UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced the ground breaking of a new €160 million advanced-technology super hub in Hannover-Langenhagen at a ceremony attended by Dr Lower Saxony Minister for Economic Affairs the hub – one of UPS’s largest investments outside the United States – will serve as an important link in UPS’s European and German network and offer businesses improved access to the company’s smart global logistics network “The growth of business and retail e-commerce – with online retail sales alone expected to reach nearly €70 billion in Germany this year – has created unprecedented demand for UPS’s services,” said Frank Sportolari “E-commerce offers small and medium-sized businesses a platform to trade like micro-multinationals Transforming our existing sorting and distribution hub in Hannover-Langenhagen will allow businesses of all sizes in Germany to reach new business customers and consumers worldwide To support the Hannover-Langenhagen super hub’s role in UPS’s network both in operations and administrative functions Advanced automation technology will allow UPS to double the sorting capacity of the facility – from 15,000 packages per hour to 30,000 with a separate processing flow being installed for bulky items “Logistics is one of the most important economic sectors and largest employers in Lower Saxony,” said Dr Lower Saxony’s minister for Economic Affairs “Langenhagen and Hannover are located in the middle of Germany and in the heart of Europe – a potential from which the logistics sector can profit like hardly any other location The expansion of this UPS branch is thus a commitment to the business location of the Hannover region and at the same time a door opener for the export activities of local companies.” The new hub will cover an area of 24,000 square meters – equivalent to three soccer fields – once the second phase of construction is completed in 2023 Phase one of construction will involve a new building being erected alongside the existing facility Phase two will involve demolition of the existing sorting and distribution centre and the construction of a second building Supporting UPS to meet its global sustainability goals the hub will be built to the German Sustainable Building Council’s (DGNB) Gold standard and will include the provisions to support future delivery fleet electrification And to ensure that sustainability does not stop at the power socket UPS in Germany is sourcing its electricity – for its facilities and electric delivery vehicles – exclusively from renewable sources The new facility is part of the company’s multi-year European investment plan aimed at modernizing and expanding the UPS network across the continent Investments in Germany as part of this program include new and upgraded hubs in Bielefeld complementing recent European super hubs in London UPS is enabling companies of all sizes in Germany across Europe and around the world to deliver products when UPS has been operating in Germany since 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cutting-edge Continental distribution center near Hanover airport Representatives from the world of politics Continental and the project developer cleared the way for the new €50 million project in March drive belts and surface materials for the automotive industry will be sent all across Europe Bertram Projektmanagement GmbH will invest around €40 million into the state-of-the-art building and outdoor areas of the approximately 80,000 m2 site on the corner of Münchner Strasse and Schwabenstrasse Continental is also investing more than €10 million in machinery and equipment “We are seeing increasing growth in the automotive original equipment and replacement business so we need to further expand our existing infrastructure The conditions at our site in Vahrenwald are no longer adequate to meet future requirements The state-of-the-art distribution center in Langenhagen offers everything we need to ensure that we are optimally equipped to manage the dynamic vehicle parts business,” says Philip Nelles surface materials from the technology company that are installed in vehicle interiors will be stored in and dispatched from the building The cross-divisional distribution center will make processes even more efficient Nelles describes the consolidation of this new distribution center as a “clear commitment to the Hanover region.” Langenhagen’s Mayor Mirko Heuer: “With the planned business park Bertram Projektmanagement GmbH is creating a cutting-edge distribution center – complete with an administrative building – that meets the specific requirements of future global distribution operations I am delighted that with Continental as a cooperation partner another globally successful company has chosen the business location of Langenhagen creating a wide range of jobs at the new site and further consolidating the attractiveness of Langenhagen for the automotive sector “Property in Langenhagen is made for Continental It not only leaves open future potential for expansion but also offers excellent connections to national and international markets,” explains Benjamin Bertram managing director of the Hanover-based project and property development company which is working on the project together with the Lübeck-based architecture firm architekten allianz – lejeune & pflüger GmbH the building complex covering 34,000 m2 with around 20,000 spaces for pallets and a fully automated small parts warehouse will be ready for service This will help to make working procedures even more efficient “The new distribution center will reduce the number of truck journeys undertaken every year by around 5,000 reducing nitrogen oxide pollution in the centers of both Hanover and Langenhagen It will also improve safety on the approach roads to our production site in Vahrenwald,” explains Nelles One benefit that is also welcomed by Hanover’s Mayor Stefan Schostok: “The approach that Continental is taking is exactly right and fits in perfectly with our strategy If truck journeys can be coordinated effectively so that half-full cargo and empty runs are avoided The challenge of reducing emissions in traffic requires intelligent coordinated concepts and the commitment of all companies and individuals in Hanover I therefore welcome Continental’s investment.” The logistics for surface materials will initially start at the end of 2018 and for drive belts at the start of 2019 around 160 jobs – to be filled internally by Continental – will be based at the new site Congratulations to Sydney and Morgan Langenhagen of Cohasset on a fun and successful sailing racing season out of the Hingham Yacht Club In her first year sailing Sydney won her Optimist class season championship and made a lot of new friends She also had podium finishes in all six regattas she entered including 3 victories and a silver medal at the US Sailing Junior Olympics in Marblehead EmailNew cutting-edge distribution center for drive belts and surface materials in Langenhagen: The first goods are set to be delivered from here to customers across Europe at the end of 2018 Hanover-based developer Bertram also wants to put €40 million into the future-oriented building and the outdoor areas of the approximately 80,000 m2 building plot on Münchner Straße but also offers excellent connections to national and