CHEP: promotion for Luca Rossi 
Supply chain solutions company CHEP has elected Luca Rossi vice president, European key accounts. Joining the industry in 1999 as sales manager, Rossi will replace Candice Herndon, who is leaving the business. Rossi's mission will oversee the relationships of CHEP's 35 EKA... more
Russell Stokes to lead GE Aviation Services
General Electric has announced many changes in its senior leadership team. One of them is the appointment of Russell Stokes, a 23-year GE veteran, as chief executive officer and president of GE Aviation Services. GE Aviation, an operating unit of GE, is a worldwide provider... more
ITJ Video News – 8 October 2020
This week’s ITJ Video News features the New York Shipping Exchange, Quito international airport, the PTV group’s David Goh, Slovenia’s Primol-Rail, and one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, the Europa Worldwide Group. (ah)... more
New chairman and CEO for Yang Ming
The Taiwanese shipping company Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation has elected Cheng Cheng-Mount to succeed Hsieh Chih-Chien as its chairman and CEO with effect from 1 October 2020. Cheng Cheng-Mount was the chief economist at Citibank Taiwan, the president of the Academy... more
Female logistics leaders are rated higher
According to a survey of over 1,800 supply chain professionals undertaken by the organisational development company Novosensus based in Singapore, women, while only representing 13% of senior leaders in logistics, score higher on six out of seven leadership competencies than... more
Passing of former NY/NJ top forwarder and broker
Stewart B. Hauser, former chairman of D. Hauser Inc., died on 28 September 2020 at the age of 78. With five decades of industry experience, he had devoted his entire education and career to the facilitation of international trade and transportation as a customs house broker,... more
The CMA CGM Group recruits
To accelerate the implementation of its digital and technological objectives, the CMA CGM Group has appointed Nicolas Sekkaki as executive vice president IT, digital & transformation. Previously chairman of IBM France since 2015, he will lead the strategy of the company... more
Batliwala becomes chairman, Erbacher returns
Russi Batliwala (left), one of the best known faces in the aircraft charter industry, has been appointed Chapman Freeborn group chairman after 33 years in the business. He had begun his journey with the company as a trainee aviation broker and has overseen a period of expansion... more
Generation change at TST
The logistics company TST, based in Worms (Germany), is extending its executive board, with retroactive effect from 1 September. Marcel Thomas Bicking (centre), previously general manager of TST, will join the management as new co-managing director. The executive board will... more
MOL restructures organisation
As part of its “rolling plan 2020”, MOL has established an offshore technical division to concentrate management resources and strengthen its market position in an important business field. United with the "One MOL" division, the new branch is a technical group led... more