Frédéric Barra to preside council of development 
Frédéric Barra, president of the port handling company Barra SNM, has been elected president of the council of development of the port of Dunkirk and Franck Gonsse, secretary general of the trade union CNTPA, has been appointed vice president. Barra was already a member of... more
TUP expands its board
Intralogistics software manufacturer Dr. Thomas + Partner (TUP) has decided to strengthen its management. The long-serving executives Günther Pfisterer as chief operating officer (COO) and Eduard Wagner as chief information officer (CIO) will join Simon Thomas and Mathias Thomas... more
Red Hawk appoints logistics specialist
Red Hawk, a distributor of medical devices, has appointed a supply chain, procurement and finance veteran, Joseph R. Mohr, to its board of directors effective 15 October 2019. Mohr has over forty years of c-suite executive experience, including thirty years of executive supply... more
New CFO for Ceva and CMA CGM
The CMA CGM group has chosen Olivier Casanova as group deputy CFO. He will also serve as Ceva Logistics’ CFO. Casanova is a graduate from HEC. He started his career in 1991 as an investment banker; then he became managing director at SG Warburg/UBS in Paris (France) and London... more
Erich Staake enters the logistics hall of fame
Erich Staake is the new member of the logistics hall of fame. The chairman of the executive board of Duisburger Hafen AG was elected as “moderniser of inland port logistics” among 30 candidates from nine nations to the international logistics hall of fame. "Staake is... more
Mike Wilson to receive 2019 Silver Kingpin Award
Mike Wilson, CEO, Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM), will receive the 2019 Silver Kingpin Award, which is presented by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). The award recognises an individual’s long-term contributions to intermodalism. Wilson will be... more
From DP World to Delta Cargo
Delta Cargo has appointed Rob Walpole as vice president – cargo operations and logistics. This new position, reporting to Shawn Cole, will see Walpole lead Delta Cargo’s global operations and Delta Logistics control centre teams. “Walpole has a strong operational background and... more
Facelift for Linz Airport
Hitherto, the airport of Linz in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria has been known as "blue danube airport linz". Now the airport has been given a new and simplified name: Linz Airport. The management says that the new name is more in keeping with the... more
Bastiaan de Bruijne appointed general counsel at ACI Europe
ACI Europe, the trade association for Europe’s airports, has appointed Bastiaan de Bruijne as its new general counsel. De Bruijne joins the ACI Europe team from Royal Schiphol Group, where he was competition & regulation counsel. He also worked for the ministry of foreign... more
Changes in Finnlines’ management
Finnlines has announced that, with effect from 1 September 2019, Merja Kallio-Mannila has been appointed deputy head of group sales, marketing & customer service and Torkel Saarnio has been named deputy line manager of HansaLink, Hanko–Rostock & Helsinki–Rostock. In... more