international markets,” explains Benjamin Bertram from Bertram Projektmanagement GmbH which is working on the project together with the architecture firm from Lübeck architekten allianz – lejeune & pflüger GmbH The building application has already been submitted a building complex with a surface area of 34,000 m2 around 20,000 spaces for pallets and a fully-automated small parts warehouse will be built This will make it possible to make working procedures even more efficient a measure that will save around 5,000 truck journeys per year The company is currently predicting a maximum of 70 arrivals at and departures from Langenhagen per day around 160 jobs will be based at the new site “We currently store our drive belts on seven floors which we will operate with our own employees This will allow us to meet our customers’ requirements for shorter delivery times even more successfully especially for the vehicle parts market,” adds Nelles The freed-up spaces can also be used for other purposes as the demand for industrial and automotive drive belts is growing Continental has used an external service provider for the storage of its surface materials “The demands on our infrastructure have also increased as a result of the acquisition of the Hornschuch Group at the start of the year and our own organic growth,” explains Dr head of the Benecke-Hornschuch Surface Group business unit and responsible for the Vinnhorst location cross-divisional distribution center will make us even more efficient in the future.” Home - Archive - JustSim Releases Hannover Langenhagen Airport for MSFS Following the release of other critical German airports for MSFS famed developer JustSim has recently added another scenery to the bunch this time releasing Hannover Langenhagen Airport (EDDV) for MSFS Following the release of other critical German airports for MSFS, including Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and Stuttgart, famed developer JustSim has recently added another scenery to the bunch, this time releasing Hannover Langenhagen Airport (EDDV) for MSFS Hannover Langenhagen Airport (EDDV) is an international airport located close to the German city of Langenhagen It mainly serves its name-sake city of Hannover and the surrounding Lower Saxony region The airport is considered the 9th busiest airport in all of Germany by passenger count and serves as the home base to German charter carrier TUIfly The airport sits on the grounds of a former German military airfield and saw the commencement of commercial operations following the airfield’s restoration and expansion in 1952 and Pan American World Airways the first carriers to operate in and out of the field the airport served as the original grounds for the “Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtaustellung” ILA Germany’s most essential and renowned air venture Renowned developer JustSim has recently released its detail-rich rendition of this iconic German airport for MSFS Although not providing a detailed feature list the screenshots provided on the sceneries product page make it seem like this release is again set to live up to the developers’ previously set high-quality standards JustSim’s Hannover Langenhagen Airport (EDDV) for MSFS is now available for purchase via the simMarket online store and will set new customers back €19.89 E.x Customers having previously purchased the developer’s P3D rendition of the airport will benefit from a discounted purchase price of €9.95 E.x customers of the developer’s XPL rendition of the airport will also benefit from a discounted purchase price of €12.50 E.x ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " The first IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Youth Development Camp has been praised by participants following its conclusion in Langenhagen supported by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior gathered 23 players from eight countries at the Eishalle Langenhagen for on and off-ice training and education activities over four days from 29 October Nineteen-year-old aspiring goaltender Jaewoong Lee from South Korea believes what he learnt will help him towards his goal of gaining a place on the national team in time for the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games I enjoyed the ice-time the most and I got better going back and forth in goal I will try to get on the national team because I would like to play at home in 2018,” Lee said will play in his first national team game in a few weeks: “I really enjoyed the camp even though it was physically demanding I definitely learnt that I need to go ahead with top speed and then I learnt how to support players and how to position myself properly “I also improved in skating especially my speed Sixteen-year-old Canadian Geneva Coulter was one of the female participants it was an incredible experience,” Coulter said “I really liked getting to meet so many people from around the world that I wouldn’t have met in any normal scenario “I realised how important turning with the puck was and how important even simple drills can be for skill development and how difficult they are compared to the complex drills that you think would be harder.” showed the potential reach of the activities beyond the camp’s end: This is the first time I’ve been outside of the United States for playing sled hockey I mostly liked the different drills and stations we did each day and meeting new people from different countries “I’ve definitely gotten better at using my left hand I usually use my right hand so trying to learn how to use both hands in protecting the puck is something I’ve learnt and hope to get better at “I’m going to bring some of the drills that I learnt back to my team and continue to build my strength.” A number of national team and club coaches also took part in the activities as observers to see if they could utilise any of the training techniques Four highly experienced coaches from Norway Canada and the USA conducted sessions on stick-handling There were also classroom sessions on the Paralympic Movement and presentations on anti-doping and classification given by Peter Van de Vliet the International Paralympic Committee’s Medical and Scientific Director Head Coach of the Croatian national team and one of the observers said: “From my perspective the camp is extremely useful because it provides a useful exchange of experiences and also provides an opportunity for us less experienced coaches to learn from the best “I have learnt a lot of new exercises that are important as a basis without which it is impossible to make progress especially in this sport.” IPC Ice Sledge Hockey will now review the feedback received from the coaches and players and look at how youth development can be continued into future seasons This year’s must-see shows range from a Nordic Pavilion exploring transgender spaces to a compelling Lebanese project confronting the realities of ecocide Frieze returns to The Shed in May with more than 65 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries and the acclaimed Focus section led by Lumi Tan history and memory are recurring themes in Maya Schweizer’s photographs and videos Seeshow plays no further role in the exhibition present in each of these five works is her constant observing These works also share a specific theme: the filmic