.

Friday, 8.May, 9.10 a.m. if we want to ensure that supply chains remain open and vital goods such as food, fuel, raw materials and medical devices continue to come into the country, it is crucial that crew change can take place and seafarers can move between the countries without conditions.This appeal is directed by Bob Sanguinetti, Chief Executive of the UK Chamber of Shipping, to the British government and asks you to take on the international leadership role.

Sanguinetti refers to the humanitarian emergency of the crews, which have already spent many months at sea and which must be attributed to their home countries urgently.Around 150 of the more than 1.2 million seafarers that are currently at sea were waiting.000 seafarers on replacement."Apart from the fact that the shipping companies have to comply with international regulations and contractual obligations, the service times on board ships cannot be extended indefinitely, since this has dangerous effects on health and well -being of ship crews and above all on the safe shipping," explainsSanguinetti.

Friday, 8.May, 8.35 a.m. As the Federal Office for Freight Transport (BAG) and the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) say, the mileage of the toll trucks with at least four axes on federal highways in April 2020 has decreased by 10.9 percent compared to March 2020.That was once again a stronger decline compared to the previous month than in March 2020, when the strongest decline in the previous month since the introduction of the truck toll in 2005 was measured at -5.8 percent compared to February 2020.Since the truck mileage is closely related to industrial production in Germany, the index provides early information on the economic development in April 2020.

Friday, 8.May, 8.30 a.m. Despite increasing tensions and mutual accusations for the Coronavirus pandemic, China and the USA want to capture their trade deal.The agreed by the US trade officer Robert Lighthizer and finance minister Steven Mnuchin with the ChineseVice-Prime Minister Liu He in a phone call on Friday (local time Beijing).It was said about the ongoing process of implementing the phase 1 trade agreement, it said in a message from the US side."Good progress" would be made.

According to the US information, both sides also firmly calculate that despite the current global health emergency, they fulfill their obligations from the agreement in good time.China's state news agency Xinhua reported that both sides had agreed to create a "good atmosphere and favorable conditions" for the implementation of the agreement and to promote "positive results".

Friday, 8.May, 8.3 p.m. German export broke down at the beginning of the Corona crisis.The companies were worth 108.9 billion in March.EUR from.That was 7.9 percent less than in the same month and 11.8 percent less than in February 2020, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Friday in Wiesbaden.Compared to the previous month it was the strongest decline since the beginning of the time series in August 1990.Imports decreased by 4.5 percent to 91.6 billion within a year.EUR.

The slump in March left significant traces in the first quarter.Exports fell by 3.3 percent to 324.9 billion compared to the same period in the previous year.EUR.The imports decreased by 2.9 percent to 273.1 billion.EUR.

Friday, 8.May, 8.01 a.m.Volkswagen has postponed the resumption of his car production in Mexico.The twoVW works there would be on 1 according to the current planning on 1.Going back into operation again in June, the Mexican subsidiary of the German company announced on Thursday (local time).She referred to the interruption of not essential activities in Mexico because of the Corona crisis.The government had the measure in mid -April to 30.May extended.A stable supply chain should be made possible by the shift, it was said.

Friday, 8.May, 7.36 a.m. The second largest US car manufacturer Ford is preparing the end of his pandeme-related production break in North America.On 18.May should be resumed gradually, the company announced on Thursday after the US IPO.Previously, the US market leader General Motors (GM) had already announced that it will bring production in the USA and Canada up again on this date.

The car manufacturers emphasized that this is done under extensive security precautions and in accordance with the guidelines of the authorities.The corporations would have loved to start earlier, but had to agree with the union.

Friday, 8.May, 7.6 p.m. Thuringia's Corona aid package for economy, municipalities and citizens should have a volume of more than one billion euros.It will be on Friday (12.00) Performed by the government factions LINKE, SPD and Greens in a special meeting of the state parliament in Erfurt.Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) gives a government statement for the corona crisis, its consequences and the situation in Thuringia.

For the first time in many years, the parliament does not meet in the state parliament building in Erfurt.In order to be able to comply with the distance rules for the 90 MPs, a large conference hall in the Steigerwald Arena in Erfurt was rented for the plenary session.

Friday, 8.May, 7.9 a.m. Airbus in April in the middle of the deepest crisis in the aviation industry did not collect a single cancellation of aircraft orders.At the beginning of April there was even the order for nine machines from the 320neo family from aircraft financier Avolon, the aircraft manufacturer said in Toulouse on Thursday.This increased the number of gross betting this year to 365.Since there were still 66 cancellations in the first three months, the number of net orders will amount to 299 by the end of April.

Friday, 8.May, 7.07 a.m. Slovakia extends border controls to Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary because of the Corona crisis until 27.May.Inneminister Roman Mikulec referred to the corresponding rules of the Schengen Treaty after the decision on Thursday.The currently applicable controls of the EU partner country would be on 8.May ausgelaufen.Miculec added that premature termination was also possible, the development of the pandemic should allow this.

The minister rejected criticism of the Srikten entry restrictions.The top priority is to protect the health of the citizens.The strict measures had proven to be effective.A broad entry ban for foreigners from EU countries and a 14-day compulsory quartan, which returnees from abroad in a state institution have to be completed are particularly controversial.

Thursday, 7.May, 17.55 a.m.Vidya Mani, extraordinary professor at the renowned Dard School of Business at the University ofVirginia, assumes that many industries such as the electronics, textile or chemical industry will also work with global supply chains after the corona crisis.It is different with care -critical goods such as pharmaceuticals and food, she told DVZ.In these segments you can expect a stronger departure from a globalized chain of value.

However, the expert in supply chain risk management generally believes that something will change more in precautions than in the structure itself.She cites the insurance of business risks and inventory agreements as examples."After the crisis, at least at the regional level - for example within the EU and in Southeast Asia - we will find that more capacities and existing buffers will build up in the supply chain," Mani is convinced.

Thursday, 7.May, 17.50 a.m. in the first quarter, the business of the French contract logistics has proven to be robust.Despite the corona crisis, the service provider could grow significantly.Above all, the areas of food and e-commerce as well as the activities in the international markets helped.In this way, the company was even able to increase in turnover outside of France.However, the crisis does not pass the company without a trace.ID Logistics, in particular, pay more attention to cash management and cost adjustments, as the company reports.

In the first two weeks of April, the decline in sales observed at the end of March.The main reason for this is that almost 20 locations had to be closed worldwide, which make up about 6 percent of the group's sales.Since then, some countries such as Belgium and Germany have started to reopen the shops."It is therefore hardly foreseeable at this stage whether the trend of the first days in April will continue," the company says with.More about development in the first quarter

Thursday, 7.May, 15.40 p.m. Lufthansa has officially confirmed that you with the German state via a rescue package with a volume of 9 billion.EUR verhandelt.After that, the federal government strives for up to 25 percent plus a vote, as it was said in a duty to the stock exchange on Thursday.A representation on the Supervisory Board is also sought.The waiver of future dividend payments is also planned for requirements.Lufthansa emphasized that the negotiation and the political willing process continued.

Thursday, 7.May, 14.31 o'clock The climate activists of the Friday for Future movement want to protest on Saturday in Erfurt with applause against the demands of the auto industry for a purchase bonus."In the corona crisis, it was proven that strong applause can replace financial support," said the activists of the Erfurt local group on Thursday."Why shouldn't the auto industry also apply what applies to every nurse?"

As Annika Liebert continued to represent the local group, a great carmaker in the Corona crisis will send for a short-time work on the one hand, but still stick to the release of dividends.On the other hand, the group is looking for state aids, says Liebert."We have no understanding for that."

Thursday, 7.May, 14.9 a.m. after the corona -related forced break, Porsche Leipzig has been running off the assembly line again since Thursday.Production in the work had been gradually raised again since Monday.

The restart is an important signal for the employees and the economy in the region, explained plant manager Gerd Rupp.Porsche had exposed production in Leipzig as well as in the main plant in Stuttgart for six weeks.The car manufacturer justified this with bottlenecks in the global supply chains because of the corona crisis.

Thursday, 7.May, 13.26 p.m. The federal government warns in view of the spreading Corona crisis of poverty in developing countries. „Die Gefahr politischer Instabilität, großer Hungersnöte sowie neuer Flucht- und Migrationsbewegungen steigt, ob im Sahel oder in Süd- und Mittelamerika", zitiert das Handelsblatt aus einem Bericht des Auswärtigen Amts für den Bundestag.

It states that pandemic can throw back the global struggle against poverty by decades.Inequalities within individual companies and between the countries would be tightened.The federal government also fears a serious crisis of world trade and is therefore also concerned about the export -oriented German economy.The letter warns of national isolation. Diese würde „gerade in strukturschwachen Staaten - die wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Pandemie" verstärken.

Thursday, 7.May, 12.4 p.m. The Corona crisis leaves deeper traces in the German economy.Industrial production collapsed in March, and fewer orders were received by mechanical engineers.Production in the manufacturing trade decreased by 9.2 percent in February, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Thursday in Wiesbaden.This is the strongest decline since the beginning of the time series in January 1991.Compared to March 2019, the break -in with 11.6 percent was even stronger.

The German mechanical engineers reached the crisis at the end of the first quarter.According to theVDMA industry association, the order input fell by 9 percent compared to the same period in March compared to the same period in the previous year..There was a clear minus of 12 percent in the international orders. „Dies lässt vermuten, dass sich hier die Ausbreitung der Pandemie zuerst in China und später dann auch in Europa bemerkbar macht", erläuterteVDMA-Chefvolkswirt Ralph Wiechers.The orders from Germany only decreased by 2 percent.

Thursday, 7.May, 12.4 a.m. Long -term investments, for example in education, climate protection or the infrastructure: From the point of view of several business institutes, the corona crisis is a good time to prevent a continued economic downturn. „Wir sind an der Kreuzung zwischen Angebots- und Nachfrageschock", sagte Michael Hüther, Direktor des arbeitgebernahen Instituts der Deutschen Wirtschaft in Köln am Donnerstag.

Together with the Institute for Macroeconomics and Business Research at the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, the University of Mannheim and the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (DIW), Hüther presented a paper with suggestions where which editions are currently helpful.The authors ask the federal government to strengthen public and private investments in the areas of health, environment and education.Short -term measures that are supposed to boost consumption do not occur in the paper.

Thursday, 7.May, 11.34 a.m. The break-in air traffic in the Corona crisis forces the British engine builder Rolls-Royce to cut production hard.In the current year, only 250 instead of 450 engines will be delivered to customers and 44 percent less than previously planned, Rolls-Royce said on Thursday before his general meeting in London.CEO Warren East now wants to reduce the costs even more and instead of 750 million British pounds this year around one billion.Pound (1.15 billion.EUR) sparen.

Thursday, 7.May, 11.10 p.m. The series of cancellations of international major maritime events as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.This time it will hit Rotterdam the largest European seaport.The actually for the 4.until 6.September planned "43. Welthafentage" werden nicht durchgeführt.And that despite the fact that they no longer fall into the general ban on major events in the Netherlands (up to 31.August).

Thursday, 7.May, 11.2 p.m. The British Airways mother IAG relies on state aid after a billion dollar loss due to the corona pandemic.The Spanish subsidiaries Iberia andVueling had already applied for aid in their country, IAG announced on Thursday in London.This is intended to prevent the company from going out the money in the Corona crisis.Due to the extensive stop of global air traffic as a result of pandemic, airlines all over the world are fighting for survival.

A government spokeswoman did not want to comment on possible help for British Airways on Thursday on request in London.The British AirlineVirgin Atlantic recently had the deletion of over 3.000 jobs plans to ask state support.Downing Street only announced a few days ago that they work closely with the industry and will discuss the situation of the companies individually.

Thursday, 7.May, 10.50 a.m. in the port of Duisburg, the rail traffic with China achieved a record level last month.As the Duisburger Hafen AG (Duisport) announced, around 50 trains were registered in April every week.Usually 35 to 40 trains would run between Duisburg and China a week.

"We clearly feel the pandeme-related catch-up effects in the China business. Gleichzeitig haben wir aber weiter intensiv an unserem Netzwerk gearbeitet und im April unsere Zug-Angebote um weitere chinesische Destinationen erweitert", erklärte Duisport-Chef Erich Staake."Especially now in the crisis period, rail traffic is an important alternative to sea freight." Auf das erhöhte Warenaufkommen war der Duisburger Hafen eigenen Angaben zufolge gut vorbereitet."We have additional storage areas and individual solutions for further transport. Unser Netzwerk funktioniert auch in Krisenzeiten, und das ist einVerdienst unserer engagierten Mitarbeiter", berichtete Staake.

Thursday, 7.May, 10.The Corona crisis was hard to hit the business supplier Continental in the first quarter.As the DAX group from Hanover reported on Thursday, the profit decreased by almost half to 292.3 million.EUR.The entire auto industry is struggling with massive sales declines and overcapacity as a result of pandemic, and suppliers and tire manufacturers also feel this.Production is currently still exposed to every fifth Conti plant, in Germany it was for around 30.000 employed short -time work was registered.The turnover went from January to March compared to the same period last year by 10.9 percent to 9.8 billion.EUR zurück.

At the end of April, the second largest company in the supplier industry based on preliminary data had reported a slightly better development than initially feared.There was originally a range of 9.4 to 9.8 billion for sales.EUR erwartet worden.The adjusted result before interest, taxes and depreciation took 51.1 percent in the first annual quarter to 431.9 million.EUR ab.The coming months should also be difficult.

Thursday, 7.May, 10.3 a.m. The Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss expects the parliamentary decision on government aids with the payment of the first loan tranche in early June.The loan agreement overCHF 300 million (285 million.EUR) mit den Banken habe eine Laufzeit von fünf Jahren, sagte Finanzchef Markus Binkert am Mittwochabend.However, the business plan provides for a faster repayment. Das Unternehmen habe seine Berechnungen „auf Basis eines konservativen Flugplan-Szenarios" erstellt, sagte Konzernchef Thomas Klühr.

Overall, Swiss and the other Swiss Lufthansa subsidiary Edelweiss can beCHF 1.5 billion (CHF 1.43 billion.EUR) von einem Bankenkonsortium besorgen.This is intended to cushion the consequences of the extensive setting of flight operations due to the coronavirus pandemic.85 percent of it - almost 1.3 billion.Francs - guaranteed the federal government.He has secured the entire SWISS share capital as a guarantee in the event that the loans granted can no longer be served.

Thursday, 7.May, 9.56 a.m. The airline Air France-Klm, which was struck due to the corona crisis, has no hope of a quick recovery.The Lufthansa competitor said in Paris on Thursday that the Lufthansa competitor said in Paris that a slow start-up of the business in summer.However, the flight offer is likely to be around 95 percent in the second quarter and around 80 percent lower in the third quarter than a year earlier.A complete recovery of the number of passengers from the virus crisis is likely to take several years, the management estimates and now looks even more carefully into the future.

The fleet should now shrink so far that the flight capacity is at least one fifth below the level of 2019 when the Corona crisis had not yet been an issue.In 2020, there should also be a very high loss before interest, taxes and depreciation (EBITDA), it was said.In the current second quarter, the operational minus should also be significantly higher than in the first quarter of the year.

Thursday, 7.May, 9.53 a.m. Despite the global Coronavirus outbreak, China's exports rose surprisingly in April.As the Beijing customs authority announced on Thursday, exports increased by 3.5 percent compared to April of previous years.On the other hand, it was significantly downhill with imports that collapsed by 14.2 percent.

Analysts had expected a significant decline in both one and exports and exports.The strict measures against the spread of the coronavirus had practically brought the Chinese economy to a standstill since the end of January.The effects were therefore particularly noticeable in February.Then a slow recovery started.

Thursday, 7.May, 9.49 a.m. with the promised Corona Fort Aid of the State Government for the medium-sized economy and artists, there are sometimes weeks of delays.The program comes up with such great reverberation that the seven district governments and the state capital of Munich have trouble working on applications.

According to current information from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 225 are.000 applications already processed and 1.3 billion.EUR fromgezahlt worden.But a total of 430 are.000 applications, many of which are presumably twice - for the first time in paper form and a second time electronically.The Ministry estimates that in the end after the cleaning up it is about 300 net.000 auxiliary applications will be.

Thursday, 7.May, 9.40 p.m. Düsseldorf airport leader Thomas Schnalke urges the state to help millions because of the consequences of the Corona Hutdown. Einem Bericht der Rheinischen Post (Donnerstag) zufolge fordert er, dass das Land oder der Bund die monatlich zehn Millionen Euro Betriebskosten erstatten, weil der Airport aktuell nur auf Bitten des Staates betrieben werde: „Es wäre angemessen, wenn der Staat den Flughäfen als wichtige Infrastruktur die anfallenden Bereitstellungskosten vergütet", sagte Schnalke.

According to the airport boss, the city of Düsseldorf and private investors do without their profit distribution for 2019."The airport's shareholders recently decided to have the surplus for 2019 in the amount of 63 million.EUR wegen der Corona-Pandemie erst einmal im Unternehmen zu belassen.That helps us a lot.After all, our liquidity is finally in view of the high operating costs and the sales of zero."

Wednesday, 6.May, 21.10 p.m. Mexico's car market has broken into the corona crisis.In April, almost 65 percent fewer cars were sold to consumers in the country than in the same month of last year, as can be seen from the National Statistics Agency figures on Wednesday.In February the car sales had more than 104.000 located, in March there were around 87.500 and only 34 in April.903.

Mexico's economy is the second largest Latin America.The sixth vehicles are produced in the country worldwide.One of the largestVolkswagen works is in Mexican Puebla.Because of the Corona pandemic, the production there was on 20.March temporarily stopped and not yet continued.According to the official statistics, Nissan has been among the manufacturers with a good 20 percent of the cars sold in Mexico, according to the beginning of the year, followed by General Motors andVolkswagen.

Wednesday, 6.May, 19.32 a.m. The Foreign Trade Association BGA sees a timetable for a restart of the German economy in the decided loosening of the Corona measures. „Auch wenn er an einigen Stellen vage bleibt, gibt er den Unternehmen und deren Beschäftigten die notwendige Perspektive, dass es nun endlich schrittweise wieder losgehen kann", sagteVerbandspräsident Holger Bingmann am Mittwoch nach dem Gespräch der Bundeskanzlerin mit den Ministerpräsidenten der Bundesländer.

At the same time, he noted that 88 countries in the corona crisis have issued trade restrictions. Das sei „eine Katastrophe für die international verflochtene deutsche Wirtschaft".The Federal Government should therefore work to reduce these restrictions.The federal and state governments agreed on further loosening of the corona measures.For example, all shops should be allowed to be allowed again regardless of the size of their sales area under requirements.

Wednesday, 6.May, 15.25 p.m. The downward trend of fuel prices lasts.Fueling has already become cheaper for the nationwide average for the eleventh week in a row. Kostete ein Liter Super E10 im Bundesmittel in derVorwoche noch 1,136EUR, so sind es laut aktueller Auswertung des ADAC in dieser Woche 1,133EUR. Diesel verbilligte sich ebenfalls um 0,3 Cent auf durchschnittlich 1,037EURje Liter.Diesel could even be recharged for less than one euro at favorable times of the day.As in the previous week, the price difference between the two types of fuel is 9.6 cents.

Despite the ongoing low demand in the Corona crisis and the high stocks, the oil prices have recently increased significantly.A barrel of the Brent variety currently costs around $ 30 and thus by $ 10 more than a week ago.At the beginning of the year, however, the oil price was still around $ 70.

Wednesday, 6.May, 14.43 a.m. The Federal Association of German Industry (BDI) has criticized a lack of coordinated exit plan in view of the relaxation of the Corona measures. „Bund und Länder sollten Grundsatzfragen einheitlich klären, um Bürger und Wirtschaft nicht zu überfordern", sagteVerbandspräsident Dieter Kempf am Mittwoch.For example, so that industrial production can start again successfully, the simultaneous functioning of nationwide and international logistics and mobility chains is essential.

The federal and state governments agreed on further loosening of the corona measures.For example, all shops should be allowed to be allowed again regardless of the size of their sales area under requirements.In addition, relatives of two households can also meet in the future.Read more about the development of German industrial production here.

Wednesday, 6.May, 14.25 p.m. The latest data on the shopping manager index (EMI) underline the very bad mood in German industry.The index, which was raised by IHS Markit on behalf of the BME buyer association BME.All partial indices show down.According to BME, production was broken into to an unprecedented extent in April.About 68 percent of the survey participants recorded a decline and justified this with factory closures, short -time work, supply problems and the generally weak demand.With 19.7 points, the partial index was significantly below the previous low of 27.8, which was measured in January 2009.

The EMI dropped to 34.5 points in April, according to a value of 45.4 in March.This is the lowest value since March 2009.The crash was still mitigated by a record extension of the delivery times and an increase in pre -material warehouses.Both trends are related to a corona -related interruption of the supply chains and usually show themselves when they were down, the analysts of IHS Markit in London shared.Read more about the results here.

Wednesday, 6.May, 14.08 Uhr Die deutsche Reederei Klingenberg hat vor einer gefährlichen Eskalation auf dem Containerschiff „MV Marina" gewarnt, das vor Malta Dutzende Migranten an Bord genommen hat. „Wenn es nicht bald eine Lösung gibt, dann werden Menschen an Bord sterben", sagte Reederei-Inhaber Thies Klingenberg der Deutschen Presse-Agentur am Mittwoch am Telefon.The MV Marina had recorded 79 migrants in the Mediterranean at the request.

The merchant ship is waiting for the assignment of a port on the Italian island of Lampedusa or that authorities would bring people to another ship.But so far there have been no signals from Malta or Italy. Die Häfen beider Länder wurden in der Covid-19-Krise als „nicht sicher" deklariert.People who are saved by ships from distress could not be supplied there.

Wednesday, 6.May, 12.10 p.m. The public discussion for objections to the construction of the factory of the US electric car manufacturer Tesla in Grünheide near Berlin is further delayed by the corona crisis.Originally it was supposed to take place in March that a new date could not be mentioned, Economics Minister Jörg Steinbach (SPD) said on Wednesday in the Economic Committee of the Landtag. „Fragen Sie dasVirus, wo und wann eineVeranstaltung stattfinden kann", sagte er auf Nachfragen.

Wednesday, 6.May, 12.15 Uhr Die EU-Wirtschaft steht in diesem Jahr vor einer Rezession „historischen Ausmaßes".The EU Commission is based on this.In her spring business forecast, she predicts that the economic performance of the EU states in 2020 will be shrinked by 7.4 percent and that of the euro countries by 7.7 percent.Compared to the autumn forecast, the growth proprietation was corrected by around nine percentage points down.For 2021, the Commission then predicts gross domestic product of 6.1 percent for all Member States and 6.3 percent for the euro countries.All states would be affected by the economic effects of the pandemic, but to different levels.Read more here.

Wednesday, 6.May, 11.35 a.m. The IAA CommercialVehicles, like many other international trade fairs in Hanover, must be out of the corona restrictions this year.This was announced by the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) as organizer of the most important specialist exhibition in the industry in Berlin on Wednesday.The exhibition in the Lower Saxony state capital was originally.up to 30.September planned.However, other appointments such as the world's largest industrialchau Hannover fair had to be canceled there.Large events should also remain prohibited until at least end of August.

„In vielen Ländern gibt es Reisebeschränkungen, die noch etliche Monate einzuhalten sind", erklärteVDA ergänzend."The direct exchange at a trade fair is no longer compatible with the claim of the IAA as part of the Corona pandemic." DieViruskrise habe zwar die Bedeutung der Nutzfahrzeugbranche mit wichtigen Transporten und der „Aufrechterhaltung der öffentlichen Lebensversorgung" gezeigt.But at the same time the economic consequences for the companies and for the IAA are enormous.Large truck and bus providers such as you or Daimler had to temporarily close their works.

Wednesday, 6.May, 10.55 a.m. The world's largest car manufacturerVolkswagen sold more cars after the largely lifted Corona restrictions in China in April.The group was able to increase the deliveries in China last month compared to the same period last year, while the overall market was back by around 10 percent,VW China boss Stephan Wöllenstein wrote on Wednesday at the LinkedIn online career network.VW CEO Herbert Diess had also already reported positive results in the country affected by the Covid 19 pandemic.The market share has increased by 1.7 percentage points to around 21 percent.Volkswagen is the market leader in the world's largest auto-single market.China stood in the 2019VW Group for almost 40 percent of all delivered vehicles.

Wednesday, 6.May, 10.8 p.m. Corona pandemic also fully caught Frankfurt Airport.With the extensive stop of the international passenger flights, the operating company Fraport has immediately slipped into the red figures and no longer expects a profit for the year as a whole.In the meantime, important construction projects are also affected, as the group announced on Wednesday.

After the first three months of the year, the MDAX group had a minus of 29 million..In the first three months of 2019, Fraport still had a profit of 30.5 million.EUR erzielt.Sales broke by almost 18 percent to 661 million in the year.EURein.The company, who was mostly borne by the state of Hesse and the city.March over 2.2 billion.EURliquide Mittel und zugesicherte Kreditlinien.Since then, other funds of 300 million have been.EURgesichert worden. „Damit kann das Unternehmen die aktuelle Situation auch über viele Monate durchstehen", teilte Fraport mit.

Wednesday, 6.May, 9.30 a.m. a year after the start of the first German electric highway in southern Hesse, the project still cannot go full throttle.Because of the Corona travel restrictions, only two test trucks on Autobahn 5 are still on the road, as project manager Achim Reußwig from the Hessen Mobil traffic authority said.Actually, there should be twice as many.On a five-kilometer section, special hybrid trucks can recharge your batteries on a top line.So the batteries are charged at full speed.However, Reußwig does not expect a delay in the attempt that was created until the end of 2022.

He assumes that the necessary data can be collected: "On the basis of the results, decisions should also be made that cannot be pushed out into the future, whether this is a system that can be used to rely on." Ergebnisse seien im ersten Quartal 2023 zu erwarten.

Wednesday, 6.May, 9.8 p.m. Numerous companies in the maritime economy are currently receiving state instant aid.But criminals are now trying to take part of the payouts with a new fraud stitch.Before that, several state criminal offices (LKA) and conveyor banks have now urged companies.

In the new stitch, the criminals according to the information on the information on behalf of the state support institutes and call on the companies to fill out a tax certificate with their application data, the funding amount and the account number and also to be reimbursed parts of immediate help that has already been obtained.To what extent companies have already caused damage, according to the authorities, it is currently unclear.Neither the Central Association of German Sea Harbor (ZDS) nor the association Hamburg freight forwarders (VHSP) are currently known to specific cases on THB request. „Ich hoffe aber, dass alle Unternehmen wachsam sind und die Augen aufhalten", sagteVHSp-Geschäftsführer Stefan Saß.

Wednesday, 6.May, 9.05 a.m. Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz emphasized in the question of state aid for the Lufthansa Group that one had to find ways in which taxpayers are not only responsible for losses. „Wir müssen Regelungen finden, die dazu beitragen, dass das Unternehmen mit genügend Liquidität ausgestattet ist, dass aber gleichzeitig auch gewährleistet ist, dass die Steuerzahler nicht nur für dieVerluste zuständig sind, sondern wenn es wieder aufwärts geht auch dabei sein können", sagte der SPD-Politiker am Dienstagabend in den ARD-Tagesthemen.In addition, it must be ensured that the company will not be easy for others.There are very concrete and very smart suggestions.

Wednesday, 6.May, 8.55 a.m. Oil prices initially changed little on Wednesday.In this way, they defended their preliminary day profits.The price for a barrel (159 liters) of the North Sea variety of Brent was $ 30.96 in the morning.That was one cent less than the day before.The price for a barrel of the US variety WTI increased by 8 cents to $ 24.64.

The oil prices had risen significantly on Tuesday and had continued their latest price recovery.At the end of April, the oil prices had noticed around ten dollars lower.Dealers refer to the reduced oil production in the USA.The loosening of the restrictions in the Corona crisis have also strengthened the hope that oil demand could slowly attract again.

Wednesday, 6.May, 8.2 a.m. The extensive stop of the passenger flights due to the Corona pandemic has torn the Frankfurt airport operator Fraport in the first quarter.Fraport boss Stefan Schulte is now expecting a loss for the full year, as the company listed in the MDAX announced on Wednesday in Frankfurt.After the first three months of the year there was a loss of 29 million.EUR.A year earlier, Fraport had a win of 30.5 million.EUR erzielt.Sales broke by almost 18 percent to 661 million.EUR ein, nachdem der Flugverkehr imVerlauf des März weitgehend zusammengebrochen war.The operational profit (EBITDA) dropped by almost 36 percent to 129 million.EUR.

Wednesday, 6.May, 7.With this step, the group strengthens the robust liquidity situation by 479 million in view of the corona crisis.CHF.The board of directors reserves the dividend in the second half of the year.Read more here.

Wednesday, 6.May, 7.27 a.m. in the middle of the heavy Corona economic crisis on Wednesday (11.00 a.m.) their economic forecast.Assumptions for gross domestic product, inflation and unemployment in the euro zone and the entire European Union are expected.EU economic commissioner Paolo Gentiloni will present the numbers.Read the result in a timely manner here in the Corona Live Blog.

The federal government already has the spring forecast for Germany.Presented in 2020, and it also fails bleak.In the EU's largest economy for this year, a decline in gross domestic product is 6.3 percent.Next year it should go up steeply again.

Wednesday, 6.May, 7.9 p.m. The carmaker BMW has reduced its view in the core business because of the Coronavirus pandemic and wants to reduce the number of employees.The goals should be achieved with an employee number that would be slightly below the level of the previous year, the DAX group announced on Tuesday evening.The company will use vacant positions through fluctuation to advance personnel removal.At first, BMW did not provide any information about the number of positions that could fall victim to the tightened austerity course.

At the end of 2019, the group had almost 134 in the old count.000 employees, based on a new definition around 126,000.So far, CEO Oliver Zipse had still planned to contest the current year with an essentially constant number of employees.

Wednesday, 6.May, 7.6 p.m. in the debate about state aid for the aviation industry in the Corona crisis, Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze calls to establish them to climate protection requirements. „Staatshilfen müssen so eingesetzt werden, dass sie nicht nur eine kurzfristige Unternehmenssicherung erreichen, sondern auch längerfristig zu einer modernen, ökologisch tragfähigen Unternehmensstrategie führen", sagte die SPD-Politikerin dem Handelsblatt.Other countries would make guidelines for more efficient fleets or reducing short-distance flights, you find that correctly.

Tuesday, 5.May, 19.01 a.m. Procurement expertProf. Michael Eßig von der Universität der Bundeswehr München erklärt im Thesen-Check der DVZ, warum sich an den globalen Wertschöpfungsketten so schnell nichts ändern wird, sich „global" und „lokal" aber ergänzen könnten und weshalb die Beschaffung längst nicht mehr nur Quelle von Kostenreduktionen ist.You can find the other parts of our series that have been published so far on the future of the supply chains.

Tuesday, 5.May, 17.43 a.m. The supply chain platform provider Shippeo provides a card online that shows how the supply chains in Europe relax.According to the company, the activity of around 3.000 factories and warehouses all over Europe and thousands of transported transport flows shown.Accordingly, 33 percent of the supply chains in Europe are currently busy across all sectors.

Shippeo updates the card daily.All data come from the company's own platform.Shippeo is according to its own information on 500 telematics systems of transporters and inventory as well as about 140.000 freighters connected.

Tuesday, 5.May, 17.37 a.m. to the beginning of June should now be decided on tax -financed purchasing incentives in the automotive industry. Das vereinbarten heute die Teilnehmer eines „Autogipfels" von Bundesregierung und Branche.The countries of Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg with the main seats ofVolkswagen, BMW and Daimler had previously called for quick decisions.

Because consumers were holding out with expenses and supply chains were cut, theVDA industry association had spoken out for government aids.Environmentalists and various politicians primarily refuse to promote cars with an internal combustion engine.Observers also see extra money especially for the car industry-instead the aids could incorporate into a comprehensive economic stimulus program of the federal government.

A working group of the federal and industry and industry should now advise on the planned economic supports.The results should be discussed in early June.Chancellor Angela Merkel referred to the special importance of the auto industry for added value and employment. Die Maßnahmen sollten einen „Modernisierungsbeitrag" in Richtung innovativer Fahrzeugtechnologien darstellen.

Tuesday, 5.May, 16.25 p.m. with the support of the federal government,Volkswagen is building an old factory into a Corona clinic in South Africa.The medical facility in Port Elizabeth in the Province of Eastern Cape will be big enough for up to 4.000 beds, said Thomas Schäfer, head ofVW South Africa, on Tuesday.The first part of the clinic with around 1.400 beds will be finished in six to seven weeks, said Schäfer.According toVW, the clinic is then enlarged depending on the demand.The government will be the operator.

VW had around 66.According to Schäfer, 000 square meter factory has not been used since the end of last year and was in the process of selling them.No other companies in South Africa are known to the South African Ministry of Public Works and Infrastructure, which have so far done something similar in the Corona crisis, as a spokeswoman said.

Tuesday, 5.May, 16.11 a.m. Lufthansa technology will temporarily convert many passenger machines into freight aircraft in the coming months.A corresponding offer had found a positive response on the market, Lufthansa Technik said in Hamburg on Tuesday.Inquiries from more than 40 airlines have arrived;More than 15 projects would already be realized.A special highlight is the support in adapting an Airbus A380.

Since the work not only includes the expansion of seats, but also requires a significant proportion of engineering knowledge, experts who know exactly where the challenges are, explains the responsible director Henning Jochmann.Usually an aircraft that has received approval for passenger transport cannot be easily loaded in the cabin with freight.The approval criteria for passenger cabins and freight rooms are completely different.Fracht has a different floor load.The structural resilience of a passenger plane is lower than that of a cargo.

Tuesday, 5.May, 16 Uhr Ungeachtet der angekündigten Lockerung der Corona-Beschränkungen rechnet die Staatsregierung mit einer weiterenVerschlechterung der wirtschaftlichen Lage für viele Unternehmen.According to Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (free voters), almost two million are currently in Bavaria.People in more than 120.000 companies in short -time work. „Diese Zahlen werden noch weiter steigen", sagte Aiwanger am Dienstag nach der Kabinettssitzung in München."It is high time that we give the patient's economy the infusion that he needs, and this infusion is a circulating business operation."

Tuesday, 5.May, 15.Midnight the deficit in the US trade balance rose significantly in March.As the Ministry of Commerce announced in Washington on Tuesday, the excess of imports compared to the exports for the previous month increased by 4.6 billion.To 44.4 billion.U.S. dollar.

Both exports and imports decreased, but exports were much stronger.They fell by 9.6 percent at the previous month, while imports dropped by 6.2 percent.Both developments are also due to the outbreak of corona pandemic in the United States, the ministry said.However, the effects cannot be named precisely.

Tuesday, 5.May, 14.50 a.m. The metal employers in Lower Saxony have criticized the discussion about buying purchases for cars in the corona crisis as too tentative and warned of consequences for the jobs in the industry. „Niemand kauft ein Auto, solange eine Kaufpreisprämie im Raum steht und keine Entscheidung gefallen ist", erklärte der Hauptgeschäftsführer desVerbands Niedersachsen-Metall,Volker Schmidt, am Dienstag.Previously, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), together with other members of the federal government as well as representatives of auto industry and IG Metall, had decided to make a decision by early June.

Tuesday, 5.May, 13.40 p.m. Switzerland's billion-dollar state aid for the Lufthansa daughters Swiss and Edelweiss is under roof and subject.On Tuesday, the second Swiss parliamentary chamber, the Council of States, also granted the loan guarantees planned by the government.Overall, Swiss and Edelweiss can have loans of 1.5 billion.Francs (1.43 billion.EUR) von einem Bankenkonsortium besorgen.85 percent of it - almost 1.3 billion.Francs - guaranteed the federal government.Applications to combine this help with specific environmental requirements were not accepted.

The federal government has secured the entire SWISS share capital as a guarantee in the event that the loans granted can no longer be operated.In the event of a non -repayment, the Swiss state would then own the Swiss.The federal government has also connected the guarantees with commitments to secure the location.So far, however, he has not given details.In addition, the money must not flow in the form of dividends abroad, i.e. to Lufthansa,.The Council of States also insisted, among other things, that socially compatible solutions have to be sought if personnel reduction should be inevitable.

Tuesday, 5.May, 12.59 a.m. DR.Holger Bingmann, President of the Federal Association of Wholesale, Foreign Trade, Services (BGA) demands that all the areas of working life, where it is about millions of jobs.Because: "If the economy- in compliance with distance and hygiene rules- is not soon opened again in full width and can generate profits and tax.According to the BGA president, companies need a perspective and predictability.

It is time for general rules, a structured plan and a transparent procedure for all areas instead of sectoral solutions.This also applies to economic stimulus programs.

Tuesday, 5.May, 12 Uhr Der Flugverkehr wird aus Sicht der Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie in Deutschland erst in zwei bis drei Jahren wieder das hoheVorkrisen-Niveau erreichen. „Wir rechnen für Ende 2022 oder Anfang 2023 mit einem Niveau des Flugaufkommens wie wir es 2019 hatten", sagte der Präsident des Branchenverbands BDLI, Dirk Hoke, am Dienstag auf einer Telefonkonferenz mit Journalisten.It was too early to refrain from when consumers could travel across national borders with the aircraft.

The manufacturer and supplier industry in air traffic therefore called for further support from the state. „Wir gehen davon aus, dass etwa gebrauchte Flugzeuge künftig sehr billig sein werden", sagte Hoke.This is partly due to the currently extremely low oil price.The BDLI president therefore called for state incentives for airlines to create old machines after the crisis and to buy new ones."We must not lose sight of ecologically efficient flying in the crisis."

Tuesday, 5.May, 11.25 p.m. The Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Bremen and Bremerhaven demands a quick and structured start-up in the currently closed economic sectors in view of drastically sunken economic data.The results of the economic survey of 413 companies from the manufacturing trade, trade and services are alarming. „Bremens exportorientierte Wirtschaft leidet besonders stark unter den gestörten Lieferketten und dem Einbruch des Welthandels", so IHK-Hauptgeschäftsführer Matthias Fonger .This is reflected in the feedback from the companies, whose export expectations have broken down dramatically.Half of the companies surveyed rate the current business situation as bad, a third as satisfactory and less than a fifth than good.

Tuesday, 5.May, 11.3 p.m. The insolvent sports dealer Planet Sports can continue on a small foot.A medium-sized entrepreneurial consortium will take over the entire online trade and the branch in Cologne, said insolvency administrator Axel Bierbach on Tuesday in Munich.However, the remaining nine branches in Germany had written too high losses to continue them.After all, 62 of the 192 employees kept their workplace.

