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The inland shipping company Königliche Wijnhoff & Van Gulpen & Larsen B.V. (Wijgula) is expanding its board of directors. As of 1 September 2023, Simon Lucas (44) will become the third Managing Director of the HGK Shipping subsidiary alongside Norbert Meixner and Egbert Schelhaas.

Due to problems with a hydraulic pump, the Rhine ferry ‘Fritz Middelanis’ has been forced to suspend operations for the time being. When it will be possible to put the vessel back into service in the coming week is not yet known.

HGK Shipping and the Salzgitter Group wish to intensify their cooperation and to promote and expand sustainable logistics concepts on the waterways in future.

Excavators are busy on the site of FUSION COLOGNE in the north of Cologne. In time the 550,000-square metre site will become FUSION COLOGNE, an innovative space for manufacturing companies, warehousing and logistics businesses.

After less than two years of construction time, last weekend the employees of the HGK Group moved their offices into the new corporate headquarters.

Panattoni, the leading project developer for industrial and logistics real estate in Europe, will be the first tenant in the trimodal industrial and logistics quarter FUSION COLOGNE, presenting a new real estate concept.

The former terminal alliance between RRT, KCT and CTS is merging under a single roof to form HGK Intermodal GmbH.