exploration of those public spaces and architecture that represent history frame one (2007) acts as a counterpoint to this theme placing Schweizer’s family history centre stage The artist reconstructs fragmentary memories of her Jewish grandmother who only avoided being deported from Lyon in 1944 thanks to a misunderstanding and between the 1940s and Schweizer’s everyday life today This back-and-forth motion also shapes the film’s image-text-sound structure: visually geographical space is broken down among Aix-en-Provence while audible is Schweizer’s grandmother telling of her past connecting meta-narrative and family documentary The three-channel video Au dos de la carte postale (On the back of the postcard 2010) addresses in more depth questions of public space and the function of architecture Focusing on the Eiffel Tower as the symbol of Paris and as a tourist hub within the city Schweizer combines photo and film footage from the Paris World’s Fair of 1889 as well as footage showing ethnographic displays popular around this time She combines this material with scenes of today’s illegal street traders and the tourist attractions around the tower ethnographic displays and the precarious situation of street traders who come from former French colonies besides highlighting the repetition of (post-colonial) history Schweizer also uses juxtaposition to examine the modes of construction present in historical and contemporary images a Bridge and a Church (2012) makes do without subtitles using high-contrast black-and-white images to examine changes in the urban fabric around Bratislava’s Rybné námestie (Fish Square) During construction of the New Bridge over the Danube between 1967 and 1972 the apparently unnecessary demolition of the old Jewish quarter and the synagogue sparked protest from the local population The square’s architectural volumes are scanned in fragments and combined with seemingly casual footage of the city’s inhabitants going about their daily business raising questions concerning a collective culture of memory and the political-social responsibility of each individual in relation to public space there were links here with the only photographic work in the exhibition entitled Which story would you prefer not to recall of the Eichmann trial in 1961) and portraits of famous personalities (including Barack Obama) To some of these she added coloured Post-it notes with handwritten phases shows a car driving towards the Gaza Strip the image annotated with the question: ‘What would you prefer not to see?’ In general the artist generates an incomplete tableau of collective memory and questions the way history is produced and visually recorded The exhibition as a whole functions something like a many-layered image-text-sound album with five tracks The viewer’s attention is raised whenever the private and the public the real and the symbolic overlap – as new narrative modes and all that emerges between the images point beyond the individual work and reach out to the viewer’s own experiences.Translated by Nicholas Grindell Discover artists pushing the medium forward including Carrie Mae Weems This year’s edition focuses on historical relations of resistance and liberation which survive beyond the archive the artist’s readymade sculptures prompt a strange empathy between viewer and object A new book by Ian Penman grapples with the filmmaker’s gargantuan appetites impossible productivity and heartbreaking melancholy is stripped down to its bare bones to reveal the play’s central spirit © FRIEZE 2025 Cookie Settings | Do Not Sell My Personal Information Italy and Sweden will face each other in the first matches of the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Series The very first matches of the newly formed IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Series are set to start on Friday (24 October) in Langenhagen The Four Nations tournament at the Eishalle Langenhagen will kick off with European champions Italy vs Czech Republic, who will both feature at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool in Buffalo, USA The dynamic duo of Florian Planker and Gianluigi Rosa will make Italy the team to beat with Planker the lead scorer for his country from the last two World Championships A-Pool Meanwhile the Czech Republic have seen a series a retirements following Sochi 2014 and will be hoping that they can start the season well Goaltender Michal Vapenka remains at the heart of the team still searching for their first Championships medal in 2014-2015 Joining them in Langehagen will be A-Pool newcomers Germany Headlining the home team are four club players The Swedes are using the World Series competition to test some new players as well as fielding their established names such as Rasmus Lundgren They will be playing in the B-Pool World Championships at home in 2015 after it was announced in October that Ostersund would host the competition from 15-21 March More information can be found at the Germany Ice Sledge Hockey website The 2014-15 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Series aims to develop the game following its huge success at Sochi 2014 Buffalo 2015 will be held at the HARBORCENTER and will feature Paralympic champions USA defending world champions and Sochi 2014 bronze medallists Canada Ostersund 2015 is expected to feature teams from South Korea the hub – one of UPS’ largest investments outside the United States – will serve as an important link in UPS’ European and German network and offer businesses improved access to the company’s smart global logistics network ‘The growth of business and retail e-commerce, with online retail sales alone expected to reach nearly €70 billion in Germany this year has created unprecedented demand for UPS’ services’ ‘E-commerce offers small and medium-sized businesses a platform to trade like micro-multinationals To support the Hannover-Langenhagen super hub’s role in UPS’ network Advanced automation technology will allow UPS to double the sorting capacity of the facility – from 15,000 parcels per hour to 30,000 ‘Logistics is one of the most important economic sectors and largest employers in Lower Saxony’ ‘Langenhagen and Hannover are located in the middle of Germany and in the heart of Europe – a potential from which the logistics sector can profit like hardly any other location The expansion of this UPS branch is therefore a commitment to the business location of the Hannover region and at the same time a door opener for the export activities of local companies.’ The new hub will cover an area of 24,000 square metres – equivalent to three football fields – once the second phase of construction is completed in 2023 And to ensure that sustainability does not stop at the electricity socket aimed at modernising and expanding the UPS network across the continent Investments in Germany as part of this programme include new and upgraded hubs in Bielefeld UPS is investing €160m (US$173m) in an advanced technology super hub in Hannover-Langenhagen The expansion will happen in two phases until 2023 doubling sorting capacity to 30,000 packages per hour one of UPS’s largest investment outside of the USA Hannover-Langenhagen will serve as an important link in UPS’s European and German network offering businesses improved access to its smart global logistics network said online retail sales in Germany are expected to reach €70bn (US$76bn) this year “E-commerce offers small and medium-size businesses a platform to trade like micro-multinationals San Francisco or Stuttgart,” Sportolari said The hub will cover 24,000m2 (258,300ft2) once the second phase is completed in 2023 Phase one will involve the construction of a new building alongside the existing facility Phase two will involve demolition of the existing sorting and distribution center and the construction of the second building Why the Czech Raketomodelářský Klub Krupka (RMK) has so many European and World Champions – including in the junior class The club is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022 and members can look back on a successful half century of rocket model sports Czechoslovakia separated into two countries the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic Factories closed and people had to reorientate themselves in a labour market that was only slowly re-emerging FAI - Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Design by Penceo - LAB According to the model of ‘rites of passage’ developed by the anthropologist Arnold van Gennep an individual moves through several stages of life These become evident at points of transition It is this passage to adulthood that Kerstin Cmelka’s video installation Mikrodrama #11 (2014) addresses by the artist herself) lies next to an ex-lover who talks to her openly about his 21-year-old girlfriend The only downside is the stress of having to constantly educate her (He recounts an annoying situation where he had to explain to her who Martin Kippenberger was.) The woman listens patiently surprisingly interested in his new relationship and responds without condemning his predilection for young students This was just one description of the appeal of youth from an adult perspective that recurred in the Berlin-based artist’s solo exhibition at Kunstverein Langenhagen Visitors were led into the gallery by a 24-metre textile sculpture twisting its way through the elongated space The sculpture provided seating from which to watch the three videos and series of photographs that comprised the show Each of the videos replicates an identical scene featuring three different actors in the same role each character presents his or her situation in a way that deliberately highlights the body language we adopt when faced with awkward or intimate conversations Cmelka analyzes contemporary behavioural patterns emphasizing the subtle moments between spoken words she works exclusively with people she knows and uses dialogues generated through personal conversations Our knowledge that the male actors are her friends generates a friction between the seemingly generic behaviour conveyed through their amateur performances but the actors’ obvious familiarity with one another adds an unexpected level of intimacy.  Accompanying the videos was a series of 11 black and white photographs of the artist’s friends and acquaintances in the 1980s showing seemingly carefree punkish adolescents Cmelka re-photographed these snapshots and reprinted them on Baryta paper so they no longer look like images from a personal archive; instead the restaging gives the protagonists the air of iconic pop or film stars lending them a distance or aloofness not present in the originals Cmelka’s Mikrodrama #11 highlighted the ways in which contemporary ideas about maturity and the process of ageing are deeply connected to social rules and codes Perhaps we’re not really getting older: it might just be social conventions that make us appear to be ageing A new play by Gillian Solvo highlights the lives of those who survived the devastating fire reaffirms the Malagasy artist as the star of the show 19 artists mine local histories and draw out contradictions in the area’s development The artist’s exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery shows how entangled and dependent our lives are upon one another the Lithuanian artist duo open their first UK institutional solo with a quasi-operating room featuring a giant mechanical doctor At her first institutional solo exhibition in Sweden at Moderna Museet the artist’s sculptures reference Marcel Duchamp and evocations of pleasure and knowledge using mythic creatures as a metaphor for living with polycystic ovary syndrome the artist’s site-specific video installation envisages the collapse of the EU exploring murky tax systems and the processes of alienation the artist explores how the motions of avatars influence the movement of our bodies an exhibition of work by 11 Black artists at Lisson Gallery traces colonial histories alongside collective healing practices EmailContinental is optimizing intralogistics material flows in its distribution center. EmailSimulation of virtual load scenarios in Continental’s distribution center by Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts Continental is using the latest digital technologies in the distribution center. “We have a fully automated small-parts store, have installed a new warehouse management system and are using hand and finger scanners that are wirelessly integrated in gloves,” reports Zempel. “If you want to be competitive in today’s market, it’s important to have efficient processes – and these also reduce the staff workload.” The university is also following operational processes in the distribution center and is in close contact with Continental in order to turn its research results into concrete measures “We have already jointly developed a consolidation concept merging the components from various sections of the warehouse,” reports Zempel we will process the individual components making up a consignment in parallel This means locations will be occupied for shorter periods and we will be improve overall performance.” The project manager also places particular emphasis within the logistical processes on the areas of picking The collaborative partners plan to address more complex issues subsequently such as the addition of further products and customers and continual process improvement – academia and industry operating hand in hand A nationwide construction strike has begun this week in Germany It is the first strike in this sector for 17 years and the first nationwide strike for 22 years It began early on Monday morning when several construction crews in Lower Saxony stopped work construction workers in Osnabrück and Hanover-Langenhagen in Jena and Mannheim had joined the strike Agriculture and the Environment (IG BAU) is demanding a monthly increase of €500 in collectively agreed wages in the main construction sector This is in response to the strong pressure from rank-and-file construction workers it is doing everything it can to keep the dispute under control has announced: “There will now be a strike he has not actually ordered an all-out strike but only regional and sporadic “spot strikes.” The reason for the strike is the refusal of the building contractors to accept an arbitration ruling from the end of April IG BAU would have accepted this arbitrator’s award although it would have been far from sufficient to compensate for the chronically below-average collectively agreed wages let alone to make up for losses due to inflation over the last three years The last collective agreement for