The sale was difficult in the Corona crisis, many interested parties had jumped off in mid-March due to their own economic concerns and business closures.The Munich company last had 75 million.EUR Jahresumsatz erwirtschaftet, aber am 20.February bankruptcy for impending insolvency registered.

Tuesday, 5.May, 11.10 a.m. The Hamburg shipping building SMM was postponed due to the Coronavirus from September to February 2021. „Die immer noch sehr dynamische Entwicklung von Covid-19 sowie die damit einhergehendenVerbote von Großveranstaltungen haben uns dazu veranlasst, die SMM schweren Herzens auf das nächste Jahr zu verschieben", teilte Messechef Bernd Aufderheide am Dienstag in der Hansestadt mit.After intensive consultations with the exhibitor advisory board, the Hamburg trade fair on the new appointment of 2.until 5.February 2021 informed.

The SMM takes place every two years on the Hamburg exhibition center and is considered the leading trade fair trade fair with more than 2200 exhibitors and around 50,000 visitors from all over the world.Not only are technological innovations from all areas of shipbuilding and supply industry, but also economic future prospects in the industry are discussed.The fair was originally from 8.up to 11.September planned.

Tuesday, 5.May, 11 Uhr Lufthansa-Chef Carsten Spohr hat bei den anstehenden Staatshilfen vor zu hohen Schuldenlasten gewarnt."Above all, we are not allowed to overthow ourselves. Das würde uns über Jahre lähmen", sagte derVorstandschef am Dienstag bei der Hauptversammlung des Dax-Konzerns am Dienstag.The company must already plan how state loans and investments can be returned as soon as possible after coping with the Corona crisis.

Politics must make sure that help does not lead to an imbalance in international competition, said Spohr.Competitors from the USA or China could renovate healthy in the current situation with state aid.The international competition should not be distorted by the type and scope of different state aids.Lufthansa now needs state support. „Aber wir brauchen keine staatliche Geschäftsführung", sagte Spohr und fügte hinzu: „Auch in der Bundesregierung in Berlin möchte niemand eine staatlich gelenkte Lufthansa."

Tuesday, 5.May, 10.45 a.m. The Scandinavian airline SAS has secured extensive state loans in the Corona crisis.One has had an agreement with a credit line of 3.3 billion.Swedish crowns (308 million.EUR) und einer Laufzeit von drei Jahren geeinigt, teilte die Airline am Dienstag mit.The governments of Sweden and Denmark guaranteed 90 percent of them.

Since the announcement of state credit guarantees for airlines affected by the Corona crisis, four Scandinavian banks and the governmental authorities have been working on clarifying the criteria and conditions, according to SAS.The agreement with Sweden and Denmark strengthens the financial position of the company, while most SAS pilots are on the ground.The Norwegian government also wants to remain in dialogue in order to access additional state guarantees of 1.7 billion.Norwegian crowns (around 150 million.EUR) zu erhalten.

Tuesday, 5.May, 10.25 p.m. The gradual withdrawal of government protection requirements in the course of the COVID-19 epidemic now also means that the federal exploitation companyVebeg in Frankfurt/Main can resume its business and thus restart auctions.At the beginning of April, the organization had to stop operating until further notice-a one-time process in the almost 70-year history of the exploitation platform.

Damit endeten alle Auktionen, so auch dieVermarktung der ehemaligen Fregatte „Bremen" (F 207) der Deutschen Marine, zugleich Typschiff der erfolgreichen Klasse 122.Your marketing would usually be on 16.April expired.Since the beginning of the week, the fully demilitarized warship has been offered for sale in Wilhelmshaven and is currently being moored in Wilhelmshaven, theVeBeg said to the THB.

Tuesday, 5.May, 10.3 p.m. in view of the urgent and sailing problems in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association of German captains and ship officers (VDKS) and the Association of German Ship Engineering (VDSI) to the federal government to stand up for the quickest possible solution. „VDKS undVDSI stellen fest, dass die aktuellen Probleme und Schwierigkeiten der Seeleute durch Einschränkungen bei der Reisefreiheit und derVersorgung von Schiffen weiter zunehmen", heißt es in einer gemeinsamen Mitteilung.

The association calls for the federal government to not relieve and intensively released and intensively with the partnersto work together in IMO and EU.

Tuesday, 5.May, 9.50 o'clock in front of the car summit with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the representatives of the car industry in question SPD general secretary Lars Klingbeil buy bonuses. Er glaube nicht, dass die Menschen nach den ersten Corona-Lockerungen „massenhaft losrennen und Autos kaufen werden", sagte Klingbeil am Dienstag im Deutschlandfunk.Therefore, the question generally arises whether a purchase bonus is the right instrument.In addition, sustainability and digitization would have to play a role: "If we decide to help the automotive industry, ((...) Then no technologies of the past may be promoted."

In the opinion of the chairman of the traffic committee, Cem Özdemir (Greens), the car manufacturers have to look ahead. „Ich finde, die Automobilindustrie könnte diese Krise jetzt auch nutzen, um selber Demut zu zeigen", sagte er am Dienstag im Interview mit dem Morgenmagazin.This could be done, for example, by offering vehicles that are technically up to date.

Tuesday, 5.May, 9.10 a.m. Ford produces facial masks and protective visors, this measure is part of a comprehensive initiative to create a safe work environment for employees who perform important tasks during the Corona crisis at the European Ford locations.The production of personal protective equipment is already running at Ford in Germany, Romania, Spain and Great Britain.This is to ensure that production can be resumed in most European vehicle and engine works.In -house production reduces the need for external procurement of materials that are currently urgently needed by other service providers and industries.

Tuesday, 5.May, 9 Uhr Die Ölpreise haben am Dienstag zugelegt. Der Preis für ein Barrel (159 Liter) der Nordseesorte Brent lag zuletzt bei 28,40U.S. dollar.That was $ 1.20 more than the day before.The price for a barrel of the US variety WTI increased by $ 1.36 to $ 21.74.Merchant referred to reports from which the crude oil flood could abbey on the markets.Apparently the reduced oil production is noticeable.According to a report by the Genscape data company, the inventory at the transshipment site for WTI in Cushing have recently increased as little as it has not been since mid -March.

In addition, the latest slump in demand for crude oil has found its soil, said dealers.However, it will probably take a very long time until the oil market has found its balance in view of the still very high offer and the weak demand.

Tuesday, 5.May, 6.50 a.m. The location on the transport market is still dramatic due to the corona crisis.According to the latest survey by the Federal Office for Freight Transport (BAG), many transport companies report on high order declines that could hardly be compensated for.The competitive pressure is increasing, among other things, due to very low freight prices on the spot market.According to the BAG, the proportion of empties in national and international return primarily when it comes to return diseases, the BAG writes freight traffic in its weekly market observation, in which it describes the effects of the corona crisis on the German freight traffic market.

The BAG's truck toll ride index has deteriorated in the past week compared to the previous week.It shows the development of toll freight traffic and can show the effects of the Corona crisis on road freight transport and in the further sense of the economy.In the week of 20.04.2020 to 24.04.2020) According to the BAG, the index value is minus 17.3 percent to minus 20.3 percent below the pre -crisis level.You can find the full report here.

Monday, 4.May, 22.56 p.m. the Czech Republic retains its border controls to Germany and Austria at least until 13.June at.This was decided by the head of government Andrej Babis on Monday evening.This is justified with the fight against a further spread of the new Coronavirus.Controls in the travel-free Schengen area are possible for up to 30 days under exceptional circumstances.But they can be extended again and again.

For the duration of the state of emergency, the Czech Republic recently up to 17.May extended hatte, gilt ein Einreisestopp für Ausländer.There are exceptions, among other things, for truck drivers, diplomats and cross-border commuters.Czechs are allowed to leave, but have to submit to quarantine or a negative coronavirus test for two weeks after returning.

Monday, 4.May, 21.55 a.m. Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU) has the border controls introduced due to the corona pandemic to Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, and Denmark to 15.May extended.The extension also applies to flights from Spain and Italy.In this way, the risk of infection by the coronavirus is to be continued to be successfully contained, it said in a letter from the ministry.

The controls were ordered in mid -March to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Menschen, die weder Deutsche noch dauerhaft hier ansässig sind, dürfen seither nur noch aus einem „triftigen Reisegrund" nach Deutschland kommen.For example, EU citizens who travel through Germany to their home country or truck drivers are allowed.Entry is also limited to certain border crossings.

According to the current status, the 15.May erste Öffnungen geben. So hat sich Schleswig-Holsteins Ministerpräsident Daniel Günther (CDU) mit Bundesinnenminister Horst Seehofer (CSU) auf eine schrittweise Öffnung der Grenze zu Dänemark ab MitteMay verständigt."Today we talked on the phone and agreed to develop a specific timetable in which steps from 15 at the latest.May eine Öffnung der Grenze zu Dänemark erfolgen kann", sagte Günther am Montag der Deutschen Presse-Agentur.

Monday, 4.May, 18.45 a.m. The global division of labor in cross -border value chains has been.Wolfgang Kersten from the TU Hamburg basically proven proven.It offers extensive advantages for everyone involved. „Insofern ist und bleibt der ökonomische Antrieb der Globalisierung sehr stark", ist der Leiter des Instituts für Logistik und Unternehmensführung überzeugt.

The scientist advises companies to now urgently examine their supply chains with regard to possible bottlenecks in the recovery phase.In addition, Kersten in the DVZ theses check explains why the JUST-In-Time production is without alternative and why the corona crisis could provide a thrust towards the climate-neutral supply chains.Read the complete theses check here.

Monday, 4.May, 16.45 a.m. The online retailer Amazon in France, according to a decision by the responsible authorities, does not receive a short -time work for several French logistics centers.An application was rejected by the Ministry of Labor, confirmed Amazon.The court dispute around Coronavirus security measures has an impact on Amazon's activity. In diesem Zusammenhang sei die Kurzarbeit beantragt worden, von der „andere Unternehmen profitiert haben", erklärte der Konzern in einer Mitteilung.

The application was rejected because the closure of the logistics centers was not connected to the fact that less would be ordered, but with a court decision, the ministry said the decision.In this case, short -time work is not planned.The background is a legal dispute of the online retailer about protective measures for employees in logistics centers.It is expected that the closure is still up to the 8th.May fortgesetzt werde, teilte das Unternehmen mit.In addition, a meeting with employee representatives is planned for Tuesday.The court decision had been obtained by the Union Syndicale Solidaires union group.

Monday, 4.May, 16 Uhr Im Rostocker Seehafen ist die erste Großlieferung aus China über Land und See mit 7,4 Mio.Protective masks arrived for Germany.At the same time, six other containers with urgently needed protective equipment were delivered for Italy, the Deutsche Bahn said on Monday.According to the information, the containers were only traveling from the terminal in Xi'an to Rostock twelve days from the terminal in Chinese Xi'an.The train initially went over 10.000 railway kilometers via Kazakhstan and Russia to Kaliningrad.There the containers were loaded onto a ship and transported to Rostock.Now they would be further distributed by rail to Duisburg orVerona (Italy).

According to the notification, Deutsche Bahn also helps the federal government with the procurement of up to 50 million.Mouth protection masks of class FFP2 from China.The transports with the masks urgently needed in German hospitals, medical practices and nursing homes to protect against Corona viruses should also also roll to Germany by train.The transport from China by rail is essential compared to the air freight

Monday, 4.May, 15.3 p.m. Lufthansa expects the negotiations on government aids in the billions to be completed soon.In addition, Ulrich Lange, deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group with the areas of responsibility and the economy, makes it clear that the Lufthansa rescue is talking about temporary state support to stabilize Lufthansa and not about building up a state company right.

"The group was financially and well positioned in front of Corona, and he does not need a sometimes state steering of business at times.Therefore, a supervisory board should be slim and remotely. Eine stille Beteiligung ist das richtige Instrument für die passive Rolle des Staates", sagt Lange.Lufthansa must continue to be a global player in the future that must be able to keep up with the Golf airlines as far as the American and Chinese airlines.Lange: "Let's not do anything: international air traffic is a highly competitive competitive market.Germany as a leading export nation also needs strong air traffic companies at this location."

Monday, 4.May, 14.8 p.m. The shareholders of the bankruptcy flyer Norwegian Air threatened by bankruptcy have agreed to a rescue plan with state money.More than 95 percent of the shareholders accepted "all proposed decisions" at an extraordinary general meeting on Monday, it said in a message from the airline to the Oslo stock exchange.

Norwegian Air is now fulfilling the requirements of the Norwegian state and can be found at about half of the 6 billion.Crowns (about 525 million.EUR) schweren Kreditpakets hoffen, das die Regierung unter dem Eindruck der Corona-Krise und dem Einbruch der Fluggastzahlen für die Branche aufgelegt hatte.After the trading of the share with the share on Monday morning, investors took the news positively, the title added 15 percent.

Monday, 4.May, 14.02 a.m. TheVW concert daughter Traton, to which the brands Man and Scania belong, calls for a Europe-wide scratch bonus for truck. „Es duldet keinen Aufschub bis Ende des Jahres", sagte Traton-Chef undVW-Vorstandsmitglied Andreas Renschler am Montag in München: „So was muss relativ schnell gemacht werden."

The sales figure fell by 20 percent to 46 in the first quarter.000 trucks and buses, winning 75 percent to 96 million.EUR ein.You even write red numbers, the operational loss was 78 million in the first quarter.EUR.After six weeks of standstill, all the important works are now gradually starting up again, said Renschler.If the supply chains hold, the production could perhaps even reach 80 percent of the capacity by the middle of the year. Aber wenn keine neuen Bestellungen kämen, sei der heutige Auftragsbestand in zwei, drei Monaten aufgezehrt und „abgevespert". Deshalb fordert er „ein europaweites Flotten-Erneuerungsprogramm".

Monday, 4.May, 13.26 Uhr Die „Gefahr einer gigantischen Geldverbrennung" sieht der Linken -PolitikerVictor Perli bei einem falsch geplanten Einstieg des Bundes bei der Lufthansa.He occurs for a nationalization.A silent participation and other KfW loans would be serious mistakes, explained the budget expert in Berlin on Monday."The federal government pays a lot of money for little influence and the risk of gigantic money burning." Statt neuer Schulden müsse mit der Staatshilfe das Eigenkapital der Lufthansa erhöht werden.

The grand coalition repeats the mistakes that have already been made in the Commerzbank rescue, criticized Perli.The federal government had retained the Commerzbank in 2009 with tax billions from collapse and had risen as a shareholder.Commerzbank has repaid direct aid, but the federal government is still the largest single shareholder of the money house with a share of a good 15 percent.A separation from the shares would currently be a loss of loss for the federal government in view of the significantly sunken share price.

Monday, 4.May, 11.52 a.m. A flood of delayed deliveries of goods from Asia is currently putting pressure on the clothing industry.Because the logistics centers are full due to the Lockdown, the importers look for intermediate storage and use all the ways to delay the deliveries.This reports the supply chain software provider Setlog.The Bochum company has found that since 9.April the follow -up within Germany has extended an average of six to twelve days compared to the previous year.This goes from an analysis (as of 29.April) under 100 brands that are connected to the setlog software.

Accordingly, the companies, for example, call the containers in the ports as late as possible, so empty containers come back to the depots later.At the same time, the clothing trade suffers from the fact that warehouse workers and truck drivers are short-lived in many freight forwarders. „Nicht nur der Abverkauf der Kleidung ist gestört, sondern der gesamte Logistikfluss", sagt Setlog-Vorstand Ralf Düster.

Monday, 4.May, 11.36 p.m. The business situation of the German car industry has dramatically deteriorated according to the survey of the IFO Institute.Accordingly, the index to the current business in April fell for a new low of minus 85.4 points (March: minus 13.2 points).That was the greatest decline since these figures for reunited Germany are raised.For comparison: In the financial crisis, the index value in April 2009 had fallen to minus 82.9 points.

The order stock continued to deteriorate.At the same time.The capacity utilization fell to 45 percent.This is also the deepest stand since reunification.The index of the production expectations fell to minus 44.2 points, from minus 36.2 in March.The export expectations and the business expectations for the next few months became even darker.

Monday, 4.May, 11.24 Uhr Europas größter Seehafen Rotterdam rechnet für den ZeitraumMay bis Juni mit einem deutlichen Mengenrückgang beim Übersee-Containerverkehr imVergleich zumVorjahr als Folge der Corona-Pandemie.This was announced by the Rotterdam (HBR) port on a information blog specially dedicated to Coronavirus as part of the ongoing website.

Danach stellt sich der HbR für den ZeitraumMay bis Juni konkret auf einen Umschlagmengen-Rückgang im Übersee-Containerverkehr in der Größenordnung von rund 25 Prozent gegenüber dem entsprechendenVorjahres-Vergleichszeitraum ein.However, the charge losses in the shortsea traffic are likely to be less likely to occur, the HBR continues.

Monday, 4.May, 11.1 p.m. The crisis mode is becoming increasingly clear in consumer mood. Das Konsumbarometer des Handelsverbands Deutschland (HDE) ist imMay den zweiten Monat in Folge auf einen Tiefstwert gefallen. „Noch nie musste binnen eines Monats ein so großer Rückgang wie jetzt von April bisMay konstatiert werden", teilte der HDE am Montag mit.All partial indicators of the barometer such as the purchase tendency or income expectations decrease significantly. „Da die meisten Konsumenten offensichtlich davon ausgehen, künftig weniger Einkommen zurVerfügung zu haben, sind sie bei Anschaffungen entsprechend zurückhaltender", heißt es weiter.

Even if the measures against the spread of the virus are largely canceled in a few weeks, private consumption will be shaped by restraint for a very long time, the HDE expects.The consumer barometer is based on a survey below 2.000 people to acquire tendency, a savings tendency, financial situation and other consumer -relevant factors.It will depict the expected mood in the next three months.

Monday, 4.May, 10.8 p.m. The Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd reacts to the turbulence in maritime traffic triggered by the new Coronavirus.A recently launched program should reduce the costs at short notice by a medium three -digit million amount.Read here what CEO Rolf Habben Jansen is up to.

Monday, 4.May, 10.12 noon what leading German universal ports such as Hamburg or Bremen have already initiated on their own, should now become a common good in the EU: the possibility of expanding ship -related port taxes in order to expand the liquidity scope of the shipping companies in this way.This option is part of a larger package of measures, with which the two German North Sea ports mentioned at the beginning want to make their contribution to coping with the Coronavirus crisis.

As the Central Association of German Sea Harbor (ZDS) announced, the EU Commission has now also activated this discussion. Die Brüsseler Behörde schlägt demnach „eineVerordnung über Hafenentgelte vor, die Mitgliedstaaten und Hafenbehörden vorübergehend die Flexibilität eröffnen soll, Hafeninfrastrukturentgelte zu stunden, zu ermäßigen oder zu erlassen". Es gehe darum, die Reedereien „mit dringend benötigter Liquidität zu versorgen".If it goes to the Brussels authority, then there should be the possibility not to.March 2020 to 31.December 2020 not to be raised, or to reduce hours or to reduce.

Monday, 4.May, 9.3 p.m. France is allowed to the Air France airline in the Corona crisis with 7 billion.EUR in Form von Kreditgarantien und eines Kredits als Anteilseigner helfen.The EU Commission approved the liquidity aids on Monday, among other things, with the indication that the bankruptcy of the airline could threaten without government support.France has shown that all other options for accepting money to the financial markets had been checked, checked and exhausted.

A state guarantee of up to 90 percent for loans of up to 4 billion.EUR.The French state, subordinated loan as a shareholder, was approved according to the rules of the EU contract.Accordingly, state aid is possible if there was otherwise a serious disruption of the entire economy of a member state, the EU Commission said.

Monday, 4.May, 8.11 Uhr Die Lufthansa rechnet mit „einem baldigen Abschluss" derVerhandlungen über Staatshilfe in Milliardenhöhe. „Die Unterstützung durch den deutschen Staat wäre für uns ein entscheidender Schritt für unsere Zukunftsfähigkeit", schrieb derVorstand um Konzernchef Carsten Spohr in einer internen Mitteilung an die Belegschaft vom Sonntag.

Lufthansa is negotiating with the federal government on aid of around 10 billion.EUR, die zum Teil als stille Beteiligung fließen könnten.In return, a state participation is also under discussion.Spohr, for example, rejects the state's influence in the form of supervisory board mandates.This Monday the board wants to advise the situation with the supervisory board, and the general meeting will follow on Tuesday.

Monday, 4.May, 8.07 a.m. The entrepreneur and chairman of the supervisory board of Otto Group, Michael Otto, requires extensive measures to stimulate the economy weakened by the corona pandemic. „Es ist wichtig, dass Deutschland schon bald ein nachhaltiges, innovatives Konjunkturprogramm auflegt", sagte Otto im Interview des Hamburger Abendblatt.

Under no circumstances should overcoming structures be consolidated, but the economy should be modernized. „So müssen Investitionen in den Ausbau der digitalen Infrastruktur, in Klimaschutzmaßnahmen wie den Einstieg in die Wasserstoffindustrie und moderne Bildungssysteme erfolgen", sagte Otto, zu dessen Konzern mit mehr als 52.000 employees of the mail order company Otto, the package sender Hermes and the textile provider Bonprix belong.In digital education, Germany is far behind internationally, said the entrepreneur.State purchase incentives for pure gasoline or diesel vehicles, as required by parts of the auto industry, declined Otto.He also demands that politics introduce minimum standards for online retailers in Europe.

Thursday, 30.April, 23.58 a.m. The booming trade on the Internet and flourishing cloud services bring Amazon strong business growth in the corona crisis.In the first quarter, sales rose 26 percent to 75.5 billion compared to the previous year's value.USD (68.9 billion.EUR), wie der weltgrößte Onlinehändler am Donnerstag nach US-Börsenschluss mitteilte.However, Amazon also has high expenses due to the pandemic - for example due to a setting offensive in view of the large customer rush to its delivery services.

The quarterly win fell by around 30 percent to 2.5 billion.USD.However, the biggest loads are still imminent.For the current quarter of a year, Amazon warned of special costs of around 4 billion.USD wegen der Pandemie.The group wants to invest in its delivery logistics and in measures to protect employees.For the operating result, Amazon gave a forecast with a span of minus to plus 1.5 billion.USD ab und stellte einen Anstieg der Erlöse zwischen 18 und 28 Prozent in Aussicht.Amazon emphasized that reliable predictions are currently difficult.

The stock initially reacted to the quarterly report with significant price losses.Nevertheless, Amazon has been one of the big winners in the crisis so far.In the past three months, the share price has increased by over 30 percent and has reached new record highs.As a major shareholder, boss and founder Jeff Bezos also benefits strongly from this.According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his assets have been around 29 to 143 billion since the beginning of the year.USD gestiegen, so dass er seinen Status als reichster Mensch der Welt in der Krise noch deutlich ausbaute.

Thursday, 30.April, 17.9 a.m. The DVZ has presented five theses for the future of the supply chains.In the fifth part of our series,Prof is expressed.Wolfgang Stölzle from the Institute for Supply Chain Management at the University of ST.Bale. „Das Effizienzstreben wird weiter an Fahrt gewinnen – bei allen Beteiligten", ist er überzeugt. „Insofern müssen sich Logistikdienstleister und Lieferanten sicher auf harte Preisrunden einstellen", fügt er hinzu.Stölzle also expects crisis resistance and resilience to the next major supply chain issues.He also warns of persistent political regulation - and sees the location of Sweden very attractively gain in attractiveness.Read the complete theses check here.

Thursday, 30.April, 17.5 a.m. The car maker Daimler goes up the production again after a first relaxation of the Corona measures.In the Sindelfingen plant, 17.000 employees - almost half of the workforce - go back to work.However, this only under strict security precautions, as the company announced on Thursday.The production of the E-Class and the S-Class is currently running in one, in the S-Class you want to start up to 100 percent for the coming weeks.

Thursday, 30.April, 14.49 a.m. that on 1.April 2020 announced 2 billion.EUR-Maßnahmenpaket für Start-ups steht.The Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) have developed the details of the package of measures together with the KfW Capital KfW Capital in recent weeks.According to Thomas Jarzombek, the BMWI representative for digital economy and start-ups, start-ups and small medium-sized companies with a sustainable business model are to be addressed. Das Programm soll imMay starten.

Thursday, 30.April, 12.30 a.m. Lufthansa and two of its unions have appealed to the federal government to maintain the competitive and investment ability of the company, which is difficult to get by the Corona crisis.In a letter to the Federal Minister of Finance and Economy, the signatories decided on the common goal of maintaining as many jobs as possible.The company as well as the unionsVerdi and Association Cockpit combined their appeal published on Thursday with a thank you to the government for their fundamental willingness to develop a specific financing concept.The UFO cabin union has not signed the paper.

The background is the political debate about the design of state aid for the leaning air traffic group.In the negotiations with the government, the group resists a direct state of the state.In return, representatives of the federal government are said to have requested a blocking minority, two seats on the supervisory board and an interest rate of 9 percent.Lufthansa would prefer silent participation and alternatively checks bankruptcy in self -administration based on the model of the Condor.

Thursday, 30.April, 12.Midnight The Bundeskabinett has decided on a special regulation to ensure a proper public participation in the corona crisis.So far, documents have been publicly interpreted for infrastructure projects so that those affected can view the construction planning.Now administrations should publish planning documents or discussion appointments on the Internet.In addition, according to the decision, announcements must appear in an official publication sheet or a local daily newspaper in order to also inform people without internet access.The regulation should be up to 31.March 2021 apply.

Thursday, 30.April, 11.11 p.m. in the Covid 19 crisis, the logistician DSV Panalpina also has to save.According to CEO Jens Bjørn Andersen, around 3 are.000 jobs for disposition.He announced this on Thursday when submitting the numbers for the first quarter.DSV Panalpina Har Currently 58.788 full -time employees.In which of the three divisions of land traffic, air/sea freight and logistics staff should be reduced, the company could not say on request.

Pandemy missed the business activities of DSV Panalpina in the first quarter of 2020.Read more.

Thursday, 30.April, 11.5 a.m. The effects of the Corona crisis have divided German retail.In addition to the online retailers, sales winners in March included supermarkets and pharmacies, as the Federal Statistical Office reported on Thursday in Wiesbaden.However, the numerous business closures to defend the pandemic led to high losses in the trade in non-food.Business for shoes and textiles lost more than half of their sales compared to the same month of the previous year.The bottom line was that the entire retail trade had 2.8 percent less sales than a year ago.1.5 percent less in the coffers landed nominal.Read more about the situation in individual and online trading here.

Thursday, 30.April, 10.56 p.m. Because of the Corona pandemic, the Papenburger Meyer Werft goes from 1.May an für zwei Monate in Kurzarbeit.The last operational questions are currently being resolved, said a spokesman.

The economically independent Meyer shipyard in Turku, Finnish, has announced the dismantling of 450 of its 2390 jobs in the crisis.The shipyard said.In 2019 Meyer Turku made a loss of 109 million euros in income of 1.141 billion euros.Job reduction is also due at the main shipyard in Papenburg, whose workforce counts 3,600 employees.But there are no numbers yet, said the spokesman.

Thursday, 30.April, 10.52 o'clock The restrictions on combating the coronavirus have also hit the internet economy in Germany.In the medium term, however, the industry expects a growth thrust through the consequences of the Corona crisis.This is the central statement of a study by the ECO industry association and the management consultancy Arthur D.Little, published in Berlin on Thursday.The Association of the Internet Economy now calculates by 1.2 percent with a decline in sales in 2020. „Dieser Negativ-Effekte wird aber voraussichtlich bis Ende 2022 komplett kompensiert werden können", erklärte Eco.

With the expected minus, the digital industry is noticeably better than the overall German economy, for which a break -in of around five percent is expected for the current year.For the period until 2025, ECO expects a significant upswing: the internet economy will even increase up to 9.5 percent per year by 2025 across all industry segments.In this calculation, the association also took into account the added value of the Internet economy from the user industries such as industrial IoT (Internet of Things), automotive or smart industries.

Thursday, 30.April, 10.10 a.m. The fight against the spread of the Coronavirus has driven unemployment in Hamburg to the highest level in ten years.In April there were 77.518 Hamburgers registered unemployed, the employment agency announced.That was almost 11.000 or 16.5 percent more than in the previous month.Unemployment increased by almost 15 compared to the same month of the previous year.000 people or 23.5 percent.The unemployment rate increased by one percentage point to 7.3 percent.

Around a third of the Hamburg -based company has also registered short -time work.At 19.235 companies are the number of the employment agency that had already been published earlier because double and triple registrations have been filtered out.This affects a maximum of around 273.000 employees in Hamburg, which corresponds to 27 percent of employees subject to social security contributions.According to the employment agency, the actual number of short -time workers should be significantly lower because the companies do not exhaust their registered short -time work.

Thursday, 30.April, 9.26 p.m. The German-Danish ferry series Scandlines was able to keep business relatively stable in the first months of the current year. „Aber der Ausbruch von Covid-19 innerhalb Europas und die anschließenden Reisebeschränkungen führen einen hohen Grad an Unsicherheit und eine sehr begrenzte Sichtweite für den Rest des Jahres mit sich", berichtet Scandlines-CEO Søren Poulsgaard Jensen."While it is expected that private passenger traffic and border shop activities will be seriously affected by the situation, we have maintained the operation to operate our freight customers and to ensure critical deliveries of food, medication and other necessary goods."

With a view to the further financial year, the shipping company expects that the Covid 19 pandemic will have a significant negative effects on traffic figures and the economic result.Due to the uncertain development, it is currently not possible to express precise economic expectations for 2020.

Thursday, 30.April, 8.44 a.m. Because of the ongoing Corona crisis, experts expect a further increase in unemployment in the United States.The Ministry of Labor in Washington again publishes the weekly number of new first applications on unemployment welfare on Thursday.Since mid -March there have been more than 26 million in the United States.People lost their job - as many as never before in such a short time in the largest economy in the world.

The new figures will apply for unemployment benefits up to and including 25 during the week.Show April.The previous week was 4.4 million.New applications given.They are considered an indicator of the short-term development of the US working market and recently indicated a dramatic economic slump.Before the pandemic was worn out, the number of income was regularly under 100.000 per week.According to experts, the US unemployment rate is likely to be around 15 percent.However, there is still no precise value because the statistics have not been able to keep up with the brutal speed of the job losses.In February the quota was still at an extremely low 3.5 percent.

Thursday, 30.April, 8.34 p.m. The Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has excluded state aid for Austrian Airlines (AUA) without concessions on the part of the German parent company Lufthansa. „Eine Hilfe ohneVorteile für den Standort Österreich, ohne eine Beteiligung an der Lufthansa, einfach nur so, die wird es nicht geben", sagte Kurz am Mittwochabend nach einem Gespräch seiner Regierung mit Lufthansa-Chef Carsten Spohr in der Sendung ZIB2 im Fernsehen.The negotiations had just started.

In addition to Kurz (ÖVP),Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens), Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) and State Secretary Magnus Brunner (ÖVP) also took part in the conversation inVienna (ÖVP). „Der Ausbau des Drehkreuzes, die Stärkung des Standortes und der Wertschöpfung für Österreich und die Zukunft der Arbeitsplätze sind unabdingbar mit dem weiterenVerlauf der Gespräche verbunden", teilte Finanzminister Blümel nach dem Treffen schriftlich mit. Die Lufthansa müsse auch „die Zukunftsperspektiven und die künftige Rolle des österreichischen Tochterunternehmens darlegen".

Thursday, 30.April, 8.1 p.m. Shipping and reception of air freight (including air mail) went by 11 percent to 392 compared to the same month in the previous year.000 t back, as the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports.In particular, freight transport in the context of passenger flights experienced a significant decline (-38.2 percent to 68.000 t).The promotion in pure freight flights, on the other hand, experienced a comparatively moderate decline from -1.9 percent to 324.000 t.The number of freight flights increased by 3.4 percent to 11 compared to the same month of the previous year.000 flights, while the number of flights with passenger transport by 48.7 percent to 81.000 flights decreased.

Thursday, 30.April, 8.6 a.m. The US electric car maker Tesla surprisingly completed the first quarter despite the Corona crisis with black numbers.The bottom line was that there was a profit of $ 16 million (14.7 million euros), as the Group of Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced on Wednesday after the U.S..It is already the third quarter with a surplus in a row.

With a course plan of more than 90 percent, Tesla is one of the few winners on the stock exchange this year.Corona pandemic also causes problems for the e-car pioneer.Tesla first had to temporarily suspend production in China and then close its US tribe in Fremont.In addition, sales from the initial restrictions due to the virus could also suffer.

Wednesday, 29.April, 23.56 a.m. The DVZ has presented five theses for the future of the supply chains.Here explainsProf.Ronald Bogaschewsky from the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg, why is just economical in time, which is why supply chains should be shortened and what should be an apprenticeship from the corona crisis.

Wednesday, 29.April, 20.57 a.m. in the fight against Corona pandemic, Poland wants to control its checks to other EU countries up to 13.May beibehalten.Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski signed a corresponding decree, the Ministry in Warsaw announced on Wednesday.The borders to Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania can only be crossed at certain transitions until then.

In mid-March, the national conservative government in Warsaw had decided as a protective measure against a further spread of the coronavirus to close the EU internal borders for foreigners.Exceptions apply to people with a permanent stay, for truck drivers and diplomats.There are no limits for goods traffic.Poland who return from abroad must be in quarantine for 14 days.This regulation particularly hit commuters on the border with Germany and the Czech Republic.President Andrzej Duda announced on Wednesday in a Facebook chat that the government in Warsaw is trying to find a solution for this group of people.Currently one is still in talks with Berlin and Prague.As early as the coming days, the Polish government wants to announce a regulation for the commuters.

Wednesday, 29.April, 20.9 a.m.Volkswagen, the production in his US plant in Tennessee, which is stopped due to the corona crisis, continues to rest for the time being.The plans for the resumption of the company were covered again, the car manufacturer said on Wednesday.Before a new date for the start of production is set, the willingness of the suppliers and the demand at the car market should be consumed.Actually, the production on 3.May wieder anlaufen sollen.VW had the ligaments because of the pandemic on 21.March stopped.

Wednesday, 29.April, 15.48 o'clock Licenses, lower the fees, postpone financial exams and introduce new EU requirements later: With a whole bundle of special rules, the EU Commission wants to help the transport industry.The authority presented proposals for the temporary change of a whole series of EU guidelines and regulations.All modes of transport are affected.Before the proposals can be implemented, the consent of the European Parliament and the Member States is necessary.Read more dazu.

Wednesday, 29.April, 15.39 a.m. The Federal Government expects 6.2 percent for 2020 to decrease with a decline in economic output.In the coming year she should recover and increase by 5.2 percent.That said Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU) on Wednesday in Berlin at the presentation of the spring project. „Das ist die schwerste Rezession in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik", sagte er.

The minister expects the strongest break -in during the second quarter of 2020.Then he assumes that the economy will slowly recover.For the time afterwards, his ministry is currently working on a four-stage plan.First of all, it is about optimizing the existing aid programs, in a second step for help for companies that can only start later after the relaxation.In the next stage, the federal government wants to launch an economic stimulus program.Finally, it is about a fitness program in which the international supply chains are also considered.In the Ministry of Economic Affairs, a response to delivery chains has started their work.Also on the boat are the Federal Foreign Office for Questions about deliveries from abroad and the Federal Ministry of Finance for Customs Affairs.

Wednesday, 29.April, 15.12 p.m. After six weeks of standstill, the sports car farmer Porsche will start production next Monday.The employees at the headquarters in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen and at the work in Leipzig should gradually resume their work and gradually get the production going, as Porsche announced on Wednesday.A comprehensive catalog of measures had been decided, including distance and hygiene rules, in order to ensure the protection of employees on the one hand and, on the other hand, to ensure an orderly and efficient production as quickly as possible, it said.

Wednesday, 29.April, 15.8 a.m. The US economy has shrunk in the first quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic.The economic output decreased by 4.8 percent compared to the previous quarter, as the Ministry of Commerce announced on Wednesday.

In the fourth quarter of 2019, the world's largest economy had grown with solid 2.1 percent.In the meantime, however, experts are warning that the USA threatens the strongest drop in growth since the global economic crisis almost 100 years ago.

Wednesday, 29.April, 14.4 p.m. The battered Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) can only hope for a positive future forecast.So the shipyard must first be out of the current bankruptcy, said Economic Minister Bernd Buchholz (FDP) on Wednesday in Kiel of the German Press Agency.All those involved, including the new managing director Martin Hammer and investor Lars Windhorst, whose tennor Holding is the owner of the FSG.

Wenn die Werft die Insolvenz überwunden habe und ein Wirtschaftsprüfer eine positive Zukunft testiere, „dann kann selbstverständlich auch wieder über Landesbürgschaften nachgedacht werden und das werden wir auch wohlwollend tun", sagte Buchholz."Because of course we want the jobs to be preserved.» Landesbürgschaften seien bei einer positiven Fortführungsprognose «überhaupt nicht ausgeschlossen, ganz im Gegenteil".

Wednesday, 29.April, 13.44 a.m. Locus, a global B2B Saas company that automates human decisions in the supply chain, has presented a free tool called "Quickstart".This is intended to help start-ups and small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) to be completed with the fluctuating demand and fleet and resource efficiency caused by the corona crisis with increasing costs.

Quickstart is a lite version of its product suite for startups and SMEs for independent application.With the platform for artificial intelligence, companies could automate their supply chain taking into account the real conditions.This free trial version applies to a period of two months from the start of the subscription.

Wednesday, 29.April, 13.32 p.m. Many German companies see their existence threatened by the corona crisis.This emerges from the April survey of the IFO Institute.More than 36 percent of the transport service providers surveyed gave to three months or shorter if the pandeme -related restrictions were still ongoing for a long time.This makes them more at risk than the average of all sought -after companies (29.2 percent).

52.7 percent of all companies surveyed gave perseverance in six months or shorter.Here, too, sub-areas of the logistics industry are above the average- post, courier and express services (66 percent), country traffic and transport in pipe removal lines (64 percent) and storage as well as the provision of other traffic services (60.9 percent)).Overall, more than a third of these logistics parts areas have to register the bankruptcy at the latest after half a year.The location of the air and shipping could not be covered in the survey.

Wednesday, 29.April, 12.39 a.m. Lufthansa is slowly planning more flights after the Corona deep. Zwar bleiben die Flugbetriebe der Auslandstöchter Austrian und Brussels zwei weitere Wochen bis EndeMay geschlossen, wie der Konzern am Mittwoch in Frankfurt mitteilte.For this, Lufthansa increases the number of weekly connections by 50 to 330 at its German hubs Frankfurt and Munich.The new Lufthansa flight schedule with the additional destinations Athens, Porto and Gothenburg should be.May gelten.

