Moscow evasion of one of the globes biggest grain exporters, has block supplies to the rest of the world. A hunger crisis is looming in many parts. But now the 1st ships are set to sail. Welcome to d w. s weekly business show made. Im ben. And these are the other stories well be looking at today. How a gas stoppage could slow down the renewable sector. A german firm suddenly pulling out of china and breathing air back into an aircraft cemetery. The war in ukraine isnt over yet, but this one breakthrough is a major relief for the rest of the world. At least, officials from the united nations, ukraine, russia and turkey agreeing. Thered be no attacks on merchant ships carrying long awaited grain supplies. Moving through the black sea to turkeys boss for a straight and onto market. Its also good news for all the different players in the sector revenues having all but dried up because of moscow. See blockade of ukraine, and not forgetting the waters along the coastline, which keith has heavily mind farmers, warehouse operators and shipping companies. Until now, the only way to get all that wheat, corn, and Sunflower Oil to the regions that needed most parts of africa and asia has been over long and arduous land roots. Oh, tons of grain are stuck here at the polish ukrainian border, but at least the transport company was able to build this temporary loading station in just 6 days. With this machine, they can transfer grain from rail cars to trucks. Still, this is little comfort for europe, africa, and asia, whether ukrainian wheat is desperately needed and slow to arrive close to a war zone line. This polish logistics contractor has an uneasy feeling. Hes wary of the russian military. Them of them said i, i know the russian missiles can reach us here very quickly, but i believe that nato will protect us for ukrainian farmer, grigori penas. The grain is moving much too slowly. His warehouse should have been emptied long ago before the war. He shipped everything through the countrys black c port, but they have been blocked for weeks and Rail Transport to poland is stagnant. He constantly measures the moisture in the grain because if it sits for too long, it can quickly mould little sloth to show so little have 6000 tons of grain stored here. If it was for lunch, what should we do with the wheat . When the new harvest begins . With no auto, we are worried that a lot of grain can be left in the field with the sauce Leticia Mosley should sippin and kick as a lump when ah, in order to make room in his warehouse for the next harvest, the farmer used the Trucking Company to take his grain to poland, but the driver was on the road for 14 days and the transport was extremely expensive. This is what it looks like at the polish ukrainian border. Long traffic jams in both directions hinder the fast transport of goods by truck. It takes a long time and is expensive. Pick wait times of 7 days are not uncommon, say Truck Drivers come little, dont let it. So its just chaos. Where does it take so long . Because of all the papers that have to be presented when crossing the board and lara sa, household but turn are insignificant. So approved the products are organic, lost on yeah, there are simply too few checkpoint lines because so we always have this problem. Weve been waiting here for 2 days and thats nothing clinic i at the buck. Oh, for larger quantities of grain, the only realistic option seems to be Rail Transportation. Still one problem has yet to be solved. Ukrainian trains run on wide gauge, rails, poland, and the rest of the e. U. Used narrow gauge rails, so the grain has to be unloaded from ukrainian rail cars and reloaded on to polish trains at the border. Its a complicated and time consuming process. The systems are outdated and not designed for such quantities. In the meantime, freight space is being auctioned off to the highest bidder, which just adds to the prices. Besides the valuable weed needed to make bread in africa, large amounts of corn rate seed and soybean meal for the production of animal feed in the e u r. Being sent by train. The manager of this terminal would like things to move faster than rapidly eminence. Stop. Oh, we work here. 24 hours. Non stop e at us. However, there arent enough rail cars and there isnt enough manpower to reload more goods from ukraine and olden us. If she has dallas crane, but in order to get even more grain out of ukraine polish state, railways are trying out containers which are not actually intended for green transport. If this works, another problem still remains. The Long Distance is to other european ports, are extremely expensive. When to dust the door, and that means that in the end, i craning farmers hardly benefit from the high prices paid on the worlds market at comp of it yet to earn money. Farmers need access to the ukranian black see ports, and the world needs access to ukranian wheat. Being in the middle of a heap wife here in europe, its hard to think that it wont be long before temperatures plunge again. And well be sitting around in our apartments, hoping the guess is flowing again at full capacity to keep our homes warm and toasty. Because not only has europe been worried about the grain blockade. Gas