New heads for Swissport's Emea region 
To further strengthen the Emea organisation and to better meet customer expectations with regard to air cargo handling and airport ground services, Swissport has appointed Rudolf Steiner as senior vice president cargo Europe, Middle East & Africa and Mark Skinner as senior... more
Christian U. Haas to chair the board at PTV Group
Christian U. Haas has been appointed chairman of the board of the company PTV Planung Transport Verkehr (PTV Group), Karlsruhe, Germany. The board of the PTV Group is now complete. Peter Overmann as chief technology officer (CTO) and Klaus Lechner as chief financial officer... more
New responsibilities at K Line
At a board meeting recently, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) modified the responsibilities of the executive officer. The present responsibilities of executive officer Satoshi Kanamori are to head LNG and energy business planning; he is also general manager of the energy business... more
Jaxport COO earns industry certification
Jaxport COO Frederick Wong Jr. is one of eight graduates from the USA and Canada to earn the 2019 American association of port authorities’ professional port manager (PPM) certification. Wong is the second Jaxport employee in the port’s history to earn this industry... more
Tarros holds network meeting
Building the Network 2nd edition, the 2019 Tarros Group Agency meeting was held at Tarros HQ in La Spezia (Italy). Over 50 managers from Portugal, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Malta, Lebanon, Turkey and Italy took part in the two-day event, which was focused on the integrated... more
Martin Bencher opens office in Bilbao
Martin Bencher Group, the Danish project logistics expert, is expanding in Southern Europe. The company has been active in Spain for many years in terms of operations and sales. Therefore, Martin Bencher Group is now opening an office in Bilbao, Spain. Managing director for... more
Suzane Giurlando to lead Epal
Suzane Giurlando has taken over the management of the Gütegemeinschaft Paletten (Epal Germany). After she had worked as an assistant of the company’s management and board since 2011, the board has now appointed her to the position of managing director. Giurlando relies on... more
Lineas renews management team 
The private rail freight operator Lineas is saying goodbye to two of its key members in the management team, Rik Vos, COO, and Sam Bruynseels, CCO, who both have decided to explore new opportunities. Both will be leaving the company in 2019 in search of new challenges. At... more
Interworld Freight gains AEO certification
Interworld Freight in the Dominican Republic has been certified as an authorized economic operator (AEO) by OEA (operador economico autorizado). Country manager Leonardo Ocampo says; "Interworld Freight is committed and always looking to provide the highest safety standards... more
Gerhard Hillebrand chairs road transport committee at DVF
Gerhard Hillebrand, vice president for transport of the ADAC and member of the presiding board of the Deutsches Verkehrsforum (DVF), a multi-modal association for passenger and cargo transport, chaired his first meeting as chairman of the DVF’s steering committee for road... more