construction workers was reached in autumn 2021 before inflation exploded because of the government’s pro-war policy and the energy crisis construction workers in the west of Germany received a 6.2 percent wage increase and in the east an 8.5 percent increase consumer prices rose by 14.7 percent during this period If one considers that workers and all low-income earners suffer particularly from the price explosion for petrol Workers bear the full burden of the pro-war policy The disparity in the construction industry has also been confirmed by the head of collective bargaining policy at the trade union-backed Hans Böckler Foundation the construction industry was one of the “sectors with significantly below-average pay increases” and a “considerable need to catch up.” In this sector “the most recently concluded collective wage agreements date back to the time before the significant increase in inflation rates,” wrote Schulten the construction industry has been booming over the last seven years “Construction companies have made excellent profits in the last six or seven years And the construction industry as a whole is also doing well now there is a small dip in new residential construction but we have an excellent economic situation in transport infrastructure construction and bridge building new residential construction only accounts for 30 percent of residential construction.” an arbitration settlement for a new collective agreement was presented a judge and former president of the Federal Social Court His arbitration award provided for a monthly increase of €250 in collective wages for all employees from May 4.15 percent was to be added in the west and 4.95 percent in the east although it would not have come close to compensating for the years of real wage reductions in the construction industry Most building contractors had also already accepted the decision the Federation of the German Construction Industry and the Central Association of the German Construction Industry (ZDB) nevertheless rejected it While the construction industry accepted the result The ZDB had set itself a quota of 85 percent but only 82 percent of the building trade and craft businesses agreed The arbitration was therefore declared a failure The current strike is a reaction to this situation and contains huge social explosiveness The construction industry currently employs up to one million people 800,000 in western Germany and 200,000 in eastern Germany Many large construction sites are characterised by confusing subcontractor arrangements Turkey or other countries are cheated out of wages that are already far too low it often emerges that the subsidiaries or subcontractors that hired them are now insolvent or have disappeared completely Construction workers are immensely dissatisfied They have not received any wage increase for the whole of the last year 2023 even though they undertake hard physical labour in all weathers more than 80 per cent of workers toil for well over 40 hours a week despite a contractually agreed working week of 39.8 hours daily working time of 10 hours are not uncommon the six-day week is also commonplace and overtime bonuses are not always paid This section of the working class has an important role to play in the fight against wage theft, speed-ups and exploitation. They are not only confronted with the building conglomerates and the property speculators and shareholders behind them. They are also confronted with a coalition government in Berlin, which is placing everything on a war footing. In its 2024 budget the government has initiated a social reversal: While defence spending is exploding Urban Development and Construction has been cut by 5 percent despite the catastrophic situation on the housing market Construction workers can count on the sympathy of the entire working class in their struggle and especially on the support of workers in other European countries with whom they have many personal connections This is because construction crews are often international in composition construction workers must unite in action committees that act independently of the IG BAU apparatus The entire leadership of IG BAU is closely linked to the government and the construction companies IG BAU boss Robert Feiger is a member of the Social Democrats (SPD) but also those in building cleaning and waste collection the construction union has lost over two thirds of its members had over 720,000 members in the west alone IG BAU is not only seen as conservative and loyal to the government but its leaders also support its pro-war policies Many IG BAU executive committee members are respectable supervisory board members of large construction companies who sits on the supervisory board of Hochtief AG together with his fellow board member Nicole Simons deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board of the WISAG holding company Aveco IG BAU agreed to the arbitrator’s decision out of consideration for the economy “The compromise would have demanded a lot from us too,” admitted IG BAU boss Feiger “but we were aware of our responsibility to society as a whole but the construction companies themselves.” However IG BAU is still not initiating a ballot to organise a nationwide wage strike but has only expressly called for “selective warning strikes.” IG BAU will do everything in its power to avoid an all-out strike It will grasp at the first opportunity to stall the strike several employers now want to voluntarily increase workers’ wages: “The German Construction Industry Federation (HDB) and the ZDB have proposed a five percent increase in the west and a six per cent increase in the east,” it says the union will utilise such an opportunity as quickly as possible and sell out the strike With a symbolic turf-cutting act, construction work has begun for an industrial park that Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH is developing in Hanover-Langenhagen A state-of-the-art property with a total hall area of 15,500 sq m is being built in the immediate vicinity of the international airport Small- and medium-sized enterprises in particular are to be addressed with the project development “They impress with their innovative strength and form the backbone of the German economy,” says Adrian Zellner Member of the Executive Board and Head of Business Development at Garbe Industrial Real Estate The Hamburg-based company has designed a new type of building for this target group: the Garbe IndustrialQuarter The format is being implemented for the first time in Langenhagen The IndustrialQuarter is primarily characterised by a resource-saving construction method and an area key that can be flexibly tailored to the needs of the tenants The property planned in Langenhagen consists of four hall sections of up to 4,200 sq m which can be divided into units starting at around 1,800 sq m Each unit includes office and social areas that total almost 1,000 sq m In addition, each unit has ramps and floor-level sectional doors for loading and unloading trucks. “These small sizes make the Garbe IndustrialQuarter especially interesting for start-ups and expanding companies in the areas of last-mile logistics e-commerce and light industrial,” emphasises Zellner LIST Bau Nordhorn was commissioned with the construction as general contractor. “We look forward to working