Wednesday, 29.April, 12.4 p.m. The technology group Bosch expects a significantly stronger economic crisis due to the corona crisis and the transformation in the automotive industry than during the recession in 2009. „In der Automobilproduktion rechnen wir aktuell für 2020 auf Basis der bislang bekannten Effekte mit einem Minus von mindestens 20 Prozent", sagteVolkmar Denner,Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung, am Mittwoch in Stuttgart.There will be great efforts in the group to achieve only a balanced result at all.Denner did not want to give a concrete forecast for the group in view of the "considerable uncertainties”.

Wednesday, 29.April, 11.11 a.m. Federal Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer calls for a better coordination of the EU countries so that freight traffic despite the Corona crisis comes as unhindered as possible across the borders of the European internal market.This is a prerequisite for international supply chains and indispensable for the recovery of the economy, the CSU politician said on Wednesday before consultations with his EU colleagues.

A coordinated procedure is also necessary when the traffic is graded so that the competition between the EU countries is not distorted. Negative Folgen durch „unabgestimmtesVorpreschen" müssten unbedingt eingedämmt werden.The EU Transport Minister advise in the afternoon (15.30 a.m.) in a video conference about the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis.

Wednesday, 29.April, 11.6 a.m. Airbus has slipped into the red numbers due to the Corona crisis.The bottom line was there a loss of 481 million in the first quarter.EUR nach einem Gewinn von 40 Mio.In the same period last year.The aviation and armaments group announced on Wednesday in Toulouse.

Sales fell by 15 percent to 10.6 billion in the first quarter due to interruptions in aircraft delivery.EUR.Airbus delivered 122 transport aircraft, 40 less than before.The European manufacturer had already announced that it was reduced by around a third of its aircraft production by around a third.

Wednesday, 29.April, 10.34 a.m. Because of the corona crisis, the factories stood still in China for weeks.But now the country is running up production and trade again.There is now another transport route for the transport of goods from and to Germany: a new train connection has been started between several Chinese cities and Cologne.This was announced by the ports and freight traffic Cologne AG (HGK).

A total of 22 wagons of the first whole train with the Code DBO-W155 had already reached the trimodal cover terminal in the port of Cologne-Niehl on time this week, it said.The CTS-Container-Terminal GmbH is responsible for the envelope, in which HGK AG is 62.5 percent involved in the NESKA Group. CTS-Geschäftsführer Oliver Grossman zeigte sich erfreut über das Projekt: „Gerade in Zeiten einer Krise wie der Corona-Pandemie muss dieVersorgung der Bevölkerung gewährleistet sein", sagte er. Deshalb sei es „nur logisch", eine weitereVerbindung zwischen China und Deutschland zu etablieren.

Wednesday, 29.April, 10.3 p.m. MV shipyards have short-time work because of the Corona pandemic for around 3.100 employees extended by the end of June.The company confirmed this on Wednesday morning on its website.The framework conditions for smooth production are unchanged, it was said to be justified.The IG Metall union had already announced the information on Tuesday.

The employees were informed about the planning on Tuesday.In addition, the Corona situation would be continuously analyzed and the prerequisites for the resumption of a business operation would be permanently assessed.

Wednesday, 29.April, 10.5 a.m. of theVW Groups, due to the effects of Corona pandemic, significantly worse business figures are settled in the current year. Man erwarte ein „imVorjahresvergleich gravierend rückläufiges" operatives Ergebnis, das aber noch im positiven Bereich landen werde.The company announced this in Wolfsburg on Wednesday. Auch der Umsatz dürfte „voraussichtlich deutlich unter dem Niveau desVorjahres liegen", hieß es.

The largest car company in the world also announced the detailed figures for the first quarter.According to this, the net profit, which is attributable to the main part of the share, dropped by more than 86 percent to 405 million compared to the first quarter of 2019.EUR ab.The profit before tax fell from 4.1 to 0.7 million.EUR.Volkswagen had already given preliminary data in mid -April.These have now been confirmed: Between January and March, sales took from 60.0 to 55.1 million.EUR ab, der Betriebsgewinn vor Sondereinflüssen von 4,8 auf 0,9 Mrd.EUR.

Wednesday, 29.April, 9.51 p.m. Several business associations have raised the alarm before advice from the federal and state governments about paths from the Corona crisis and required a clear signal for a rapid revenue of the economy.In a letter to Chancellor's head Helge Braun (CDU) it says: "Every week that the Lockdown continues, the German economy costs an average double -digit billions of bills of value creation." KeineVolkswirtschaft der Welt könne dies über Monate aushalten, ohne nachhaltigen Schaden und auch erhebliche Wohlstandsverluste hinzunehmen."Together with their employees, companies generate the necessary financial basis, without which our state is not able to survive."

The writing of the associations- including the hotel and restaurant association, the trade association, the overall association of the textile and fashion industry and the foreign trade association, is available to the German Press Agency. Sie wenden sich darin „in tiefer Sorge" um das Fortbestehen der Unternehmen an Bund und Länder."Since mid -March, the German economy has been in a catastrophic exceptional situation." DieVerbände warnen vor einerVerschiebung von Entscheidungen über weitere Lockerungen auf kommende Woche.

Wednesday, 29.April, 8.51 p.m. The Half-National Turkish airline Turkish Airlines now sets its flights because of the Coronavirus crisis until 28.May aus.This was shared by the company on Tuesday evening.Managing Director Bilal Eksi tweeted his regret and wrote that this affects both national and international flights.International flights should have been on 20 so far.May wiederaufgenommen werden, Inlandsflüge am 1.May.

Turkey had air traffic to Germany on 21.March officially discontinued.In April, however, there were still a short -term commercial special flights for Germans stuck in Turkey.

Wednesday, 29.April, 8.33 p.m. Representatives of the federal government and the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg are talking again on Wednesday about whether Tegel Airport should temporarily leave the network.Since hardly any aircraft could fly, costs could be saved in this way.Berlin air traffic would be concentrated after the airport company's proposal at the second Berlin location in Schönefeld.

At the end of March, the federal government had stopped the plans for an immediate closure.The infrastructure should remain flexible due to the corona crisis.According to the Ministry of Transport on Tuesday, the situation is now to be rated again.The airlines spoke out at the weekend to leave Tegel on the net.In the morning, the supervisory board of the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Society, in the afternoon the shareholders' meeting.Both conferences are about the consequences of the corona crisis for the company.A state financial injection of up to 300 million.EUR ist inVorbereitung.

Wednesday, 29.April, 8.4 p.m. The Lufthansa subsidiary Aua has 767 million in Austria.EURan Hilfen beantragt. „Ich kann bestätigen, dass wir heute Abend einen offiziellen Antrag auf staatliche Beihilfe an die ÖKB und COFAG gestellt haben", sagte AUA-Sprecher Peter Thier am Dienstagabend zur APA.A large part of the sum consists of repayable loans, the other part is grants that are still to be negotiated, the speaker continues.

The state aids are handled by the Corona Financing Agency Cofag, the 15 billion.EUR schweren Corona-Hilfsfonds verwaltet.The loans are requested from the house bank.In the case of AUA, it is a consortium in which the first bank and Raiffeisen are said to be involved.

Wednesday, 29.April, 8.12 noon The Coronavirus crisis at Daimler also caused a bitter drop in profits and narrowly let the car manufacturer shout past one loss.In the first quarter, the profit, which was due to the shareholders, fell to just 94 million.EUR ab, wie der Konzern am Mittwoch mitteilte.A year ago it was around 2.1 billion.EUR gewesen.In comparison, sales were only slightly six percent to 37.2 billion.EUR zurück.

Daimler had only 644 in the first quarter.Can sell 300 cars and commercial vehicles. Das waren 17 Prozent weniger alsIn the same period last year.The group had released the first preliminary figures last week and already announced that because of the Coronavirus pandemic, one would be below the last year in terms of sales and sales and in profit 2020.

Wednesday, 29.April, 8.7 a.m. in the Corona crisis, trucks are allowed until 30.June also travel on the streets in Schleswig-Holstein on Sundays and public holidays.The on 26.April expired exposure to the Sunday and public holiday ban will be extended, said Minister of Economics and Transport Bernd Buchholz (FDP) on Tuesday in Kiel.It should continue to be prevented from preventing supply chains and the risk of supply bottlenecks during corona pandemic.Read more dazu.

Tuesday, 28.April, 20.10 p.m. After this crisis, nothing will be as it was once.This can often be heard in Corona times.But does that also apply to the design of the supply chains?Or does almost everything stay the same after Covid-19?The DVZ has set up five theses on the future of the supply chains and presented it renowned scientists.In the third part of our series,Prof is expressed.Evi Hartmann.She heads the Chair of Supply Chain Management at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. Hier erklärt die Wissenschaftlerin, warum Sie eher ein „Weitermachen wie bisher" erwartet und weshalb der Klimawandel die größere Katastrophe ist.

Tuesday, 28.April, 16.52 p.m. Short-time work with the MV shipyards in the course of the Corona pandemic is extended by the end of June, according to IG Metall.This was said by a spokesman for the union on Tuesday on request.Originally, the work should be resumed next Monday.According to a report by the NDR, the approximately 3.100 employees informed about it on Tuesday morning.A spokesman for the MV shipyard did not want to confirm the extension of the production stop at first.

The MV shipyards have come into considerable difficulties in the corona crisis.You can therefore go to 600 million.EUR Staatshilfen bis Jahresende hoffen.Economic Minister Harry Glawe (CDU) gave this sum last week in a joint meeting of the state parliament of the Business and Finance Committee of the State Parliament.

Tuesday, 28.April, 15.38 a.m. on 1.May um 12 Uhr sollen in allen Häfen der Welt die Schiffshörner ertönen.The signal should be made aware of the importance of the work of seafarers during corona pandemic.The International Chamber of Shipping called as a umbrella organization of the shipping companies and the transport union ITF.

„Eine sehr gute Aktion, den Seeleuten gilt unsere Hauptsorge" sagte Alfred Hartmann, Präsident desVerbands Deutscher Reeder, am Dienstag: „Die Männer und Frauen an Bord, denen es in dieser Zeit besonders schwerfällt, fernab von Familien zu sein, leisten gerade jetzt einen enorm wichtigen Dienst, für den wir alle dankbar sein sollten."

Tuesday, 28.April, 15.10 p.m. The goods transport in freight planes is a hope for the aviation industry.Especially within Asia, despite the corona crisis in March, the flown tons of kilometers rose by a good 40 percent compared to the previous year, the umbrella organization of the airlines (IATA) said in Geneva on Tuesday.Except between Europe and North America, this freight traffic has increased in all world regions.

Overall, however, the demand for freight transport due to the standstill of large branches of industry due to the corona measures in March decreased by about 15 percent, said Iata boss Alexandre de Juniac.The association expects a decline to be between 14 and 31 percent for the whole year - depending on how sharp the recession becomes and how quickly the countries recover from it.That is why the Airlines World Association warns that the bottleneck should not be unnecessarily tightened by rigid rules and lack of resources on the ground and demands less bureaucracy for air freight.

Tuesday, 28.April, 15.8 a.m. The Finnish port industry suffers greatly from the restrictions, which result from the security and travel precautions due to the corona crisis for shipping. Im Hafen Helsinki beispielsweise werden noch bis MitteMay keine Tickets an Passagiere für Schiffsreisen nach Deutschland, Estland und Schweden verkauft.As a result, the operation in Finnish ports has driven back to a minimum.Only a few employees do the most necessary work on care.The shipping companies that otherwise also transport passengers cannot live adequately from freight traffic.That is why the national emergency staff has now decided to support three ship connections between Helsinki and Talllin (Estonia) to ensure im- and export.In addition, the Finnish government has launched an aid package for the shipping companies.It sees civil guarantees for bank loans of 600 million.EUR vor.Helsinki port is also committed to ensuring that the collecting of fairway fees from 1.January 2020 to early 2021 is dispensed with.

Tuesday, 28.April, 14.42 a.m. just under a month after the start of the subsidy program, solo-relevant and companies can now apply for the Corona Sleofilfen entirely online.The same information would have to be given as the previous procedure, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said in Magdeburg on Tuesday.In addition, the online form also offers a filling aid.

So far, the state -owned investment bank online made a form available for filling out.In other countries, such as North Rhine-Westphalia, there has been an online procedure for a long time.However, this was used by fraudsters, which replica the original side in order to refresh real company data and to get the grants.This should be prevented in Saxony-Anhalt using a certified security procedure and the creation of a customer account, the ministry said.

Tuesday, 28.April, 14.11 a.m. The food delivery service Delivery Hero has continued to record strong growth in the corona crisis and wants to benefit more from deliveries from other goods in the future.During the so -called Quick Commerce with quick deliveries from connected shops, Delivery Hero wants to be a pioneer, as CEO Niklas Östberg said on Tuesday in a conference call.In addition to food, for example, medication could also be brought to the customer faster via your own platform.

With Quick Commerce, Delivery Hero means deliveries within an hour.In the Middle East, Asia and America, the company has already operated more than 100 local warehouses and sometimes reach delivery times of less than 20 minutes.The rapidly growing category offers a larger selection at any time of the day and is particularly suitable for one -person households.Fast delivery leads to high customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Tuesday, 28.April, 13.50 a.m. Corona also affects the delivery times of the online trade.Especially industry leader Amazon reported drastic delays and failures.Studies show: Two out of three online shoppers start shopping at Amazon.But customers have suffered some shopping shock in the past few weeks.Instead of delivery times of one to two days, Amazon - even for the marketplace - reported deadlines from ten days to one month and more for numerous products. Blitz-Services wie „Evening"- und „Morning-Express", die die Zustellung am Tag der Order oder am nächstenVormittag verheißen, wurden „vorübergehend ausgesetzt". Das galt ebenso für diverse „Spar-Abos", etwa mit antibakteriellem Mundwasser, die eigentlich im festen Monatsturnus das Lager verlassen sollten.

Tuesday, 28.April, 13.10 p.m. The Corona pandemic has had the first loss of the quarter to the US airline Southwest Airlines in years.The three months until the end of March were the bottom line with a minus of 94 million.USD (86 Mio.EUR) abgeschlossen, wie Southwest am Dienstag mitteilte.In the corresponding period of the previous year, the low -cost airline still had 387 million.USD Gewinn gemacht.The turnover went by around 18 percent to 4.2 billion.USD zurück.

„Dies ist eine beispiellose Zeit für unsere Nation und für die Luftfahrtindustrie", sagte Konzernchef Gary C.Kelly.At the end of February, due to the spread of the Coronavirus, a very severe decline in passenger numbers used;The cancellations continued to move at a level that had never been seen before.The US government has launched an enormous rescue package for airlines, from which Southwest already received billions of financial aid.

Tuesday, 28.April, 12.44 p.m. Sales breaks down, the mood is in the basement: the corona crisis meets medium -sized companies in Germany with full force.More than 2.2 million.and with it 58 percent of the approximately 3.8 million.Medium-sized companies recorded sales in March due to the Corona insulation measures, as can be seen from a survey by the State Funding Bank KfW.On average, small and medium -sized companies lost about half of the sales to be expected this month.Overall, the middle class lost about 75 billion.EUR oder 2 Prozent seiner Jahreserlöse ein.

After an analysis of the Creditreform business (also published on Tuesday, the companies were planning no job cuts on a larger style despite the dark business expectations at the time of a survey in March.Almost every fourth company (23.9 percent) even announced that they wanted to hire employees in the next few months.Reduction in personnel was targeting 7.5 percent of those surveyed, especially in the processing of businesses.However, the planning would be under considerable uncertainties and may have to be adjusted, said Creditreform.

Tuesday, 28.April, 12.3 p.m. After the Corona-related production stop of its worldwide works, Ford plans for most of its European vehicle and engine works with a restoration of production on 4.May.As of next Monday, production in the German locations in Saarlouis and Cologne, in the Romanian Craiova and in the SpanishValencia vehicle work will gradually start up again.The engine production inValencia takes place from 18.May, während die Motorenwerke im britischen Dagenham und Bridgend zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt starten.

„Sobald wir die anfängliche Spitze der Corona-Pandemie in Europa überwunden haben, müssen wir uns auf die neuen Rahmenbedingungen einstellen", betont Stuart Rowley, Präsident von Ford Europa.Production initially begins at a lower level.The focus is on vehicles for which specific customer orders are available.Depending on the performance of the supplier companies, national transport restrictions and demand in key markets such as Germany, where the car dealer has been open again since last week, the manufacturing systems will be raised to full capacity in the coming months.

Tuesday, 28.April, 11.6 a.m. in the negotiations on possible corona aids, Lufthansa also checks bankruptcy in self-administration instead of a direct state entry.Appropriate information from the UFO union was confirmed on Tuesday by a company spokesman in Frankfurt.The holiday pilot Condor has already passed such protective shield procedure.In this case, the company is under the supervision of an administrator and could tackle the renovation under the previous management.

According to the union, Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr is said to have explained internally that he prefers to lead the company into bankruptcy in the form of a protective shield procedure than to be spoken in by politics.A corporate spokesman said that the board of course will of course check all options including the protective shield procedure.It is an alternative if the group threatened to be competitive in the event of a state entry.

Tuesday, 28.April, 9.55 a.m. a few days after the alarm report of the Nordmetall employers' association for the location in one of the key industries in northern Germany, the IG Metall coast trade union adds an unmistakable exclamation mark: "The short -time work in northern Germany is still on the rise." Wie die Arbeitnehmervertretung zuvor im Rahmen einer Umfrage bei 485 Firmen aus Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Nordwestniedersachsen und Schleswig-Holstein ermittelte, sind inzwischen fast 70 Prozent der Betriebe im Organisationsbereich der IG Metall Küste in Kurzarbeit oder „planen diese in nächster Zeit", so die Gewerkschaft.

Die IG Metall Küste sieht „erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die wirtschaftliche Situation der Unternehmen durch die Coronakrise".According to the survey, the order situation had broken into 64 percent of the companies or even completely broken down.In more than 60 percent of the companies, the supply chain is also at risk or already disturbed.Friedrich continues: "A common goal with politics and companies must also be in this crisis to secure jobs and locations." Neben Kurzarbeit würden dazu Arbeitszeitkonten, Urlaub „und unsere tariflichen Regelungen wie die Umwandlung von Geld in zusätzliche freie Tage genutzt".

Tuesday, 28.April, 9.35 a.m. in the negotiations for possible state aid for Lufthansa there is still no agreement, it said in the federal government.After further DPA information from Tuesday, it is not expected that the previously non-binding discussions will be ended with a result this week.In the case of a company of this size and the possible amount of the support, it was said that it was said.

In the morning, the Lufthansa share price had increased significantly at the beginning of the trade. Grund ist ein Bericht des Online-Wirtschaftsmagazins „Business Insider" über eine angebliche Einigung auf Arbeitsebene.After that, the Federal Republic will be around 9 billion.EUR in den in der Coronakrise schwer angeschlagenen Konzern pumpen.A group spokesman did not want to comment on the report in the morning.

Tuesday, 28.April, 9.7 p.m. The Scandinavian airline SAS wants its personnel strength in the course of the coronacise by up to 5.000 jobs almost halve.The reason for this is that the company must adapt to the sunken demand for flights, the airline said on Tuesday morning.The step should therefore be affected by around 1.900 full -time forces in Sweden and 1.700 in Denmark and 1.300 in Norway.This corresponds to almost every second employee of the SAS.

The airline expects it to take a few years before the flight demand can be reached again before the coronavirus pandemic. „Covid-19 hat SAS gezwungen, sich einer neuen und beispiellosen Wirklichkeit zu stellen, die nicht nur in den kommenden Monaten, sondern auch in den kommenden Jahren nachhallen wird", erklärte SAS-Chef Rickard Gustafson.The company had up to 10 during the corona crisis.000 employees - that is around 90 percent of the workforce - temporarily on leave.

Tuesday, 28.April, 9.2 a.m. at Frankfurt Airport, the volume of freight and air mail decreased by 12.9 percent last week to 33.694 t, and the number of flight movements went by 84 percent to 1.605 starts and landings back.The return flights for Germans abroad are largely completed.Some airlines such as Lufthansa and Condor are now using passenger aircraft to bring urgently needed freight to Germany.

The freight volume in Frankfurt nevertheless decreased in total because the special flights cannot compensate for the otherwise used transport capacities of the passenger aircraft, which at normal times swallow around 40 percent of the freight amount.

Tuesday, 28.April, 7.52 Uhr Der angeschlagene US-Luftfahrtriese Boeing will die aufgrund der Coronakrise gestoppte Produktion seines Langstreckenjets 787 „Dreamliner" wieder aufnehmen.The company in the state of South Carolina will be started again next weekend, the group said on Monday (local time) in North Charleston.Boeing had the production on 8.April temporarily exposed to pandemic.In the meantime, various security measures have been carried out, the company said with.

The announcement was well received by investors..Last week Boeing had already started to gradually start production in its factories in the Puget Sound near Seattle region in the state of Washington.Due to a production stop in the 737 Max model that has been in effect since January, the production of the Airbus Erzrival is initially severely restricted after two plane plumbers worldwide, the production of the Airbus ore rival.

Monday, 27.April, 23.26 a.m. The US aircraft manufacturer Boeing assumes that the international aviation industry will recover very slowly from the corona crisis. „Wir erwarten, dass es zwei bis drei Jahre dauern wird, bis das Reiseaufkommen wieder das Niveau von 2019 erreicht", warnte Boeing-Chef Dave Calhoun die Aktionäre am Montag bei der jährlichen Hauptversammlung des Konzerns.Because of the pandemic, the event could only take place on the Internet this time.

Until the aviation industry finds its long -term growth trend, it may require a few more years, said Calhoun. Die Krise sei „anders als alles, was wir jemals erlebt haben", und es sei „schwer einzuschätzen, wann sich die Situation stabilisieren wird".The Boeing boss did not comment on measures such as production cuts and job cuts with which Boeing could react to the crisis two days before the quarterly report.

Monday, 27.April, 21.25 Uhr Der Onlinehändler Amazon will wegen eines Gerichtsstreits um Corona-Schutzmaßnahmen seine Logistikzentren in Frankreichuntil 5.May geschlossen lassen.Until then, the employees should stay at home with full salary, the company announced on Monday evening. „UnsereVertriebszentren in Frankreich und auf der ganzen Welt sind sicher", hieß es weiter.Read more about this here.

Monday, 27.April, 19.50 Uhr Bleibt die bestandsarme Just-in-Time-Produktion alternativlos? „Nichts ist alternativlos", sagtProf.Christian Kille, the initiator of the committee of the logistics, in the theses check of the DVZ. Und weiter: „Vielleicht sind die Tage von Just in Time gezählt und eine neue Methode ist die Alternative der Stunde".

The DVZ has set up five theses on the future of the supply chains and presented it renowned scientists.At the start of our series came prof.Kai Hoberg from Kühne Logistics University.Click here for the second part withProf.Christian Kille from the Würzburg University of Applied Sciences.

Monday, 27.April, 17.51 a.m. the Norwegian Norwegian, which is stuck in the crisis, does not expect a return to normal operation before 2022. Man plane deshalb mit einer „Winterschlafphase" sowie einer anschließenden „Erholungsphase", erklärte die Airline am Montag in einer Mitteilung an die Osloer Börse, Gläubiger und Investoren.

The majority of the Norwegian aircraft has been on the ground for weeks in the course of Corona pandemic, around 7.650 employees were temporarily permitted.Four subsidiaries from Norwegian in Denmark and Sweden, in which the pilots and the cabin staff are employed, have already filed for bankruptcy.

Monday, 27.April, 17.43 a.m. The car supplier and tire manufacturer Continental did not cut as badly in the first quarter as feared.The turnover went to 9.84 billion.EUR zurück, wie der Dax-Konzern am Montag überraschend mitteilte.Previously, Conti had announced in early April that the proceeds should only be between 9.4 and 9.8 billion from January to the end of March.EUR betragen haben.Nevertheless, Conti felt the corona crisis enormously: Adjusted for sales and exchange rate effects, sales decreased by 10.9 percent after preliminary figures for the corresponding period of the previous year.

Even with the operational result, the first quarter was not as bleak as it was thought before.Instead of only between 2 and 3 percent margin in the result of special effects before interest and taxes, Conti reached 4.4 percent.At the end of March, Conti also had liquid funds of 2.53 billion.EUR.For the 29.February the Hanoverians previously had a value of around 2.3 billion.EUR angegeben.The unused credit lines therefore amounted to 4.3 billion at the end of the quarter.EUR.Conti does not want to give a new outlook because of the uncertainty about pandemic.

Monday, 27.April, 17.27 a.m. after a five-week break in the corona crisis, theVW group slowly raised the car production in its works in Poland on Monday.The work in Poznan (Poznan) and at two other locations will initially be started with 20 percent of the capacity, the group said on Monday.For the first layer after the break, around a quarter of the total of 11 were on Monday morning.000 employees published.The hygiene concepts, distance rules and the pace of production have been adapted to the new conditions.

Volkswagen produces commercial vehicles in Poland, including the Caddy, Transporter and Crafter models.E-cars are also made there.Last year, around 270 ran in the Polish works.000 vehicles off the assembly line.The company had also resumed production on Monday in the Wolfsburg Stammwerk.

Monday, 27.April, 16.46 a.m. after a break of several weeks in the Corona crisis,Volkswagen's glass manufactory in Dresden will start the production of the e-golf again step by step.First, 18 vehicles run off the assembly line, the vehicle manufacturer announced on Monday.That corresponds about a quarter of the production scope in front of the corona pandemic, it was said.The cycle times are initially slower than normally. „Der Schutz und die Gesundheit der Beschäftigten haben beim Wiederanlauf Priorität", erklärte Manufaktur-Betriebsratsvorsitzender Thomas Aehlig.

Monday, 27.April, 14.55 a.m. Airbus boss Guillaume Faury has attuned the workforce of the European aviation and armaments group to hard times. Ausgaben und Einnahmen seien in einem so gravierenden Ungleichgewicht und das Geld fließe so schnell ab, „dass es die Existenz des Unternehmens gefährden könnte".The Frenchman wrote this to the group's employees - excerpts of the letter became known on Monday.

Airbus announced on request in the South West French Toulouse that the company does not take a position on internal communication.According to reports, the letter was sent to Airbus employees in the several European countries at the end of last week.The group laid this Wednesday (29.4.) his quarterly figures before.

Monday, 27.April, 14.2 p.m. in cooperation with Pro7 and Sat1 the search portal Doc.Green with the nationwide TV campaign under the motto "The new way of ordering medication".Using the portal, customers can order all over -the -counter medication that can be delivered by a pharmacy messenger on the same day.So pull doc doc.Green several trump cards that hit the current consumererv: online order, seame-day-delivery, environmental protection and support of the local pharmacy.

"We initially expect around 200.000 orders per month that want to be distributed, "says Thomas Engels, CEO from Doc.Green."We expect 500 by the end of the year.000."

Monday, 27.April, 13.46 a.m. Hapag-Lloyd, in the course of the current economic situation. „Realistisch gesehen wird es bei den Bestellungen zuVerzögerungen kommen", sagte derVorstandsvorsitzende Rolf Habben Jansen gegenüber der DVZ anlässlich einer online durchgeführten internationalen Gesprächsrunde.

The CEO of the container shipping company expects that the deletions of trips to China reveners will continue in the third quarter.Regarding the further development of global containervolumina, Habben Jansen referred to the downsized forecasts of the analysts of Clarksons.They expect a decline in global container nervolumina of 4.9 percent for the current year.For the year 2021, the market is tightened again. „Im kommenden Jahr wird ein Wachstum derVolumina um 4,8 Prozent erwartet", so derVorstandsvorsitzende von Hapag-Lloyd unterVerweis auf die Annahmen von Clarksons.Read more here dazu.

Monday, 27.April, 13.14 Uhr Die Rettung der von der Corona-Pandemie schwer betroffenen Lufthansa ist nach Ansicht von CSU-Chef Markus Söder für Deutschland „elementar" und muss daher hohe Priorität haben.

"Of course it is important to save Lufthansa, it is a system -relevant company. Die Lufthansa sollte aber nicht verstaatlicht werden", sagte der bayerische Ministerpräsident am Montag nach einer Sitzung des CSU-Vorstands in München. Deutschland dürfe auch nach einer staatlichen Beteiligung „kein Sagen auf der Kommandobrücke" erhalten, sondern sich nur als stiller Teilhaber, als Beiboot verstehen.

Monday, 27.April, 13.4 a.m. The EU Commission has approved a state aid for the first time in Corona pandemic, which only benefits street goods transport companies.Lithuania is allowed 5 million.EUR an kleine und mittlere Unternehmen der Branche auszahlen, um sie liquide zu halten.The grants should help companies pay interest for existing loans.According to the information, you can use 31 in the period.December can be granted for a maximum of six months.

"Road freight transport is also one of the industries affected by the pandemic.The 5 million.EUR des litauischen Programms werden es kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen des Sektors erleichtern, ihre finanziellen Lasten zu tragen und ihre Geschäfte während und nach der Pandemie weiter zu führen", sagte EU-Wettbewerbskommissarin MargretheVestager. „Wir werden weiterhin eng mit den Mitgliedstaaten zusammenarbeiten, um im Einklang mit EU-Wettbewerbsrecht Lösungen zu finden, die der Branche helfen".

Monday, 27.April, 12.48 a.m. The Schwerin Sonobeacon GmbH won the first prize in the "Global supply chain" category as part of the start-up competition "Fast Mover".Innovative logistics concepts were awarded in times of Corona.The competition was organized by Digital Hub Logistics GmbH.

Sonobeacon's audio technology for contactless data transmission was developed together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Safe Information Technology and has so far been successfully used in the retail and entertainment industry.Now she should help to significantly reduce the risk of infection with COVID-19 for employees in logistics.

Monday, 27.April, 12.Midnight Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) currently sees no need to reduce the route prices of the railway again.He said that in a telephone press interview at the request of the DVZ. „Wir haben da ja schon einiges getan", so Scheuer.Last week, four rail associations had requested that the route promotion to be expanded from 47 percent to 100 percent and also start the announced investment price funding at short notice.The federal government can thus support traffic on the rails in a targeted manner and from the existing budget.

Monday, 27.April, 11.9 p.m. Due to the loosening in the fight against Coronavirus, new hope germinates with the north German and outdoor dealers.A majority of the companies (72 percent) last for more than two months or even unlimited (22 percent) under the current conditions, the AGA company association said in Hamburg on Monday.That has a flash survey in the 3.500 member companies.Ten percent of the north German companies replied that they still hold out for around two to four weeks and six percent still made it for six weeks.

„Das ist eine deutlicheVerbesserung zu unserer Umfrage vor vier Wochen, als nur 50 Prozent angaben, länger als acht Wochen oder unbegrenzt durchhalten zu können", sagte AGA-Präsident Hans Fabian Kruse.Nevertheless, the situation in wholesale and foreign trade as well as in the company-related service sector remains dramatic. „Die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Shutdowns stürzen die Händler und Dienstleister in eine noch nie dagewesene Krise", sagte Kruse."In numerous industries, we are now missing customers, for example from the hotel industry, gastronomy and events."

Monday, 27.April, 11.2 p.m. The significant decline in traffic on the North Ostsee Canal (NOK) due to the corona crisis has led to loss of income among the channel stivers."We are emphasized that the members of the Channel Stage Association are recognized by the Federal Employment Agency as entitled to references to short -time work money. Denn sie leisten eine unheimlich wichtige Arbeit für einen sicheren Schiffsverkehr auf dem NOK und damit für dieVersorgung der Bevölkerung mit lebensnotwendigen Gütern", teilte Enak Ferlemann, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium fürVerkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI), jetzt mit.

The channel steerers are now generally regarded as entitled to reference for short-time work money and thus receive quick help in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. „Erstmals ist es uns nun möglich, für Umsatzrückgänge, die aus Einbrüchen der Schifffahrtszahlen auf dem Nord-Ostsee-Kanal resultieren, finanzielle Unterstützung zu erhalten", sagte Alexander Knop, stellvertretenderVorsitzender desVereins der Kanalsteurer, dem THB.Now a long way of uncertainty, which brings every colleague a lot more security.

Monday, 27.April, 10.32 a.m. in the debate about state aid for the Lufthansa hit by the corona crisis, Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer has spoken out to keep the group flexible. Das Unternehmen habe bewiesen, dass es durch „flexibles wirtschaftliches Handeln" erfolgreich sein könne, er wolle, „dass dieses Unternehmen auch flexibel bleibt", sagte der CSU-Politiker am Montag. Teilweise werde großen Unternehmen die Flexibilität genommen, wenn der Staat „zu sehr drin ist".It is also controversial within the black-red coalition of how much say the state should secure if it helps the airline.

Lufthansa has come into trouble because of the massive flight cancellations.The group had declared on Thursday that one could no longer save yourself from the Corona crisis on your own.Now a billion -dollar aid package could come, but the exact shape is still unclear. Scheuer sagte, man sei seit mehreren Wochen in intensiven Gesprächen und „sehr konzentriert". Es gehe einerseits um eine „riesen Summe", andererseits darum, einen „ganz großen, wichtigen, systemrelevanten Player, der weltweit auch für Made in Germany steht", zu stützen.

Monday, 27.April, 10.10 p.m. The mood among the German exporters is in free fall.The index created by the IFO Institute has crashed from minus 19 points in April to minus 50 points.According to the IFO Institute, this is the lowest value ever measured.The extent of the decline is also without example.Read more here dazu.

Monday, 27.April, 9.55 a.m. The Swiss logistics group felt a significant decline in sales compared to the previous year's period in the first quarter of 2020.The sea freight divisions (- 6.9 percent), air freight (- 6.8 percent) and contract logistics (- 6.1 percent) are particularly affected.In the country traffic segment, the demand for demand in Europe and North America ensured a minus of 4.2 percent.Read more here dazu.

Monday, 27.April, 9.2 a.m. The battered holiday pilot Condor gets new state aid.In view of the Coronavirus pandemic, the EU Commission granted a total of 550 million.EUR.

Germany Condor can thus replace part of the corona-related losses, said EU competition commissioner MargretheVestager."In cooperation with the Member States, we strive for solutions to how companies can be supported in accordance with the EU allowance regulations in these difficult times."

Monday, 27.April, 9 UhrVW-Chef Herbert Diess hat die Politik zu einer möglichst raschen Entscheidung über Kaufanreize für Autos wegen der Corona-Krise aufgerufen. „Baldige kraftvolle Maßnahmen wären wichtig", sagte der Manager am Montag im Wolfsburger Stammwerk zum Wiederanlauf der Produktion. Um den Nachfrageeinbruch abzufedern, brauche die Branche „so bald als möglich" Klarheit, ob auch mit staatlicher Hilfe der Absatz angekurbelt werden könne. Niedersachsens Ministerpräsident undVolkswagen-Aufseher Stephan Weil (SPD) meinte mit Blick auf die am Mittwoch geplanten Beratungen mit seinen Amtskollegen in den beiden anderen Autoländern Bayern und Baden-Württemberg, die Branche sei „von fundamentaler Bedeutung".

Monday, 27.April, 7.12 noon for the Lufthansa hit by the Corona crisis should be not a top conversation by Chancellor Angela Merkel with federal ministers and Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr at the beginning of the week.. „Meldungen über ein Ministertreffen zur Lufthansa Anfang nächster Woche treffen nicht zu", hieß es am Sonntag."In addition, we cannot make any comments on individual companies with regard to operating and business secrets."

Lufthansa has come into trouble because of the massive flight cancellations.The group had declared on Thursday that one could no longer save yourself from the corona crisis on your own.

Monday, 27.April, 7.9 a.m. after almost a month and a half forced break in the Corona crisis, theVW Group is slowly growing up car production on Monday at the Wolfsburg headquarters.In Saxon Zwickau, where the new e-model ID.3 is manufactured, as well as the SUVs and small cars in Bratislava (Slovakia), the company had recently started restarting.In addition to Wolfsburg, Hanover and Emden and other locations in Europe are now to be added.

During the interruption - triggered in mid -March by the broken car issue, capped supply chains and contagion risks in the factories -VW had only held small standby teams in the works.They prepared a careful resumption of the company.Now stricter hygiene concepts, distance rules and shorter cleaning intervals work.In addition, layer plans should be converted to have fewer employees in the same room at the same time.

Sunday, 26.April, 18.33 a.m. The car manufacturer Skoda gradually starts up in the Czech Republic after more than five weeks of break.The company starts on Monday in the morning, as a spokesman for theVolkswagen subsidiary confirmed on Sunday on DPA request.Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the assembly ligaments in the Mlada Boleslav main plant and at the other two Czech locationsVrchlabi and Kvasiny have had since the 18th.March standing still.

Sunday, 26.April, 17.36 a.m. a billion -dollar rescue package for the battered Lufthansa is getting closer and closer.The package is a volume of nine to ten billion.EUR, erfuhr die Deutsche Presse-Agentur am Wochenende aus Regierungskreisen.Shortly before the decision, new aids for the holiday plane Condor are also.At Lufthansa it is open in which form the federal government helps the DAX group and how much say in the case of temporary state participation should have a say.

As the dpa learned, negotiations run under high pressure.There should be talks on the highest level next week.A top conversation by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) with federal ministers and Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr at the beginning of the week was not confirmed on Sunday in the Chancellery.In the meantime, a decision about new state aid for the private holiday pilot Condor was expected promptly.The Federal Government wants to expand the credit line for society, but the EU Commission must agree to this.

Sunday, 26.April, 16.41 a.m. for the owner, management and employee representative of the battered Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG), bankruptcy in self-administration is a good way to get out of the crisis. „Wir haben uns nach intensiver Beratung in den letzten Wochen entschlossen, den Weg der Eigenverwaltung als Sanierungs- und Restrukturierungsprozess zu wählen", sagte Investor Lars Windhorst, dessen Tennor Holding Eigentümerin der FSG ist, am Sonntag in Flensburg.At the request of the shipyard, the district court of Flensburg ordered the provisional self -administration.The goal is to renovate and continue the company.

As the new managing director, the shipyard manager and founder of a consulting company, Martin Hammer specialized in restructuring, officially competes.It is now required that trust in the market, employees and suppliers to restore. „Das ist natürlich eine Herkulesaufgabe", sagte Hammer mitVerweis auf die Probleme der letzten Zeit.He announced that he wanted to present a sustainable renovation concept in four to six weeks.