cuts from russia also have the continent on edge. Germany is heavily relied on supplies despite the gradual switch to renewables, which its trying to speed up. The thing is that the transition to green power is only possible with a whole lot of gas. Ah, this furnace is heated to 1200 degrees celsius. Steal ne, curtis and cook runs 50 of these ovens at his plant endorsement. So the Company Needs gas and lots of it. If usage is equivalent to that of 6000 households, until now that was no problem. But the ukraine war in its repercussions could change all that plant manager, thomas high. Its worried that the gas might soon stop flowing. We all know that it even had the full that would be a disaster. The product that we make might be unique, but we depend on being able to produce it in sufficient quantities. If we cant do that, we have a problem. And that in turn would be a problem for to some clips. Customers. Few Companies Worldwide are able to produce steel rings with a diameter of more than 8 meters. The ex ex l rings urgently needed. One area of application is wind turbines, where they serve as slewing bearings. The plant endorsement turns out about 15000. 00 of these rings each month all over germany. Assets are underway to cut gas usage, but to some crop says it has no more room to maneuver. I am not, it goes on until i energy is a huge cost factor for us. Weve always sought to reduce our usage to the minimum and why not minimum so that would be young. Right. So the options for making major savings just dont exist in the hector then on our own, nothing. The only way for us to cut our usage would be to cease production of the companys feature is at stake. The entire plant is intersected by yellow gas pipes. Could it soon be reduced to an industrial rubin . Right now, the steel giant is still receiving gas at the old lower prices guaranteed under long term contracts. But that could change then to us in crook could no longer afford to buy gas insufficient quantities. The momento gotten up why, if theres a gas shortage, we assume that our current contract will become invalid. Galvan griffin, that i remember that means we would then have to suddenly start buying gas on the spot market. What mark regard i, if we could even get it and then the question would be, what would the price be making by the spot market is where commodities are traded. Friend media delivery at current prices. Those prices are already high. Now. I could reach 7 times. What tucson crypt normally pays under its contract, a deal breaker for the company, which would be forced to shut down many of its ovens. The pressure is increasing. Tis and croppers played out a number of different crisis scenarios. If the entire conglomerate is forced to work with half its current gas levels, it could continue in emergency operation. But less than half would mean tustin krupp would have to shut off its furnaces and cease production. Now, what about this combo cheap energy for russia . And huge new, lucrative markets in china. Thats been a real winner of a Business Model for export champion germany. Now europes largest economy is winning itself off russia. But what about china . Its put the blame for this war, not just on russia, but on the west as well. And there are a few other developments that have observed white, beijings massive surveillance state. Its poor, human rights record and threats to invade taiwan. German Companies Still want to do business with these guys. The worlds most populous nation is germanys most important trading part of last year, driven firms export of goods worth over a 100000000000 euros to china. Chinese in ports to germany, well worth even more, a 142000000000. As one german Business Executive ones told me theres only one china for i brought something with me, mr. Gunter. Its a brand new, a survey over your pin chem of commerce in beijing. Did you already read it . Yes, yes i, i, i gave it to read earlier this week, but in the past, i used to write these when i was working for the european schaeffer. So when was it . Um, so from last year and then all the way back to 2018 was the 1st year that i wrote one. This year survey revealed a dramatic change in business confidence. When asked if they were considering shifting current or planned investments in china to other market, just 11 percent of European Companies said yes in 2021. But in april 2022 over twice as many said, the same my own interpretation of that im considering my experience on the ground and china in the past, including during the pandemic. Im is, its less about taking current assets and investment that they have in china and moving it out. Its more about not putting more into china. And instead taking that what they would have put in china, you know, maybe 6 months ago they were planning to do it and said putting it in somewhere like, se, asia or parts of africa, parts of um, south america. I heard that there is the increasing difficulty to bring your pain. Tell them to china. Why . I mean its, its entirely because of coven, um, or maybe not entirely because of covered. Id say its about 80 percent because of cohen im in a, chinas maintained the 0 coven policy. Um and its effectively had closed