Rock-it Cargos named freight forwarder of the year 
Rock-it Cargo, a provider of logistics services to live event shippers, has been honoured with the 2019 Parnelli freight forwarder of the year award. Rock-it non-executive chairman and outgoing CEO David Charles Bernstein was at the 19th Parnelli awards gala in Anaheim, CA... more
Mission Critical Electronics: changes at the top
Xantrex vice president and general manager Richard Gaudet is now president of Marine Power at Mission Critical Electronics, Xantrex’s parent company. Gaudet, who joined Xantrex in 1997 worked in a variety of roles before becoming its top leader in 2010. Under Gaudet’s... more
Transplace appoints new head
Transplace, a Dallas (USA)-based provider of transportation technology and services, has appointed Greg Sebolt as its new executive vice president of strategic capacity services, the company’s over-the -road truck brokerage business. With more than 20 years specialising in... more
Wabash restructures its management team
Wabash National Corporation, a producer of engineered solutions for the transportation, logistics and distribution industries, has appointed Mike Pettit senior vice president and CFO. As CFO, Pettit will be responsible for driving Wabash National’s financial performance as the... more
Gary Nemmers joins Magaya's board of directors
Magaya, a provider of logistics and supply chain software, has appointed Gary Nemmers, an accomplished senior software executive, to its board of directors. Nemmers brings extensive experience working with private equity backed software companies and has worked within... more
Panalpina gets an "A" for its environmental efforts
Panalpina, which was acquired by DSV in 2019, has been commended for its climate action, achieving a place on non-profit CDP's ‘A List’ for climate change, based on the company’s climate reporting. “This is a magnificent achievement, and we now have confirmation that the... more
Hamburg Süd’s CCO to retire
Frank Smet, CCO of Hamburg Süd, will be retiring at the end of March after roughly 27 years with the company. Smet, who has been working in the shipping industry for over 40 years – including in Brazil, Chile, Australia and Hong Kong – has been a member of Hamburg Süd’s... more
BDP International picks Katherine Harper as CFO
BDP International has named Katherine Harper as CFO. Harper will oversee all aspects of BDP’s financial operations throughout its global network of wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. Harper is a highly experienced financial professional and... more
A special anniversary
It is an anniversary that does not happen every day. Hans Völkert has been working for the German logistics services provider Fiege for 50 years. The executive board and the Fiege family paid homage to Völkert for his special anniversary. “During my time at Fiege I must have... more
New lobbyist for Deutsche Post DHL Group
Volker Ratzmann will assume the position of executive vice president corporate public policy & regulation management at DHL as of 1 May 2020. He will report to Frank Appel, CEO of Deutsche Post DHL Group. Ratzmann is a qualified lawyer. He has served as secretary of the... more