{"id":5117,"date":"2023-02-26T22:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2023-02-26T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:42:10","slug":"german-airport-strikes-have-massive-consequences-for-cargo-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/german-airport-strikes-have-massive-consequences-for-cargo-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"German airport strikes have \u201cmassive consequences\u201d for cargo operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strikes taking place today at many of Germany\u2019s airports will have \u201cmassive consequences\u201d for air cargo and lead to \u201csignificant challenges\u201d for humanitarian aid flights, according to the Barig airline association.<\/p>\n

Public sector workers and ground handlers at seven airports \u2013 Frankfurt Main, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hannover and Bremen \u2013 are\u00a0taking part in today\u2019s strikes organised by the Ver.di union over pay.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Barig said that the strike action had brought air traffic at these locations almost to a complete standstill, with the global transportation of freight and goods\u2014including parts of humanitarian aid logistics \u2014 directly affected.<\/p>\n

Barig chairman and executive director Michael Hoppe said: \u201cToday\u2019s warning strikes at seven German commercial airports are having a significant impact on the movement of cargo and goods, not only in Germany but worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Frankfurt Airport, which is by far one of the most important airfreight locations in Europe and worldwide, hardly any goods can currently be handled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to maintain supply chains, considerable volumes of freight must alternatively be transported by trucks to airports abroad such as Brussels or Li\u00e8ge, where they are finally loaded onto aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is particularly challenging in terms of sensitive products and goods for which, for example, fast, temperature-controlled transport is essential.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, the strikes are also having a significant impact on the logistics of humanitarian aid deliveries, as in the immediate case with aid transports to Turkey and Syria. Here, we have logistics chains that are especially complex and highly sensitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite special permissions for transport and alternative airports, there is hardly any chance that disruptions, which are inevitably caused by such strikes, can be completely mitigated.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, we urgently demand to consider the measures taken in the current wage dispute with sound judgement and to take into account the effects on the interaction within the economy and society. Negotiations must lead to constructive solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cStrike action such as we are experiencing today has partly massive and persistent consequences for mostly uninvolved parties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, the union had said that aid deliveries to Turkey and Syria would be exempt from the strikes. It added that aid could be transported through Mainz THW or Frankfurt Hahn Airport.<\/p>\n

In light of the strike action, Lufthansa Cargo,\u00a0which was hit by an IT outage earlier in the week<\/strong>, had urged customers to proactively check the status of the booked flight connection for cargo via the Lufthansa Cargo website.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the airports of Frankfurt and Munich are also affected, a large number of Lufthansa and Lufthansa Group flights are expected to be affected,\u201d the carrier said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strikes taking place today at many of Germany\u2019s airports will have \u201cmassive consequences\u201d for air cargo and lead to \u201csignificant challenges\u201d for humanitarian aid flights, according to the Barig airline association.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newvisionlog.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}