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☆ Tesla retreats from next-generation ‘gigacasting’ manufacturing process
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Employees of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Brandenburg work on a production line of a Model Y electric vehicle. Tesla has backed away from an ambitious plan for innovations in gigacasting, its pioneering manufacturing process, according to two sources familiar with the matter, in another sign that the electric-vehicle maker is retrenching amid falling sales and rising competition. Tesla has been a leader in gigacasting, a cutting-edge technique that uses huge presses with thousands of tons of clamping pressure to die-cast large sections of the car's underbody. One of the two sources familiar with the automaker's gigacasting operations said the suppliers involved are now adapting Tesla's three-piece process for the next-generation vehicle. Both sources said the automaker decided last autumn to halt work on the more innovative and difficult one-piece casting process.

Persons: Tesla, Elon Musk Organizations: Tesla, Brandenburg, Reuters Locations: gigacasting

☆ Security staff strike to halt departures from Berlin airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) - Passengers at Berlin airport face disruptions on Monday with all flight departures cancelled due to a one-day strike by security workers, and some incoming flights also set to be affected. Berlin Brandenburg airport announced on Saturday that it had cancelled all flight departures on Monday and said that landings would also be affected after the Verdi union called on security workers to stage a one-day strike to raise the pressure in wage talks. The strike is due to start at 3:30 a.m. local time (0130 GMT) and end at midnight (2200 GMT). An airport spokesperson said roughly 240 flights had been scheduled to take off on Monday. The union says it has been negotiating with the BDLS aviation security association to push for pay increases for night, weekend and public holiday shifts.

☆ Berlin airport cancels all departures on Monday due to strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN, April 22 (Reuters) - Germany's Verdi union called for a one-day strike of air security staff at Berlin airport on Monday as part of an ongoing wage dispute, prompting the airport to cancel all passenger departures that day. The walkout is due to start at 3:30 a.m. local time (0130 GMT) on Monday and will end at midnight (2200 GMT), the union said. The planned action follows walkouts at four other German airports - Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart on Thursday and Friday when more than 700 departures were cancelled. "Due to the warning strikes by security staff, no departures of passenger flights will be possible on Monday April 24," Berlin Brandenburg airport said in a statement, adding arrivals might also be affected. The union has been negotiating with the BDLS aviation security association to push for pay increases for night, weekend and public holiday shifts.

☆ Tesla set to report first-quarter earnings after the bell
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Employees of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Brandenburg work on the final inspection of the finished Model Y electric vehicles. Tesla is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings for 2023 after the close of trading on Wednesday. A month earlier, Musk announced plans to build a Tesla factory in Monterrey, Mexico, a day's drive from a relatively new factory in Austin, Texas. And more recently, Tesla said it plans to set up a factory to make Megapacks, or large lithium ion battery-based energy storage systems, in Shanghai. WATCH: CFRA's Garrett Nelson bullish on long-term earnings growth for Tesla

☆ Tesla shares drop after deliveries report raises investor concern that more price cuts are coming
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla shares fell more than 7% on Monday after the company's quarterly deliveries report led some investors to worry that more price cuts will be needed to drive sales, eating into margins. The record numbers represented 4% growth in deliveries from the prior period and followed repeated price cuts in the U.S., China and Europe. Sacconaghi said, "The key question for investors is what might margins be, amid significant price cuts but improving commodity costs?" According to FactSet, analyst were expecting Tesla to report deliveries of around 432,000 vehicles for the quarter. He wrote that "incremental price cuts likely needed," especially as the company ramps up production at new factories in Austin, Texas, and outside of Berlin.

☆ Operator warns of 'massive disruptions' in German airports strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

German trade union Verdi on Wednesday called on workers at Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hanover and Bremen airports to go on a 24-hour strike, saying collective bargaining efforts had made little progress. "On Friday, February 17, 2023, there will therefore be massive disruptions to air traffic," said Fraport (FRAG.DE), the operator of Frankfurt airport, which counted more than 48 million passengers in 2022. The walkout also coincides with the start of the 59th Munich Security Conference (MSC), which brings hundreds of delegates to the Bavarian capital, including several global leaders. The issue would be discussed with the airport on Thursday, the Verdi spokesperson added. The union is currently in negotiations for three groups of workers: ground service staff, public sector officials and aviation security workers.

