US transport minister resigns 
After the events of last Wednesday in Washington DC, US Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, has written the following letter. "Dear Department of Transportation colleagues Yesterday, our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of... more
Bertling appoints head for Houston office
Steve Walter has been appointed general manager of Bertling Logistics’ Houston office. He assumed his position on 1 January 2021. Walter brings a wealth of commercial, operational and management experience from his 23 years in the freight industry to his new role. In his... more
Mario Sommariva takes charge in east Liguria
The Italian ports of La Spezia and Carrara have a new captain at the helm. Mario Sommariva was recently installed as the new president of the Port Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea by Italian transport minister Paola De Micheli. Sommariva succeeds Carla Roncallo, who has... more
Managing director for parcel logistician
Daryl Dylan, who previously held the post of head of ‘carriers and commercials’, has been asked to step up to the role of new managing director of Caribou, a multimodal parcel, haulage and freight logistician. His first tasks are to bring the firm’s network of depots to ten... more
Transitions and performance at Daseke
At the end of last year Christopher Easter, the CEO of Daseke, a transport and logistics company based in Addison TX (USA), retired as CEO and as a board member, on account of family-related obligations. Jonathan Shepko, one of Daseke’s directors and a co-founder and... more
ITJ Video News – 7 January 2021
In the ITJ Video News of the 7th of January 2021, editor-in-chief Chris Doepgen shines the spotlight on Olfa Hamdi, the 36-year-old new president and chairwoman of state-owned Tunisair; the shipping line ZIM’s plans to go public; an ‘air bridge’ between Belgium and England;... more
Schniederkötter appointed Hoyer CEO
Björn Schniederkötter will take over the position of CEO of the Hoyer Group, a logistics company headquartered in Hamburg, with effect from 1 February 2021. He replaces Ortwin Nast, who has decided to step down as CEO and retire from professional life after more than 14... more
Tunisair: engineer comes to the rescue
Olfa Hamdi is the new president and chair of the board at Tunisair. This was announced by Tunisia’s ministry for transport and logistics on 4 January 2021, after the previous candidate to lead the North African country’s national carrier, Wassef Ayadi, who was appointed last... more
MHP Solution Group fills new position
MHP Solution Group, a German provider of end-to-end logistics software and hardware solutions in the DACH region, has appointed Michael Zitzmann to the newly created position of SVP sales. Effective 1 January 2021, Zitzmann, who was born in the German federal state of Saarland,... more
Developing business in West Yorkshire
Industry veteran Bryan Mottershead has been appointed business development manager at A.D.D. Express, a shareholder and founder member of the Pall-Ex network which celebrates its 30 anniversary this year and has sites in Elland and Rochdale. Mottershead has previously held... more