borders. Im. Its been very, very difficult to get back. I myself got back just in time before they close the border in march 2020. So they take this very seriously and they continue to do so. In the spring of 2022 china 0 covered strategy was put to the chest in shanghai. For over 2 months, poll neighborhoods were completely court and doth. Millions of people werent allowed to leave their homes and had to be supplied with food but time and again, there were reports of people not having enough to eat such harsh locked downs continue to take place in other chinese cities. But at the same time they, i refused to use the am hour and a vaccines. And that sound for me like an endless loop. Yes, it could. Last years. I dont think anyone in china except maybe shooting thing, has a clear idea about when the pandemic was the pandemic will ends. What is certain is that the mood of european firms in china is bad. 60 percent of those surveyed said, doing business there is getting harder when asked for the reasons. The biggest problem named by far was beijing. 0 cove and strategy. Fear of military conflicts was barely mentioned yet, beijing is flexing its military muscles in the South Pacific and continues to threaten to invade taiwan. Could a situation like the current Russia Ukraine war beyond the horizon here . Russia is not china and china is not russia. And ukraine and taiwan are not the same either. Russia exports commodities and weapons. Thats about it. Im trying to exports everything, and it imports everything. So the, the, the mutually assured destruction of the Global Economy if china goes for taiwan is almost guaranteed. The question is, at some point, will beijing decide its worth pulling that trigger or not . I put the odds quite low myself. Do you think theres still a chance for you going back to china . Well, theres certainly no chance at the moment, not only because of the coven restrictions, but merricks is sanctioned by our friends of the embassy. So officially, no theres, theres no chance, but i mean, hopefully thats scary. I mean, they can do what they want. Yeah, yeah, its scary and it would be a lot scary firestone, china, but well, fragile geo politics, energy insecurity, inflation and the current buyers crisis, which is still with us. It sounds like the perfect storm and it sounds like all the ingredients for a serious economic crisis. Germanys economy minister hope at heart beck has warned of a World Wide Web session. What would that mean . And our roof sessions, really such a bad thing. Can recession be a cleansing storm economist, the warning of a big crash . They say the world could be facing a deep recession. A recession occurs when for 2 consecutive quarters, the economy shrinks or fails to grow compared to the previous year. The immediate consequences can be dramatic. Firms go bankrupt, people lose their jobs, and many can be pushed into poverty. Triggers for recession are plentiful right now. Wall and energy crisis. Supply chain issues. Inflation on the pandemic have thrown a wrench in the works of the world economy. So what can be done about it, verging on bankruptcy before the crisis would be kept alive, artificially like the living dead . These dont be companies usually have no future and keeping them alive just hinders the recovery process. Thats because they hold on to Creative Workers who would otherwise find new jobs and innovative firms and contribute to their growth and success. So painful as it may being, in some cases its better for the economy to let Zombie Companies to play goes, bust economists, joseph eloise, from peter caught this Creative Destruction he believed products and processes are constantly being destroyed and replaced through innovation. And that its the only way out of a crisis. So according to him, recession is not a problem, but a storm the clear, the air. Its a normal part of the Business Cycle and shows that the market economy is working. Because recession is followed by an economic upturn. So just because economists warn that a recession is coming, thats not necessarily caused for panic. Ok, now have you ever asked yourself where passenger jets and aircraft carriers go when they reach that used by date . The spanish town of town, where is the last stop for many ad has become the resting place for endless rows of mothball day plants. Now germanys largest dateline is gradually waking them from their slumber. Oh, they appear like a mirage between meadows and farmland, airplanes in abundance. Since the start of the pandemic, ted well in the spanish region of aragon has morphed into europes largest Aircraft Storage home. Air france, british airways, and airlines from around the world have more than a 100 aircrafts stored here. One 3rd or from lufthansa. When cove is grounded, plains across europe, many were brought here to be stored. Stefan brisson mathias host have come from germany to collect an air bus and take it back to frankfort. Passenger bookings have sort in recent weeks and the plane is needed again. Does. Its utilize in coming here. It really feels like museums them through every thing. That breeze life into an airport is no longer here. Swanson lies incredibly quiet. This is because no