Sunday, 26.April, 16.10 Uhr Der Flughafen Düsseldorf rechnet wegen der Corona-Pandemie in den kommenden Jahren mit 20up to 30 Prozent weniger Flügen und denkt über den Abbau von Arbeitsplätzen nach. Das Unternehmen müsse die „personellen Ressourcen den neuen Rahmenbedingungen anpassen", teilte ein Flughafensprecher am Sonntag auf Anfrage mit.According to theVerdi union, the largest North Rhine-Westphalian Airport wants to reduce 600 jobs-that would be about every fourth job.

Verdi said.According to the union, the dismantling should begin in the coming year-in this year the jobs are still secured by the short-time worker regulation, among other things.

Sunday, 26.April, 15.32 p.m. Italy wants to start with the announced loosening of the Corona barriers in the economy.Priority should start again that are important for export and work on the construction.This was announced by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the La Repubblica (Sunday) newspaper.The 60 million.Citizens receive from 4.May an nicht gleich ihre volle Bewegungsfreiheit zurück.Italy's schools remain tight until the summer vacation.You will only open again in September.

The cabinet in Rome has been working on a new plan for days.The concept is to be officially presented by Monday, Conte announced in the interview.

Sunday, 26.April, 15.6 a.m. The investor Lars Windhorst wants to continue to be involved in the battered Flensburg Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG). „Wir wollen gerne in die Zukunft der Werft investieren, wir wollen gerne weiter engagiert bleiben", sagte Windhorst am Sonntag in Flensburg.The district court of Flensburg ordered the provisional self -administration on Friday at the request of the shipyard. „Wir haben uns nach intensiver Beratung in den letzten Wochen entschlossen, den Weg der Eigenverwaltung als Sanierungs- und Restrukturierungsprozess zu wählen", sagte Windhorst, der Gründer der FSG-Eigentümerin Tennor Holding ist.

The preliminary assistant Christoph Morgen, appointed by the court for monitoring the self -administration, said that now a sustainable renovation plan must be developed, this has been checked for feasibility and the financing is ensured.The application procedure will take around three months, after which there will be bankruptcy opening.

Sunday, 26.April, 14.9 a.m. The effects of the numerous painted descents (blank sailings) in the past few weeks in response to the lack of export loads in the course of the Corona crisis can be felt in more and more ports.This emerges from the current Covid-19 Port Economic Impact Barometer World Hall Organization IAPH.Accordingly, in the past week, every second of the harbors surveyed listed fewer attempts by container ships than is usually the case at this time of year.In the previous week, 41 percent had reported a corresponding subsequent lesson.A third of the ports report on additional restrictions for box carriers in the ports.Also a third indicates delays in dismissal due to additional measures.

The Coronavirus also affects the hinterland transport.A good third of the ports refer to delays.However, this value has decreased somewhat compared to the previous weeks.32 percent of the ports have registered delays on the rails, after 21 percent in the previous week.And even 40 percent feel bottlenecks on the waterway after 23 percent in the previous week.In the ports, food and medical goods are currently being stored in the ports.33 percent report on a larger amount than normal.A quarter refers to a increased volume of consumer goods.

Sunday, 26.April, 13.2 p.m. The Greens soon want to make electricity significantly cheaper to boost the economy again after the Corona crisis."To support independent, medium-sized companies and citizens, the EEG surcharge should be reduced by five cents per kilowatt hour, so by around 75 percent," write the party leader Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck in a contribution to the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung".The electricity price would drop around a sixth.

The Greens tip wants to reduce the levy in the middle of this year.The black and red coalition also wants to reduce the green electricity surcharge-but only in 2021 when a CO2 price fuel, heating oil and natural gas is more expensive.The Federal Ministry of Economics wants to present a law by the end of June.The Greens want to advise on the advance at a party conference on Saturday.In the corresponding lead application, improved depreciation options and direct grants are also intended for the development of a hydrogen industry.

Sunday, 26.April, 09.48 p.m. Germany is facing a concentrated load of poor economic news.The economy in the downward strudel, billion dollar losses of the DAX groups and rising unemployment figures: According to all expectations, the new week will make it clear how difficult the Corona pandemic actually hit the German economy.Already on Monday the chemical group Bayer will present its figures for the first quarter.Deutsche Bank, Daimler and the US aircraft manufacturer Boeing will follow on Wednesday.This gives logisticians an indication of the scope of the slump in important loading industries.

How strongly the Coronavirus crisis the German economy meets in total provides information about the Federal Government's Spring Project, which Economic Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) presents on Wednesday.In all likelihood, he will predict a severe recession in this country - as the leading economic research institutes at the beginning of April: they assume that economic output is shrinking by 4.2 percent this year.This would be the most severe recession since the financial and economic crisis more than ten years ago.

Sunday, 26.April, 09.35 a.m. for a billion-dollar rescue package for the Lufthansa, which is heavily battered in the Corona crisis, a crisis discussion is planned at the highest level earlier this week.As the German press agency learned on Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD), Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU), Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) and Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr.The "Bild" newspaper had previously reported that such a top conversation was planned shortly.

The rescue package is a volume of 9 to 10 billion.EUR, hieß es in Regierungskreisen.However, it is still controversial in the federal government in what form the federal government of Lufthansa helps and how much say in the case of a temporary state participation should have a say.In the government circles it was said that at Lufthansa it should not be dragged from all sides, the situation was already dramatic enough.

Saturday, 25.April, 15.6 a.m. Corona pandemic has given the Danish-Swedish Postnord Group a decline in 8 percent in the first quarter of this year.In contrast, deliveries in the B2C sector have increased by 16 percent.The start of the year can be divided into two phases, into the time before and after the spread of the virus in Northern Europe, said Postnord CEO Annemarie Gardshol in a comment on the quarterly result.By mid -March, the development was clearly positive with sales at the previous year's level.The operational result of 314 million.SEK (28.9 million.EUR) stellte eine markanteVerbesserung gegenüber den 162 Mio.SEK (15 million.EUR) aus den ersten drei Monaten 2019 dar.From the second half of March, border closures, lack of transport capacity and increased disease-related absenteeism occurred, which made delivery difficult despite the obligation to transport.

Saturday, 25.April, 14.8 p.m. The freight forwarder Instsfreight has been working with other companies with the network of open workshops Brandenburg to implement a protective equipment project since this week.Are manufactured 24.000 urgently needed facial visors who are distributed free of charge to facilities and people in Brandenburg.This includes in particular nursing staff and medical staff.The cooperation runs as follows: The injection molding company 1st Moulder produces frames, the Bleher company from southern Germany produces visor films, the Potsdam print shop Rüss prints package insert and InstSfreiGht takes over the transport.The idea and organization of the facial visors come from the network of open workshops Brandenburg, which also includes the Potsdam science shop.From the idea to the first prototype from a 3D printer, only a few days passed.

Saturday, 25.April, 13.2 p.m. in the Corona crisis there is also less operation on Bavaria's rivers. Auf demMayn-Donau-Kanal sei die Anzahl der Güterschiffe imVergleich zumVorjahr um etwa 25 Prozent zurückgegangen, sagte eine Sprecherin der Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung in Nürnberg. Tagesausflugsschiffe und Sportboote dürften nicht fahren, und auch die Kabinenschifffahrt ist bis EndeMay abgesagt.In addition, the operating times at the locks have been shortened.Instead of around the clock, only work between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m..Nevertheless, night trips remain possible with an urgent need for prior registration.The situation in the area of the waterways and shipping office in Regensburg is comparable.There are also fewer freight ships and no tourist and excursion ships on the road.

Saturday, 25.April, 11.35 p.m. Chancellor Angela Merkel has countered that climate change could be replaced by the EU agenda in the Corona crisis.The EU Presidency of Germany will "run differently than we had done," said the CDU politician in her podcast published on Saturday.Climate issues will be "on the agenda as well as the health issues".You have to see that you do something for the "economic upgrading of Europe" and social cohesion, said the Chancellor, and "that we are thinking about the future - and these are the climate and environmental issues".

On 1.In July, Germany will take over the EU Presidency for the first time in 13 years for 6 months.Topics should actually be in particular climate protection and digitization, Brexit and the medium -term financial planning of the EU.The question will arise how a "powerful European health system can be built up in all member states", Merkel said further.As other topics, she named financial transaction tax, minimum taxes and a joint trade in pollution rights for air traffic and shipping.These questions would be discussed "so that we have more Europe at the end of the German presidency and a Europe that the 21.Century has grown better than is the case today."

Saturday, 25.April, 11.8 p.m. after warnings of an insolven wave at petrol stations through Corona pandemic, the situation has relaxed for the time being.The leaseholder's threatening crisis was averted by a rescue package from the companies, said Herbert Rabl, spokesman for the petrol station interest association (Tiv) in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.Mineral oil companies partially or completely waived lease payments.The Tiv represents the interests of the operators of 200 petrol stations in Hesse, 150 in Rhineland-Palatinate and 50 in Saarland.

Three weeks ago, the association had warned of a bankruptcy wave because the restrictions due to the pandemic had hit the sale in shops and the additional business with offers such as car washes hard.This achieved 80 percent of their income.According to Tiv, petrol station tenants are usually independent entrepreneurs, but they are contractually tied to mineral oil companies and are severely restricted in their freedom of action.The lease costs are 500 to 15.000EUR pro Monat.

Saturday, 25.April, 10.33 p.m. The economists of leading German financial institutions see the German economy in parts from the fishing due to the Corona crisis."The Corona crisis puts everything in the shade," said Katharina Utermöhl from the Allianz Group in a survey by the German Press Agency.For 2020, she predicts a drop in economic output by 8.9 percent.Enzo Weber from the Institute for Labor Market andVocational Research (IAB) in Nuremberg sees the decline at 8.4 percent.Deutsche Bank initially remains 5.3 percent for the current year when it is forecast of a still comparatively moderate decline in gross domestic product.Unemployment will increase significantly after the expectation of economists.

Despite all the catch -up effects, Utermöhl does not believe that the economy will regain the face of the crisis.Trends in recent years could increase: in addition to higher debts or lower interest rates, more protectionism and a sustainable larger role of the state."The Covid -19 crisis should also give digitization a strong thrust in the face of permanently modified habits - such as shopping, working, working and learning."

Saturday, 25.April, 9.08 UhrVolkswagen will seine Autoproduktion in Mexiko gegen MitteMay schrittweise wieder aufnehmen.In the work in the state of Puebla, after preliminary planning from 18.May wieder Autos gebaut werden, teilte die mexikanische Tochterfirma des deutschen Unternehmens mit.The restart at the other location in the North American country, in Guanajuato, depends on the approval of the authorities - the date will be mentioned in the coming days.

Volkswagen Mexico had on 20.March announced a temporary setting of its production because of global pandemic.TheVW plant in Puebla, a good 100 kilometers southeast of Mexico City, is one of the largest in the group worldwide.Last year more than 440,000 vehicles of the Tiguan, Jetta and Golf models were manufactured there.A good 330,000 engines were manufactured in the factory in Guanajuato.The group employs around 13,000 people in Mexico.On Thursday,Volkswagen in Zwickau, Saxon, started the first ligaments again after a week break, but at a significantly lower pace than usual.In the Slovakian capital Bratislava, the production had started again on Monday.The restart in the Wolfsburg main plant is scheduled for next week.

Saturday, 25.April, 8.59 a.m. The Air France-Klm aviation group can expect state financial aid from nine to eleven billion euros in the Corona crisis.France supports Air France with seven billion euros in credit aid.The Dutch government promised the sister company KLM two to four billion euros. Frankreich werde Air France drei Milliarden Euro Staatskredite gewähren, erklärte Wirtschaftsminister Bruno LeMayre im TV-Sender TF1.In addition, state guarantees for four billion euros in banking loans would. "Wir müssen unsere nationale Fluggesellschaft retten", sagte LeMayre.But: "This is not a blank check."Air France has to become more profitable and become the airline, which is most careful with the environment worldwide.

Air France-Klm said that the state loan was granted as a shareholder loan for four, a maximum of six years.The bank loan is granted for twelve months and should also be able to be extended twice by one year.The financial aid must still be approved by the EU Commission.Air France-KLM also consider an increase in the share capital and the French state examines a participation, the company said. LeMayre versicherte, eineVerstaatlichung sei dabei nicht geplant.The French state is currently the largest shareholder of Air France-KLM with 14.3 percent.In addition to the aviation group, France also wants to help the car industry. LeMayre erklärte, die Regierung arbeitet an Garantien für Bankkredite im Umfang bis fünf Milliarden Euro für Renault.

Friday, 24.April, 19.32 p.m. Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr has tuned the airline's employees in the corona crisis for hard times.After the crisis, Lufthansa is expected to have a 100 aircraft smaller fleet, which, however, can bring comparable traffic performance with larger aircraft and higher productivity, the CEO on Friday said in an internal message to the employees.This results in a arithmetic overhang of 10.000 employees. „Wir werden aber auch weiterhin alles daran setzen, so viele Mitarbeiter wie möglich an Bord zu behalten", sagte Spohr laut einer Mitteilung des Unternehmens.

So far, Lufthansa had the number of 7.Called 000 jobs that could be omitted due to the crisis. Unter anderem soll der Betrieb der Gesellschaft „Germanwings" eingestellt werden.Before the outbreak of pandemic, the group had around 130 worldwide.000 employees and 760 aircraft.Spohr only expects a balance for the company for 2023, which will then be another. „Wir waren als erste Branche von dieser weltweiten Krise betroffen und die Luftfahrt wird mit die letzte sein, die sie verlassen wird", sagte er.In the crisis, the company expects 10 percent lower revenue and a 10 percent lower capacity utilization, it was still said.You get over 1 billion annually.EUR für Zinsen und Tilgung der Kredite aufwenden müssen.

Friday, 24.April, 18.11 a.m. DB Schenker has set up a new China shuttle in the air freight, as the DVZ logistics group announced.According to this, three Boeing 767 passenger machines are gutted and converted into freighters exclusively for the service provider. Zum Start sind 45 Flüge Shanghai Pudong–München vorgesehen, und zwar bis EndeMay und in zwölf Rotationen pro Woche.The first machine leaves Keflavik (Iceland) on Saturday 7 a.m. and starts the new connection from Pudong to Munich on Sunday morning.

DB Schenker creates a lack of freight capacities for urgently needed medical devices and other goods.According to the information, further flights have already been agreed, including twice a week from Pudong to Chicago.As part of the cooperation, the DB-Schenker logo appears for the first time on the hull of an aircraft.

Friday, 24.April, 16.55 a.m. After this crisis, nothing will be as it was once.This can often be heard in Corona times.But does that also apply to the design of the supply chains?Or does almost everything stay the same after Covid-19?The DVZ has set up five theses on the future of the supply chains and presented it renowned scientists. Zum Auftakt unserer Serie erklärt Kai Hoberg von der Kühne Logistics University unter anderem, warum Bestände auch nach Corona etwas „grundsätzlich Böses" bleiben werden.Read the complete theses check here.

Friday, 24.April, 16.49 a.m. Russian PresidentVladimir Putin has promised the crisis -ridden auto industry financial aid. „Wenn es die Sicherheitslage zulässt, werden die Autoverkäufer zu den ersten Unternehmen gehören, die wieder öffnen werden", sagte der Kremlchef am Freitag bei einerVideokonferenz mit den Chefs der wichtigsten Autoherstellern des Landes.The sale lies on the ground because of the corona pandemic, but the state can, for example, five billion.Ruble (62.3 million.EUR) für den Ankauf von Erste-Hilfe-Fahrzeugen bereitstellen.

The corona crisis is even more difficult for the Russian car market than the global financial crisis in 2008, Putin said. Damals sei die Krise „aus dem Ausland zu uns reingeflogen, und jetzt begrenzt diese Pandemie das Geschäft innerhalb unseres Landes".Around 300.000 people are busy in the Russian auto industry and threatened by unemployment.

Friday, 24.April, 16.8 p.m. In order to support port companies in these difficult times, the port of Antwerp has agreed to extend the payment terms of the tonnage and laying fees for seaweed ships and load barges from 30 to 48 days. Der Aufschub gilt für alle Schiffe, die zwischen dem 1May und dem 30.In June, put on the Antwerper harbor.Another extension is not excluded. Eine ähnliche Aufschiebung für Konzessionen soll dem Hafenvorstand EndeMay zur Diskussion vorgelegt werden.

Friday, 24.April, 16.3 a.m. The EU extends its export restrictions on medical equipment in the Corona crisis, but also loosens it.In the future, the countries of the Western Balkans should be excluded from the restrictions, as the EU Commission announced on Friday in Brussels.In addition, the list of products concerned was reduced.In the future, the restrictions on face masks, safety glasses and protective clothing would apply.

The restrictions were introduced in mid -March.Accordingly, the export of medical equipment to countries outside the EU must be allowed by the other EU countries.This should initially apply for six weeks, so it would go out at the end of the week.The new rules are initially scheduled for 30 days.There should also be exceptions for exports to Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.At the beginning of the Corona crisis, Germany had solved resentment in the other EU countries.In order to secure protective clothing for German needs, Berlin had issued a ban on exports with a few exceptions in early March.

Friday, 24.April, 14.38 p.m. Lithuania extends the border controls introduced in mid-March due to the Coronavirus pandemic at its EU internal borders to Poland and Latvia up to 14.May.This was announced by the Ministry of the Interior inVilnius on Friday.Accordingly, it is to ensure that during the previously extended quarantine, no foreigners enter the Baltic EU country in northeastern Europe.Citizens of other countries should only exceed the state border if they are home to transit.

"We continue to control our borders and we see that our neighboring countries take the same measures to protect their population. Nach wie vor ist der Warenverkehr nicht eingeschränkt, und unsere Hauptaufgabe besteht darin, für die Sicherheit der Menschen zu sorgen", erklärte Innenministerin Rita Tamasuniene.In the fight against the coronavirus, Lithuania had on 14.March checked again in March.

Friday, 24.April, 13.42 a.m. The corona crisis has only reduced the freight shop at Leipzig/Halle Airport in the first quarter.As Mitteldeutsche Airport AG announced on Friday, the freight volume was 297.315 t only 1.5 percent below the envelope in the first quarter of 2019.In contrast, the cargo tonnage at the German airports nationwide fell by 8.1 percent from January to March.

There are around 1 in Leipzig/Halle per week in Leipzig/Halle.000 starts and landings of freight machines.On some days in April, the airport was the busiest in Europe, it said.The Post subsidiary DHL operates a European hub at the airport.The passenger business, on the other hand, has collapsed completely.Leipzig/Halle is not one of the top ten of German transport airports there anyway.In the meantime, only occasionally passenger machines land at the airport, for example a machine with Romanian harvesters last week.Also on the second Saxon Airport in Dresden there are practically no more passenger flights.

Friday, 24.April, 13.40 p.m. Corona pandemic is challenging the world in a whole new way.And one thing is clear: it will stay that way for longer.Since no workshops can currently take place, the HPI as a partner of medium -sized businesses 4.0 competence center Berlin set up its own online platform.Here, the workshop participants from small and medium -sized companies should also be made available to know about digitization during this time.

Friday, 24.April, 13.10 p.m. BMW wants the Spartanburg Autoenwerk in the USA and the motorcycle work in Berlin after a weekly standstill from 4.May an schrittweise wieder hochfahren.In Germany, car production is only supposed to.May im niederbayerischen Dingolfing wieder starten, ebenso in Mexiko, wie der Konzern am Freitag mitteilte."At the earliest on 18.May" sollen dann die Autobauer im BMW-Stammwerk München, in Leipzig, Regensburg, im südafrikanischen Rosslyn und im Mini-Werk Oxford wieder an die Arbeit gehen – „je nach Marktentwicklung".

In Munich, Dingolfing, Regensburg and Leipzig are approximately 20.000 BMW employees in short-time work.Several thousand employees had used the production stop for conversions in the works.The BMW engine plants are to start again next Monday to supply the cars.

Friday, 24.April, 12.55 a.m. the University of ST.Bale undVertreter der Schweizer Transportwirtschaft haben einen offenen Brief an den Bundesrat des Landes adressiert.In it, they make three demands: ensuring meals, sanitary facilities and protective equipment for truck drivers, cancellation of the border closures for passenger and freight traffic in the event of accelerated truck clearance at the limits as well as waiving additional cost loads of the transport industry, especially in the case of performance-related heavy traffic andCO2 tax on fuels.

Friday, 24.April, 11.27 a.m. hamster purchases because of the corona pandemic gave the Swiss food company Nestlé a surprisingly strong sales plus in the first quarter.However, the top of the group does not really dare to assess how the business is developing further. Auch wenn es zu früh sei, die vollen Auswirkungen von Covid-19 zu beurteilten, „halten wir an unserem ursprünglichen Ausblick für das Gesamtjahr 2020 vorläufig fest", teilte das an der Börse wertvollste Unternehmen Europas am Freitag mit.

With its wide range of products in the Corona crisis, the group has so far benefited from the fact that the people in many countries in Europe and North America were captured in view of initial blocks and contact bans with stocks.In the first three months of the year, the Nestlé business was increasing more than experts expected.Above all, ready meals, coffee and pet needs were in demand, as were products from the health segment.Confectionery and ice cream sold less well.

Friday, 24.April, 11.4 p.m. With a stability fund for rail freight transport, the federal government must support companies in securing care in the Corona crisis.The four industry associations Allianz Pro Schiene, Network of European Railways, Association of German Transport Companies and theVPI Association of the freight car owners in Germany are in favor of this.In the joint explanation, they underline the central role that rail freight transport in the crisis for the reliable delivery of food, raw materials and other goods and warn of traffic to the street.

The federal government expects the rail freight transport that it reliably ensures the basic supply of the population - even if the corona -related demand for demand caused high additional costs without corresponding additional income.The industry fully met the high expectations of politics, there must be a compensation for the high effort.

Friday, 24.April, 10.48 a.m. Despite all the difficulties caused by the coronavirus - shipbuilding continues at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg.On Thursday, two pre -made bows segments for the new S709 at the EMS arrived at a Gdansk shipyard, each with 500 tons of weighing 500 tons for the new S709. Die beiden Großsegmente sind Teil der neuen „Aidacosma", die in einem Jahr an die Rostocker Reederei Aida Cruises geliefert werden soll.

Most recently, shipyard Bernard Meyer announced a stretching of the order inventory in a video message to the workforce.The number of deliveries at the Papenburg location should be reduced to a large and a smaller ship per year.Most recently, the shipyard had delivered two large and one smaller ship a year. Die „Aidacosma" betreffen diese Pläne bislang nicht. „Der Bau des Schiffes geht natürlich weiter", sagt Peter Hackmann, der Sprecher der Werft. Der Neubau soll nach derzeitiger Planung imMay 2021 ausgeliefert werden.It has to be shown whether the appointment can be kept in view of the Corona crisis.

Friday, 24.April, 10.26 p.m. The mood among the German companies is catastrophic, the Munich IFO Institute reports.The IFO business climate index crashed to 74.3 points in April, after 85.9 points in March.This is the lowest value ever measured, as the economic researchers communicate.There has not yet been a greater decline.This is primarily due to the massive deterioration of the current situation.The companies have also never looked at the coming months so pessimically.

The index has fallen to the lowest value in the processing industry since March 2009.The current business situation of the industrial companies has deteriorated dramatically, it is said.The expectations are characterized by great pessimism.The service providers have never assessed their situation so badly.Pessimism also prevails with them.The climate indicator's dive in the trade has also continued.The index has never dropped so much in the main building industry.The same applies to the indicator of the current situation and that of expectations.The majority of the construction companies are still satisfied with their current situation.

Friday, 24.April, 10.9 a.m. The battered Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft is to be brought back on course as part of bankruptcy in self-administration.The corresponding applications were submitted in the morning, said a spokesman for the responsible local court on Friday.Now the court has to decide whether it agrees to the applications.

The renovation and continuation of the company is the goal of bankruptcy in -house, said a spokesman for the shipyard.The management can remain in office, but a so -called administrator is provided from the outside.Regional media had previously reported on the planned position of the bankruptcy application.The FSG has been in financial difficulties for a long time.According to the shipyard, the delays in a new building were to blame for the deep red numbers.Finally, the order to build two large ferries had also been canceled.Only last year, the financial investor Lars Windhorst took over the company from the Norwegian Siem Group.

Friday, 24.April, 9.49 a.m. The Hamburg Spedite (VHSP) association started a survey among the member companies on the effects of the corona crisis on sales development.On average, the freight forwarders record a 32.5 percent decline in export and 36 percent for import shops.As a result of the declines, 40 percent of the companies surveyed had to register short -time work.

However, there are approx..7 percent requested.Willem van der Schalk, theVHSP chairman: "We hope that the economy will soon get going again.In the second half of the year at the latest, we expect a production increase in the international area, especially in the Far Eastern part of the earth.We strongly assume that imports will then grow again.It is difficult to assess how the export behaves, as a variety of inner -German production facilities had to drive completely gen..At the moment it cannot be answered when the level of recent years can be linked.But on behalf of our members, I can speak that fortunately around 95 percent of the companies surveyed assume that layoffs are currently not an option."

Friday, 24.April, 9.35 p.m. The head of the economy, Lars Feld, warned the Federal Government in the fight against the Coronavirus of exaggerations and warned a market economy course.Feld told the Handelsblatt: "Above all, what is currently being discussed is problematic.One has the impression that every industry wants to be specifically supported." Das Gastgewerbe wolle den ermäßigten Mehrwertsteuersatz, der jetzt beschlossen sei.The auto industry again calls for a scrappage bonus, the trade consumption vouchers."You could continue this almost arbitrarily - who doesn't have, who wants again."

If you go on this path, you will hardly be able to capture it afterwards, warned Feld.This also applies to socio -political measures, such as the increase in short -time work allowance or the extension of the subsidy duration of unemployment benefit.Feld also criticized the planned tightening of the Foreign Trade Act."The goal of building a fortress in Europe is in any case the wrong way." Die Bundesregierung will die Übernahme deutscher Firmen in strategisch wichtigen Bereichen erschweren.In the crisis she has launched comprehensive aid programs to maintain jobs and companies.If necessary, a fund provides for the state to participate in companies.

Friday, 24.April, 9.13 Uhr Auf die Einführung der Maskenpflicht im Rahmen der Covid-19 Pandemie ist der Hamburger Table Top Großhändler Primeguest bestens vorbereitet: „Wir können auf den bevorstehenden Run auf Einweg Behelfsmasken oder Community-Masken unmittelbar reagieren und auf einen Lagerbestand von mehreren Millionen Stück zurückgreifen", meldet Primeguest Geschäftsführer Eric Rech.In view of the fact that other federal states are also before the introduction of mask obligation, this direct availability on site is a real advantage for companies and citizens of the Hanseatic city.

The currently available disposable masks are in stock in different variants and come from the production of a partner company in Germany.This manufacturer has already delivered several million of these makeshift masks at home and abroad as everyday masks.Production has been in full swing and capacities for weeks, according to Eric Rech, further expanded from the manufacturer.In this way, the need in other federal states can also be covered in the medium term.

Friday, 24.April, 8.41 UhrVolkswagen-Konzernchef Herbert Diess hat sich dafür ausgesprochen, die Wirtschaft in Deutschland nach dem flächendeckenden „Lockdown" behutsam wieder hochzufahren.You shouldn't wait too long, said the manager on Thursday evening in the ZDF program Maybrit Illner. „Sicher können wir noch durchhalten", meinte Diess zu einem Zeitraum von einigen Wochen."But now it's about getting the system going again."

He was convinced that it could be possible to re -push the production processes and at the same time keep the virus under control.A standstill is difficult over a longer period of time. „Wir können in Deutschland stolz auf das sein, was wir erreicht haben", sagte Diess in der Talkrunde, an der auch der BonnerVirologe Hendrik Streeck teilnahm. Nun müsse man aber „die Wirtschaft wieder in Gang bringen".

Friday, 24.April, 8.30 a.m. The federal states have agreed to allow all types of goods to be promoted on Sundays and public holidays.However, the exceptions in the respective countries are differently limited.According to the current status, the regulation should be in four federal states on 26.April, in other countries in early or late June and in Saxony-Anhalt on 31.August end. Das Saarland hat die Gütertransporte „bis auf Weiteres" freigegeben.The German Transport Forum warns that the regulatory patchwork leads to uncertainties in planning and disposition.It appeals to the countries to find a nationwide uniform solution and generously create the validity of the exemption.

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Friday, 24.April, 8.9 p.m. The European commercial vehicle manufacturers have clearly felt the corona crisis.According to the NFZ industry association ACEA, well over 60 percent fewer vehicles were sold, especially in Spain, Italy and France.The European commercial vehicle market was almost half collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic in March.With 105.196 vehicles were admitted to 47.3 percent less than in the same month, the responsible industry association ACEA said.The number of admission had already declined in January and February, but the decline in March was now considerably larger.

The strongest declines in the countries of Italy (minus 66.1 percent), Spain (minus 64.4 percent) and France (minus 63.1 percent), which are particularly difficult for the Covid 19 pandemic, were most powerful.All NFZ segments are affected by the decline, and the manufacturers had had clear declines on all 27 EU markets, it continued.Due to the measures against the virus, a number of dealers had to close their doors.

Friday, 24.April, 7.51 Uhr Svenja Schulze,Bundesministerin für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit, hat sich für eine „Innovationsprämie" ausgesprochen Svenja Schulze für eine „Innovationsprämie" ausgesprochen."It also makes sense for premiums for the car fleets of social services that change to electric cars."Die Autoindustrie, eine der wichtigsten Schlüsselindustrien in Deutschland, ist von der Coronakrise schwer getroffen worden.Sales decreased sharply, the production was interrupted, carmakers and suppliers registered short -time work.

Most recently,Volkswagen and Daimler had reported significant burglaries.The carmakers are calling for state aid to boost the economy again and to promote the exchange of old petrol engines and diesel cars."If the Federal Government talks about possible help soon, we have to do this with a clear compass. Klimaschutz, Innovation und Arbeitsplätze sind für mich der Maßstab für gute Konjunkturpolitik", sagte Schulze.At the same time, she rejected a new edition of the 2009 scrappage bonus, which was not benefited from the environment. „Falsch wäre es, jetzt Fahrzeuge mitVerbrennungsmotor und hohem CO2-Ausstoß zu fördern, die dann weitere 10, 15 Jahre auf unseren Straßen fahren", sagte Schulze.

Friday, 24.April, 7.47 a.m. in view of the numerous restrictions on trade in medical devices because of the corona pandemic, the world trade organization (WTO) has warned of dangers for supply chains. „Sobald mehr produziert werden kann, wird der Handel von entscheidender Bedeutung sein, umVorräte von dort, wo sie reichlich vorhanden sind, dorthin zu verlagern, wo sie fehlen", teilte die WTO am Donnerstag in Genf mit."However, a lack of international cooperation could hinder the urgently required reaction to the offer." Dies gelte umso mehr, als dass die Krankheit zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten an verschiedenen Orten ihren Höhepunkt erreichen werde.

Around 80 countries and areas have issued trade restrictions that apply primarily to protective equipment for health staff such as safety glasses and masks, according to the WTO.Disinfectants, medication and virust tests are also affected.Some countries would also have restricted food, soap and toilet paper abroad.The measures are an answer to national scarcity, the organization admitted.At the same time, she emphasized that the medical production urgently had to be raised to combat Covid-19.

Thursday, 23.April, 18.27 a.m. Jaguar Land Rover wants to gradually resume its production at various locations in various locations.This was announced by the British car maker on Thursday.Should be started from 18.May an mit den Werken im englischen Solihull, in Österreich und der Slowakei. „Wir sehen in China eine Erholung derVerkaufszahlen, und Kunden kehren in unsere Ausstellungsräume zurück", hieß es in einer Mitteilung.Further locations should therefore follow.

The health and well -being of the employees have top priority.Therefore, strict requirements for compliance with the social distance should be introduced.Further measures to protect against infection are currently being examined, it said.Jaguar Land Rover had stopped production a month ago because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Thursday, 23.April, 18.3 p.m. The government in Rome wants to nationalize the Insolvent airline Alitalia for years in early summer.A new society with public funds should be created within the first weeks of Juni and Alitalia should be taken over, Labor Minister Stefano Patuanelli said on Thursday in parliament in Rome.In doing so, he did not conclude job cuts.

Alitalia has not made a profit since 2002.Numerous attempts to find a private buyer - including Delta or Lufthansa - failed.The company was privatized in 2008, but always needed government aid.According to industry analyst Andrea Giuricin, this cost taxpayers around 10 billion in the past twelve years.EUR.The company has been insolvent since 2017.The state has recently had bridging loans of around 1.5 billion loans.EUR gewährt.

Thursday, 23.April, 18.5 a.m. Lufthansa can no longer save itself from the corona crisis on its own.The DAX group published this assessment on Thursday after it was an operational loss of 1.2 billion for the first quarter.EUR vermeldet hatte.A significantly higher minus is expected for the current second quarter, the company said.It is currently not foreseeable when flight operations could be expanded again.After renewed borrowing, Lufthansa currently has a total of 4.4 billion.EUR flüssige Mittel, die allerdings in den „nächsten Wochen" deutlich zurückgehen werden, hieß es weiter."The group does not expect to be able to cover the resulting capital requirement with further medium -sized shots on the market."

Lufthansa steckt den Angaben zufolge daher „in intensivenVerhandlungen" mit den Regierungen der Airline-Heimatländer Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich und Belgien.It is about various financing instruments to receive solvency at short notice.In addition to guarantees, loans and silent participations, direct state participations are also discussed.The conversations continued.The Lufthansa board was confident that it was successful.Read here.

Thursday, 23.April, 17.51 p.m. Lufthansa recorded an operational loss (adjusted EBIT) of 1.2 billion in the first quarter due to the corona crisis.EUR.Last year the minus had 336 million in the traditionally weak quarter at the beginning of the year.EUR betragen.In March alone they had almost 1.4 billion.EUR Umsatz verloren, teilte der Dax-Konzern am Donnerstag in einer Pflichtmitteilung an die Börse mit.The proceeds were 6.4 billion throughout the quarter.EUR in ähnlicher Größenordnung unter demVorjahreswert von 7,8 Mrd.EUR.In addition, unfavorable fuel contracts and impairments of the aircraft will now press the profit. Details dazu will Lufthansa MitteMay veröffentlichen.

Thursday, 23.April, 16.58 p.m. Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary accused Lufthansa to abuse the Corona crisis."I think that airlines such as Lufthansa and Air France use the Covid crisis to enrich themselves with incredibly high sums from the state," said the always-strong airline manager on Thursday.

O'Leary excluded government aids for his own company because you have sufficient cash reserves.Ryanair will probably survive much longer than any other airline.The manager admitted that the state short -labor benefit in many European countries improves the financial situation of its company. Im Winter sei dennoch ein Stellenabbau von 10 bis 20 Prozent „fast unvermeidlich".

Thursday, 23.April, 16.42 a.m. The Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) called for the EU countries before their summit for financial aid and for a close coordination in the crisis. „Mitgliedsstaaten, die durch die Corona-Krise in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten geraten, brauchen solidarische Unterstützung durch die übrigen EU-Staaten", teilte derVerband am Donnerstag mit."This applies especially to countries in South and Eastern Europe." DerVDA verwies auf die international aufgestellte Branche, die in allen EU-Ländern produziere.

When running the production, the countries would have to coordinate in time with each other. „Noch agieren die Mitgliedstaaten zu oft im Alleingang, auch beim Ausstieg aus dem Lockdown", teilte derVDA weiter mit."In addition, the limits for goods transport must be as permeable as possible.The current problems in the supply chains cannot be remedied differently." Ohne funktionierende Lieferketten sei ein Hochfahren der Produktion nicht möglich.

Thursday, 23.April, 16.05 a.m. trade, manufacturer and also logistics service providers have to prepare for difficult times.The uncertainty among consumers and the fear of job loss is great, as a current survey shows. Die Nürnberger Marktforscher GfK prognostizieren für den MonatMay einen massiven Einbruch des Konsumklima-Index auf den historischen Tiefstand von minus 23,4 Punkte.That would be another 25.7 points less than in April.Click here for the graphic.

Thursday, 23.April, 15.40 p.m. The number of departures has been drastically reduced worldwide since mid -March.In Germany, departure in the third week of April in the previous year compared to around 97 percent, as a current survey shows.Click here for the graphic.

Thursday, 23.April, 15.30 a.m. The transport company SOEGEIGN Speed helps to provide medical facilities even in times of corona with the necessary protective clothing.This is picked up at Frankfurt Airport and distributed to institutions, such as the Bundeswehr, Federal Police or Clinics, overnight.

According to the company, more than 50 million have already been.Protective masks, 10 million.Protective glasses and 5 million.Protection coat delivered.For this purpose, more than 30 charter flights for freight forwarders were traded on the importer, another 15 in the next two weeks on the part of the customers.Due to the new mask requirement, sovereign assumes that the service is expanded.

Thursday, 23.April, 14.47 a.m. in the Netherlands there is resistance to state aid for the Air France-Klm airline hit by the Corona crisis if General Director Benjamin Smith receives a bonus despite the situation. „Wir finden Bonuszahlungen in dieser Krisenzeit nicht vernünftig und nicht mit einer Hilfe aus Steuergeldern vereinbar", sagte der niederländische Finanzminister Wopke Hoekstra der Zeitung De Telegraaf."We will make this clear to the company, even during the shareholder assembly." Aus Unterlagen für dieVersammlung EndeMay gehe hervor, dass die Modalitäten einer Bonuszahlung noch am 3.April have been adjusted, according to the newspaper.

As the radio broadcaster NOS reported on Thursday, a bonus for Smith could be made dependent on how much money the airline has in the cash register at the end of the year.Since this essentially depends on the scope of the hoped -for state aid from the Netherlands and France, the bonus for the top manager increases with rising state aid.To what extent the airline is calculating with state aid has not yet been specified.In France there was talk of billions of bills.

Thursday, 23.April, 14.33 a.m. The MV shipyards in the corona crisis in heavy fairway can hope for 600 million euros in state aids by the end of the year.Economic Minister Harry Glawe (CDU) called this sum on Thursday in a joint meeting of the state parliament of the Business and Finance Committee.It is therefore still open whether the support is granted as a loan, citizens or in a different form."We continue to negotiate with the shareholder, the federal government and banks. Mit einem Ergebnis rechnen wir in den kommenden Wochen", sagte Glawe nach der Ausschusssitzung.The suppliers are said to be up to 50 million due to unpaid deliveries to the MV shipyards.EUR unterstützt werden.These help must be repaid later.