with Garbe again and building a modern logistics centre within the next seven months A lot of work has gone into the design of the facade which visually stands out from the familiar look of a logistics hall with wooden elements and a strip of light,” reports Jens Schulte The property in Langenhagen is being built without any fixed rental commitments “We are currently in talks with a number of potential tenants This is not only due to the new type of building but also to the excellent location,” explains Adrian Zellner The IndustrialQuarter is being built on a 32,000 sq m plot of land in the “Am Pferdemarkt” industrial park the A2 Dortmund-Berlin and the A7 Kassel-Hamburg motorways The industrial park is connected to public transport The closest bus stop is 100m away and the Langenhagen-Pferdemarkt S-Bahn station is 800m away The new building will be erected on a brownfield “In order to create new settlement potential we had the existing building demolished and have comprehensively revitalised the area,” says Zellner The IndustrialQuarter is developed in such a way that it meets recognised ESG criteria A photovoltaic system is installed on the roof to generate renewable energy Skylight domes and a ribbon of windows extending around the entire building ensure more daylight inside the hall and reduce electricity consumption The facade is partly designed with wooden elements Garbe Industrial Real Estate is aiming for certification according to the gold standard of the German Sustainable Building Council for the property Tweet Logistics Business © 2025 All Rights Reserved. | Privacy | Terms | Site Map Subscribe to our quarterly magazine and weekly newsletter to stay updated with the logistics industry By submitting this form you agree that the personal data you provided will be transferred to Logistics Business for processing in accordance with our Privacy Policy The UK plans to send armored anti-aircraft vehicles to Ukraine, The Times of London reported The Stormer vehicles launch 17 high-velocity Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles Starstreak is Britain's most advanced operated portable missile system, and the UK sent a consignment to Ukraine in March Ukraine has only been able to fire the British missiles using shoulder launchers or portable stands The 13.5-tonne Stormer vehicles are easier to operate and Ukrainian forces will be able to speed to locations at 50mph The vehicle operates with a crew of three — a driver Sources told The Sun that "a handful of Stormers" will be deployed to Ukraine alongside 120 personnel carriers It can be loaded onto C-17 transport planes and flown to Ukraine in days The provision of Stormers to Ukraine has not been officially announced but The Sun reported that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace would be making a statement in parliament this week "It is no secret that the UK has committed to helping Ukraine with its anti-air capabilities," a source told the paper The Ministry of Defence hosted a Ukrainian government delegation at the Salisbury Plain Training Area two weeks ago and is said to have demonstrated the technology The move marks a significant increase in heavy weaponry to Ukraine from Britain as Russia continues with its offensive in the Donbas region Western governments have only sent Ukraine shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles to defend against Russian forces "The Stormer-Starstreak combination will boost Ukraine's fighting capability,"  Colonel Richard Kemp a former commander of British troops in Afghanistan highly mobile combat vehicle that will do severe damage to any attempts at low-level attack by Putin's air force." Kemp told the paper that the move is likely to anger Moscow which has already expressed displeasure with the West for sending weapons to Ukraine British special forces are also believed to be training local troops in Kyiv for the first time since Russia's invasion, Ukrainian commanders told The Times of London. The British soldiers have reportedly trained Ukrainian troops to use NLAWs Click here for listing information and directions on how to add or update your company Experience the power of ACG with benefits like discounts and invitations to exclusive events Jennifer Colvin and Scott Kingsley, both ACG members, have joined the team at Stellex Capital Management Colvin joins the firm as a Director and will be based in Washington D.C where she most recently served as a business development director Kingsley joins the firm from Highview Capital where he served as a Vice President of the business development team Odyssey Investment Partners, a private equity investment firm focused on the middle market, announced the promotions of Jonathan Hall and Vivian Hadis to Managing Principals Hall is on the Board of Directors for two portfolio companies while Hadis is the firm’s General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer Odyssey also announced the promotions of nine additional team members Ari Pribadi and David Kirkpatrick have been promoted to Global Co-Heads of Investment Banking at investment banking firm Marathon Capital, which focuses on the clean economy, according to a recent press release Marathon announced a slew of other promotions as well who has been appointed Head of its New York City office He will lead the firm’s Financial Sponsor coverage initiatives as well as its Capital Markets business Jen Zhao has been promoted as Chief Operating Officer—Investment Banking while Chris Shaw has been promoted as Head of EMEA to drive Marathon’s expansion across borders in addition to his current work running U.K Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal has announced that its Global Transaction Advisory Group promoted Stacy Kirshner from Managing Director to Co-Leader of the Transaction Advisory Group’s U.S Kirshner has been with the Global Transaction Advisory Group for more than a decade The promotion was announced in conjunction with the appointment of Managing Director Frederic Steiner to Country Co-Leader of A&M France Middle-market private equity firm Transom Capital has promoted two team members to the role of managing director. Conor Davenport and Steve Kim were both promoted on the Mergers & Acquisitions Team The promotions follow the close of Transom’s fourth oversubscribed fund in October; last year the firm added seven professionals to the team Separately, Transom also announced this month the hiring of Mads Jorge who joins as Managing Director and a senior member of the firm’s Investment Team Transom’s announcement about the hiring pointed to Jorge’s expertise in fundamental investing and relationship building within the public and private markets He will help Transom source new investment opportunities where he led the firm’s fundraising efforts as a partner Nilsson will lead investor relations and private equity investor partnerships as well as lead investor relations for the firm’s public equity business Stockbridge Private equity firm Kainos Capital, which targets the food and consumer sectors, announced the promotion of Claire Bissot to Managing Director She leads the firm’s Human Resources and Talent initiatives on its Operations Team and partners with portfolio companies to support their human capital functions operational optimization and leadership development