movement, no vehicle, its florida. Its quite an airy atmosphere. I got your small hop, thomas county. I wasnt among the pilots that brought planes here and i just heard about it from colleagues and saw picture one or 2. It seemed like a graveyard bring the food. So i thought the plans would probably be left here that much, but now here we are taking them back yet and thats a great feeling. Was a little food towards the work on does as ive often gone schools articles, the food, the to live tons of pilot arrived at valencia airport the day before. From here its almost a 2 hour drive to, to, to well, after 2 years of bad news, captain stefan vis says many in the Aviation Industry are once again looking to the future with a sense of optimism the, as ive since i got a little plug her we just flew here as passengers from frankfurt to valencia that i was born. The flight was fully booked out of it. I think everyones sense is that people are keen to travel again, and many of us thought Business Class would never be full again on of itself. But i think weve all seen that teams zoom or skype meetings can only replace business trips to a point of that. You can feel that everywhere buses who bods as good for the town of terra will, with its population of 36000 of the aircraft parked here, require weekly maintenance to ensure that the engines and wheels remain in working order. Even once the pandemic is over, plenty of work is likely to remain over the next 20 years. 15000. 00 planes will be taken out of service either because theyre too old or no longer profitable. The complex is more than 3 square kilometers in size, but its not big enough anymore. New hangers are now being built right next door plant. Director pedro sires says the solution here is much better than in the u. S. We are outdated aircraft are often just dumped in the desert and left to rot. You have to take into account that even in the recycling process, we recover in more than 94 percent of the weight of the aircraft is starting with what we call in the beginning. The harvest least that the say what is remove the high value component that they are very interesting for the owner just to be use us as per or for what out. But there are recycling coming back to the i dont know because i activity showed these harvest least eastern in average, around 150002000 pops up. Ive removed the air bus a 340 that pilot stefan this and mathias host are to collect from terror. Well, is already waiting for them inside the aircraft. Jorge, valero, and his team are conducting final checks 10 mechanics step. Spend several days getting the engines, landing gear and electronics ready for take off. After 18 months on the ground. They too are optimistic about the future. Companies thatll have putting dead people on the wall. They start to fly again on its a lot of job bud. Steve friends, 2 years ago, because philly there early. The lead smell a smiling day in the face of the people. Finally, its time for the pilots to go on board. The preparations for their flight are much more extensive than foreign normal take off. Ted well is not an active airport. There are no air traffic controllers, no electronic control system. The pilots will need to use maps to navigate and are largely left to their own devices in handling the airliner. The homecoming folks which it has no control tower that we can talk to. We have a so called uni come frequency, which allows all aircraft in the area to communicate with each other and again. So well let them know what were doing when we take off flying by side and dunlab 50 horse, we have no slightly path prescribed by air traffic controllers. Google just had north and follow the freeway toward saragossa. Autobody from en route. What contact the next control tower with a guide us into the upper airspace and, and from there it will be like any other flight and would have duncan also invite you to get us funds can but just before take off, they get some bad news. And airport vehicle ram the right wing. One of its landing flaps now has a gaping hole in the cladding. So will the long planned flight back to frankfurt have to be cancelled the pilots and photos to lift kansas Engineering Team in frankfort and then wait for their assessment and a decision on whether the flight can go ahead. But we feel lawson helps. We asked if we can fly with this kind of damage and they said, yes, its fine, its the mechanics havent been damaged. Its just the aerodynamic, cladding, fucked light on that will now be removed. But fruits will, does, if you will do not make a c o dynamics will suffer a bit less and will have more Wind Resistance will need 3 per cent, more fuel and but otherwise we can bring the plane back to frankfurt. No problem for middle school. So it gets a little problem and one foot above you and 2 and a half hours later, the damage cladding has been removed. The airbus a 340. 00 is cleared for take off once in frankfurt, the aircraft will spend 2 weeks undergoing a thorough service and overhaul before. Once again, find passengers to the americas, africa, asia, and beyond. Thanks for joining us for another addition of made. Im benefits all in. 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