Thursday, 23.April, 14.12 noon Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony want to exchange ideas in the Corona crisis in a switching on the future of the automotive sector. „Wir wollen nächste Woche eineVideokonferenz der Autoländer machen", kündigte Bayerns Ministerpräsident Markus Söder (CSU) am Donnerstag nach einem Treffen mit Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsidenten Winfried Kretschmann (Grüne) in Ulm an.The sector is severely affected.Even if you loose everything again, the automotive sector cannot work as before, since supply chains such as in Italy did not work and markets like the United States were not open.One wanted to sit down to think about ecological premium models, for example,.

Thursday, 23.April, 13.11 a.m. Air Berlin insolvency administrator Lucas Flöther soon expects a flood of bankruptcy due to the corona crisis. Nur ob sie schon im Herbst oder erst nächstes Jahr kommt, sei noch offen: „Die Bugwelle baut sich gerade auf", sagte er am Mittwochabend in einerVideokonferenz des Münchner Clubs Wirtschaftspresse.

Karstadt Kaufhof, the restaurant chainsVapiano and Maredo, the fashion company Hallhuber and the Bonn-Bad Godesberg town hall were the first prominent victims in April who had to register bankruptcy or flee under a protective shield. Laut Gesetz muss jeder Unternehmer bei drohender Zahlungsunfähigkeit sofort beim Amtsgericht Insolvenz anmelden - zum Schutz allerVertragspartner und des ganzen Marktes „vor Unternehmens-Zombies, die den Wettbewerb verzerren und andere mit in den Abgrund ziehen", so Flöther.However, the federal government has suspended the obligation to apply for many companies until the end of September

Thursday, 23.April, 12.56 a.m.Vietnam has sent 40 t breathing masks to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.The Airbus A350-900 fromVietnam Airlines landed on Thursday at Rostock-Laage Airport, as his managing director Dörthe Hausmann announced.The more than 2.000 packages should be delivered on the same day.According to the Ministry of the Interior, it is 1.5 million.Mund-nose protection masks.They would be distributed to the counties and independent cities and are primarily intended for schools and transport companies.From Monday, a obligation to cover mouth and nose in local public transport and in shops will apply in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Thursday, 23.April, 11.48 a.m. The business expectations of the German medium -sized companies have worsened massively under the impression of pandemic.This is shown by the current study of Creditreform Economic Research.Between the 10.and 13.Calendar week were around 1.000 companies asked about their business situation and their business expectations.After that, the creditreform business climate index (CGK) clearly loses and clearly noted with 7.7 points below the previous year (22.2 points).

In a longer-term comparison, the current business climate index is still above the spring of 2009 (- 15.3 points) when the German economy was in the financial crisis.This is mainly due to the relatively good location in the construction industry.Currently, 26.6 percent of the respondents (for 36.7 percent) are still increasing with increasing order inputs for the further course of the year - almost every fifth expected declines.In sales, 18.2 percent of the respondents (for 7.4 percent) assume a minus.Above all, the manufacturing business and trade expect high losses.With rising sales, only 29.8 calculate in the middle class.

Thursday, 23.April, 11.Midnight after the appointment for the Breakbulk Europe in 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic was moved to the second half of the year-the fair should now be from 29.September to 1.October will take place - this year's Breakbulk America will only start later.New appointment in George R.Brown Convention Center in Houston: 3.until 5.November.

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Thursday, 23.April, 10.44 a.m. After a four-week closing time in the Corona crisis.The cars are now completely disinfected and handed over to the customers, saidVolkswagen on Thursday.According toVolkswagen, detailed instruction on the vehicle is dispensed with, technical innovations such as assistance systems are explained with videos.In 2019 around 1 took.300 customers face their vehicle in the glass manufactory, this year it should be around 2.600 be.However, the general visitor area remains closed for the time being.

Thursday, 23.April, 10.10 a.m. of the federal government's stabilization fund in the Corona crisis is not yet ready for use. Gegenwärtig werde „mit Hochdruck" an einer Rechtsverordnung gearbeitet, heißt es in einer Antwort von Wirtschaftsstaatssekretär Ulrich Nußbaum auf eine Anfrage der Linke-Fraktion.

The economic stabilization fund should enable the state to participate in large companies if necessary.The law states that the fund is intended to stabilize companies and strengthen their capital base, the risk of inventory has a significant impact on the economy, technological sovereignty, security of care, critical infrastructures or the labor market.

Thursday, 23.April, 9.49 p.m. system-relevant professional groups such as logistics helpers or nursing staff are currently strong in public due to corona pandemic.Some employees - for example in laboratories, in building cleaning or in logistics - are rather in the background and, according to public guidelines, are also systemically relevant.The analysts of the comparison platform content.de have based on 19.659 Data records examined the income of these hidden employees.The result: the remuneration is often comparatively low.

In this ranking, engineers in biotechnology move into 52.100EUR das höchste Einkommen.Medical-technical laboratory assistant (35.100EUR) und Laboranten (38.800EUR) verdienen deutlich weniger.Production assistant (28.200EUR) beziehen das niedrigste Gehalt in dieser Auswertung.They secure the production and transport of goods.Logisticians also organize supply chains - for an annual salary of around 33.100EUR.Port workers (30.400EUR) und Lageristen (30.300EUR) verdienen etwas weniger.For comparison: The annual salary of specialists in Germany is around 43 in the median.200EUR im Jahr.

Thursday, 23.April, 9.3 p.m. in the corona crisis, 18 percent of German companies do not want to dismiss employees or not extend temporary jobs.In industry and the service providers, it is every fifth company, 15 percent plan a job cuts in stores and only 2 percent in the construction sector.This is the preliminary result of the latest survey by the IFO Institute in April.Accordingly, half of the companies are already using short -time work.

On average, companies expect that the restrictions in public life will take about 3.9 months.Conservation and production stops are currently experiencing 15 percent.Delivery problems for important preliminary products report 41 percent in industry and 53 percent of companies in retail.84 percent feel a decline in sales, only 4 percent report an increase.45 percent of companies believe that the decline can be partially made up for.In addition, 46 percent of companies want to postpone investments.

Thursday, 23.April, 9 Uhr Der schwedische NutzfahrzeugherstellerVolvo hat angesichts der Coronavirus-Pandemie mit einem deutlichen Nachfragerückgang zu kämpfen.Since the end of March, the cancellations have outweighed the new orders in the truck business, as the company announced on Thursday in Stockholm.In order to the entire first quarter, the order input was 16 percent lower than a year earlier.CEO Martin Lundstedt spoke from the beginning of a hard time for the rival of Daimler and theVW truck subsidiary Traton.

The production stops and the lower demand in the course of the Corona crisis would have negatively influenced sales and profits, said Lundstedt.The proceeds from the Swedes went by almost 15 percent to 91.4 billion in the first three months of the year.Swedish crowns (8.3 billion.EUR) zurück.The bottom line was 4.8 billion. Kronen weniger als halb so viel Gewinn wieIn the same period last year.

Thursday, 23.April, 8.32 p.m. The Traton Group brands gradually run up their production that has been resting since mid -March. ScaniaVehicles & Services testet in Schweden und den Niederlanden zunächst an zwei Arbeitstagen mit reduziertem Tempo die Stabilität der Lieferketten und die Prozesse an der Fertigungslinie unter den Bedingungen des Gesundheitsschutzes.A week later, the high run begins in the production facilities of Scania in France and Brazil.

Man Truck & Bus lässt vom 27.April on its bus and truck production is gradually starting again.AtVolkswagen Caminhões e ônibus, the main plant in Brazilian residues from the 27.April produced again.For the MexicanVWCO plant in Queretaro, the start for the 4 is.May geplant.Based on preliminary figures, the Traton Group expects 1.Quarter 2020 a turnover of around 5.7 billion.EUR, ein operatives Ergebnis von rund 160 Mio.EUR und eine operative Umsatzrendite von rund 2,8Prozent.An updated forecast of the 2020 business course is still not possible among the current fast -moving changes.

Thursday, 23.April, 8.6 p.m. South Korea's economy is becoming increasingly aware of the consequences of coronavirus pandemic.The gross domestic product (GDP) of the fourth largest economy of Asia shrank in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the quarter before.It was the strongest decline in a quarter since the global financial crisis in 2008.This emerges from numbers that the South Korean central bank published on Thursday.The economy grew by 1.3 percent in the year - as weak as since the third quarter of 2009.

Consumption decreased by 6.4 percent compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year in the first three months compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year. „Die Exporte fielen um zwei Prozent wegen des Rückgangs bei Fahrzeugen, Maschinen und chemischen Produkten, und trotz eines Anstiegs bei Halbleitern", hieß es von der Zentralbank.South Korea depends heavily on the export.In addition to semiconductors, the most important export goods also include petrochemical products, cars, ships, machines and smartphones and flat screens.

Thursday, 23.April, 8.02 a.m. The car maker Daimler must accept a significant drop in profits due to the coronavirus pandemic.In the first three months, the Adjusted Operative Winning (EBIT) of the Group sackled to 719 million.EUR nach 2,31 Mrd.EUR im 1.Quarter 2019, as Daimler announced on Thursday night on the basis of preliminary numbers.The DAX group also expects losses throughout 2020.

The effects of corona pandemicism on customer demand, supply chains and vehicle production could not be valued in detail and on a safe basis, so that a forecast for the current financial year 2020 was difficult.Regardless of this, it is assumed that sales and sales of the Group will move under the level of the previous year in 2020.In view of the expected market development and assessment of the business areas, the Group Bit will also be lower.

Wednesday, 22.April, 22.00:00 at theVolkswagen car manufacturer on Thursday after more than five weeks of standstill because of the coronavirus pandemic, vehicle production is slowly starting again.It starts with the work in Zwickau in Saxony.At the same time, the Chemnitz engine plant should be gradually raised again, the company said in advance.The glass manufactory in Dresden will follow next Monday, as is the works in Wolfsburg, Emden and Hanover. „Insbesondere die Zulieferer, die in Sequenz fertigen und den Fahrzeugwerken direkt vorgelagert sind, als auch die werksnahen Dienstleistungen brauchen den Wiederanlauf dringend", sagt DirkVogel vom Netzwerk Automobilzulieferer Sachsen (AMZ).

The production losses due to the week -long shutdown in the important automotive markets are large.The first works slowly go up again.But at the end of the year, according to the latest predictions, a thick minus should remain.Read more here dazu.

Wednesday, 22.April, 20.11 a.m. The car manufacturerVolkswagen wants to produce the production in his US plant in Tennessee from 3 due to the corona crisis.May schrittweise wieder aufnehmen. „Wir haben die vergangenen Wochen genutzt, um strikte Gesundheits- und Sicherheitsmaßnahmen durchzuführen", teilte Werksleiter Tom du Plessis am Mittwoch in Chattanooga mit.The step takes place in harmony with loosened corona guidelines of the local authorities.VW had the ligaments because of the pandemic on 21.March stopped.

Wednesday, 22.April, 18.41 a.m. The Corona crisis has incorporated the first loss of the quarter in five years to the US airline Delta Air Lines.In the three months to the end of March, a minus of 534 million fell.USD (493 Mio.EUR) an, wie das Unternehmen am Mittwoch mitteilte.In the previous year, Delta still had 730 million.USD Gewinn erzielt.The proceeds went 18 percent to 8.6 billion.USD zurück.

Pandemic has almost brought international air traffic to a standstill and the US airlines into a serious crisis.Delta's cash reserves were 6 billion at the end of the quarter.USD, doch das Unternehmen verbrannte pro Tag 100 Mio.USD.By the end of June, Delta wants the loss rate to 50 million.USD begrenzen und die Liquidität auf rund 10 Mrd.USD erhöhen.

The US government has launched a large rescue program for the battered domestic airlines, 5.4 billion from the Delta.USD an Hilfsgeldern erhielt.However, the state aid for the industry is controversial because the airlines have been distributing a lot of money to their shareholders in recent years, instead of making larger security buffers for times of crisis.

Wednesday, 22.April, 16.25 p.m.Professors of the Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg will provide this and next Thursday your specialist knowledge on various topics related to the corona crisis free of charge in online question hours.The focus is on how companies can deal with the consequences.On 23.April (7 p.m.) and on 30.April (10 a.m.) the experts for supply chain management and corporate management answer questions from the economy.All interested parties can participate.The question and answer sessions are held in English.Further information is available here.

Wednesday, 22.April, 16.5 p.m. Hardly any industry is spared from the consequences of the Corona crisis.The small, regional partners and suppliers of the Norma food discounter are also severely affected by the declines of sales.In order to help them financially, the Nuremberg company has therefore decided to waive the payment terms that have been applicable and contractually stated so far until further notice.In short: Norma now pays his bills faster so that the money arrives where it is needed.

In the future, the invoices will be transferred immediately after receipt and account control.Norma will volunteer against common practice and thus contributes to strengthening the local companies in the different German regions.In particular, small suppliers who are currently in financial difficulties due to the loss of sales to gastronomy companies benefit from this step.

Wednesday, 22.April, 15.56 a.m. EU transport commissioner AdinaValean expects Member States to stop controls at EU internal borders as soon as it allows the public health situation. „Grenzen sollten im Binnenmarkt nicht geschlossen sein", betonte sie bei einerInternetsprechstunde, bei der sie Fragen beantwortete, die über soziale Netzwerke gestellt wurden. Grenzkontrollen und Einschränkungen der Reisefreiheit seien „die ersten Antworten der Mitgliedstaaten auf die Krise" gewesen. Sie sollten „eher früher als später" wieder aufgehoben werden.Read more here dazu.

Wednesday, 22.April, 15.48 a.m. The car manufacturer Renault has resumed production at several locations in France after several weeks of standstill because of the coronavirus pandemic.A spokeswoman for the company confirmed on Wednesday. Die Wiederaufnahme der Produktion gehe jedoch nur „sehr sehr schrittweise" und mit wenigen Arbeitern vonstatten, sagte die Konzernsprecherin.The requirements of the health authorities would be strictly observed.

Renault claimed to have twelve factories in France in mid -March with around 18.000 employees temporarily closed due to the health crisis.According to the group, another work in Flins-sur seine is to be reopened next week.Further factories should then be added step by step.According to Renault, Renault had previously resumed production with restrictions at locations in Spain and Portugal.

Wednesday, 22.April, 14.4 p.m. in the corona crisis, the first German airline is affected by bankruptcy.The Aviation Society Walter (LGW) registered bankruptcy on Wednesday at the Düsseldorf District Court.The company with 15 aircraft and 354 employees is to be continued with the lawyer Dirk Andres as an administrator, as a spokesman announced.The lawyer Michael Wilbert was appointed as the new managing director.

The LGW was most recently traveling with its own crews on behalf of the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings, but which in the Corona crisis quit the rental agreement.The employees had gone into short work before the bankruptcy.The aircraft are parked in Bratislava.

Wednesday, 22.April, 13.51 a.m. Scania Germany Austria continues to ensure the service with repair services and the supply of spare parts in the current COVID19 situation. „Da wir dieVerantwortung haben, die für die Gesellschaft lebenswichtigen Transportketten zu sichern und unsere Kunden bestmöglich in dem aktuell schwierigen Geschäftsumfeld zu unterstützen, bieten wir ihnen in der jetzigen Situation Werkstattservice und Ersatzteilversorgung in vollem Umfang an", so Peter Hornig, Geschäftsführer Scania Deutschland Österreich.

In order to contain the spread of the coronavirus, intensive protection precautions were taken for employees and customers in our workshops, according to Hornig."We have adapted the work processes for customers and employees to train employees how vehicles are to be received, and expanded hygiene measures in the workshops and offices.Our declared goal is that our service companies are still available to customers."

Wednesday, 22.April, 13.45 o'clock The contact between the recipient and the deliverer is difficult to contain-especially in the B2B area when large warning quantities are ordered.Contactless delivery is not new to the night express service provider NOX Nachtexpress, after all, the company delivers at night when others sleep.The KEP service now shares its knowledge via the new website www.Contactless logistics.de.

Wednesday, 22.April, 12.48 a.m. The port organization Copenhagen Malmö Port is reducing personnel because of the corona crisis.40 employees of the auto terminal in Malmö port should be terminated, the Danish-Swedish operator organization said.The economic consequences of pandemic can be felt primarily in the automotive envelope and especially in Malmö, the largest car import port of Scandinavia.You tried for a long time to find other solutions.However, even a savings program and state financial aid in Denmark and Sweden in March would not have been enough to compensate for the losses of income from the lack of ships and falling transshipment quantities, said CMP managing director barbara Scheel Agersnap.The port boss did not rule out any further layoffs that could then affect the second port location of Copenhagen.

Wednesday, 21.April, 12.39 a.m. Due to the corona crisis, the planned part of the Hochstraße Süd in Ludwigshafen is delayed. „Wenn alles planmäßig läuft, erfolgt in der ersten Juli-Hälfte der Abbruch des ersten Abschnitts", sagte Oberbürgermeisterin Jutta Steinruck (SPD) am Mittwoch.Luat Head of Civil engineering area at the city, Björn Berlenbach, there is a delay of three months.The working columns on the construction site should not mix, the closure is the process.

As far as the costs are concerned, everyone involved is confident, since the fundamental approval for co-financing by the state and the federal government is present.

Wednesday, 21.April, 12.5 p.m. The economic stimulus programs to boost the economy after the Coronavirus pandemic must create incentives in the opinion of climate researchers so that the economy strengthens more environmentally friendly.

Due to the drastic measures to contain the spread of virus, which have paralyzed wide economic areas, the emissions of climate -damaging emissions are probably temporarily declining, reported the world weather organization (WMO), which documents climate change, on Wednesday for 50.Earth Day.But that is not a substitute for more effort to contain climate change. „Auf frühere Wirtschaftskrisen folgten oft Erholungsphasen, in denen die (klimaschädlichen) Emissionen stärker anstiegen als vor der Krise", teilte die WMO in Genf mit.

Wednesday, 22.April, 11.55 a.m. The challenges for buyers, logisticians and supply chain managers in German industry are still large.Every fifth company has now been affected by delivery failures, as a current survey by the Federal Association of Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME) has shown in its member companies. Read more about the results here.

Wednesday, 22.April, 11.38 p.m. The further spread of the coronavirus and the expected loosening of the lockdown have increased the need for medical and non -medical protective equipment worldwide.According to the Minister of Health Spahn, the German health system alone is an annual requirement of approx..1.5 billion.FFP masks and mouth-nose protection necessary.The lack of flexible and affordable logistics solutions prevents protective equipment from being in stock or could be reproduced in other countries..

In order to counteract this fact, Freightthub cooperates with companies that have previously imported goods, such as tea, household goods or auto parts from Asia, and are ready to expand their offer to expand the urgently needed protection items.In the past few weeks, Freighthub has 20 million.Protect protection articles from Asia, which corresponds to the company's own information.50 percent of weekly needs in the health system of the entire Federal Republic.

Wednesday, 22.April, 11.5 p.m. in the first week of April, heavy goods traffic on motorways decreased by 30 percent.The days from 2 are comparable period.February to 7.March 2020, as the Federal Institute for Roads (BAST) announced on Wednesday.Compared to the days from Wednesday before Easter to Tuesday after Easter, the decline was 56 percent.The representation of 1.According to April, the bast is based on short -term data from four axle load points, the time area in front of a total of 174 counting points.You can find an exact installation of light commercial vehicles and heavy traffic here.

Wednesday, 21.April, 10.44 Uhr Zu den rasant ansteigenden Ausfuhrbeschränkungen in der derzeitigen Corona-Pandemie, sagt BDI-Präsident Dieter Kempf: „Nationale Exportrestriktionen machen uns nicht krisenfester".They cause domino effects elsewhere with dramatic consequences.It is necessary to immediately have effective agreements to reduce the trading barriers built in the Corona crisis, especially in the case of supply and medical goods.

It is also problematic that many countries currently differentiate between the supposedly systemically relevant and non-system-relevant production branches and services.According to the BDI, this leads to massive bureaucratic effort and fault in global value chains.The G20 countries should undertake to cancel this patchwork of different regulations as quickly as possible.

Wednesday, 21.April, 10.30 p.m. Hamburg-based companies that are affected by delivery problems due to the Corona crisis can now contact a central contact point.On the phone number 040/42841-2233, companies that are affected by failures or other difficulties in their international delivery relationships will receive advice and help in the future.This was announced by the Hamburg Economic Authority on Tuesday.The aim of the new contact point is to restore disturbed delivery relationships.

„Wir haben ein hohes Interesse daran, dass die Herstellung und Lieferung benötigter Zulieferprodukte, wo möglich, wieder reibungslos erfolgt", so Wirtschaftssenator Michael Westhagemann (parteilos).Functioning international supply chains are essential for the industrial, port and logistics location Hamburg.In many cases, production problems or standstill have occurred because essential components were not delivered.

Wednesday, 21.April, 10.4 p.m. The companies in the North German metal and electrical industry look into a dark future.Because of the drastic consequences of the Corona crisis, three quarters of all companies expect massive drop in sales, as can be seen from the spring economy survey of Nordmetall and the General Association of Economics in Northern Germany (AGV North).

„Das ist ein Rekordwert", warnte Nordmetall-Präsident Thomas Lambusch. Man habe es hier nicht mit einer Konjunkturdelle zu tun, sondern die Unternehmen steuerten auf einen „Strukturbruch mit weitreichenden Folgen" zu.In addition to the auto industry, shipbuilding also faces extremely bad prospects.670 member companies had been interviewed.Accordingly, half of them classify the business situation as unsatisfactory or bad - a negative record in the past ten years.73 percent of the companies now expect drops in sales in the next six months, almost half of them in the duplications.A total of 25 percent of the companies surveyed expects bankruptcy within six months.

Wednesday, 21.April, 9.39 a.m. The Federal Ministry of Labor rejects the approval of a Sunday delivery of packages..A spokesman for Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) said on Wednesday at the request of the German Press Agency: "As the Berlin Administrative Court decided in several urgent procedures, there is no care crisis that urgently need to supply the population by a Sunday delivery of packages urgentlywould."

An increased package volume that occurs temporarily due to the Easter days, the restrictions on contact and the closure of many sales transactions is not a reason to intervene in the constitutionally guaranteed right to rest on Sundays."It is also not politically understandable why the parcel drivers, which are significantly additional in the crisis, are to be exposed to further impositions."

Wednesday, 21.April, 9.37 a.m. The battered US airline United Airlines has taken care of an urgently needed billion in the corona crisis with a capital increase in the corona crisis. Mit der Ausgabe von 39,25 Millionen Aktien sammelte das Unternehmen bei Anlegern rund eine MilliardeU.S. dollar (922 Mio.EUR) ein, wie es in der Nacht zum Mittwoch in Chicago mitteilte.The airline is under pressure because of the Corona pandemic, which brought air traffic to a standstill.

With $ 26.50 per share, United achieved the highest target price.Nevertheless, the amount is around five percent below the closing price on Tuesday.The airline had announced the capital increase shortly after the IPO and the papers got rid of the papers a little later.The buyers of the new shares have the option to buy ten percent more shares within 30 days.The US government has already assured that the domestic airlines in the crisis support with a billion-dollar rescue package, but the situation remains critical.United expects a loss of 2.1 billion for the first quarter.Dollars before taxes.Since the beginning of the year, the share price had fallen by almost 70 percent.In the post-exchangeable US trade on Tuesday, he gave up by a further 1.7 percent.

Wednesday, 21.April, 8.4 a.m. European airlines are currently negotiating with EU member states on state aid in the amount of more than 12 billion.EUR.This is shown by a list of Greenpeace published today, which previously granted and desired loans, state participations and grants for the aviation industry in the corona crisis.Even unknown are the probably significantly higher sums that British Airways and the German Lufthansa have asked.Greenpeace demands that state aid to make binding requirements for more climate protection."A restart of airlines financed with tax billion also has to advance climate protection," says Benjamin Stephan, traffic expert from Greenpeace."The airlines have to tame their rapidly increasing CO2 emissions, for example by adding a firm part of clean fuels and permanently adjusting domestic flights."

The emissions of greenhouse gases in the flight industry are rising rapidly.In the past five years alone, emissions have increased by 26 percent.So far, the industry has benefited from tax relief and subsidies across Europe.Kerosene in Germany, like most other member states, is excluded from energy tax and noVAT is paid for international flight tickets.This also has the 20 largest European airlines in the past five years..EUR erzielt.Now the Corona crisis hits the industry hard: more than 90 percent of the European flights were recently deleted.

Wednesday, 21.April, 7.52 a.m. If you want to send packages and other mail to countries outside of Europe, you have to expect problems depending on the target country. Bei solchen Sendungen komme es derzeit zu „spürbaren Beeinträchtigungen", heißt es in einem Bericht der Bundesnetzagentur für eine Beiratssitzung AnfangMay, der der Deutschen Presse-Agentur vorliegt.Reasons are, for example, an acceptance stop of various countries, lack of flight capacities and border controls. Die Deutsche Post weise auf „massive Einschränkungen" des internationalen Warenversands hin, heißt es in dem Bericht weiter.The shipping of parcels and goods shipments to the USA is set until further notice - and: "Further restrictions or payment measures are likely."Read more dazu.

Wednesday, 21.April, 7.46 a.m. The BDI industrial association has criticized restrictions on the export of medical products and protective equipment.If each country holds back its goods, in the end there would be no country all the necessary materials to master corona pandemic, it says in a paper that is available to the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). „Nationale Exportrestriktionen machen uns nicht krisenfester", zitiert die SZdenVerbandschef Dieter Kempf. „They cause domino effects elsewhere with dramatic consequences."

Missing protective equipment could also endanger the national production of important goods such as medicinal products. „Ohne Schutz keine Produktion", zitiert die Zeitung den Industrieverband.25 countries would have registered export restrictions at the World Trade Organization WTO.Because not all countries showed this, up to 50 could have throttled or stopped their export.

Tuesday, 21.April, 19.55 a.m. The Innotrans railway technology fair in Berlin is postponed because of the Coronavirus crisis. Sie war für EndeSeptember planned. Spätestens AnfangMay werde ein neuer Termin bekannt gegeben, teilten dieVeranstalter am Dienstag auf der Internetseite der Messe mit.

The Berlin Senate had events with more than 5 on Tuesday.000 participants up to 24.October prohibited to curb the spread of the new Coronavirus.Every two years, the show presents innovations on trains, roads and control technology on the Berlin exhibition center.Around 180 came in 2018.000 trade visitors.

Tuesday, 21.April, 19.48 a.m. in view of the rampant Corona pandemic, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal) expects the severe recession of recent history for the current year.The economic strength in the region is expected to decrease by 5.3 percent in 2020, the Commission announced on Tuesday. „Wir rechnen mit einem starken Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit und einerVerschärfung von Armut und Ungleichheit", sagte Kommissionschefin Alicia Bárcena bei derVorstellung der neuen Prognose.

Already between 2014 and 2019 the economy in the region had grown only weakly with an average of 0.4 percent annually.Comparable break -ins, as expected in the current year, there were last in the crisis year 1930 (minus 5 percent) and 1914 (minus 4.9 percent)).Cepal expects an export of exports by 15 percent.The countries of raw materials, especially in South America, are likely to suffer from the falling demand from China, Central America and the Caribbean under the decline of tourism.

Tuesday, 21.April, 19.25 p.m. The online retailer Amazon continues to have its logistics centers in France in view of Corona protection measures.In the appeal process on a judgment of a court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, a decision is only expected for Friday, the company announced on Tuesday.In view of this, the employees should stay at home up to and including Saturday, said Amazon.The employees received their full wages during this time, according to the company.

Another procedure will be decided if the judgment of the Court of Appeal is known on Friday, said Amazon.A court had decided last week that the employees of the logistics centers were not sufficiently protected against Coronavirus hazards.

Tuesday, 21.April, 19.11 p.m. Even if some editions in the corona crisis have recently been relaxed, the economy in Rhineland-Palatinate continues to suffer from the consequences of pandemic.The situation of companies and industries in the country will discuss on Wednesday (from 14.30 a.m.) The Business Committee of the Landtag in a video conference.It will also be about the immediate help granted.

At the request of the AfD parliamentary group, the meeting also deals with the care of professional drivers in times of the corona crisis.The drivers were affected by missing parking spaces and sanitary facilities before the pandemic, according to the parliamentary proposal.According to associations, among other things, this situation has intensified with the shutdown, so that drivers no longer had any starting points for their own care or for daily hygiene.

Tuesday, 21.April, 18.49 a.m. The truck and bus manufacturer Traton has already clearly felt the consequences of the Corona crisis in the first quarter.According to preliminary numbers, sales were around 5.7 billion.EUR rund 11 Prozent niedriger alsIn the same period last year, wie dieVW-Tochter mit Marken wie MAN, Scania und der brasilianischenVW Caminhoes e Onibus überraschend am Dienstag in München mitteilte.The operational profit was 160 million.EUR rund zwei Drittel niedriger als ein Jahr zuvor.The bottom line was not provided.

The ongoing Covid 19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on business.So the production chains of the commercial vehicle industry almost came to a standstill, it said.The consequences are extensive production stops at Traton. Eine Prognose für das laufende Jahr traut sich das Management wegen der „derzeitigen schnelllebigenVeränderungen" weiterhin nicht zu.

Tuesday, 21.April, 18.11 a.m. researcher at Kühne Logistics University (Klu) examined in a study on medical supply chains how the spread of COVID-19.The technology is already being used to manufacture medical equipment quickly and inexpensively.According to the KLU, this includes primarily material for ventilation devices, medical protective clothing such as facial tags and test sticks to detect COVID-19.The regular market for this material is currently almost empty.Prof.Kai Hoberg and Jakob Heinen have identified pioneers for production with 3-D printers and name possible next steps.

Using around 20 examples, the researchers in which industries and for which products companies and private individuals are already active. „Wir sind zuversichtlich, dass aus all diesen Initiativen noch Größeres erwachsen kann, wenn wir eine vereinte globale Initiative daraus machen", schreiben sie.This requires a transparent exchange of inquiries, available designs and 3-D printing capacities.In addition, the 3-D designs and pressure specifications in cooperation with the interest groups would have to be checked and certified, i.e. together with health authorities, medical users, printer manufacturers, material suppliers et cetera.And it is important to take care of the problem that has not yet been standardized for dealing with the right to intellectual property.

Tuesday, 21.April, 16.44 Uhr Auf dem Nord-Ostsee-Kanal sind im ersten Quartal 2020 weniger Schiffe alsIn the same period last year unterwegs gewesen.The number of freighter is 4.65 percent to 2.348 decreased, the Directorate General shared waterways and shipping on Tuesday on request.The charge of 3.58 percent went to almost 22 million in the same period.T back.

One reason for this is the cheap fuel that makes jours around Cape Skagen (Denmark) more attractive. „Mit den seit Jahresbeginn 2020 sinkenden Brennstoffpreisen beobachten wir auf dem Nord-Ostsee-Kanal einen leichten Rückgang derVerkehre und damit auch der Ladungsmengen", erklärte eine Sprecherin der Generaldirektion.In addition, fewer ships would be handled in the ports due to the corona crisis, which is why fewer feeder ships passed the channel.

Tuesday, 21.April, 16.3 p.m. The MV throwing in payment difficulties can initially be at 50 million.EUR vom Land hoffen.The overall package will continue to be negotiated. „Es laufen gegenwärtig noch intensive Gespräche mit allen Beteiligten: Bund, Land, Unternehmen und Banken", sagte Wirtschaftsminister Harry Glawe (CDU) am Dienstag.It is reported that the possible help would be issued as a guarantee or as a loan.Various media had previously reported.

The state government plans to inform the state parliament in Schwerin on Thursday.There should be a special meeting of the Finance and Economic Committee.As a result of the corona crisis, work has been resting on the MV throwing since mid-March.Are around.3000 employees.The short -time work should end after four weeks, but according to the company, at least up to the 3.May extended.Economic Minister Harry Glawe (CDU) had already promised aid to secure liquidity last Friday.

Tuesday, 21.April, 15.10 a.m. A resumption of international air traffic considers Austria Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) in the medium and long-term first between countries with a successful anti-corona strategy possible.He expects a scenario that international states will open their boundaries to each other again, which defeat the virus or have very low infections, said shortly of Tuesday inVienna."Like a club where you can only be there if there is no health risk." Der Luftverkehr ist durch die Einreiseverbote in der Corona-Krise praktisch zum Erliegen gekommen.Many airlines fight for survival.

Tuesday, 21.April, 14.50 o'clock after six weeks of production stop, the truck maker wants to gradually start up his works from next Monday. Herausforderungen dabei seien die Teileversorgung durch die Lieferanten, die Organisation der Arbeitsabläufe zum Schutz der Mitarbeiter und „Maßnahmen, um die Nachfrage nach Nutzfahrzeugen zu stimulieren", sagteVorstandschef Joachim Drees am Dienstag.The suppliers are throughout the EU: "We therefore ask politicians to support ourselves with a coordinated procedure at the EU level for re-entry."

Due to interrupted supply chains and fallen demand, production in the bus and truck works had been stopped in mid-March. Jetzt soll sie „mit verringerter Kapazität" wieder anlaufen, mit Schutzausrüstung und mehr Abstand zwischen den Mitarbeitern und geänderten Wegeführungen.Some of the employees in production and administration will continue to remain short -time, one said.At the German locations there are almost 13.000 employees affected.The group increases the short -time work allowance to 90 percent of the net wage.

Tuesday, 21.April, 13.55 a.m. around a quarter of the companies in the North German metal and electrical industry is facing bankruptcy in half a year if their situation does not improve.This is a result of the spring business survey of the Nordmetall and AGV employers' associations, which was presented in Hamburg on Tuesday.In addition, about half of the companies surveyed expects a loss of sales of more than ten percent.

The economic break with far-reaching consequences will be consequences from the economic stall, which had already announced itself last year, said Nordmetall President Thomas Lambusch.From the Corona crisis there are dangers to the existence of entire branches of industry in the north, especially for ship and aircraft construction.The industry employs around 160 in the states of Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in northwestern Lower Saxony.000 employees.

Tuesday, 21.April, 13.45 a.m. The auto importers have proposed a three-stage state incentive program for car sales.After the Corona crisis, an automotive economic stimulus program is necessary that quickly arrives in retail and customers, said the President of theVdik industry association, Reinhard Zirpel, on Tuesday in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt.There is concern that customers could hold back in uncertain times, especially with alternative drives.

Initially, the state should double its share in the existing purchase bonus for electric cars, theVDIK suggests.The maximum funding would be on 9.000 euros per vehicle increase, of which manufacturers like 3.Would have to bear 000 euros.As a second funding category, purchasing incentives for vehicles should be placed that emit less than 95 grams of CO2/km.For example, this applies to many small cars and hybrids.As a third stage, the importers have a classic scrappage bonus for older vehicles that are exchanged for combustion engines with the newer exhaust gas standards Euro6d and Euro 6dtemp.In this way, nitrogen oxide emissions could be reduced, said Zirpel.

Tuesday, 21.April, 13.30 p.m. The Duisburg port feared at least ten percent this year due to the Corona crisis.The pandemic will have sustainable effects on sales and results in 2020 and the following years, said the CEO of the Duisport Group, Erich Staake, on Tuesday when submitting the business figures for the past year.It is currently not foreseeable whether the minus could be even higher.

At the pre -crisis level, however, the train traffic between China and Duisburg is again.Between Duisburg and a dozen targets up to 40 trains in China.Further connections are planned.In the meantime, Duisburg also reached the first deliveries of protective clothing and breathing masks from China.

Tuesday, 21.April, 12.45 a.m. The French food group Danone benefited from the Corona crisis in the first quarter of hamster purchases.Nevertheless, the company withdrew its forecast for 2020, which was already reduced at the end of February, as the food manufacturer announced in Paris on Tuesday.One reason is the extremely great uncertainty through the pandemic, which Danone presents great challenges in production.In some cases, the group switched the product range to the new demand situation.

At the end of February, Danone had felt the effects of the Corona crisis, especially in the important China business.In the meantime, all regions of the world have been affected by pandemic, so that uncertainty has increased significantly.In the first quarter, sales nevertheless increased by 1.7 percent to 6.24 billion.EUR - bereinigt um die Effekte von Währungsumrechnungen und sowie Zu- undVerkäufen habe das Wachstum 3,7 Prozent betragen.However, the demand for water was clearly declining.

Tuesday, 21.April, 11.50 a.m. The billion-dollar corona aids for the German air traffic industry must be linked to the preservation of jobs in the opinion of the unions."State aid is when it all protects. Wir erwarten für den Luftverkehr daher die Sicherung der Arbeitsplätze und Einkommen", erklärteVerdi-Vorstandsmitglied Christine Behle am Dienstag bei derVeröffentlichung eines offenen Briefs.This is also supported by the Pilot Union Association Cockpit and numerous staff representatives of air traffic companies.

Behle criticized, among other things, the attitude of the Lufthansa part in Germanwing and the leak of the AHS passenger cancellation from the municipal employers' association Hamburg.Some airports in public sector have already threatened to get out of the public service collective agreement. „Wir appellieren an die Bundesregierung, dass transparentes Handeln und Beschäftigungssicherung die Grundpfeiler für dieVerteilung von Steuergeldern sein müssen", erklärteVC-Präsident Markus Wahl."There may only be billion dollar aids against job security."

Tuesday, 21.April, 11.3 p.m. The historic crash in the oil price in the United States with sometimes negative prices is probably not an effect on German petrol pumps. Die betroffene, in den USA relevante Ölsorte WTI sei „nicht entscheidend für den deutschen Markt", sagte ein Sprecher des ADAC am Dienstag.Rather, it depends on the North Sea variety of Brent. Deren Preis liege derzeit „oberhalb des Tiefs von Ende März".The mineral oil economic association MWV also referred to Brent as a variety of Europe.

There were initially no comparative figures for the fuel prices for Tuesday, since a nationwide daily average value is typically determined here. Dieser hat allerdings bereits eine kräftige Talfahrt hinter sich: On 1. Januar lag er laut MWV noch bei 1,431EUR je Liter für Benzin der Sorte E10 und 1,323EUR für Diesel.On Monday there were only 1.161 or 1.079.Although these are annual deep stalls, they are only minimally below or on paralyzing with the preliminary days. Der ADAC ermittelte für Montag minimal abweichende Preise von 1,163EUR bei E10 und 1,082 bei Diesel und einen leichten Anstieg seit Samstag.