Investment firm Braemont Capital has announced the hiring of Wali Bacdayan In his role Bacdayan will source and execute investment opportunities He brings a network of founders and family officers to the firm that will support Braemont’s value creation strategy development He is a co-founder of Incline Equity Partners and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Washington & Lee University Harvest Partners announced a slew of promotions this month that include promotions to Principal for Devin Graber The firm also announced several promotions to Vice President which include Jaems Harter “East of these individuals has made significant contributions to Harvest Their talent and energy will be invaluable as we move forward in 2025 and beyond.” where he served as a managing director and advised biopharma companies on debt and equity raises private placements and mergers & acquisitions He has worked closely with venture capital firms hedge funds and mutual funds to come up with creative financing solutions Tan also held investment banking roles with Jefferies and UBS Global investment bank Baird added Rodd Langenhagen as a managing director in the firm’s with the Technology & Services Group, an announcement said he worked as a managing director and head of software globally at investment bank Greenhill & Co He has also held a similar role at Pacific Crest Securities prior to Greenhill Langenhagen earned an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and operations research from Princeton University Morgan has over two decades of experience working at top American law firms as well as buy-side and sell-side financial institutions in London He previously worked on sophisticated lending transactions mezzanine and senior financings backed by traditional and non-traditional security packages Morgan was a partner in the Charleston office of Moore & Van Allen he was a member of the special situations group at a European investment bank with a direct lending and investment mandate complementing its credit trading business Middle Market Growth is produced by the Association for Corporate Growth. 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All Rights Reserved. | Website Design “Search for black Audi after attempt to blow up a cash machine,” “Neighbors hear loud bang perpetrators flee in Audi,” “Car chase through three federal states”: Headlines like these have become commonplace around Germany as raids on cash machines have increased in number About 369 ATMs were destroyed by explosions last year a 38 percent increase compared with 2017 and 10 times more than a decade ago according to data from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) Most of the crimes follow the same pattern with perpetrators using an electric detonator or fuse to set off a mixture of gases pumped into the machine — or more rarely a solid explosive perpetrators often plan the attacks “months in advance,” Europol has said with one man killed in October last year while attempting a similar attack on a ticket machine at a local train station in Halle successful attacks on ATMs are highly lucrative raiders who blasted open a Commerzbank cash machine in Eschborn The police managed to grab one suspect who returned to the scene of the crime in the small hours but his accomplices and the cash have disappeared without trace Frankfurt Prosecutor Christian Hartwig said Many cash machine crackers come “from the Netherlands and central Europe” to Germany simply because of its favorable geography Germany’s geographical position at the center of Europe and its dense web of motorways much of which is not covered by a speed limit means that criminals can more easily shake off police than elsewhere — driving German-made sports cars One particularly notorious group has plagued the state of North Rhine-Westphalia which shares a border with the Netherlands and where the largest number of bank raids are carried out The press dubbed the group the “Audi gang” because their getaway car of choice tended to be rented or stolen vehicles of that particular high-end brand Three members of the gang were last month hauled before a court in state capital accused of stealing more than 600,000 euros and causing 100,000 euros of damage in 2017 and last year a total of 128 suspects were arrested over cash machine robberies Germany accounts for more than one-third of the attacks recorded across 11 large European countries surveyed by the European Association for Secure Transactions (EAST) The nation’s 58,000 machines make up just 16 percent of the installed base across all the countries in the study While cash machine attacks have mounted in Germany the number reported in the other 10 nations studied by EAST fell 15 percent to just under 700 altogether Such data highlight how banks can work together with government support to reduce the incentives to blast open ATMs agreeing to hold less cash in each machine but refill them more regularly to reduce the potential payoff for any one raid France ordered banks in 2015 to fit ATMs with systems that stain banknotes if they are forcibly removed Europol credits the move with sharply reducing the number of attacks in France which fell from 304 in 2013 to 58 last year according to French National Gendarmerie figures criminals fail to secure any banknotes in 60 percent of cases thanks to well-protected machines 130,000 euros are stolen in each German crime compared with 17,100 euros across the 11 countries surveyed by EAST a development that leaves the company vulnerable to potential future charges The aerospace company breached the 2021 deferred prosecution agreement by failing to “design and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the U.S fraud laws throughout its operations,” federal prosecutors said in a letter filed in a Texas court Prosecutors said they had not decided what to do next adding that they would alert the court about any new charges no later than July 7 In a statement to The Daily Beast on Tuesday Boeing confirmed that it had received the Justice Department’s letter “We believe that we have honored the terms of that agreement and look forward to the opportunity to respond to the Department on this issue,” it said we will engage with the Department with the utmost transparency as we have throughout the entire term of the agreement including in response to their questions following the Alaska Airlines 1282 accident.” prosecutors charged Boeing with deceiving federal regulators about the capabilities of a new feature on its planes implicated in both the deadly crashes which killed a combined 346 people in 2018 and 2019 Boeing agreed to pay a $2.5 billion penalty But the plane-maker has been thrust back into an uncomfortable spotlight in recent months 5 mid-air blowout of a door plug on a 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines A preliminary investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board released in February found that four bolts meant to hold the door plug in place were missing before the jet took off The next month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department had quietly launched a criminal investigation into the blowout The families of the 346 crash victims have long held that they want to see Boeing properly held accountable for its role in the double tragedies and have pushed for federal investigators to reopen their probe a professor of law at the University of Utah College of Law who is representing the families called the Tuesday letter “a positive first step” in a statement “But we need to see further action from DOJ to hold Boeing accountable and plan to use our meeting on May 31 to explain in more detail what we believe would be a satisfactory remedy to Boeing’s ongoing criminal conduct,” he said Got a tip? 