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According to § 22 Social Security Code VII, § 20 of the Accident Prevention Regulation “Principles of Prevention” (provision 1 of the German Social Accident Insurance), the board and the management have appointed Stefan Pohl safety officer of the entire DTG eG and ARNO Ship GmbH on 1 February 2016. In this context, he has successfully participated in a seminar for inland navigation security officers of the Traffic Trade Association from 15 to 18 February 2016.

We wish Stefan Pohl the best of success and good luck for this additional field of duty.

The German Association of Freight Forwarding and Logistics (DSLV) have updated their previous terms and conditions, issuing the German General Transport Conditions 2016 (ADSp 2016). Apart from ad-justments to the current law, these new terms and conditions contain major novelties on electronic communications and will also provide for the limitation of liability of forwarders.
With inland waterway transportation, DTG will continue to work on the basis of the International Load-ing and Transport Conditions (IVTB, latest version) while forwarding business will now be transacted solely on the basis of the General German Freight Forwarding Terms and Conditions (ADSp 2016, latest version). This reorganization will be communicated by DTG in emails and business papers updated and provided with a corresponding statement on the IVTB and the ADSp 2016.
You are welcome to either request the IVTB and ADSp 2016 from us or read and download them on our website: https://dtg-eg.de/service/downloads

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An eventful year is now coming to an end, which gives us the opportunity to thank all DTG members and their families for their commitment and dedication. It is just these qualities that constitute the DTG.

During the last years, deadlines and time pressure have constantly been increasing, leaving almost no room for rest and recreation. Particularly in these times, solidarity within the cooperative is essential in order to achieve our common goal, the economic success of the DTG.

We wish you all a peaceful and merry Christmas, plenty of time for reflection and joint activities in your families, a Happy New Year and good luck, health and success for 2016.

On 23 October 2015, the 14th Meeting of Mannheim for inland waterway law was held, on which the DTG was represented by board member Roberto Spranzi. In his capacity as honorary Vice Chairman of the “Schifferbörse zu Duisburg-Ruhrort e. V.” (Old Freight Exchange in Duisburg-Ruhrort, registered association) he gave a lecture on the new arbitration of the Schifferbörse, established on 17 June 2015. This arbitration, which is specialized in cases of inland waterways, offers quick and final decisions, thus saving time and money. In a dispute, the parties choose one arbitrator each from a group of experts – either a lawyer, an engineer, a nautical or an insurance salesman – and declare their willingness to accept the award.

Despite the anticipated criticism of lawyers, which was not entirely unfounded regarding lack of transparency or suspension of statutory limitation, the organizer affirmed after the meeting that exclusively positive feedback had been given.

Other topics of the meeting were the responsibility of piloting and developments in inland navigation law.

25 years of “Deutsche Transport-Genossenschaft Binnenschifffahrt“: a reason to celebrate for all members and a special occasion, too, for the “Schiffahrt und Technik” (SUT) magazine to report on the DTG. An article from the editor of SUT, Hans-Wilhelm Dünner, was published in issue 8/2015.

Click here to read the SUT contribution.

While the annual general meeting of the TGB took place under quite ordinary circumstances, DTG members had a special reason to come together for this year’s meeting: 25 years ago, in October 1990, was the time of their inaugural meeting.

This was respected during the meeting’s official part led by the executive chairman Reinhold Scheermann. After the Management Board had reported on the business history of both organizations in 2014 and answered all members’ questions, each still active DTG founding member was honoured with a silver badge while all present members received a jubilee backpack.

Traditionally, in the evening all members, their families, friends, employees, the supervisory and the executive boards of the DTG and TGB came together for inspiring dinner conversation. After enjoying their meals and a show of the ventriloquist Merlin & Co. with his puppet “Willi Kowalski” the most talented among the participants hit the dance floor to live music of the “Ingrid Schwarz Band” while others preferred to continue their talks at the counter until the wee hours.

We would like to pass our sincere thanks to our former colleague Wilfried Neynes for contributing all photos for the gallery, to the attentive Mövenpick team around Mrs Campe, to the “Ingrid Schwarz Band”, to Merlin & Co. and to all our members and their families. We look forward to seeing you again in best shape at next year’s meeting in Hannover.

On 1^st April 2015, Mrs Felicia Wittig joined our financial accounting team in Duisburg, replacing Mrs Silke Prieur.

Mrs Wittig started her training as an assistant tax advisor in 1983 and, except for her parental leave, has worked almost exclusively for various tax offices since then.

We warmly welcome Mrs Wittig and look forward to a good and pleasant cooperation.

This order was rather unusual, simply because the port of discharge at Hamm-Uentrop is not accessible by any ship.

Thus, the difficult search for a suitable cargo space lead to the family Detlef Becker and their MS “Krantor” which, due to its special dimensions, was among the very few vessels able to handle this heavy load.

On 12^th February 2015, the package was loaded in Duisburg-Rheinhausen by means of two cranes. It was a converter (10.20 x 7.83 x 3.56 m) for a steel plant with a total weight of 140 t. A converter is an oversized crucible in which excess carbon is oxidised by adding oxygen to liquefied crude iron, a process in which crude iron is converted into steel.

The cargo was successfully delivered on 14^th February 2015.

Our colleague Thorsten Nitschke will celebrate his 10^th anniversary at the DTG eG on 1^st January 2015.

46-year-old Nitschke started his career in 1984, training as a forwarding agent at the Duisburger Frachentkontor where he then worked in truck scheduling. During this time, he completed his 15-month military service in 1989.

After moving to Wintrans in July 1991, he started engaging himself in the scheduling of inland waterway vessels. After several business transfers, Wintrans finally became Lehnkering Reederei, where Mr Nitschke was active until 31^st December 2004.

On 1^st January 2005, he joined the Duisburg scheduling department of DTG eG where he was granted power of attorney after only six months in July 2005.

We congratulate Mr Nitschke on his 10^th anniversary and hope that he will be with our team for a long time yet.

From year to year, the ordinary course of events leaves no room for boredom. Thus, also the month of December 2014 offers an opportunity to look back on a successful cooperation of shippers, barge owners, and forwarding agents and on the benefit from new employees, anniversaries or the Targobank run.

But we also think of those people who have little reason to smile because they experience difficult and challenging situations. Therefore, instead of customer gifts, we have donated also this year an amount of money to two charitable institutions, the Bunte Kreis Duisburg and the Hamburger Spendenparlament.

Since June 2002, the Bunte Kreis Duisburg e.V. – Niederrhein und westliches Ruhrgebiet have been supporting premature, disabled, severely and chronically ill children, and adolescents and their families on their way home from hospital into a well-organized life. The Hamburger Spendenparlament is an association of citizens caring for people in need by collecting and distributing donations. They promote social projects that tackle homelessness, poverty, and social isolation.

We would like to thank all our customers and staff for their cooperation, wishing you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas.
Have a healthy start into the New Year!
Your DTG team

People on the adjacent picture: Dr. Gabriele Weber (left), Chairwoman of Bunter Kreis Duisburg e. V. – Niederrhein und westliches Ruhrgebiet, Dr. Sassa von Roehl, Public Relations Officer, and Roberto Spranzi, Board Member of the Deutsche Transport-Genossenschaft Binnenschifffahrt eG.