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Stephan Zilkens
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Zilkens' News Blog 13 2025
A video is doing the rounds among logisticians on the internet in which an employee of Schenker, which now belongs to the Danish DSV Group, explains in the most beautiful German-English why the last mile is now being served by a cargo bike. The man believes that it can also be used to safely transport works of art. Somehow, one hopes that this is a new edition of Peter Ustinov's Grand Prix of Gibraltar, where he has the German engineer Altbauer say: ‘You have to be a slave to the machine’ in order to subsequently explain that to optimise speed, the driver has to sit in a split. When it comes to cargo bikes, the insurance industry is in a bind. For decades, it has required two drivers for art transport with a total value of over €500,000. This does not apply to public tenders – and there are said to be providers who only have one person in the vehicle when it goes on the road.
Ed Sheeran, an English musician, together with colleagues, has called on the British government to invest heavily in music education, because otherwise only the children of wealthy parents will be able to learn an instrument. In the USA, it will be even worse, because Musk is now also tackling cultural administration. Unlike in European countries, the USA has a ‘hire and fire’ culture. You can get rid of employees quickly. The social market economy is structured differently - companies can only react to difficulties by implementing social plans, which have the disadvantage that, as a rule, young employees have to look for new jobs.
The next four weeks are going to be very busy for art tourism in connection with art fairs: Art Basel opens in Hong Kong on Thursday, followed a week later by Art Paris, and then Art Düsseldorf in the following week. After that, it's time to change continents again and head to Art Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. And then it's Easter – at least for the Christians among us.
Stefan Kobel has once again put together a lot of information – Enjoy reading,
Yours sincerely, Stephan Zilkens and the team at Zilkens Fine Art Insurance Broker GmbH in Solothurn and Cologne
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