Tuesday, 21.April, 10.40 p.m. The industry expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer has proposed to boost car sales in Germany with a reduction inVAT. Ein zeitlich begrenzt niedriger Satz für hochwertige Konsumgüter sei nach der Corona-Krise wirksamer als eine Abwrackprämie wie aus dem Jahr 2009, führte derProfessor der Universität St.Bale aus.The proposal would go to the German manufacturers with their high -quality and expensive models.

The fixed scrackback premium of 2500 euros in 2009 destroyed economic values, led to a high test effort and ultimately helped the mostly foreign manufacturers of cheap small cars.The German auto industry is calling for state buying incentives to buy new cars in order to boost the demand caught in the Corona crisis. „Die Produktion der Automobilindustrie kann nur hochfahren, wenn auch der Absatz der Fahrzeuge gesichert ist", hatteVW-Kernmarkenchef Ralf Brandstätter am Montag erklärt.

Tuesday, 21.April, 10.8 p.m. after a good two and a half weeks of standstill to renovate the runway and runway from Stuttgart Airport on Thursday.Flight operations are very limited due to the coronavirus pandemic, as the airport announced.Only a few flights to Berlin, Hamburg and Amsterdam and each back are on the plan for the first day.

The renovation of the eastern end of the runway was planned for a long time.Because there are hardly any planes on the road anyway, the airport had preferred the start of the work.A full closure was originally not intended at all.With the start of the next construction phase on Thursday, almost 2000 meters of the starting and runway are now available.In normal times, this would have resulted in a significant restriction of flight operations because the slope is too short for many machines.For the time being, only smaller short-distance aircraft starts and landed in Stuttgart Coronabed..

Tuesday, 21.April, 9.8:00 p.m. At the opposition of the opposition, the state government teaches the state parliament in Schwerin about the current situation on the MV Werften and possible further financial aid in the Corona crisis.As the state administration announced on Monday, a joint meeting of the Finance and Economic Committee was scheduled at short notice.At the special meeting on Thursday, representatives from both ministries are to report on the situation at the shipbuilding company.

As a result of the Corona crisis, work has been resting on the MV Werften since mid-March.Are around3000 employees.The short -time work should end after four weeks, but according to the company, at least up to the 3.May extended.

Tuesday, 21.April, 9.5 a.m. The second largest Australian airlineVirgin Australia has registered bankruptcy in the Corona crisis.According to a announcement on Tuesday, the company wants to re-establish itself financially and come strengthened from the Covid 19 crisis.Before that, the airline had not made it to state aid in the amount of 1.4 billion. Australischendollar (815 MioEUR) zu bekommen.According toVirgin, it is about 16.000 jobs.The company, which has 130 aircraft, has debt in billions.

Virgin Australia based in Brisbane is an important line for the continent alongside Qantas.Like many in the industry, Qantas also struggled with the consequences of pandemic and the heavily limited air traffic, but was financially better positioned before the crisis.In Australia, many people are dependent on flying because of the long distances and the thin train network.ForVirgin Australia, new investors are to be found quickly, according to the insolvency administrator.

Tuesday, 21.April, 8.45 a.m. The Corona crisis has brought about an unprecedented collapse on the oil market.At the beginning of the week, a template control for US raw oil came into the minus for the first time.A global oil flood, an impending lack of camp and the fear of a deep recession caused the historical drop in prices.

Das gab es seit Beginn des Futures-Handels im Jahr 1983 noch nie: Der Preis des auslaufenden Terminkontrakts für Rohöl der Referenzsorte West Texas Intermediate (WTI), der eine physische Lieferung imMay vorsieht, stürzte am Montag auf minus 37,63dollar pro Barrel (159 Liter) ab.For comparison: on Friday the closing price was still at plus $ 18.27.If you have a swimming pool that has not yet been filled for the summer, you can now be used, commented the US financial channel CNBC the bizarre location.Read more here dazu.

Tuesday, 21.April, 8.30 a.m. with faster reimbursement of mineral oil tax and a later payment obligation of the vehicle tax, the French government wants to financially relieve small and medium-sized transport companies in view of the corona crisis.Finance Minister Gérald Darmanin and State Secretary for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari have announced this.At the moment, every second truck in France stands still because, in addition to the supermarket chains, almost all major customers have temporarily hired the work.As a result, 55 percent of the goods power traffic companies have partially and 25 percent completely closed.

The mineral oil tax will be reimbursed until further quarter and not twice a year as before.In addition, the due date of the vehicle tax from 1.Moved back by three months.The temporary relief effect of both measures is 390 million.EUR beziffert.

Tuesday, 21.April, 8.8 p.m. at Frankfurt Airport, the slump in passenger and freight numbers as a result of the Corona crisis continued after the Easter weekend.From 13.until 19.April the airport operator Fraport counted Germany's largest Airport 37.015 passengers and thus 97.3 percent less than in the same calendar week a year earlier, as he announced in Frankfurt on Tuesday.In the week to Easter Sunday, the decline had already been 96.8 percent.The advent of freight and air mail decreased by 28.5 percent to 29 794 t during the week from Easter Monday.The number of flight movements decreased by 85.8 percent to 1404 starts and landings.

The return flights for Germans abroad are largely completed.Some airlines such as Lufthansa and Condor are now using passenger aircraft to bring urgently needed freight to Germany. The freight volume in Frankfurt nevertheless decreased in total because the special flights cannot compensate for the otherwise used transport capacities of the passenger aircraft, which at normal times swallow around 40 percent of the freight amount.

Tuesday, 21.April, 8.05 a.m. TheVerdi union sees no need for nationwide exemptions about Sunday delivery of packages.A spokesman for the Federal Board said at the request of the German Press Agency: "Due to the existing restrictions on contact in Corona pandemic, the accessibility of the customers on the working days is very high.If the necessity is to organize the delivery on Sunday for reasons of health protection, this must be coordinated with the local works councils beforehand."

The Sunday delivery could not be a substitute for the needed staff, said the spokesman."The protection of the employees must now be in the first place, because the burden on the employees is already extremely high."

Monday, 20.April, 17.5 p.m. The auto supplier Leoni AG, which is economically in difficult fairway, has a state loan guarantee over 330 million.EUR erhalten.The citizens were granted by the federal government and the state governments of Bavaria, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, Leoni said in Nuremberg on Monday.The guarantee had become necessary because most Leoni customers had reduced their production and thus had significant sales returns.

Leoni represents 95 worldwide.000 employees unter anderem elektronische Bordnetze für die Automobilindustrie her. Im Rahmen eines Sanierungskonzeptes hatte sich das Unternehmen Ende vergangenen Jahres von rund 2000 employees getrennt, wie ein Sprecher am Montag sagte.During the Corona pandemic, Leoni not only de facto waived dividend payments, but also decided temporary factory closures and short-time work, the company said.

Monday, 20.April, 15.25 p.m. Corona pandemic brings the US airline United Airlines deep into the red numbers.In the first quarter a loss of 2.1 billion. (1,9 MrdEUR) vor Steuern anfallen, warnte das Unternehmen am Montag in einer Mitteilung an die US-Börsenaufsicht.Investors dropped the stock by almost six percent.In sales, United expects 8.0 billion.Dollar, which would correspond to a decline by 17 percent compared to the previous year's value.However, the airline emphasized that it has only been provisional quarterly results so far.

Monday, 20.April, 15.3 p.m. The enormous demand for protective masks makes even medium -sized forwarding companies break new ground. Die Emons Air & Sea GmbH chartert zum ersten Mal komplette Flugzeuge in eigener Regie. On 10. April landete der ersteVollcharter in Frankfurt amMayn.There were only protective masks on board a converted passenger plane.Not only the cargo dream, but also the passenger area was used.Two more charter flights from Shanghai took place over Easter and last weekend.Four more flights for the next two weeks have already been booked.

Monday, 20.April, 12.48 a.m. Primark today announced that it can now commit to about 370 million. GBP für zusätzliche Warenbestellungen zu bezahlen –über die1.5 billion.GBP on stocks in shops, depots and on the transport route.This means that now all products that are both in production and in completion and up to 17.Should be handed over to April.

This new obligation is followed by detailed one -on -one discussions with our suppliers who started four weeks ago and helped us find opportunities to mitigate the consequences, including extended payment periods.Primark's product and procurement teams will continue to work closely with the suppliers to implement these plans.If suppliers need new credit sources, Primark will try to support them.This happens, for example, by expressing our commitment to orders or making discussions with international lenders and contacting governments.

Monday, 20.April, 12.8 p.m. A bracelet with a spacer should keep employees in the port of Antwerp. Die ersten Armbänder würden AnfangMay mit Mitarbeitern an den Schleusenanlagen getestet, sagte eine Sprecherin der Hafenbetriebe am Montag der Deutschen Presse-Agentur.They should ensure that the employees in their work comply with the recommended minimum distance in order not to be able to infect the corona virus.

In the first phase, the Rombit company's spacer warning with eight employees of the day class on 4.and 5.May eingesetzt.If the technology works well, it should be used on a larger scale.According to the spokeswoman, the spokeswoman should be the use of the tractors of the port company as soon as the Belgian provisions for the containment of the Covid 19 pandemic.

Monday, 20.April, 11.8 p.m. Bavarian exports are, according to current figures from the State Statistical Office, in February 2020 compared to the same month by 2.4 percent to 15.5 billion.EUR gesunken.At the same time, imports into the Free State also dropped, namely 3.5 percent to 14.8 billion.EUR."Even before the Corona pandemic struck in Europe, the times of the ongoing growth were over, the industry was already in a recession at that time.It must be clear to us: the February numbers are also a look back and have nothing to do with the present.Corona has now sustainably affected the economic development.The figures for March and April will be far more dramatic, "said the managing director of theVBW - Association of Bavarian Economy E.V., Bertram Brossardt.

Die Dimension des Einbruchs zeigt insbesondere der Rückgang der Exporte in dieVolksrepublik China in Höhe von 19,5 Prozent auf knapp 1,09 Mrd.EUR."China experienced the climax of the Corona crisis in February.The export decline indicates the direction in which the export of Bavaria can also go with regard to other countries, "said Brossardt.

Monday, 20.April, 11.3 p.m. Bavaria introduces mask obligation in all shops and in public transport.Von kommender Woche an sollen dort Mund-Nasen-Schutz oder auch Schals Pflicht sein, wie Ministerpräsident Markus Söder (CSU) am Montag in einer Regierungserklärung im Landtag ankündigte.

Monday, 20.April, 10.30 a.m. Despite the Corona crisis, the transport chains in the Baltic Sea area are stable.The ferry connections in the freight transport of the Lübeck Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG) run from and to Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Russia with a few exceptions as usual.This was shared by the company to the THB.However, after a strong start of the year, the business is now increasingly under pressure because of the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic, a spokeswoman said.

Im ersten Quartal dieses Jahres verzeichnete die LHG im Passagier- und Güterverkehr noch ein Plus von drei Prozent imVergleich zumVorjahreszeitraum.However, due to the global production stilling and travel restrictions, the company expects a break -in in April. Der Umschlag von Forstprodukten oderVerpackungen liege zwar noch auf normalem Level, hieß es.However, the new car and car supplier business has already declined sharply.And according to LHG, intermodal transport to Italy is currently greatly reduced.Völlig zum Erliegen gekommen ist wegen der Ein- und Ausreisebeschränkungen zudem der Personenverkehr.

Monday, 20.April, 10.25 p.m. Due to the severe loss of capacity in the air freight due to the almost complete loss of passenger flights.Now there is a concept paper from the German Aviation industry for running flight operations that is available to the German Press Agency.Accordingly, passengers could be obliged to wear protective masks. Ein entsprechenderVorschlag für die Zeit vom Boarding über den gesamten Flug bis nach demVerlassen des Flugzeugs.

The 20-point program also provides numerous measures at the airports to comply with the Corona-related distance requirement.These include, among other things, airy queues and areas, the use of more passenger buses and time -long processes, for example when getting in and luggage clearance.Passengers could also be checked for fever at the departureports.In principle, the passengers would have to explain when checking in that they have no contagious diseases.

Monday, 20.April, 10.3 p.m. The closure of the MV Werften as a result of the Corona crisis is two weeks to 3 weeks.May extended.This affects the three locations in Wismar, Warnemünde and Stralsund, as a speaker announced. Betroffen davon seien rund 3000 employees. Eine effiziente Fertigung sei erst wieder möglich, wenn Lieferketten über offene Grenzen funktionieren, und die Abstände zwischen Kollegen „nicht mehr die entscheidende Bedeutung haben", hieß es auf der Homepage.Originally, the company was to be resumed this Monday.

Meanwhile, IG Metall coast has called on everyone involved for a responsible action. „Die drei Standorte sind wichtige industrielle Kerne des Landes", sagte Daniel Friedrich, Bezirksleiter der IG Metall Küste.The jobs on the shipyards and the suppliers would have to be secured. Banken, Bund, Gesellschafter und Land müssten jetzt dafür sorgen, dass das Unternehmen genügend Geld und Zeit bekommt, um auf die durch die Epidemie ausgelöstenVerwerfungen am Kreuzfahrtmarkt reagieren zu können.

Monday, 20.April, 9.30 a.m. North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) demands more state support for the car industry, which is difficult to use by the Corona crisis."Our automotive industry quickly needs prospects for sales, liquidity and growth," Laschet told the Handelsblatt (Monday)."We will soon have to talk about intelligent impulses for investments." In diesem Zusammenhang fordert der Politiker einen baldigen Autogipfel.

The opening of the car dealerships that had been decided last week can only have an effect if digital approval and quick permits for the construction of charging stations are now followed, Laschet continued. Die Folgen derVirus-Pandemie trafen die Autobranche hart.The manufacturers stopped the production in many regions, which will soon be partially updated again.At least from China, news came recently that gave hope. So hatte etwaVolkswagen zuletzt von deutlichen Zeichen für eine Erholung des wichtigen Geschäfts in China gesprochen.

Monday, 20.April, 9.3 p.m. The Czech President Milos Zeman recommended to its citizens because of the Coronavirus pandemic to discover the beauties of their own country this summer. Für Auslandsreisen sollten die Staatsgrenzen hingegen ein volles Jahr geschlossen bleiben, „damit keine neue Infektionswelle dadurch hervorgerufen wird, dass Reisende in Länder fahren, in denen die Epidemie noch nicht zu Ende ist", sagte das Staatsoberhaupt am Sonntag in einem Radiointerview.

Travel agencies and other tourism companies had previously called for traveling to the Slovakia and Croatia, which were particularly popular with Czechs, in summer, in which there are only a few Coronavirus infections.

Monday, 20.April, 8.47 Uhr Der AutobauerVolkswagen fordert wegen der drohenden Nachfrageflaute in der Coronakrise eine neue staatliche Förderprämie. „In dieser Situation sollte eine Prämie breit angelegt sein und auch moderne Fahrzeuge mitVerbrennungsmotor umfassen", sagte der bei der MarkeVW fürs Tagesgeschäft zuständige Manager Ralf Brandstätter im Gespräch mit dem Handelsblatt. „Die bisherige Förderung von Elektrofahrzeugen sollte fortgesetzt werden", sagte Brandstätter.A new funding model could be based on carbon dioxide emissions saved in the climate -damaging emissions of the climate -damaging exhaust gas."We go out of the crisis and into the green transformation."

An den bestehenden Klimazielen wolleVW auf jeden Fall festhalten."Climate protection remains a human task. Daran ändert die Corona-Pandemie überhaupt nichts", sagte er. „Viele profitieren davon, wenn es in der Automobilindustrie wieder losgeht", betonte Brandstätter die Bedeutung der Branche für die deutscheVolkswirtschaft.Germany's most important branch of industry is standing for ten percent of domestic economic output.

Monday, 20.April, 8.40 p.m. The consequences of Corona pandemic have hit the Japanese exports with full force. Die Ausfuhren seien im März um 11,7 Prozent imVergleich zumVorjahr gefallen, teilte das japanische Finanzministerium am Montag in Tokio mit.In February, exports only fell by one percent.Volkswirte hatten zwar mit einem deutlich höheren Minus als zuletzt gerechnet, dabei aber nur einen Rückgang von etwas mehr als neun Prozent auf dem Zettel.

The exports to the United States, the country's most important trading partner in addition to China, fell by 16.5 percent - that is the strongest decline since 2011.Vor allem die Autoindustrie war wegen der Folgen der zahlreichen Corona-Beschränkungen stark betroffen. So fielen die Exporte der Autohersteller in die USA um einViertel.Japan had to struggle with weak exports before the outbreak of corona pandemic. So sanken die Ausfuhren bereits im vergangenen Jahr wegen des Handelskriegs zwischen China und denVereinigten Staaten deutlich.The decline in March was the 16.In a row - this is the longest series since the 1980s.

Monday, 20.April, 8.3 p.m. Deutsche Post tries in Corona pandemic according to its own statements in order to provide Sunday delivery of packages.For this purpose, the company in regions such as Berlin has already submitted corresponding applications to the authorities and are now considering applications in other federal states. Es gehe darum, in einer besonderen Situation „einen Kollaps des Paketsystems zu vermeiden".As already reported, the parcel service provider DHL in Munich has already delivered programs on a Sunday.

Monday, 20.April, 8.06 a.m. Passenger traffic has broken down due to the corona pandemic, but pure freight flying is currently breaking records.The high freight rates and the global lulls in the passenger business have meant that 22 companies in Frankfurt are currently using their passenger jets for cargo flights.However, the industry lacks the transport capacities of the passenger aircraft, which at normal times swallow around 40 percent of the freight and also fly into the more remote corners of the global economy.Because nothing is normal in Corona times in air traffic, Frankfurt counted 610 pure freight flights in the week before Easter, around 200 more than an annual 2019.Among them were exotic ones such as a Boeing 767 of the US company Amerijet from Miami and lots of passenger jets that have been converted into freighers flights.

Ganz ausgeglichen ist die Frachtraumbilanz aber nicht, sodass die aktuell in Frankfurt registrierte Frachtmenge im März 17,4 Prozent unter demVorjahreswert lag. ZumVergleich: Die Passagierzahl ist um 62 Prozent gesunken und aktuell nahe am Nullpunkt. Laut Max Philipp Conrady, Leiter des Frachtbereichs am Frankfurter Flughafen, hat dieVerknappung des Frachtraums zu deutlich höheren Preisen geführt, die üblicherweise nachVolumengewicht abgerechnet werden und aktuell auf nachgefragtenVerbindungen das Drei- bisVierfache desVorkrisen-Niveaus erreicht haben.

Monday, 20.April, 7.56 Uhr Der AutobauerVolkswagen will ab dieser Woche seine Fahrzeugproduktion wieder hochfahren. Im ZwickauerVW-Werk gibt es von Montag an entsprechendeVorbereitungen. „Wiederanlaufen wird das Band dann am Donnerstag", sagte ein Unternehmenssprecher der Deutschen Presse-Agentur.Zwickau is the first vehicle plant in Germany that the car manufacturer gradually puts it back into operation.Europe -wide is to be started in Bratislava, Slovak, where the ligaments are supposed to start again on Monday.

In Saxony, the engine plant in Chemnitz will also take up its work from Thursday.In the works of Wolfsburg, Emden, Dresden and Hanover, it is said to be on 27.Go April.The 8.000 employees at the Zwickau location should therefore gradually return to their workplace.To 3.May sei aber der Großteil weiterhin in Kurzarbeit, hieß es.When the stand can be reached before corona pandemic is currently not foreseeable.

Sunday, 19.April, 20.11 p.m. The online retailer Amazon continues to have its logistics centers in France closed after a court ruling on Corona protection measures.The employees would certainly stay at home until Wednesday, the company in France announced on Sunday. Angesichts eines Urteils eines Gerichts im PariserVorort Nanterre sei man weiterhin „perplex".With interest you were now waiting for the appointment on Tuesday, the company announced.Read more about this here.

Sunday, 19.April, 17.56 a.m. As a large number of packages are sent because of the Corona pandemic, DHL in Munich also delivered programs on a Sunday.Around 400 employees were on the road to more than 50.To deliver 000 packages to private households, as the company announced. Zwar wolle man nicht regelmäßig an Sonntagen zustellen, jedoch „war die jetzige Aktion erforderlich, um dieVersorgung mit Paketdienstleistungen in Bayern sicherzustellen".The Bavarian Ministry of Labor issued a corresponding approval.

With the campaign, transport capacities of around 50 truck loads were released, the company said.DHL is currently experiencing a similar arise as on the strongest days before Christmas. ImVergleich zum vergangenen Jahr sei die Zahl der Sendungen um diese Zeit um mehr als 40 Prozent gestiegen.

Sunday, 19.April, 16.5 a.m. The British freight flight company Cargo Logic Air may soon be offering freighter flights again.In any case, the US specialist medium cargo facts reports.Accordingly, the carrier negotiates with the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) about reactivating its AOC air traffic certificate.Cargo Facts shows that the increased demand for freighter capacity could be responsible for this in the course of the Coronavirus crisis.Cargo Logic Air had left flight operations at the behest of CAA at the end of February. Diese hatte zuvorVerstöße der Airline gegen Bestimmungen der Europäischen Agentur für Flugsicherheit (Easa) festgestellt.

Sunday, 19.April, 14.45 a.m. in Corona pandemic in Germany from Monday, the last time of April, the penultimate April week begins with the opening of the first business and the gradual resumption of school operations after a month of standstill.. DasVorgehen ist bundesweit aber unterschiedlich. Unterschiedlich sind auch die Meinungen innerhalb der Bundesregierung über das weitereVorgehen.For example, Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier BUND and countries called for more unity. "Wir dürfen nicht durcheinanderlaufen wie ein Hühnerhaufen und uns gegenseitig abwechselnd mitVerschärfungen und Lockerungen überbieten", mahnte der CDU-Politiker in der "Bild am Sonntag". Finanzminister Olaf Scholz (SPD) sieht in unterschiedlichemVorgehen hingegen "kein Problem", wie er der "Welt am Sonntag" sagte.

Sunday, 19.April, 09.47 a.m. The companies in road freight transport are increasingly recognizing financial losses in the corona crisis.The cause is a noticeable decline in overall economic demand at home and abroad.This leads to free capacities on the market and subsequently to very low spot rates, according to the current Corona special report of the Federal Office for Freight Transport (BAG).The extent of the last observed drop of price is currently higher than before Corona times. Dabei sei anzunehmen, dass Unternehmen auch nicht kostendeckende Aufträge in Kauf nehmen, um einen gewissen Deckungsbeitrag erzielen und finanziellenVerpflichtungen nachkommen zu können, vermutet das BAG.

The KEP industry is currently listing increasing broadcasting in the private customer area (B2C), which are opposed to significant declines from the commercial business area (B2B). Die Nachfrage nach Schienengüterverkehrsleistungen ist aufgrund von Produktionseinschränkungen oder -stillegungen in einigen Bereichen stark rückläufig, geringere Produktionsmengen führen auch im KombiniertenVerkehr zu Rückgängen.The internal shipping suffer from the generally falling container volume in seaport rear traffic, which also faces free capacities on the street.This leads to a falling demand for container transportation in inland navigation in favor of the street, reports the BAG.

Saturday, 18.April, 20.43 a.m. online retailer Amazon uses thermal imaging cameras to contain the coronavirus at some locations in the USA.In order to support the health and security of the employees, their temperature is already measured every day, said Amazon spokeswoman Kristen Kish on Saturday on request.At some locations, thermal imaging cameras would now be used to optimize the measure.Kish did not know exactly where you are used.

Output restrictions have literally exploded the demand for Amazon's delivery services in many US regions.The company is struggling with the rush, many customers currently have to wait a long time or cannot give up any orders at all.Amazon is also accused of not doing enough to protect employees in the corona crisis.The group had therefore already struggled with protests and work of work.

Saturday, 18.April, 14.52 p.m. The prices on the transport market are pressed massively, according to Tom Krause, CEO of the digital freight forwarder Cargonexx. „Zum Teil liegen die Kilometerpreise bei 80, manchmal sogar nur bei 50 Cent", berichtet er gegenüber der DVZ.In his opinion.Viele hätten nicht genügend Rücklagen, um bei dem momentanen Auftragsrückgang länger als zwei bis drei Monate durchhalten zu können.Even many are not helped with loans because they have to be repaid. Krause: „Ich gehe davon aus, dass es bei anhaltender Situation eineVielzahl von Insolvenzen geben wird." Hier geht es zum vorerst letzten Teil unserer Serie zu Logistik-Start-ups in Corona-Zeiten.

Saturday, 18.April, 12.38 p.m. The foreign ministers of more than ten countries, including Germany, France and Great Britain, agreed to work in the corona crisis in a telephone conference to keep the open retention of international trade and transport routes in the corona crisis.Niels Annen (SPD) said that the State Minister in the Federal Foreign Office said."Only through international cooperation can we secure them and contribute to the fact that urgently needed goods arrive and the economy gets going again."

Nach Angaben des Auswärtigen Amtes nahmen an der Schalte der Minister und ihrerVertreter am Freitag 15 Länder teil, darunter Italien, Brasilien, Kanada, die Türkei, Indonesien, Marokko und Mexiko.The countries agreed to use important transport hubs in the world to travel through and to transport goods in order to maintain supply chains and enable the return of stranded travelers to their home countries.

Saturday, 18.April, 11.34 Uhr Die europäischenVerbände der Hafen- und Terminalbetreiber lehnenVorschläge der EU-Kommission ab, wonach die Mitgliedstaaten bestimmte Häfen zum Wechseln von Schiffsbesatzungen benennen sollen. Für das Funktionieren der Logistikketten in Europa sei es entscheidend, dass die EU-Staaten das Auswechseln von Crews in allen Seehäfen ermöglichten, erklären dieVerbände Espo und Feport.Reeding companies, national authorities and airports should vote to enable home flights and the journey of seafarers, even if an airport lies in a different Member State than the port.On the other hand, it is neither possible nor desirable, for example to conduct a ore freighter into a ferry port, just to change the crew.

„Wenn Crew-Wechsel und Weiterreise von Seeleuten von einem Hafen in einem Land aus erleichtert werden können, können sie auch von allen Häfen aus erleichtert werden", sagte Espo-Generalsekretärin Isabelle Ryckbost. „Dieses Problem sollte so rasch wie möglich gelöst werden, aber es darf nicht dazu führen, dass eine Rangfolge geschaffen wird, in der Häfen in Europa angelaufen werden".On 8.April, the EU Commission has submitted guidelines for which standard ports in the Coronavirus crisis should meet so that crews can be exchanged safely.This includes suitable accommodations as well as arrival and departure options.

Saturday, 18.April, 9.31 p.m. The overall association of the German textile and fashion industry has required a comprehensive economic stimulus program in the Corona crisis for a restart of the economy.Verbandspräsidentin Ingeborg Neumann sagte der Deutschen Presse-Agentur, sie könne der Idee sehr viel abgewinnen, Einkaufs- beziehungsweise Konsumgutscheine mit einer zeitlich befristeten Gültigkeit auszugeben."That would be an unbureaucratic way to revitalize consumption."In addition, she spoke out for a temporary reduction in sales tax and import sales tax for all textile and leather goods products as well as a quick and complete abolition of the solidarity surcharge. "Schließlich würde eine befristete Liberalisierung der Ladenöffnungszeiten und der Sonntagsöffnungen erhebliche Impulse bringen", sagte Neumann, die auchVize-Präsidentin des Bundesverbands der Deutschen Industrie ist.Active signals are needed to the battered medium -sized businesses.

Saturday, 18.April, 9.8 p.m. The new economy Monika Schnitzer is confident that Germany will come out of the Corona crisis well."I expect the economy to get going quickly with the slow relaxation of the measures," she told the German Press Agency.The incentive to become active again with the companies and also the catch -up needs of consumers are great.However, all of this only applies if it is possible to get the infections under control so that no second wave of infection threatens, the economist emphasized.But "Germany in particular is well positioned with its strong health system".

She is worried about the international area than about Germany: "If our sales markets such as China and the USA break in and stay in crisis mode, it will be difficult for us to get back to the sales figures that we had beforehand."In this context, Schnitzer also advocates European solidarity."It is extremely important that we ensure that the countries that are particularly severely affected by the Corona crisis do not get even more difficulties.This is also in our own interest, because our economy is very strongly intertwined, especially in Europe.So we won't get out of the crisis alone."

Saturday, 18.April, 9.9 a.m. after four weeks of standstill in large parts of the production, the car maker Daimler travels his works from this Monday again.One focus is on the drive and gearbox technology, an area on which not only the other works in Germany, but also those abroad and especially in China are dependent.While some locations initially start with a layer, others are to be worked in two or three layers again, as Human Resources Officer Wilfried Porth and overall managing director Michael Brecht said."We are still significantly reduced in terms of production," said Porth.The supply chains would have kept on the whole, the start in China, which was a few weeks ago, worked well."We have even larger topics in Italy in Europe, France is also extremely limited," said Porth.

The attempts now planned are secured.Work is to be carried out under strict hygiene specifications that the group and works council would have developed based on danger assessments for every workplace.Daimler had dropped a large part of its production in March since the 6th.April also applies to short -time work, which according to the current status should not expire until the end of April.About 80 percent of around 170.000 employees in Germany are affected to different degrees.

Friday, 17.April, 14.30 o'clock The car supplier Elringklinger gets the weak economy and the Corona crisis.In the first quarter, the proceeds went by ten percent to 396 million after preliminary figures.EUR zurück, wie das Unternehmen aus Dettingen/Erms am Freitag mitteilte.On the other hand, the operational result climbed to 16 million.EUR nach 6,4 Mio.EUR imVorjahresquartal.Here the efforts to increase efficiency and save costs.Information on the result the bottom line was not given.The complete quarterly report should be on 7.May veröffentlicht werden.

Friday, 17.April, 13.40 p.m. The CDU politician Friedrich Merz has spoken out to make it difficult. Der Bewerber um den CDU-Vorsitz sagte dem Mittelstandsmagazin der Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsunion, die Europäer sollten sich darauf verständigen, dass es keine „Krisengewinne" geben dürfe."If this is not possible at the European level, then it must be traded at the national level.I believe that the Foreign Trade Ordinance must now be applied in such a way that companies of all sizes are adequately protected from participations or even takeover."

Friday, 17.April, 13.8 p.m. within a few weeks went alone between the 24.March and 15.April more than 10.000 applications for Corona aid at the Credit Anstalt for Referring (KfW).The total volume of the loan applications amounts to 23.6 billion.EUR.

Most of the requested loans (9.521)hat einVolumen bis 800.000EUR.The loan volume with 989 applications is the two -frequently requested credit volume.EUR.There are also 71 applications for loans up to 10 million.EUR, 47 Anträge bis 100 Mio.EUR und 15 Anträge über 100 Mio.EUR.

Friday, 17.April, 12.45 a.m. Minister of Economics Hubert Aiwanger is committed to the needs of truck drivers.The ministry have achieved reports that the use of the toilet was prohibited due to corona fears or that they were completely rejected due to the lack of protective clothing.The Free Voter boss therefore demanded support for the drivers on Friday, including one right to Pieseln: "The undoubtedly necessary social distance in the corona crisis must not lead to us not properly deal with each other and ignore the basic human needs."

Sanitary facilities should continue to be kept accessible to truck drivers, insofar as their use was also possible so far. Aiwanger verwies auf die große Bedeutung der Fahrer und ihrer Fracht: „Gerade jetzt, wo es um dieVersorgung unserer Bevölkerung mit lebensnotwendigen Gütern geht, brauchen wir unsere Lkw-Fahrer dringender denn je."

Friday, 17.April, 11.8 p.m. Erfurt-Weimar Airport has been used as an alternative parking space for factory-new Airbus aircraft since this week.Airplanes that the Aviation Group had produced in its Finkenwerder work near Hamburg would be parked, but could not deliver because of the Coronavirus pandemic, Airport Managing Director Uwe Kotzian said on Friday on request.Because of the pandemic, the airlines have currently hired the most passenger flights.

In Erfurt sollen bis zu 16 Maschinen auf demVorfeld abgestellt werden. Ein entsprechenderVertrag sei mit dem Konzern geschlossen worden.The first A321 Neo aircraft ended up on Thursday.The next Airbus will be expected on Friday, said Kotzian.The Thuringian General (Friday) had previously reported about it

Friday, 17.April, 11.15 Uhr In der Corona-Krise wird sichtbar, was schon seit 13 Jahren die Botschaft des Aktionstages "Tag der Logistik" ist: Logistik und Supply Chain-Management sind systemrelevant und sichern dieVersorgung unserer Gesellschaft.While otherwise throughout Germany and many other countries companies have opened the doors of their businesses to give the general public an insight, the day of action this year was completely transferred to the net.

75 virtuelleVeranstaltungen waren im Angebot, außerdem gab esVideos, Stories und Hashtag-Kampagnen in den sozialen Netzwerken.The hashtag #tagderlogistik reached around 800 yesterday over all social media platforms yesterday.000 people.The tweets of the Accounts @Tagderlogistik alone were in the Timelines of 5.000 people angezeigt.The interaction rate was 3.7 percent.Again and again #Tagder logistics appeared in the Twitter trends for Germany, the most popular topics on Twitter.

Friday, 17.April, 11.10 Uhr NachdemVerkehrsminister Andreas Scheuer am gestrigen Donnerstag ankündigte, die Arbeitsbedingungen von LKW-Fahrern verbessern zu wollen, hat die DVZ sich in der Berufsgruppe selbst umgehört und gefragt, ob dieseVerbesserungen den Nerv treffen. Hier sind dieVerbesserungen der Arbeitsbedingungen, die LKW-Fahrer fordern.

Friday, 17.April, 10.49 Uhr Der Umschlag im Hafen Rotterdam ist im ersten Quartal 2020 imVergleich zumVorjahreszeitraum um 9,3 Prozent auf 112,4 Millionen Tonnen gesunken. „Wir sind mit bisher ungekannten Störungen konfrontiert", sagte Allard Castelein, CEO des Hafenbetriebs Rotterdam, mit Blick auf die Corona-Pandemie.The consequences of a decline in demand due to the crisis would only really become visible in April. „Ein Rückgang der Umschlagmengen um 10 bis 20 Prozent auf Jahresbasis scheint nun sehr wahrscheinlich zu sein", erklärte Castelein.

The port Rotterdam had to record the port back in the first three months of the current year, especially in the segments coal, crude oil and oil products.There was an increase in the envelope of iron ore, biomass, LNG and other liquid mass goods.

Friday, 17.April, 9.10 a.m. after a good start to the year, the Coronavirus pandemic still braked the sports car manufacturer Porsche in March. Der Rückgang derVerkaufszahlen im ersten Quartal fiel letztlich allerdings nicht so stark aus wie befürchtet.A good 53.000 cars delivered to customers worldwide from January to the end of March.That was five percent less than in the first quarter of 2018, as the car manufacturer announced on Friday in Stuttgart.Vorstandschef Oliver Blume war zuletzt allerdings sogar von einem Zehn-Prozent-Minus imVergleich zumVorjahresquartal ausgegangen.

The car manufacturer now posted significant burglaries by 17 or 20 percent in the most important individual market in China and in the USA.In Europe, on the other hand, one could still benefit from the very beginning of the year and, despite Corona. Allerdings war da auch dasVorjahresquartal ausgesprochen schwach ausgefallen.Porsche had to struggle in early 2019 with the effects of the changeover on the new exhaust gas test procedure WLTP, which also affected the delivery figures.

Friday, 17.April, 9.03 Uhr Die Krise der Kreuzschifffahrtbranche mit weltweit knapp 400 aufgelegten Schiffen schlägt jetzt voll auf die Werften durch: „Wir müssen in allen Bereichen über Kurzarbeit, aber auch über den Abbau von Arbeitsplätzen nachdenken", berichtet Bernhard Meyer, der Chef der Papenburger Meyer Werft, in einerVideobotschaft auf der Homepage des Unternehmens.Meyer sees the company in the largest crisis - of all things in the year of the 225.Anniversary. „Es werden einfach nicht mehr so viele Kreuzfahrtschiffe gebraucht", sagte er.Because orders are not possible, only two three ships are to be built annually in the future.

The MV shipyards with their locations in Rostock, Wismar and Stralsund are also in a difficult phase and need fresh money as a result of the Corona crisis. Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Wirtschaftsminister Harry Glawe (CDU) sprach von einem „Liquiditätsbedarf", den er nicht näher bezifferte. „Gegenwärtig loten wir Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten mit allen Beteiligten aus", sagte er.It is being examined how the state, the federal government and banks could support the MV shipyards in the current situation.For their 3100 employees, the MV shipyards have until the 21st for four weeks.April set the work.

Friday, 17.April, 8.45 a.m. in a recently published decree, the Federal Ministry of Finance has released donations from medical goods to non-profit organizations with regard to Corona pandemic by the end of the year. Der Bundesverband E-Commerce undVersandhandel e.V.(BEVH) very much welcomes this unbureaucratic step, but in a letter the Federal Ministry.So the exemption should not only be limited and not only apply reduced to medical goods.

„Die Corona- Krise führt auch dazu, dass erhebliche Mengen an bereits produzierter Ware - sei es aufgrund der angeordneten Geschäftsschließungen, wegen der Kaufzurückhaltung derVerbraucher oder weil es sich um Saisonware handelt - in der aktuellen Lage nicht verkäuflich sind.It is not conveyed that retailers who want to donate these goods are still being burdened with sales tax, "said BEVH general manager Christoph Wenk-Fischer.

Friday, 17.April, 8.8 p.m. on the temporary ferry route between Estonia and Germany as a result of Corona pandemic, according to the port Mukran, around 2000 passengers as well as hundreds of trucks and cars have been promoted.Most of the freight goods included food, medical devices, building materials, electronics and machine parts, as a spokesman for Mukran Port on Rügen announced. DieVerbindung war auf einen Monat befristet.On Saturday the last ship is going back to Paldiski near Tallinn, said a spokeswoman for the Estonian ferry series Tallink.

The shipping company had revived the ferry line to Sassnitz in March.The main goal of the route was initially to bring back to their homeland because of the corona virus and to bring employees back to Estonian companies by circumventing the national borders from Central Europe.When the German-Polish border was opened again and people and goods could happen, the route remained in order to be able to promote people and goods from central and Western Europe faster and with greater security into the Baltic and Nordic seeds.With the return of normality at the limits, demand has decreased.However, the trips could be resumed at any time.

Friday, 17.April, 7.48 a.m. in a row of Coronavirus pandemic, China's economy has shrunk for the first time in decades. Wie das Pekinger Statistikamt am Freitag mitteilte, verkleinerte sich das Bruttoinlandsprodukt im ersten Quartal imVergleich zu den ersten drei Monaten desVorjahres um 6,8 Prozent. Es ist der erste negative Wert seit mindestens 1992, als dieVolksrepublik damit begann, Wachstumszahlen quartalsweise zu veröffentlichen.Vergangenes Jahr war die zweitgrößteVolkswirtschaft um 6,1 Prozent gewachsen.

