diff --git a/fairmq/FairMQChannel.h b/fairmq/FairMQChannel.h
index afca5d48..ebc3a4c5 100644
--- a/fairmq/FairMQChannel.h
+++ b/fairmq/FairMQChannel.h
@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ class FairMQChannel
     FairMQChannel& operator=(FairMQChannel&&) = default;
 
     /// Destructor
-    virtual ~FairMQChannel() {}
+    virtual ~FairMQChannel()
+    {
+        // LOG(debug) << "Destroying channel " << fName;
+    }
 
     struct ChannelConfigurationError : std::runtime_error { using std::runtime_error::runtime_error; };
 
diff --git a/fairmq/nanomsg/FairMQTransportFactoryNN.cxx b/fairmq/nanomsg/FairMQTransportFactoryNN.cxx
index c462e3ed..fe13e4f5 100644
--- a/fairmq/nanomsg/FairMQTransportFactoryNN.cxx
+++ b/fairmq/nanomsg/FairMQTransportFactoryNN.cxx
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ void FairMQTransportFactoryNN::Reset()
 
 FairMQTransportFactoryNN::~FairMQTransportFactoryNN()
 {
+    LOG(debug) << "Destroying Shared Memory transport...";
     // nn_term();
     // see https://www.freelists.org/post/nanomsg/Getting-rid-of-nn-init-and-nn-term,8
 }
diff --git a/fairmq/shmem/FairMQTransportFactorySHM.cxx b/fairmq/shmem/FairMQTransportFactorySHM.cxx
index 20ac5eb5..1f4f4a37 100644
--- a/fairmq/shmem/FairMQTransportFactorySHM.cxx
+++ b/fairmq/shmem/FairMQTransportFactorySHM.cxx
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ fair::mq::Transport FairMQTransportFactorySHM::GetType() const
 
 FairMQTransportFactorySHM::~FairMQTransportFactorySHM()
 {
+    LOG(debug) << "Destroying Shared Memory transport...";
     fSendHeartbeats = false;
     fHeartbeatThread.join();
 
diff --git a/fairmq/zeromq/FairMQTransportFactoryZMQ.cxx b/fairmq/zeromq/FairMQTransportFactoryZMQ.cxx
index 76308829..458c6353 100644
--- a/fairmq/zeromq/FairMQTransportFactoryZMQ.cxx
+++ b/fairmq/zeromq/FairMQTransportFactoryZMQ.cxx
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ fair::mq::Transport FairMQTransportFactoryZMQ::GetType() const
 
 FairMQTransportFactoryZMQ::~FairMQTransportFactoryZMQ()
 {
+    LOG(debug) << "Destroying ZeroMQ transport...";
     if (fContext)
     {
         if (zmq_ctx_term(fContext) != 0)