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An electric charging cable connected to a BMW 5 Series luxury electric automobile at the BMW Welt automobile showroom, operated by Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, in Munich, Germany, on Friday, March 12, 2021. BMW expects profit to rise this year, building on positive momentum from late last year when sales recovered in key regions. Photographer: Andreas Gebert/Bloomberg via Getty Images

BMW says profits will double this year amid ambitious plan to embrace electric vehicles

By William Wilkes and Bloomberg

A temporarily immobilized Lufthansa passenger aircraft stands in dense fog on the northwest runway of Frankfurt Airport near the tower. For the second time this year, the runway is being used as a parking lot due to the corona-related lull in the aviation industry.

Lufthansa will airlift food to the U.K. amid border closure and fears of food shortages due to new COVID strain

By William Wilkes, Deirdre Hipwell, and others

A police car patrols along the stacks of Freight lorries and goods vehicles queuing on a closed section of the M20 motorway which leads to the Port of Dover, near Ashford in Kent, south east England at sunrise on December 22, 2020, after a string of countries banned travel including accompanied freight arriving from the UK, due to the rapid spread of a more-infectious new coronavirus strain. – Britain’s critical south coast port at Dover said on December 20 it was closing to all accompanied freight and passengers due to the French border restrictions “until further notice”. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

After mutant virus fears cut off trucking routes to Europe, U.K. businesses look to cargo jets and freight trains

By Christopher Jasper, Deirdre Hipwell, and others

SCHKEUDITZ, GERMANY – APRIL 27: Workers unload a shipment of 10 million protective face masks and other protective medical gear that had arrived on an Antonov 225 cargo plane from China at Leipzig/Halle Airport during the novel coronavirus crisis on April 27, 2020 in Schkeuditz, Germany. The flight, coordinated by the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, is one of three that will bring 25 million masks to Germany. Germany currently has approximately 157,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 infection, of which approximately 103,000 have recovered and 6,0000 have died. (Photo by Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Airlines are facing ‘mission of the century’ in shipping COVID vaccines

By Christopher Jasper, William Wilkes, and others

Lufthansa Boeing 747 passenger aircraft standing on the tarmac at Frankfurt Airport. The German government will reportedly take a stake in the carrier

After Air France-KLM bailout, Germany’s Lufthansa could be next

By Birgit Jennen, William Wilkes, and others

An Airbus A380 of the airline Lufthansa is in its parking position after landing at Frankfurt Airport. Europe’s largest airline warned it faces a cash crunch and needs state aid “within weeks.” Wire photography: Silas Stein/dpa via Getty Images

‘State aid or bust:’ Germany’s Lufthansa is running out of cash

By William Wilkes, Richard Weiss, and others

Traffic jam on the A24

Europe’s Scorching Heatwave Forces Germany to Impose Autobahn Speed Limits

By William Wilkes, Brian Parkin, and others