„Eine schnelle Erholung der chinesischen Wirtschaft im zweiten Quartal ist in Anbetracht der aktuellen Lage nicht zu erwarten", sagt Experte Max Zenglein vom China-Institut Merics in Berlin.The economic output is slowly going after the standstill.In addition, the country will only feel the effects of the falling global demand in the coming weeks.Zenglein: "The crisis mode will continue in China for a while." Dass viel davon abhängt, wie sich die Pandemie im Rest der Welt entwickelt, glaubt auch Ökonom Huang Weiping: „Wenn sich die Weltwirtschaft schnell erholt, dann wird sich auch China rasch erholen". Nur mit einer starken Nachfrage im Inland werde es jedoch schwierig, das Wachstum schnell wieder anzukurbeln: „Ein negatives Wachstum wird es aber nicht mehr geben", ist er überzeugt.

Friday, 17.April, 7.3 p.m. The Bulgarian capital Sofia has been removed indefinitely in the fight against the spread of the new coronavirus before the Orthodox Easter holidays for road traffic.Since (today's) Friday - the Orthodox Good Friday - the city must not leave or drive into it.According to Health Minister Kiril Ananiew, only a few exceptions are allowed, including for police cars and ambulances.The number of proven infections in the poorest EU country rose to 800 on Thursday, 38 infected people died.

The unlimited blocking of the capital became necessary after many Bulgarians left Sofia by car on Wednesday and Thursday - because they had given false information in their mandatory declarations, as Interior Minister Mladen Marinow explained on Friday.The head of the crisis staff, Wenzislaw Mutaftschijski, did not rule out stricter restrictions because of the poor discipline of some Bulgarian.In the Balkanland since 13.March a state of emergency, which is up to 13.May extended wurde.

Friday, 17.April, 0.Midnight The service agent Uber announces billions in depreciation due to the corona crisis and withdraws its annual forecast. Das Unternehmen teilte am Donnerstag nach US-Börsenschluss mit, dass derVerlust im ersten Quartal aufgrund von Abwertungen in der Bilanz um 1,9 bis 2,2 Mrd.USD (2,0 Mrd.EUR) höher als bislang angenommen ausfallen dürfte.Uber is already deep in the red numbers, in the final quarter of 2019 the group had a minus of 1.1 billion.USD verbucht.

The on 6. Februar ausgegebenen Geschäftsprognosen für das laufende Jahr zog Uber zurück – angesichts der Pandemie sei es derzeit unmöglich,Vorhersagen zu Finanzergebnissen zu machen.Initially, Uber only announced that an auxiliary program for the driver and suppliers who suffer from the crisis burden the proceeds in the past and current quarter.The depreciation relates to minority investments that Uber holds to other companies.A detailed quarterly report should be on 7.May vorlegt werden.

Thursday, 16.April, 23.31 a.m. The battered US air ride giant Boeing wants to let the aircraft production, which was stopped due to the corona crisis, as early as the coming week.The company in the factories in the PUGET Sound region in the state of Washington should be from 20.April, the Airbus rival said in Seattle on Thursday (local time).

Because of the pandemic, the production had been stopped for indefinite times last month.However, due to a production stop that has been in effect since January, Boeing's production will initially be severely restricted after two crashes.. Auch die 787-„Dreamliner"-Fertigung in South Carolina ruht vorerst weiter.

Thursday, 16.April, 21.06 Uhr Marc Schmitt, CEO des Software-Start-ups Evertracker sowie Mitglied im Gremium der Logistikweisen, hat wenigVerständnis dafür, noch mehr Geld zu fordern: „Alle Unternehmen haben Förderungen verdient, Start-ups, Mittelständler und Großunternehmen – man sollte nach Industriezweigen gewichten", meint er.You have to see the situation of other start-ups differently."Above all, those who had no business model beforehand will be spit.But if you were well positioned before, you have very good chances to survive the crisis.I am convinced that the federal government will take care of this." Wie Evertracker selbst aufgestellt ist, berichtet er im sechsten Teil unserer Start-up-Serie.

Thursday, 16.April, 19.37 Uhr Der regeVersandhandel als Folge der Coronakrise lässt die Zahl der beförderten Pakete weiter steigen. „Seit zehn Tagen nimmt die Menge an Paketen täglich zu", sagte der Betriebschef der Deutschen Post DHL, Thomas Schneider, der „Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung" (Freitag)."In the package business we are currently experiencing record values for spring.We transported nine million packages in one day on Wednesday." ImVergleich zumVorjahrestag entspreche dies einem Zuwachs um 45 Prozent. „In einigen Bereichen arbeiten wir an der Kapazitätsgrenze", ergänzte Schneider.

Thursday, 16.April, 18.8 p.m. employees in Germany have to adjust to stricter hygiene and infection protection requirements at work due to the corona crisis.In the future, new nationwide uniform rules should apply for the gradual return of more employees, which the Federal Cabinet decided on Thursday.

Specifically, it is generally stated that a distance of at least 1.5 m and other people must also be observed at work - in buildings, outdoors and in vehicles.To do this, barriers, markings or access regulations would have to be implemented.Wherever this is not possible, alternatively partition walls are to be installed. Ist auch das nicht machbar, sollen die Arbeitgeber Nase-Mund-Bedeckungen für Beschäftigte, Kunden und Dienstleister zurVerfügung stellen.

Thursday, 16.April, 16.45 a.m. The Niedersachsen-Bremen trade association welcomed the loosening of the Corona guidelines for shops up to 800 square meters. Wichtiger als die Größe derVerkaufsfläche seien aber konkrete und einheitliche Angaben zu den gesundheitlichen Auflagen, die erfüllt werden müssen, sagte Hauptgeschäftsführer Mark Alexander Krack am Donnerstag. Dann hätten Ladenbesitzer die Gewissheit zu sagen: „Wenn ich diese Auflagen umsetze, dann kann ich öffnen", so Krack. „DieserVerantwortung können sie nur gerecht werden, wenn die Auflagen so konkret wie möglich sind."

However, Krack does not expect a customer rush on the shops after the long forced break."People are very sensitized and in their heads it has arrived that you have to be careful. Ein Zuspruch wie vorher ist also nicht zu erwarten", sagte er.

Thursday, 16.April, 16.30 a.m. The car manufacturer Audi expects a business profit of only 15 million for the first quarter.EUR- nach 1,2 Mrd. im bereits schwachenVorjahresquartal.The turnover should be around 12.5 billion.EUR gesunken sein, teilte dieVW-Konzerntochter am Donnerstag in Ingolstadt mit.The operational return on sales is 0.1 percent.The Corona pandemic had brought the car trade to a standstill, the decrease in customer demand and delivery bottlenecks then led to production stops, the company said.

Thursday, 16.April, 16.20 Uhr Die Fluggesellschaften Qantas undVirgin bekommen in der Corona-Krise Hilfe von der australischen Regierung.A financial injection of 165 million.Australian dollars (96 million.EUR) soll Flugverbindungen auf Inlands-Routen auf dem Kontinent möglich machen. WieVize-Premier Michael McCormack am Donnerstag erklärte, geht es darum, dass Menschen mit wichtigen Aufgaben etwa in der medizischenVersorgung reisen können.Medicine and protective equipment should also be able to be transported further.The Australian government already has the aviation industry, which suffers significantly from the corona -related decline in travel traffic, with one billion Australian dollar ($ 580 million.EUR) unterstützt.

Thursday, 16.April, 16.10 a.m. a month after the production stop in his German works, the car maker Opel prepares the restart.However, the daughter of the French PSA group did not call a specific date on Thursday.For all three locations Rüsselsheim, Eisenach and Kaiserslautern, more than a hundred health and hygiene measures were appointed in a company agreement to protect employees from Covid-19.

According to a notification, for example, the measures concern, for example, output and use of protective masks, distance regulations and extended hygiene regulations.Tools and work surfaces should often be cleaned and the shift change is to be organized in such a way that direct contacts between the employees are avoided.

Thursday, 16.April, 15.30 Uhr Die Chefin des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) hat Großbritannien dazu angehalten, angesichts der Corona-Pandemie dieVerhandlungsfrist zur Klärung der Beziehungen zur Europäischen Union nach dem Brexit zu verlängern. Wegen der „beispiellosen Unsicherheit" sei es „klug, nicht noch mehr hinzuzufügen" und auf eineVereinbarung über die künftigen Handelsbeziehungen zum 31.To pass December, quoted BBC IMF director Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday.

Great Britain had left the EU at the end of January, but a transition phase is still valid until the end of the year, in which practically nothing changes. Gelingt bis zum Fristende kein Abkommen, drohen Zölle, verschärfte Warenkontrollen an den Grenzen und andereVerwerfungen für die Wirtschaft. „Ich hoffe wirklich, dass alle politischen Entscheidungsträger überall darüber nachdenken, (die Unsicherheit) zu verringern", sagte Georgieva."As difficult as it is, we shouldn't make it more difficult."

Thursday, 16.April, 15.10 a.m. German airports with a larger freight handling are among the busiest in Europe in the Corona crisis.On Wednesday, Frankfurt was the leader with more than 200 starts and landings, as the German air traffic control reported on Thursday in Langen near Frankfurt. Das ist allerdings weit vomVorkrisen-Niveau mit rund 1.800 daily flight movements removed.On Tuesday, Leipzig/Halle was the second strongest German freight airport, as the DFS continued.Cologne/Bonn is currently also part of the group of busy airports.

In principle, the freight traffic is not hit as much by the Corona crisis as passenger flights.In order to replace the missing loading options in the passenger jets currently not used, additional freight flights are chartered.Some companies also use their passenger jets, in which the seats are even expanded in individual cases.

Thursday, 16.April, 14.30 p.m. The parcel service provider DHL has canceled individual special collection trips in online retailers in view of the high load. „Wir mussten aus dem Kaltstart aufVorweihnachtsniveau hochfahren", sagte ein Sprecher der Deutschen Presse-Agentur. Daher habe man an einige Händler appelliert,Verständnis dafür zu haben, wenn einige, wegen hoher Nachfrage zusätzlich georderte Abholfahrten ausfallen müssten.DHL now records eight million programs a day - this is well above the annual average of around 5.2 programs per day.

Der Bundesverband Onlinehandel hatte zuvor beklagt, dass DHL diesen Schritt ohneVorwarnung vollzogen habe. „Hätten die Paketdienstleister rechtzeitig auf den Engpass hingewiesen, hätten die Händler denVerkauf drosseln können. Jetzt stehen die gepackten Pakete beim Händler und werden nicht ausgeliefert", beklagteVerbandspräsident Oliver Prothmann laut einer Mitteilung.

Thursday, 16.April, 14.3 p.m. with shower containers on rest areas is to be helped in the current Corona crisis.On Thursday, a mobile shower with four showers and sinks each on a rest area on the A8 between Stuttgart and Pforzheim was put into operation. Nach Angaben des Bundesverbands Güterkraftverkehr Logistik und Entsorgung (BGL) sollen bundesweit 20up to 30 dieser Duschcontainer an wichtigenVerkehrsknotenpunkten entstehen. Die mobilen Duschen werden normalerweise beiVeranstaltungen wie Musikfestivals eingesetzt.

Baden-WürttembergsVerkehrsminister Winfried Hermann (Grüne) lobte die Arbeit der Lastwagenfahrer."They do an extraordinary service for our society." Die Container gehen auf die Initiative „Logistik Hilft" von Bundesverkehrsministerium und Branchenvertretern zurück.At the end of March, Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) had announced that it would help logistics companies and truck drivers in their work in the current crisis.

Thursday, 16.April, 13.40 p.m. Large waterways on Saxony-Anhalt's large waterways were handled last year.A total of 5.7 million.t has been and thus 1.1 percent less than in 2018, the State Statistical Office announced on Thursday in Halle.2019 are 2.1 million in the country.T goods received and 3.6 million.T goods have been sent.49.2 percent of all goods were handled along the Elbe, 50.8 percent in the area of the Mittelland Canal.While the goods handling in the Elbe area was 6.2 percent back, the ports on the Mittelland Canal recorded an increase of 4.4 percent.

With 1.6 million.T or 27.5 percent had ores, stones and earthed the largest part of the total envelope.Products from agriculture and forestry as well as fishing were handled the second most common, according to the statistics 1.3 million.T out.Two thirds of the handled goods were shipped by or to ports in Germany, the other third had ports abroad as the starting point or goal.

Thursday, 16.April, 13.7 a.m..According to a survey by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), 80 percent of companies expect severe sales losses.The business situation and business expectations of the companies are therefore dramatically declining.This also applies to the economic expectations. DIHK-AußenwirtschaftschefVolker Treier sprach am Donnerstag in Berlin von erschreckenden Zahlen.

They showed how hard the Corona pandemic has hit German companies around the world.The economic consequences of the crisis are not yet completely foreseeable.The Coronavirus has an impact on international supply chains.According to the survey, international travel restrictions, less demand, and the cancellation of orders are seen as major problems.As a result, investments are postponed or deleted. Als besonders schlecht bewerteten deutsche Unternehmen in denVereinigten Staaten und in Europa ihre Wirtschaftsentwicklung.

Thursday, 16.April, 13.04 Uhr Angesichts von Defiziten bei derVersorgung von Lastwagenfahrern in der Coronakrise will Bundesverkehrsminister Andreas Scheuer gegensteuern.The truck drivers did a hard job every day to keep the goods and freight traffic going, Scheuer said on Thursday after a visit to the logistics company Rhenus Warehousing Solutions in Großbeeren in Brandenburg.It is all the more important that you are well cared for, with food, toilets and showers.But this is not the case everywhere.So the sanitary facilities on rest areas should now be improved.

Scheuer said further that truck drivers were not treated with the respect they deserved on some ramps.You shouldn't get out, don't wash your hands.He could not accept that, emphasized the CSU politician.He therefore presented an initiative with the name #logistikhilft.This should reveal deficits and remedy unbureaucratically.It's about solidarity.In addition to trade, industry and logistics, operators of parking spaces, rest and car furnaces are also to be involved.

Thursday, 16.April, 13.01 a.m. Lufthansa has extended its fuselage flight schedule due to the ongoing Corona crisis and shortened even further.He is now up to 17 for two weeks longer.May gültig, wie das Unternehmen am Donnerstag in Frankfurt mitteilte. Die Zahl der Langstreckenflüge ab Frankfurt sinkt mit der Streichung von dreiVerbindungen nach Montreal auf 15 pro Woche.The airports Chicago, Newark, Sao Paulo, Bangkok and Tokyo are still flown three times a week.

There are also 36 daily European connections from Frankfurt and from 4.May auch wieder sechs täglicheVerbindungen zu innerdeutschen Zielen ab München.The daughter Swiss keeps her three weekly long -distance flights to Newark, while Eurowings maintains the basic supply at the airports Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Cologne.

Thursday, 16.April, 12.54 Uhr Sachsen will die Lockerung der Regelungen zum Coronavirus am Freitag in einer neuenVerordnung festschreiben.A complete cancellation of all restrictions and closures was rejected as premature so that the risk of infection does not increase again, the government said.It is still a matter of avoiding the emergence of new infection chains as much as possible in order to protect health and life and not to overload the health system.

Öffnen dürfen nun auch Geschäfte, die für die Grundversorgung wichtig sind, darunter auch Filialen des Brief- undVersandhandels, Baumärkte, Ladengeschäfte von Handwerksbetrieben, Möbelhäuser, Tankstellen, Autohäuser, Kfz- und Fahrradwerkstätten.Collection and bringing services as well as parcel posts are allowed, it said.

Thursday, 16.April, 12.11 a.m. Audi is expected to gradually let the car production in the Ingolstadt main plant in the end of April.That said a spokeswoman on Thursday.It is planned to drive only one layer.Later, further layers could be added to a large scale between the layers, so that there are not too many employees at the factory gates when changing the shifts.When the work of Neckarsulm is still open at the moment.

In den beiden deutschen Werken derVW-Tochter steht die Produktion seit 23.March Still because of the corona crisis.Half of the 61.000 Audi employees in Germany are in short work.In the Hungarian Audi plant Györ, engine production started again on Tuesday, with a layer instead of the usual three layers.

Thursday, 16.April, 11.54 a.m. The Saxony trade association has requested clear rules and statements for companies in the Corona crisis.In order for shops to be able to open legs next Monday, uncertainties must be cleared out, as managing director René Glaser announced on Thursday in Dresden.

Insgesamt begrüßte der Handelsverband, dass erste Geschäfte im „Non-Food-Handel", die nicht zur Grundversorgung wie Supermärkte gehören, wieder öffnen dürfen. Allerdings entsprächen die am Mittwochabend verkündeten Entscheidungen nicht „vollumfänglich" den Erwartungen desVerbandes. „Es müssen jetzt zeitnah weitere Schritte folgen", drängte Glaser. Für Geschäfte, die weiterhin geschlossen bleiben müssen, fordert der Handelsverband „kurzfristig faire und diskriminierungsfreie Lösungen".These companies, which are threatened by the closure, also need a perspective.

Thursday, 16.April, 11.27 o'clock so that German companies in the corona crisis do not stay on unpaid bills and do not tear supply chains, the federal government spans a billion -dollar protective shield.The aim is to maintain a smooth traffic traffic.For 2020, the state takes over guarantees for credit insurers of up to 30 billion.EUR, wie das Wirtschafts- und das Finanzministerium am Donnerstag in Berlin mitteilten.

Credit insurers replace companies if customers cannot or do not want to pay the products delivered. In der Coronakrise sind solcheVersicherungen aber weniger leicht verfügbar, weil das Risiko für dieVersicherer größer wird.This should be mitigated by the German guarantee.

Thursday, 16.April, 11.25 p.m. The Europe -wide Lockdown mid -March led to a drastic break -in. „Trotz steigender Transporte im Lebensmittelbereich sind die Frachtmengen von Mitte bis Ende März europaweit um mehr als zwei Drittel zurückgegangen", berichtet Tilman Fecke, Business Analyst bei der Frachtenbörse Timocom."There was no comparable development before Easter." In normalen Zeiten werden Timocom-Angaben zufolge bis zu 750.000 freight and cargo space offers placed on the digital platform every day.

„Wir beobachten, dass Transportunternehmen Teile ihrer Fahrzeugflotte mangels Auslastung vorübergehend vom Markt nehmen", ergänzt Unternehmenssprecher Gunnar Gburek.Nevertheless, market distortions are currently caused by the Corona emergency, he states. „Zurzeit zeichnen sich beim Frachtangebot aber leichte Aufwärtstendenzen ab", macht er jedoch etwas Hoffnung.

Thursday, 16.April, 11.15 Uhr Um die Lieferketten auf See durch den Austausch der Crews gewährleisten zu können, hat eine Initiative mehrerer großer Schifffahrtsunternehmen Politik undVerbände zur Unterstützung aufgefordert.According to a spokesman, the alliance on 1 represents.500 ships with around 70.000 seafarers. Zu den beteiligten Unternehmen gehören unter anderen D/S Norden, Grieg Star, Reederei Nord, Dynacom,V.Group, Wilhelmsen Ships Service, Pacific Carriers Limited (PCL), Magsaysay, Augustea, Columbia Ship Management, Inchcape Shipping Services and the Synergy Group.

There are currently over 100.000 Seeleute „auf See gestrandet", weil die Corona-Pandemie verhindere, dass sie nach Hause zurückkehren könnten.The alliance has now developed a detailed risk assessment for crew members to minimize the risk of corona infection when replacing the crews.As the spokesman continued, it is pushed to immediate state measures to enable the resumption of a crew change. Dazu gehöre auch dieVergabe des Status als „Schlüsselarbeitskraft" für seemännisches Personal.

Thursday, 16.April, 11.6 a.m. Hessian retail is critical of the announced conditions for the reopening of shops in the corona crisis. „Die schrittweise Rückkehr zum Geschäftsbetrieb sollte für den gesamten Einzelhandel und nicht nur für einen Teil davon ermöglicht werden", sagt Jochen Ruths, Präsident des Handelsverbands in Wiesbaden. Lockerungen sollten nicht nach Betriebsgröße,Verkaufsfläche oder Einzelhandelsbranchen differenzieren.This causes competition distortions and legal uncertainty.

Am Mittwoch hatte das Land Hessen bekanntgegeben, dass zahlreiche wegen der Pandemie geschlossene Läden unter bestimmten Bedingungen ab Montag wieder öffnen dürfen: Das gilt für Geschäfte mit einerVerkaufsfläche bis 800 m², unabhängig davon auch KFZ-Händler, Fahrradhändler und Buchhandlungen.

Thursday, 16.April, 11 Uhr Betrachtet man allein die Zahl der An- und Abflüge, war der Flughafen Leipzig/Halle am Dienstag europaweite der aktivste Airport und konnte zwischenzeitlich sogar Frankfurt übertrumpfen.A possible reason for this is the stronger focus on freight traffic.As a tweet from Eamonn Brennan, General Director of Eurocontrol, shows, Leipzig/Halle Airport was able to record most of the entrances and departures in Europe on Tuesday.

Mit 185 „Departures & Arrivals" übertrumpfte er sogar den Frankfurter Airport, der es auf nur 179 Starts und Landungen brachte. ImVergleich zumVorjahr war die Anzahl der An- und Abflüge in Frankfurt gegenüber Leipzig/Halle mehr als fünf Mal so hoch.The reason for this should be that in Leipzig/Halle the proportion of freight transports compared to passenger flights is significantly higher than in Frankfurt.

Thursday, 16.April, 10.52 Uhr Ein erster Schritt Richtung Normalität: Die Deutsche Post will ab sofort denVersand von Paketen nach China wieder ermöglichen. DieVolksrepublik sei „das erste von solchen Exportbeschränkungen betroffene Land, bei dem diese Einschränkungen vollständig wieder aufgehoben werden können", sagte ein Post-Sprecher am Donnerstag der Deutschen Presse-Agentur.

As the origin of Corona pandemic, China-including the special administrative zones Hong Kong and Macau-was also the first country in which the export of packages has been restricted since mid-February. Es könne aber weiterhin noch zuVerzögerungen bei der Zustellung kommen, hieß es von der Post.In several other Asian countries - including South Korea and India - there are still restrictions.

Thursday, 16.April, 10.26 a.m. The Sportwagenbauer Porsche will not let his works start again in the coming week. Die Produktion im Stammwerk in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen und in Leipzig bleibe eine weitere Woche ausgesetzt, sagte ein Sprecher derVW-Tochter am Donnerstag.There are still bottlenecks in the global supply chains that do not allow an orderly revenue.

Other manufacturers had previously announced that the production in Germany slowly runs down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Daimler,Volkswagen und Audi etwa wollen am Montag zumindest in ersten Werken schrittweise loslegen.Porsche had dropped the production almost four weeks ago.It was decided every week about the necessary steps, it said.

Thursday, 16.April, 9.52 Uhr Der britische Billigflieger Easyjet rüstet sich mit neuen Krediten und demVerkauf von Jets für einen längeren Stopp des Flugbetriebs.The company has two loans overall of 400 million.British pound (459 million.EUR) gesichert, teilte sie am Donnerstag in Luton bei London mit.Together with other measures, the liquid funds should be at 3.3 billion.Pound grow.This should be enough even if the flight stop stops for nine months, said CEO Johan Lundgren.

Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the entire Easyjet fleet is currently on the ground.Lundgren did not dare to predict exactly when flight operations can start again.At first it should start with flights within individual countries, he said.For the new loans, Easyjet has introduced her own aircraft as security.In addition, the company is negotiating with leasing companies that are supposed to buy Easyjet machines and rent back to the airline.

Thursday, 16.April, 9.41 o'clock The Internet fashion retailer Zalando looks at the front after a weak quarter as a result of the corona pandemic. „Die ersten Wochen im April lassen uns optimistisch auf das zweite Quartal blicken", sagte Finanzvorstand David Schröder am Donnerstag bei derVorlage vorläufiger Daten für das erste Quartal in Berlin.According to its own statements, the MDAX company had to accept the weakest numbers since the 2014 IPO. DerVerlust beim bereinigten operativen Ergebnis (Ebit) dürfte in einer Spanne von 90up to 110 Mio.EUR liegen.A year earlier, Zalando still had a win of 6.4 million.EUR erwirtschaftet.In addition to weaker growth, the company had to.EUR auf den Warenbestand abschreiben.

Der Umsatz stieg im Berichtszeitraum dank guter Geschäfte im Januar und Februar noch um 10,1up to 11,6 Prozent auf gut1.5 billion.EUR.In the last three weeks of March, however, gross-like volume and sales fell, as CEO Rubin Ritter said.According to its statements, the situation has looked better again since April.The gross pale volume, which also includes sales from the partner programs, and the proceeds have increased again.Zalando wants detailed figures for the first quarter on 7.May vorlegen.

Thursday, 16.April, 8.50 Uhr Nach derVerlängerung der Grenzkontrollen hat Bundesverkehrsminister Andreas Scheuer sich erneut verärgert über die fehlende europäische Abstimmung beim Güter- und Warenverkehr gezeigt. „Ja, ich bin etwas unzufrieden über die europäische Herangehensweise", sagte der CSU-Politiker am Donnerstag im ARD-Morgenmagazin.Scheuer recalled that goods and goods can be transported from one country to another despite the Corona restrictions."Nevertheless, of course, we often have backlogs at the borders."

Solche Probleme seien nur bilateral zu lösen, „weil wir kein europäisches Commitment haben über das Grenzregime", sagte Scheuer."We have to make a lot of calls with the Polish neighbors, with the Czech neighbors." Mit Frankreich und Österreich funktioniere die Abstimmung besser, so der Minister.The controls on German borders introduced in the corona crisis should be up to 4 for another 20 days.May gelten.

Thursday, 16.April, 8.30 a.m. in shipping there are fears that there could be bankruptcies in the course of the corona crisis.Viele Akteure haben dabei noch die Insolvenz von Hanjin Shipping in 2016 im Hinterkopf.This is fired by a current analysis of the market experts from Alphaliner. Darin bescheinigen die Analysten sieben von elf der größten Carrier ein „sehr hohes Risiko" einer potenziellen Insolvenz.Read more hierzu.

Thursday, 16.April, 08.26 a.m. American Airlines Cargo has announced, for dealing with late changes or cancellations from 1.May 2020 eine sogenannte faire Buchungspolitik einzuführen.It still offers customers the opportunity to adapt their business with the airline and to avoid additional fees, the company shares with.If a customer canceled up to 48 hours before the planned departure or sends the amount of the original booking, there are no fees. Kunden mit Sendungen über 100 kg müssen bei verspäteter Stornierung, verspäteter Reduktion des anrechenbaren Gewichts oder Nichtlieferung mindestens 50USD zahlen.All details of the guidelines can be found here.

The freight dream must be used optimally, says Cargo boss Rick Elieson. „So groß unser Netzwerk auch ist, wir haben jetzt eine sehr begrenzte Anzahl von täglichen Flügen, und wir haben dieVerantwortung, diese Kapazität zu schützen", fügt er hinzu.Because the cargo dream could be used to take up life -saving medication or critical freight. „Daher müssen wir alles tun, um eineVerschwendung von Frachtkapazität zu vermeiden."

Thursday, 16.April, 07.37 Uhr Nach den Beschlüssen von Bund und Ländern über erste Lockerungen in der Coronakrise stößt vor allem die Maßnahme, zunächst lediglich Geschäfte mit einerVerkaufsfläche von bis zu 800 m² wieder zu öffnen, auf Kritik. Aber auch dieVerlängerung der Beschränkungen für Bevölkerung und Wirtschaft bis zum 3.May löst Unmut aus. „Ich bin tief enttäuscht", sagte Reinhold von Eben-Worlée, Präsident desVerbandes Die Familienunternehmer. „Nach Wochen der Durststrecke schickt die Politik die um ihr Überleben ringenden Unternehmen in die dreiwöchigeVerlängerung."Viele der Betriebe würden nicht bisMay durchhalten, fürchtet er.

The trade association had also criticized the measures.From the point of view of the trade there is no material argument for a gradual opening of the shops, said HDE general manager Stefan Genth, referring to the restriction of the opening to smaller businesses.The auto industry can breathe a sigh of relief because car dealers from the 3.May wieder öffnen dürfen. Die Entscheidung, den stationären KFZ-Handel für denVerkauf von Neu- und Gebrauchtfahrzeugen wieder zuzulassen, sei ein wichtiger und notwendiger Schritt auf dem Weg, auch den Hochlauf der Produktion wieder zu ermöglichen, teilte die Präsidentin desVerbands der Automobilindustrie, Hildegard Müller, mit.

Der Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Marcel Fratzscher, nannte es klug, dass Bund und Länder eine „vorsichtige und flexible" Ausstiegsstrategie gewählt hätten.On the one hand, she sets a clear signal that the protection of human life and health remains the top priority.In addition, it is taking care of the necessary caution, since the uncertainty is still enormous.From the perspective of the Federal Association of Medium -sized Economy (BVMW), the agreed loosening is too tentative from the point of view of maintaining companies and jobs.Viele Selbstständige seien von einer Insolvenzwelle bedroht, sagte Präsident Mario Ohoven der Funke Mediengruppe.

Thursday, 16.April, 07.25 p.m. The fight against the Corona economic crisis is once again employed by the EU countries on Thursday. Die EU-Kommission will den Finanzministern in einerVideokonferenz (ab 15.30 o'clock) an assessment of how difficult the pandemic hits the economy in Europe. Zudem wollen Bundesfinanzminister Olaf Scholz (SPD) und seine EU-Kollegen die Gegenmaßnahmen vorantreiben, darunter das geplante Kurzarbeiter-Programm „Sure".EU banking rules are to be loosened so that citizens and companies continue to have access to credit.

Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU) also advises on Thursday (from 10 a.m.) with the EU trade ministers how the consequences of pandemic could be mitigated in international trade. Weil vielerorts Fabriken stillstehen und Grenzen geschlossen sind, fehlt vielen europäischen Firmen der Nachschub etwa anVorprodukten für die Weiterverarbeitung.

Thursday, 16.April, 07.8 p.m. The corona crisis leaves uneven tracks, according to a forecast on the semiconductor market. Je nach Bereich stehen für 2020 Rückgänge von bis zu 27 Prozent oder Zuwächseup to 11 Prozent im Raum, wie aus Berechnungen der Unternehmensberatung McKinsey hervorgeht.The consultants go from a shrinking of the last more than 400 billion.USD schweren Gesamtmarkts um 5 bis 15 Prozent aus.The forecast according to the areas of wireless communication - especially smartphones - and meet chips for the automotive sector is particularly hard for the forecast of wireless communication.In the worst case, this is about 26 or 27 percent down.

The largest sub -market, semiconductor for PCs and servers, remains almost stable depending on the scenario or only shrinks comparatively weak.For chips for the areas of industry as well as entertainment and household electronics, somewhat stronger declines are to be expected. Nur das kleinste Marktsegment kann von der aktuellen Entwicklung profitieren: Im Bereich der kabelgebundenen Kommunikation geht es der Prognose zufolge um 8up to 11 Prozent nach oben.The reason: Because of the pandemic, companies have to invest more in safety because more employees work from home. Zudem kaufen dieVerbraucher mehr Router.

Wednesday, 15.April, 20.44 Uhr Nach einem Gerichtsurteil setzt Amazon den Betrieb seinerVerteilzentren in Frankreich vorläufig aus.This was announced by the company on Wednesday evening.A court in Nanterre near Paris had previously imposed the online retailer to limit himself to a selection of important items.How long the suspension should run was explicitly not communicated. „Diese Woche werden wir die Mitarbeiter unsererVerteilzentren bitten, zu Hause zu bleiben", schrieb das Unternehmen. Das Gericht hatte am Dienstag erklärt, der Onlinehändler habe in der Coronavirus-Krise seineVerpflichtungen zum Schutz von Gesundheit und Sicherheit der Angestellten in seinen Logistikzentren nicht ausreichend erfüllt.

Wednesday, 15.April, 20.34 Uhr Die Pläne des 2018 in Hannover gegründeten Start-ups Synaos waren sehr ambitioniert: „Wir wollten unsere Belegschaft bis zum Jahresende auf 90 Mitarbeiter verdreifachen", sagt Wolfgang Hackenberg, Mitgründer von Synaos.This goal has now been set up a bit.Vor allem gehe es derzeit darum, die Liquidität der Industriesoftwarefirma zu schonen und gut zu haushalten. Der CEO äußert im fünften Teil unserer Start-up-Serie aber Zuversicht, vor allem auch, weil das Projekt mitVolkswagen weiterläuft.Read more about this here.

Wednesday, 15.April, 19.58 Uhr Die Werke der MarkeVolkswagen PKW fahren die Produktion stufenweise wieder an.First take a week from the 20th.April the works in Zwickau and Bratislava (Slovakia) on the production.In the week from the 27.April the restoration of production in the other German production facilities as well as in Portugal, Spain, Russia and the USA begins. Im Laufe des MonatsMay soll dann sukzessive auch in Südafrika, Argentinien, Brasilien und Mexiko wieder produziert werden. Die Werke vonVolkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge (VWN) in Hannover und an den polnischen Standorten in Poznań und Września nehmen am 27.April with reduced capacities gradually production.Read more here dazu.

Wednesday, 15.April, 19.3 a.m. after progress in combating the Coronavirus, small shops in Germany are allowed to reopen.For most, the schools remain tight.There are only a few years from the 4.May wieder Unterricht.Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Prime Minister of the States also agreed on Wednesday that the contact restrictions imposed due to the pandemic up to at least 3.May extended werden.

Deutschland habe einen „zerbrechlichen Zwischenerfolg" erreicht, sagte Merkel. Alle müssten aber verstehen, dass sie so lange mit demVirus leben müssten, bis es einen Impfstoff gebe. Mit Blick auf den Schutz von Menschenleben müsse man hier „ganz behutsam, ganz schrittweise vorgehen".You need concepts for breaks and school buses. „Es wird also ein hoher logistischer Aufwand zu betreiben sein, und deshalb bedarf es einer intensivenVorbereitung."

Öffnen sollen nun zuerst Geschäfte mit einerVerkaufsfläche von bis zu 800 m², was etwa der Größe eines mittleren Supermarkts oder eines Schuhladens entspricht.Regardless of the size, book, car and bicycle dealers should also open.

Wednesday, 15.April, 17.8 p.m. in truck traffic between the Czech Republic and Germany, there were considerable disabilities on Wednesday.The reason is stricter controls of the Czech police who have registered the personal details of all drivers since Tuesday.Truck drivers are excluded from the extensive entry and departure ban of the Czech government because of the pandemic.If you spend more than 14 days abroad, you have to go to home quarantine for two weeks after your return.

Der Stau vor dem Übergang Rozvadov-Waidhaus in Richtung Bayern hatte nach Angaben desVerkehrsfunks am Mittwochnachmittag eine Länge von mehr als 10 km.There were more than 12 km on the D8 motorway towards Dresden. Der tschechischeVerband der Speditionsbranche, Cesmad Bohemia, forderte eine Beschleunigung oder Lockerung der Kontrollen. „DieseVerkehrsbehinderungen bedeuten für LKW-Fahrer, dass sie viele Stunden unter hygienisch unwürdigenVerhältnissen verbringen müssen", hieß es in einer Mitteilung.

Wednesday, 15.April, 17.6 p.m. The airport service provider Aviation Handling Services (AHS) has left the AVH employers' association. Das Unternehmen habe aus ökonomischer Not die Reißleine ziehen müssen, teilte der Geschäftsführer der ArbeitsrechtlichenVereinigung Hamburg (AVH), Urban Sieberts, auf Anfrage mit.A new collective agreement had provided the increase from short -time work money to up to 95 percent, that was not affordable for the AHS.In this context, the AVH boss referred to the corona-related situation at airports such as in Hamburg, where hardly any passengers and aircraft would be handled.Around 500 AHS employees are responsible for this in the Hanseatic city.

Die GewerkschaftVerdi und der AHS-Betriebsrat befürchten nach dem Austritt denVerlust von Arbeitsplätzen.The employees are very concerned about their livelihood, said the works council chairwoman Britta Fengler."As a works council, we expect the city and the airport do everything to secure us." An AHS ist der Hamburger Flughafen mit 27,25 Prozent beteiligt.The Hanseatic city again holds 51 percent of the shares in the airport.VonVerunsicherung bei den Beschäftigten und einer Provokation sprach die stellvertretendeVerdi-Landesbezirksleiterin Sieglinde Frieß. „EinVerbandsaustritt bedeutet nach unserer Erfahrung langfristig immer den Abschied vom Tarifvertrag." DieVerdi-Vertreterin forderte, den Dienstleister wieder in den Hamburger Flughafen-Konzern einzugliedern.

Wednesday, 15.April, 16.30 Uhr Im Kampf gegen das Coronavirus wollen Bund und Länder das Tragen von Alltagsmasken im öffentlichen Nahverkehr und im Einzelhandel „dringend" empfehlen.However, there should not be a general nationwide mask obligation, as the German press agency learned on Wednesday from the advisors of the prime ministers with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in Berlin.According to Ministry of Health, everyday masks serve to protect others from an infection.Special masks that also protect the carrier themselves should be reserved for medical staff.

The Federal Government had already found a need for billions of protective masks - supplies, especially in high -quality masks, is difficult to get due to high demand worldwide. Für Deutschland bestehe über alleVarianten von einfachen Alltagsmasken bis zu Spezialmasken für medizinisches Personal ein Bedarf von mehreren Milliarden Stück innerhalb von Monaten, hatte Wirtschaftsminister Peter Altmaier (CDU) kürzlich gesagt.

Wednesday, 15.April, 16.05 a.m. more and more food dealers are trying to make life easier for doctors, sisters and nurses in the face of the corona crisis.Germany's second largest food dealer Rewe announced on Wednesday to offer their own delivery time windows for doctors and nursing staff in the future in more than 75 cities, so that they do not have to wait for their orders for days because of their great demand.In addition, the trading giant does not use the usual delivery fees.

The discounter Aldi Süd set up a mini branch for the medical staff last week at the University Hospital Frankfurt.Since then.Also the online supermarket Getnow.de startete schon Anfang des Monats eine Aktion unter dem Motto „Freie Fahrt für Deutschlands Helden", bei der Ärzten und Pflegepersonal eigene Lieferslots zurVerfügung gestellt werden und auf Lieferkosten verzichtet wird.