☆ Strike over pay at Berlin airport grounds all flights -operator
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/6] A view shows empty check-in counters and kiosks, during a general strike by employees over pay demands, at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), in Schoenefeld near Berlin, Germany January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Michele TantussiBERLIN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Staff at Germany's BER airport in capital Berlin went on strike to press their pay demands on Wednesday and the airport operator said all regular passenger flights were cancelled as a result. The Ver.di union called on airport staff in ground services, aviation security and at the airport company to strike in the wage dispute. It called the one-day work stoppage over what it said was insufficient progress in wage talks. Reporting by Klaus Lauer; Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Tom HogueOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Strike over pay grounds all flights at Berlin airport, operator says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - All flights were cancelled at Germany's BER airport in the capital Berlin on Wednesday, the operator said, as staff went on strike for the day to press pay demands. The Ver.di union called on airport staff in ground services, aviation security and at the airport company to strike in the wage dispute. It called the one-day work stoppage over what it said was insufficient progress in the three parallel wage talks. [1/7] Demonstrators hold a banner during a general strike by employees over pay demands, at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), in Schoenefeld near Berlin, Germany January 25, 2023. A source told Reuters that a draft of this report forecast 6% inflation this year and 2.8% for 2024.

☆ Berlin airport reopens runways after climate protest
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A climate activist glues herself to a runway at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) during a protest, in Berlin, Germany November 24, 2022, in this still image obtained from a handout video. The activists from the Last Generation environmental group called on the public to stop travelling by air and on the government to stop subsidising it. The protest, the latest by climate activists in Germany, also urged the government to expand cheap train travel offers. A spokesperson for the airport said the activists had entered the airport from two points in the north and south, and police had detained them. Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed some aircraft that were originally heading to the airport changed their route.

☆ Noul aeroport internaţional din Berlin se deschide în mijlocul unei crize a industriei aeronautice. După 14 ani de construcţie şi şase inaugurări amânate
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-30 | by ( Sensmedia Srl | Anastasia Rusu | Ia Legătura Cu Autorul | ) tv8.md time to read: +3 min

După 14 ani de construcţie şi şase inaugurări amânate, noul aeroport internaţional din Berlin (Berlin Brandenburg Airport – BER) va spune sâmbătă bun venit primilor săi pasageri, însă momentul în care are loc inaugurarea nu putea fi unul mai nepotrivit, transmite Reuters, citat de Agerpres. Destinat să înlocuiască aeroporturile existente – Tegel şi Schonefeld – Aeroportul Internaţional Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt (BER) trebuia să fie inaugurat festiv pe 3 iunie 2012. Economiştii au descris compania de stat care va opera noul aeroport, Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB), drept o gaură neagră financiară. La finele lui 2019, FBB datora băncilor şi proprietarilor săi, Guvernul federal german şi landurile Berlin şi Brandenburg, aproximativ 4,1 miliarde euro. Chiar şi înaintea pandemiei, noul aeroport nu era aşteptat să genereze o creştere a veniturilor, fiind destinat în principal să înlocuiască cele două aeroporturi mai vechi.

Persons: Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt, Economiştii, Lenz, Engelbert Luetke Daldrup, Rainer Bretschneider, Johannes Braun . Rainer Bretschneider Organizations: Reuters, Agerpres, Universitatea Wuerzburg, BER, Reuters, Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB), Berlin, Johannes Braun, Youtube, Instagram Locations: internaţional, Berlin, Berlin Brandenburg, Pandemia, Europa, ACI Europe, Germaniei, Berlin Brandenburg GmbH, german, landurile Berlin şi Brandenburg, Schoenefeld

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