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Click here to find out how The nose of a Boeing 737-8 aircraft on the grounds of Hanover-Langenhagen Airport Parcel delivery company UPS is electrifying its fleets in Germany and Switzerland It will add 188 electric delivery vehicles to its fleets across Germany and four in Switzerland - a first for the CEP service provider specifically 49 3.8-tonne trucks with a capacity of 14 cubic metres (P45E) as well as 106 7.2-tonne trucks with a load volume of 23 cubic metres (P80E) and 37 7.2-tonne trucks with a load volume of 28 cubic metres (P100E) Four of the 3.8-tonne trucks will be used in Switzerland The smaller vehicles all have 74 kWh batteries while the bigger ones have batteries with an energy content of 111 kWh The electric drive offers an output of up to 90 kW The vehicles have not all gone into operation UPS states that the EVs will go into service “little by little” before the end of the year the EVs will join the delivery fleet in Bülach near Zurich 120 of the new electric vehicles and the corresponding infrastructure were funded by the German government with 6.4 million euros The new Iveco eDaily are part of UPS’ plan to add 600 electric delivery vehicles to its fleets in Europe by the end of 2024. Just recently, it added 100 Iveco eDaily to its delivery fleet in Paris I agree with the Privacy policy electrive has been following the development of electric mobility with journalistic passion and expertise since 2013 we offer comprehensive coverage of the highest quality — as a central platform for the rapid development of this technology Fraport AG is one of the leading companies in the global airport business and active at 29 airports on four continents (IPO in 2001) Fraport provides the full range of operational and management services relating to airside and terminal operations The 2019 traffic figures for Frankfurt Airport are impressive: more than 1,400 aircraft took off and landed and over 6,000 tonnes of cargo were handled at FRA per day Digitalization at Fraport: for greater efficiency Fraport AG is digitalizing to improve its processes Innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence are being leveraged to update and network airport operations this goes hand in hand with a fundamentally new way of thinking – with the goal of developing innovative new business models and ensuring long-term competitiveness Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide (Fraport AG) signed an agreement on August 6 to sell its entire 30 percent stake in Flughafen Hannover-Langenhagen GmbH (FHLG) to iCON Flughafen GmbH (iCON) – part of the iCON Infrastructure Group – for 109.2 million euros   FHLG is the operating company of Hanover Airport (HAJ) in northern Germany Fraport acquired shares in FHLG in two steps: initially 20 percent in 1998 The other 70 percent of FHLG is held equally by two co-shareholders: the City of Hanover and the Hannoversche Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH – a wholly-owned company belonging to the State of Lower Saxony The closing of the transaction is dependent on the contractually agreed pre-emption rights held by the two co-shareholders Fraport currently expects the transaction to be concluded during the next two months commented on the divestiture:   “For some time we have received strong interest from the market for Fraport to sell its stake in Hanover Airport   This underscores Fraport’s competence in increasing the value of our airport investments we are pursuing the goal to acquire majority stakes in airports or to hold a position of significant influence in these airport companies.” traffic at Hanover Airport rose by 8.5 percent to 5.9 million passengers HAJ achieved a 7.8 percent increase in passenger traffic to almost 2.8 million passengers (June 2018: up 10.2 percent to 632,621)   Schulte added:   “Hanover Airport is a solid business with a bright future   It has developed into an important aviation gateway in northern Germany for both passenger and cargo traffic   We would like to thank the other FHLG shareholders and the Hanover region for the excellent cooperation Based on current book values and current expectations – that both co-shareholders will not exercise their pre-emption rights – Fraport AG expects the Hanover transaction to contribute about 85 million euros to the Group EBT   This will translate into approximately 25 million euros for the Group EBITDA and EBIT for the current 2018 business year The Group’s financial result will be positively influenced by about 60 million euros After deduction of related income tax liabilities the transaction will also have a noticeable positive impact of about 77 million euros on the Group result (net profit) Contact Form *20 cents (€) per call within German landline network ©2004-2025 Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide BRAINTREE — Members of Thayer Academy's class of 2018 realize the lessons they were never tested on in class were among the most important senior speaker James Kotopoulos said he’s a big fan of math and numbers can’t fully measure the significance of his and his classmates time at Thayer Calculating the numbers of games played at Thayer the hours spent driving to and from school activities or the hours the class of 2018 spent together could never fully convey the whole story the depth of love their families feel for them or the warmth of building a sense of community that the graduates have experienced together transcend calculations “These numbers don’t capture the feelings of a second home,” he said Valedictorian Anna Huycke likened graduation to her time spent on the Thayer stage during theater performances “The best part of not knowing exactly what comes next is that there are no limits to what we can accomplish.” Huycke said that while their graduation might feel like an ending the empty stage that Thayer built for us is waiting for whatever adventures may take place,” she said MORE GRADUATION COVERAGE Quote of the day: “These numbers don’t capture the feelings of a second home,” James Kotopoulos, class speaker Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Airport reportedly reopens after package detonated I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Hannover Airport was temporarily closed following the discovery of explosives at a cargo centre, according to reports. Employees at the UPS depot alerted authorities after finding the item. Passengers on flights to Hannover's Langenhagen Airport were diverted. One, Adam Nicholls, detailed the consequences. “Just landed back at Heathrow Airport after Hanover Airport got shut down due to a suspect package, after we had circled over head for 30 minutes,” he said. The airport reportedly opened later after security officials detonated the suspicious package. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies