South African wins Fiata’s last Yiffy award 
Pandemic or not – Fiata, the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations, based in Geneva, and the international freight transport insurer TT Club, its partner since the inception of the Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award (Yiffya) in 1999,... more
BDP International picks Anthony Elwine
BDP International has appointed Anthony Elwine as its new chief commercial officer (CCO). He brings nearly 30 years of logistics and supply chain experience to the role, with a background in transportation, sales strategy, chemical, petrochemical, industrial and manufacturing... more
Gender balance on Atlas Air's board
At the Women’s Forum of New York 2021, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings was named as one among Corporate Champions in recognition of its leadership to attain gender balance on its corporate board. The “Breakfast of Corporate Champions” (BCC) event on 10 November 2021 in New York... more
Promotion for Tom Drury
Transport and logistics provider Geodis has promoted Tom Drury to executive vice president of strategic development of the Americas region. He will succeed Fred Loeffel, who is retiring after nearly 36 years in the company. Since 2015, Drury has been executive vice president of... more
Hapag-Lloyd chooses Donya-Florence Amer
Hapag-Lloyd's supervisory board has appointed Donya-Florence Amer to the executive board. She will join the company as chief information officer (CIO) on 1 February 2022. Amer began her professional career at IBM in 1999, holding various management positions. She has served... more
Broekman Logistics picks Nicolas Parey
Nicolas Parey has taken over as permanent CFO at Broekman Logistics. He replaces Ulrich Steenken, whose interim assignment ended as planned. Parey, a German national who recently relocated to the Netherlands, has a background in both financial and industrial environments and... more
Green Swan Partners launches second company
Green Swan Partners (GSP), a sustainability-focused venture builder has elected Chetan Chothani - chief executive officer, Lala Faiz - group sustainability officer Mark V. Santo - group general counsel, Anders Flensborg - chief commercial officer and Mare Straetmans - chief... more
Quantron picks René-Christopher Wollmann
Quantron’s management team has appointed René-Christopher Wollmann as CTO (chief technology officer). Wollmann assumes overall responsibility for commercial vehicle and component projects and the expansion of hydrogen development with partner Ballard Power. He has a degree... more
TT Club appoints first CTO
Global freight and logistics insurer TTC Club has hired experienced CTO Kevin Blunsum, thus underlining the future importance of technology in fulfilling its primary mission to increase safety in the container industry. Blunsum will work with Thomas Miller Group CIO Lisa... more
Paycargo chooses Amit Gairola
Paycargo has named Amit Gairola as chief design officer. Prior to this appointment, Gairola worked at Amazon for ten years in a variety of general management, product and commercial roles, including most recently as general manager of Amazon Freight in Europe. During his... more