Wednesday, 15.April, 15.50 Uhr Der Bund will die Öffnung von Geschäften bis zu einerVerkaufsfläche von bis zu 800 Quadratmetern wieder ermöglichen.This sees a draft of the Corona cabinet for the consultations of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) with the prime ministers that the German Press Agency in Berlin is present. Danach könnten die Länder solchen Geschäften unter Auflagen zur Hygiene, zur Steuerung des Zutritts und zurVermeidung von Warteschlangen womöglich schon am kommenden Montag wieder die Öffnung erlauben.The tough restrictions on contact in the fight against the Coronavirus, which have been in effect for weeks, should generally be up to 3.May extended werden.

Wednesday, 15.April, 15.1 p.m. Several logistics associations have presented a joint position paper with recommendations for a compatible restart of the economy after the Corona crisis weakened.In order to reduce economic and social damage, strategies to terminate the lockdown is required, according to a statement by the Federal Association of Package and Express Logistics (BIEK). Außer dem Biek sind dieVerbände AMÖ, BGL, BWVL und DSLV an dem Positionspapier beteiligt.Read more hierzu.

Wednesday, 15.April, 14.52 Uhr Bundesinnenminister Horst Seehofer (CSU) plant, die Grenzkontrollen von Deutschland zu den Nachbarländern Österreich, Frankreich, Luxemburg, Dänemark und der Schweiz um weitere 20 Tage zu verlängern, wie am Mittwoch aus Sicherheitskreisen und der Bundespressekonferenz bekannt wurde, berichtet dieVerkehrsrundschau. Die Transport- und Logistikbranche muss also auch künftig mit den damit einhergehenden Einschränkungen undVerzögerungen auskommen.

Wednesday, 15.April, 14.30 a.m. In order to extensively support the member companies during the Covid 19 epidemic, the Fiata has set up a special section on its homepage.This website is regularly updated with the latest developments, Fiata positions and press releases as well as information on the most important topics relating to the freight forwarding industry. Zudem sollen den Fiata-Mitgliedern nützliche Instrumente zurVerfügung gestellt werden, die sie innerhalb ihrer nationalen Gerichtsbarkeit nutzen können, um eine koordinierte und einheitlicheVorgehensweise zu gewährleisten.Click here for the website.

Wednesday, 15.April, 14.8 p.m. The ferry connection between the ports of Sassnitz-Mukran and Trelleborg may not be given up without a fight in the state parliament in the state parliament.The Stena-Line shipping company had the route on 14.March temporarily stopped and announced to close them permanently.The reason was not only cited passenger bookings as a result of the travel restrictions by the Corona pandemic, but also the ongoing bad economic situation of the route as a whole. Die verkehrspolitische Sprecherin der Linksfraktion, Mignon Schwenke, sagte am Mittwoch, ganzVorpommern erwarte, dass sich Bund und Land für den Erhalt der Linie einsetzen.

After the Corona crisis, negotiations must be made about reopening.The federal and state governments are in duty to take the initiative and approach the shipping company. Mit der Aufgabe der Fährverbindung würde ein Zeichen derVerbundenheit beider Länder verloren gehen.Therefore, not only should economic considerations decide

Wednesday, 15.April, 14.10 a.m. The Bremen forwarding and logistics industry has had to accept significant drops in sales since the outbreak of corona pandemic. Das geht aus einer Blitzumfrage desVereins Bremer Spediteure unter seinen Mitgliedsunternehmen hervor.Accordingly.The sales of the air freight have also dropped by around 45 percent.Die Importe, vor allem aus Fernost, werden nach Einschätzung desVerbandes in den nächsten Wochen wieder zunehmen.The ships are loaded again in the Chinese ports. „Allerdings dürften in naher Zukunft Bestellungen deutscher und europäischer Firmen zurückgehen", befürchtet Oliver Oestreich, derVorsitzende desVereins Bremer Spediteure.After all, many retail stores are closed and works have set their production.

For this reason, it will take some time for imports to recover on the European side. Die Exporte werden allerVoraussetzung nach anziehen, wenn die deutsche und europäische Produktion wieder hochgefahren werde.Most of the companies exclude terminations until further notice."The real capital of companies are their qualified employees." Ohne die gelernten Kaufleute für Spedition und Logistik wären die Speditionsunternehmen nicht in der Lage, die Aufträge ihrer Ex- und Importkunden abzuwickeln.

Wednesday, 15.April, 14 Uhr Mehrere Wirtschaftsverbände haben eine schnelle Aufhebung der coronabedingten Betriebsschließungen gefordert. „Wir brauchen einen schnellen Exit aus dem Shutdown", heißt es in einem am Mittwoch veröffentlichten Aufruf an die Bundesregierung, an dem sich unter anderem derVerband Die Familienunternehmer, der Handelsverband Deutschland und der Bundesverband Großhandel, Außenhandel und Dienstleistungen (BGA) beteiligten.Viele Unternehmen blieben etwa nur mit Hilfskrediten über Wasser und die müssten sie bald zurückzahlen.Each further day of closure therefore leads the companies into over -indebtedness and then into bankruptcy.

Die Wirtschaft solle unter strengen Hygienebedingungen in der kommenden Woche wieder hochgefahren werden, forderten dieVerbände."The safety regulations and hygiene rules must apply uniformly as possible nationwide and across industries so that they are understandable." Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) und die Ministerpräsidenten der Länder wollen am Mittwochnachmittag in einerVideokonferenz über das weitereVorgehen in der Krise beraten.

Wednesday, 15.April 13.30 a.m. The operators of the new capital airport BER have postponed the first trial run planned for the end of April with extras due to the Corona crisis to the summer.The airport's opening date planned for the end of October was not in danger, emphasized airport chief Engelbert Lütke Daldrup.The extras should take part in a fire protection and evacuation exercise in the main terminal and in the airport station on the day.Further postponements were initially not known.

Wednesday, 15.April, 12.58 p.m. The Coronavirus crisis has led to a discussion about the global supply chains among EU politicians. Die große Abhängigkeit der Europäer von derVersorgung mit manchen wichtigen Produkten aus Drittstaaten sollte hinterfragt werden, sagte EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen bei derVorstellung einer Ausstiegs-Strategie aus Corona-Notfallmaßnahmen. „Es ist wichtig, die Lieferketten zu verkürzen und zu diversifizieren", sagte sie."There must be more supply chains and you shouldn't just be dependent on a provider." Die Krise bestätige sie in ihrer Überzeugung, dass die EU-Klimaschutzstrategie (Green Deal) genau die richtige Antwort auf die Coronavirus-Krise sei, so von der Leyen.A well -functioning circular economy can, for example, lead to more raw materials to be obtained from recycling in Europe and not need to be imported from third countries.Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, also advocated rethinking sources of supply, for example for medical protective equipment. „Wenn wir wollen, dass Europa widerstandsfähiger wird, müssen wir uns, was diese Dinge angeht, wieder unabhängiger von anderen Ländern der Welt machen", sagte Michel.

Wednesday, 15.April, 12.30 p.m. The International Energy Agency expects the consequences of the Corona crisis with an unprecedented decline in crude oil demand.In the current year, demand should be 9.3 million.Barrel collapsed per day, it said in the monthly report of the interest association of industrialized countries, which was released in Paris on Wednesday.There is talk of a record decline.With the corona measures of many countries worldwide, mobility has almost come to a standstill, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.

Especially in April, the demand from the Corona crisis should be hit hard.The IEA experts assume that they will then have an average of 29 million.Barrel will be lower a day than in April 2019. Damit erwarten die Fachleute einen Einbruch um nahezu ein Drittel des weltweitenVerbrauchs.With this decline, a level should be achieved in April that lasted in 1995.

Wednesday, 15.April, 11.45 a.m. Messe Munich has canceled the Logistic China Transport in Shanghai due to the Covid 19 pandemic.She was scheduled for the 16.up to 18.June 2020. „Die Absage der transport logistic China 2020 erfolgt in Absprache mit den chinesischen Behörden, mit Partnern undVerbänden aus der Logistik-Industrie und inVerantwortung für die Gesundheit aller Messeteilnehmer", erklärte Gerhard Gerritzen, Mitglied der Geschäftsführung der Messe München.The next transport logistic china in Shanghai is planned for 2022.

Wednesday, 15.April, 11.07 Uhr Auf der Plattform der Initiative Helpinghand stehen Menschen, die in systemrelevanten Berufen arbeiten, ab sofort und exklusiv umfassende Sonderkonditionen für den Einkauf von Produkten und Dienstleistungen zurVerfügung.Access is only reserved for this target group. Die Angebote werden von ausgewählten Marken- und Dienstleistungspartnern der Initiative zurVerfügung gestellt. Das Portal startet unter anderem mit Angeboten vonVodafone, HelloFresh, JBL, McFit, Douglas, Glossybox und Under Armour und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut.

If you want to use the offers on Helping hand and fulfill the professional criteria or want to make offers for this target group accessible on the platform, you can register on the website for free. Neben einem Marktplatz und dem Angebot vonVorteilsaktionen können regional tätige Unternehmen ihre Angebote kostenlos bewerben.

Wednesday, 15.April, 11.2 a.m. The North German IHKs have presented a key point paper for an exit strategy from the Corona-related shutdown. „Wir müssen jedenVersuch unternehmen, die derzeitigen Einschränkungen für die Wirtschaft schrittweise zu lockern", sagte Norbert Aust, neuer Präses der Handelskammer Hamburg, imVorfeld des Treffens der Ministerpräsidenten mit Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel am Mittwoch.Every day in the current shutdown, the North German economy costs up to 1.6 billion euros.

"Of course, health protection has top priority from the perspective of the North German economy. Es gibt aber viele Möglichkeiten, die Einschränkungen für die Wirtschaft schrittweise zu lockern, ohne zu starke gesundheitliche Risiken für die Bevölkerung einzugehen", so Aust.This included, for example, clear and binding hygiene regulations in which companies could open again instead of flat -rate operating bans for entire industries.It is of great importance to counter the Corona crisis in the north German shoulder of the shoulder. „Wir brauchen unbedingt eine enge Abstimmung zwischen den Bundesländern, mindestens aber auf norddeutscher Ebene", sagte Aust. Einzelregelungen der Bundesländer erschwerten die Situation für eineVielzahl der länderübergreifend arbeitenden Betriebe.

Paper for download at www.IHK-NORD.de/corona

Wednesday, 15.April, 10.50 a.m. the REWE delivery service, in which the purchase of food is ordered online and then delivered to the home address, is also a welcome and time-saving shopping in this situation.However, due to the current high demand situation, the available delivery time windows are often booked for several days.Therefore, the REWE now offers preferred delivery time windows for purchasing as a sign of solidarity and gratitude to the medical specialist in the hospitals.This allows doctors and nursing staff to quickly order the shopping online and have it delivered directly to their own front door.In addition to the preferred delivery time windows, the clinic staff is given the delivery fees.

Wednesday, 15.April, 10.37 a.m. The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce has the one for the 5.May geplanten 7.Hamburg shipping dialogue canceled. Aufgrund der Corona-Epidemie soll ein neuer Termin gefunden werden, sobald entsprechendeVeranstaltungen wieder möglich seien, teilte die Handelskammer mit. Zu denVeranstaltern des traditionellen maritimen Treffens gehören auch das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium, das Bundesverkehrsministerium, derVerband Deutscher Reeder und der Zentralverband Deutscher Schiffsmakler.

Wednesday, 15.April, 10.28 a.m. Lasse Carøe Henningsen, 46, becomes 1.June new CFO of Hamburg Süd.He succeeds the current CFO Jakob Wegge-Larsen, who has been dressing this position since December 2017 and will return to Maersk to Maersk at the end of June. Bereits seit Ende Februar 2020 hat er dort parallel die Rolle des CFO der Maersk-Sparte Ocean & Logistics übernommen.Lasse Carøe Henningsen will be from 1. Juni gemeinsam mit demVorstandsvorsitzenden ArntVespermann das Management-Board von Hamburg Süd bilden.

Wednesday, 15.April, 9.30 a.m. The corona crisis has forced employers of all industries to act.According to a survey of the employer assessment platform Kununu, 59 percent of employees in Germany are very satisfied with the handling of this crisis.Another 15 percent are satisfied and only 13 percent say that they are not satisfied at all.This is the result of a data evaluation of over 5700 reviews. Dabei wurden verschiedene Parameter wie Familienfreundlichkeit, Sicherheit am Arbeitsplatz, Kommunikation oder Schnelligkeit abgefragt und in einem „Kununu-Corona-Index" zusammengefasst.

This index shows that the satisfaction of employees in the logistics industry is well below the average. Demnach ist jeder Dritte Arbeitnehmer im BereichVerkehr, Transport und Logistik nicht zufrieden mit dem Umgang seines Arbeitgebers in der Coronakrise. Der „Kununu-Corona-Index" über alle Branchen liegt bei 74 Prozent Zufriedenheit, die Logistikbranche bei 65 Prozent.The only worse cut off the purchasing and procurement industry.Here you will find all data on the employee satisfaction survey of Kununu.

Wednesday, 15.April, 8.40 p.m. Industrial President Dieter Kempf has required a binding timetable for gradual loosening of the restrictions in the Corona crisis before the federal and state advice.He also warned of serious damage to the economy. „Für den unternehmerischen Neustart bedarf es einer möglichst klaren zeitlichenVorgabe durch die Politik", sagte Kempf der Deutschen Presse-Agentur.The goal must be a binding planning horizon for companies.

For German industry, the new start is the challenge that value chains are set up in a special way internationally and across the EU, according to the President of the Federal Association of German Industry."This efficient interplay makes the competitiveness of large parts of our industry.This interaction must not be in danger through artificial divisions in supposedly systemically relevant and non-system-relevant industries." Der Wieder-Hochlauf industrieller Produktionsverbünde sei die eigentliche Herausforderung."Logistics chains must work smoothly."

Wednesday, 15.April, 8.30 UhrVom einzigen größeren Flughafen in Rheinland-Pfalz heben wegen der Corona-Pandemie keine Passagiere mehr ab.The airport belongs to 82.5 percent of the major Chinese corporation HNA and 17.5 percent of the state of Hesse.Because of the risk of infection, very few people are likely to fly.The exceptions to the Airport Hahn, for example, have recently had urgently needed harvest helpers from Romania.

The manager said at least still landed in the Hunsrück.Some airports in Germany would not have a freight business at all.However, even on the rooster, this does not ensure additional income, for example in parking spaces and in shops.Despite all of these adversities, according to Goetzmann, no short-time work has currently started on the airport, which is crushing before the Corona pandemic,.Frankfurt Hahn-GmbH Airport has around 280 employees.

Wednesday, 15.April, 8.4 a.m. The battered US air ride giant Boeing loses more and more 737-Max orders in the Corona crisis.In the first quarter, the bottom line was that 314 orders for the problem aviator, which was banned after two crashes, were canceled, as the Airbus rival announced on Tuesday in Chicago.

In total, Boeing lost 307 aircraft orders by the end of March, as some new lungs for other models came in.Boeing is already heavily stricken due to the 737 Max debacle, the coronavirus pandemic now makes the location even more difficult.On Tuesday, the share was first under pressure on the stock exchange.

Wednesday, 15.April, 7.40 p.m. Corona pandemic is paralyzing the US economy, millions of Americans have to cut back, but the richest person in the world is getting even richer. DasVermögen von Amazon-Chef Jeff Bezos ist dem Bloomberg Billionaires Index zufolge seit Jahresbeginn um 24 Mrd.At 138.5 billion.Dollar ($ 126.1 billion.EUR) gestiegen.The reason is the ongoing rushing of the Amazon share.On Tuesday she grew up by a good five percent and reached a new record high from which the group founder benefits as a major shareholder.

Amazon's delivery services are very popular in the Corona crisis.The world's largest online retailer is struggling with the rush, many customers currently have to wait a long time or cannot give up orders.Amazon is also accused of not doing enough for employee protection.The group is confronted with protests and is criticized for controversial dismissals. Anleger stört das jedoch nicht, trotz des allgemeinen Kurssturzes an den Börsen ist die Amazon-Aktie seit Jahresbeginn um fast einViertel gestiegen.

Wednesday, 15.April, 7.25 p.m. The US government will support domestic airlines because of the Corona crisis with one billion-dollar rescue package.Ten airlines - including Delta, United, Jetblue and American Airlines - wanted to accept the government's support, the US Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday evening (local time).With the help - a mixture of funding and loans - the salaries of the employees in particular are to be paid in order to avoid layoffs.According to media reports, a total of around 25 billion.U.S. dollar (23 Mrd.EUR).

American Airlines, for example, announced that the government's program of around 5.8 billion.U.S. dollar zu erhalten.Of these are 4.1 billion.Dollar direct support, the rest is a loan with a low interest rate.In addition, the airline wants another loan from the government of 4.75 billion.Apply dollars.According to its own statements, the company employs 130 worldwide.000 people.Southwest Airlines in turn announced that the airline would be around 3.2 billion.Get dollar help around 60.000 jobs des Unternehmens bis Ende September zu erhalten.Around 2.3 billion.Dollars of it are direct aid payments.

Wednesday, 15.April, 7.10 a.m. Amazon is said to be limited to orders of food and hygiene and medical devices in France, according to a court order. Der Online-Händler habe in der Coronakrise seineVerpflichtungen zum Schutz von Gesundheit und Sicherheit der Angestellten in seinen Logistikzentren nicht ausreichend erfüllt, erklärte das Gericht im PariserVorort Nanterre am Dienstag.Amazon must now carry out a risk assessment in all camps and take the necessary health and security measures.

Amazon teilte mit, das Unternehmen sei mit der Entscheidung nicht einverstanden und versuche, schnell „zu verstehen, was das für unseren Betrieb in Frankreich bedeutet".In the past four weeks, the French locations have been 1.5 million.Protective masks and 27.000 L hand disinfectant.More information can be found here.

Tuesday, 14.April, 16.8 p.m. The replenishment of medical needs from China for coping with the Corona crisis is picking up.In April, around a dozen freight machines from China have landed with medical material at Munich Airport, the airport company announced on Tuesday. Bis AnfangMay werden viele weitere Frachttransporte dieser Art erwartet, darunter tägliche Flüge der Lufthansa aus Peking und Shanghai.Protective masks for doctors and nursing staff at the hospitals are imported from China

The second largest German airport is currently being used almost only for freight traffic, the passenger company has largely come to a standstill.In March the passenger numbers broke up by two thirds, in the first week of April there were almost no passengers anymore.In absolute numbers, over six million people in Munich started and landed in January and February, according to the airport's monthly reports.At the end of March it would have been expected between nine and ten million passengers under normal circumstances, in fact it was only 7.4 million..Many walkers also stand out from the ground that air traffic is largely suspended: in the sky, there are hardly any aircraft or strips of condensation in the sky.

Tuesday, 14.April, 16.3 p.m. The semi-governmental airline Turkish Airlines has extended its flight stop because of the Coronavirus crisis.International flights would be up to 20.May ausgesetzt, teilte die türkische Airline am Dienstag mit.The measure was previously up to 1.May.Accordingly, domestic flights should be based on the current planning on 1.May wieder aufgenommen werden.The low -cost airline Pegasus extended its flight stop from 1.On the 15.May.

Turkey had air traffic to Germany on 21.March officially discontinued.At the beginning of April there had been commercial direct flights from Turkey to Germany at short notice.The Consulate General in Istanbul recommended that this travel options were used because initially no Federal Government's return program was intended for Turkey.

Tuesday, 14.April, 16.10 a.m. The global economy is expected to shrink by 3 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and thus more than during the 2008/09 financial crisis.In their current global economic outlook, the experts will expect global growth of 5.8 percent in the coming year if economic activity normalizes with the help of political measures.Most recently, the IMF had assumed 3.3 and 3.4 percent in 2020 and 2021.The forecast for 2021 is based on a basic scenario that assumes that the pandemic in the second half of 2020 and the contamination effort can be undone to be reversed.However, the risks for even more serious consequences are significant.For Germany's real gross domestic product, the IMF expects a minus of 7 percent for this year and an increase of 5.2 percent for 2021.

Tuesday, 14.April, 16 Uhr Der Triebwerkshersteller MTU will ab kommendem Montag die Arbeit am Hauptstandort München wieder aufnehmen.First of all, the presence of the employees should increase gradually, the company announced on Tuesday.Already in the first week from the 20th.April should be around 20 percent of around 5 in Munich.000 employees come to duty.At the same time, short -time work applies there.

The other two large locations in Germany, Hanover with 2.400 and Ludwigsfelde with a good 1.000 employees, sollen ab dem 27.April start the work.Not all locations of MTU are currently pausing because of the Corona crisis.In the world -distributed area of maintenance, some worked "already at a high level", it said.Others would react flexibly to request.MTU has initiated organizational and technical measures for the restoration of production to protect employees from infection with the coronavirus.Due to the global travel restrictions, air traffic is largely stopped.

Tuesday, 14.April, 13.50 Uhr Die Einschränkung individueller Mobilität und das Zuhausebleiben von mehreren Hundert Millionen Menschen in Europa lassen die Nachfrage nach lebenswichtigen Gütern rapide ansteigen – mit direkten Auswirkungen auf Hersteller,Verlader und Transportunternehmen, die dieVersorgung aufrecht erhalten.The logistics platform Uber Freight supports transporters from now on with a number of measures to protect their drivers and to maintain the transport of important goods.

Among other things, the platform is now supporting transporters with accelerated payments during pandemic.To do this, Uber Freight Transporters who transport at least one corresponding load with vital freight per week to 1.June 2020 zweimal pro Woche.In addition, Uber Freight provides up to 100 euros for the costs of necessary protective equipment to facilitate the protection of drivers.Refunds can be requested via the Uber Freight help page.

Tuesday, 14.April, 13.40 o'clock China's industrial production will return to old strength after containing corona epidemic.The city of Wuhan and the entire province of Hubei for goods and passenger traffic were removed for around two months.The Duisburg port was also affected by the effects of the massive restrictions in the province of Hubei and, especially in March.

Around 40 trains now run again weekly between Duisburg and various destinations in China.During the Corona crisis in China there were noticeable declines here.Half of maritime traffic with China came to a standstill in the meantime.Since the abrasions have been lifted, however."Soon we will have reached the old level in the exchange of goods with China. Der Duisburger Hafen spürt die Folgen der Pandemie zwar mit einer gewissenVerzögerung, dennoch gehe ich von eindeutigen Nachholeffekten im China-Geschäft aus", erklärt duisport-Vorstandsvorsitzender Erich Staake. „Bereits in der zweiten Aprilhälfte rechnen wir mit einem deutlich erhöhten Warenaufkommen", ergänzt Staake.

Tuesday, 14.April, 12.35 p.m. Audi slowly pulls up its production stopped in the Corona crisis and thus begins in the Hungarian work Györ.A first line for engine assembly with around 100 employees has been open there since Tuesday, as the company announced on request.However, it is only operated in one instead of the usual three layers.

According to a spokeswoman, the production lies with a few hundred engines a day.Usually the work comes to 8000.At the end of the week, another engine line should start there, the vehicle production "according to current plans” at the end of next week.

Tuesday, 14.April, 11.50 a.m. as the first car factory in the Czech Republic, the Hyundai plant in the east of Nosovice has resumed operations after more than three weeks of Corona.The assembly ligaments started on Tuesday morning, as a company spokesman for the German Press Agency confirmed.The South Korean automobile manufacturer had production in its only work in the European Union on 21.March stopped in the course of the measures against the new Coronavirus.

At the beginning, only two of the usual three layers worked.Stricter hygiene regulations also apply.For example, the company premises are disinfected several times a day.Separations were installed in the canteen.In the work near the border with Poland, which produces the Hyundai i30 compact class car, more than 2500 people work under normal circumstances.

Tuesday, 14.April, 11.20 Uhr Das Coronavirus trifft die exportorientierte deutscheVolkswirtschaft in einer ohnehin schwierigen Situation.Already in 2018, the increasing tensions in international trade relationships and a cloudy world economy left traces in medium -sized companies: Back then, foreign sales only increased by around 3.1 percent to 595 billion.EUR (2017: 5,5 %).The foreign share of the total sales of internationally active companies decreased slightly to 28.2 percent in 2018. Die KfW-ifo-Exporterwartungen des mittelständischenVerarbeitenden Gewerbes waren im Jahr 2019 durchgängig negativ, sind zuletzt aber noch einmal deutlich eingebrochen: Im März 2020 fiel der Indikator um ganze 17,6 Zähler auf einen Saldo von -24,6.Only at the height of the financial crisis in the winter of 2008/2009 were the export expectations even more pessimistic.This is shown by the KfW Internationalization Report 2020, which is based on a representative survey of small and medium-sized companies and the evaluation of the KfW-IFO figures for medium-sized business climate.

"The strong spread of the coronavirus in more and more countries is sensitive to medium-sized companies," says KfW chief economist Dr.Fritzi Köhler Geib."The corona crisis represents the approximately 800.000 small and medium -sized companies in Germany with special difficulties.They record sales of sales at home and abroad at the same time."The German medium -sized company is particularly noticed by the economic effects of the coronavirus in Europe, because here are the most important export markets of small and medium -sized companies.More than two thirds of their total sales, around 402 billion.EUR, haben kleine und mittlere Unternehmen 2018 in Europa erzielt. Auch auf der Beschaffungsseite ist dieVerflechtung des deutschen Mittelstandes in Europa stark. Im mittelständischenVerarbeitenden Gewerbe kommen knapp 70 % der Auslandseinkäufe aus Europa, im mittelständischen Dienstleistungssektor gut 60 %.

Tuesday, 14.April, 10.20 Uhr Das private Bahnfrachtunternehmen Lineas hat die „Heroes"-Lokomotive an ihrem Hauptumschlagplatz in Antwerpen enthüllt.The locomotive is white as a special edition in honor of people with systematic professions that maintain society during these times of crisis.Immediately after its unveiling, the locomotive takes up its company in the Green XPress Network from Lineas.

According to the company, the symbolic gesture of lineas comes at a critical time for rail freight transport and the operators concerned. So sei die Nachfrage um 20up to 30 Prozent zurückgegangen, weil viele Unternehmen ihre Produktion eingestellt haben.Therefore, the rail freight transport companies are now directed to the Belgian government to support the sector in its important task.

Tuesday, 14.April, 10 Uhr Der französische Autobauer Renault steigt aus einer Partnerschaft mit dem chinesischen Automobilhersteller Dongfeng aus.The company thus reduces its activities in China. Die beiden Partner hätten eineVereinbarung getroffen, wonach Renault seinen 50-Prozent-Anteil am Gemeinschaftsunternehmen an Dongfeng überträgt, wie aus einem Statement von Renault vom Dienstag hervorgeht.Financial details of the transaction were not mentioned.

The joint venture started in 2013.The COVID-19 crisis is currently burdening the car market, which is why some car manufacturers take a look at their activities.Renault now wants to concentrate on light commercial vehicles and electric cars in China, it continued.

Tuesday, 14.April, 9.40 p.m. Germany and other European countries want to relieve cruise trees in the Corona crisis to protect jobs in the shipyard industry.As the Federal Ministry of Economics announced on Tuesday in Berlin, Germany, France, Finland, Finland, Italy and Norway have agreed on principles how shipping companies for one year can expose the liability for the cruise ships financed with state export credit guarantees. Damit solle „Liquiditätskrisen" vorgebeugt werden.

The financing necessary for the acquisition of new cruise ships are regularly secured through state export credit guarantees.According to the ministry, Germany alone ensures payment obligations for financing from cruise ships in Germany of around 25 billion euros.The maritime coordinator of the Federal Government, Norbert Brackmann, said that with the step, the business relationships of the European shipyards were stabilized."This was urgently necessary because the cruise business was almost complete due to the corona pandemic.The measures also served the protection of thousands of jobs in the European shipyard industry and numerous supplier companies."

Tuesday, 14.April, 8.10 a.m. The German furniture industry is committed to reopening its trading houses, which have been closed for weeks because of the corona pandemic. Der Gesundheitsschutz stehe natürlich ganz oben an, sagte der Geschäftsführer desVerbands der Möbelindustrie, Jan Kurth, der Neuen Westfälischen Zeitung (Dienstag). Aber wenn dieser gewährleistet sei, „dann plädieren wir dafür, den Handel vorsichtig wieder hochzufahren".

DerVerbandschef verwies auf die Situation in den Baumärkten, die auch in der Krise nicht geschlossen worden seien.What works there must also be possible in the furniture trade.Customers would have understood how important it was to keep a distance.This Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Prime Minister of the States are advising on the possible cancellation of restrictions on public life because of the corona pandemic.

Tuesday, 14.April, 7.45 a.m. Lower Saxony's Minister of Economics Bernd Althusmann, with a view to the climate goals for the German auto industry, promotes the European Union's fortense. Wegen der Produktionsstopps in der Coronakrise seien die EU-Vorgaben „voraussichtlich schwerer erreichbar", sagte der CDU-Politiker, der auch im Aufsichtsrat vonVolkswagen sitzt, der Deutschen Presse-Agentur in Hannover. So könne sich beiVW die Markteinführung der Elektroautos verzögern.

"I hope that the European Union recognizes this. Die ohnehin angespannte Lage der gesamten deutschen Automobilindustrie und der gesamten Zulieferer noch weiter zu verschärfen, das wäre ein Brandbeschleuniger für den Industriestandort Deutschland", sagte Althusmann. „Wir brauchen in dieser Frage Augenmaß undVerantwortung, denn da hängen Millionen von Arbeitsplätzen dran." Die EU schreibt den Autobauern seit Jahresbeginn einen Höchstwert von 95 Gramm CO2 je Kilometer im Flottendurchschnitt vor. Bis 2030 soll diese Grenze weiter sinken, beiVerstößen drohen Milliardenstrafen.

Tuesday, 14.April, 7.38 a.m. in a row of the Coronavirus outbreak, China's exports have dropped again in March. Der Rückgang fiel mit einem Minus von 6,6 Prozent imVorjahresvergleich zwar noch immer deutlich aus.However, the minus was no longer as large as in January and February when exports had broken up by 17.2 percent.The two months are expected to be a joint period because of the Chinese New Year's Festival.

Wie aus am Dienstag veröffentlichten Daten des Pekinger Statistikamts hervorging, zeigte sich zuletzt bei den Importen eine deutliche Stabilisierung: Nach einem Minus von vier Prozent in den ersten beiden Monaten des Jahres gingen sie im März inU.S. dollar gerechnet nur noch um 0,9 Prozent zurück.While exports in March a value of the equivalent of 185.15 billion.U.S. dollar (169,2 Mrd.EUR) erreichten, lag der Wert der Einfuhren bei165,25 Mrd.dollar.The strict measures against the spread of the coronavirus had practically brought the Chinese economy to a standstill since the end of January.The effects were therefore particularly noticeable in February.

Tuesday, 14.April, 7.32 a.m. The Hessian road construction projects are not in danger despite the corona crisis. „Unsere Investitionen in den Ausbau und die Sanierung laufen wie geplant weiter, sagteVerkehrsminister Tarek Al-Wazir (Grüne) der Deutschen Presse-Agentur in Wiesbaden."More than a billion euros are to flow into Hessian streets this year.We stick to that."

Ganz konkret werde derzeit an der Sanierung der Salzbachtalbrücke auf der Autobahn 66 bei Wiesbaden gearbeitet, aktuell unterhalb der Südbrücke, erklärte derVerkehrsminister. Der Abbruch der Südbrücke, derVoraussetzung für den Neubau ist, werde voraussichtlich in der zweiten Jahreshälfte beginnen. Auch die Bauarbeiten am Wiesbadener Kreuz liegen nach Angaben von Al-Wazir im Zeitplan, dieVerkehrsfreigabe sei planmäßig im März erfolgt.It is planned that the entire construction work will be completed in autumn of the current year after three years of construction.

Tuesday, 14.April, 7.26 a.m. in the corona crisis released US companies at a record pace, but in some the business runs round.The world's largest online retailer Amazon wants another 75.Hire 000 employees to cope with the large crowds of customers.The notification on Monday comes almost a month after the group of US multimillionaire Jeff Bezos is already setting around 100.000 employees had announced.

Priority restrictions due to corona pandemic have literally exploded the demand for Amazon's delivery services in many US regions.The company is struggling with the rush, many customers currently have to wait a long time or cannot give up any orders at all.Amazon is also accused of not doing enough to protect employees in the corona crisis.The group had therefore already struggled with protests and work of work.

Tuesday, 14.April, 7.4 p.m. in China, the production of the German mechanical engineers slowly picks up speed again. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt derVerband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA) nach einer Umfrage bei seinen Mitgliedsfirmen in China. Demnach zeige sich im Land eine deutlicheVerbesserung der Lage, teilte derVDMA am Montag in Frankfurt mit.57 percent of the respondents assessed the effects of corona pandemic at the beginning of March, it is now only 46 percent. Deutlich entspannt habe sich die Situation beim Transport in der Region: 82 Prozent der Firmen sprachen von einerVerbesserung.

Lieferungen nach China sowie von dort ins Ausland sind nach Angaben desVDMA aber nach wie vor schwierig und die Kosten dafür gestiegen, vor allem für Luftfracht. „Unternehmen, die für den lokalen Markt produzieren und einen hohen Lokalisierungsgrad haben, sind jetzt klar imVorteil", sagte die Geschäftsführerin desVDMA in China, Claudia Barkowsky.The one since the 28th.March imposed in China, however, would put the mechanical engineers with new problems.The commissioning of new production lines is often not possible without support from the headquarters.However, a cancellation of the entry stop is not in sight.

Tuesday, 14.April, 7.02 Uhr DerVerband der Logistiker hat die Industrie- und Handelsunternehmen aufgefordert, Lastwagenfahrern den Zugang zu sanitären Einrichtungen an den Be- und Entladestellen zu gewähren. „Man kann den Leuten nicht zumuten, dass sie sich nicht waschen können oder ins Gebüsch gehen müssen", sagte ein Sprecher des Bundesverbandes Güterkraftverkehr Logistik und Entsorgung (BGL/Frankfurt).The ban on contact and the hygiene regulations to contain the corona pandemic must be observed.

Die Gesellschaft sei gerade in diesen besonderen Zeiten auf Menschen angewiesen, die mit ihrer Arbeit dieVersorgung der Bevölkerung gewährleisten.Positive are initiatives as well as at rest areas, where drivers would take a show for free and get warm food for free.On the other hand, as good as it is meant when companies are delivered to the goods or are picked up by which goods are picked up, dixi toilets for the long-distance drivers.However, these toilet systems would also have to be constantly disinfected and cleaned around the clock. LautVerband sind bundesweit im Schnitt zwischen 750.000 and 800.000 trucks from home and abroad.

Thursday, 9.April, 21.56 a.m. The airline Air France-Klm, which is difficult to get by the corona crisis, is confident that they can get financial injections from the governments in France and the Netherlands.The help from Paris and the Haag is also necessary to secure the continuation of the business after the end of the corona crisis, General Director Benjamin Smith explained in a statement that was widespread on Thursday evening.

Smith did not put the financial needs;In France there is talk of billions of bills.France had already signaled support for the transport giant. „Wir werden Air France-KLM nicht alleine lassen", sagte Wirtschafts- und Finanzminister Bruno LeMayre.

A year ago, the Dutch secured a large proportion of the airline - according to the information at the time, the Haag came to 14 percent of the shares, France held 14.3 percent.Air France had merged with the Dutch Airline KLM in 2004.

Thursday, 9.April, 21.26 a.m. The French car manufacturer Renault does not want to pay its shareholders in the middle of the Corona crisis for 2019. DerVerwaltungsrat wird den Anteilseignern auf der Hauptversammlung im Juni diesesVorgehen vorschlagen, teilte das Unternehmen am Donnerstagabend in Boulogne-Billancourt bei Paris mit. Präsident Jean-Dominique Senard und Interimschefin Clotilde Delbos seien einverstanden, dass ihre Bezahlung im zweitenVierteljahr um mindestens einViertel gekürzt werde.

Like competitors, the manufacturer is also severely affected by the Covid 19 pandemic.The traditional company had come into a crisis last year after the resignation of CEO Carlos Ghosn and wrote red numbers.The Auto Alliance with the Japanese manufacturers Nissan and Mitsubishi was also shaken.At Renault, the French state has a strong position with a share of 15 percent.

Thursday, 9.April, 20.31 o'clock only home office and no start-up pitch event in sight?A newly founded initiative now wants to change this.Innopitch is the name of the platform that has already found prominent supporters from logistics.Interested start-ups can be for the first event from 19.Apply online April.More about the initiative and who founded it, read here on DVZ.de.

Thursday, 9.April, 20.30 UhrVolkswagen will wegen der Produktionspause aufgrund der Corona-Krise die meisten Mitarbeiter in seinem US-Werk in Tennessee ohne Lohn beurlauben.The measure should be on 11.Start April and do not last for more than four weeks after the current planning, as workers Tom du Plessis announced in Chattanooga on Thursday.VW hatte die Bänder wegen der Pandemie bereits am 21.March stopped, die Beschäftigten aber zunächst weiter voll bezahlt.

Employees should continue to receive social benefits such as health insurance contributions during the leave of absence.Factory manager du Plessis also pointed out that the employees are entitled to support from a US government aid program.There are no short -time work money as in Germany in the United States.In Chattanooga there are a total of around 3.800 employees are employed, everyone who works in production and maintenance are.

Thursday, 9.April, 19.39 a.m. Otto Klemke quickly realized that the Coronavirus could also do its business.The Maritime Start-Up Nautiluslog, founded by him in 2018 in 2018, earns his money with the help of digital logbooks to optimize the processes on board and to generate appropriate reports. „Die Inspektoren gehen zum Beispiel in den Häfen an Bord und werden von unserer App dabei unterstützt, Gefahrstoffe zu erfassen", sagt Klemke.“If our customers are no longer allowed on board, it will be difficult, I thought." Wider Erwarten liefen die Geschäfte in den ersten drei Monaten aber sogar außerordentlich gut, wie er der DVZ berichtet.Click here for the fourth part of our start-up series.

Thursday, 9.April, 16.43 a.m. of the logistics group Kühne + Nagel (KN) has 7 million. Gesichtsmasken (insgesamt 44 t) verschiedener Typen zur weiterenVerteilung in mehrere europäische Länder erhalten.The mouth protection masks donated by Taiwan were handed over at Frankfurt Airport today, as the DVZ service provider reports. Das KN-Team des Frankfurter Flughafens übernimmt nun dieVerteilung der Schutzmasken an die jeweiligen Länder.The masks will reach its destination via the street.For Germany alone there are 1 million.Masks provided.