New CEO for UTA 
Union Tank Eckstein (UTA) has appointed Carsten Bettermann as its new CEO. He succeeds Volker Huber, who, after four years at the helm of UTA, will assume new responsibilities within the Edenred group. Bettermann is an experienced managing director who graduated from the... more
Mieloo & Alexander hires sales manager for German branch
Mieloo & Alexander Business Integrators is a Dutch IT and consulting company from the logistics sector. The fast growing company founded its own subsidiary in Germany in order to respond to increasing demand in the German market. With immediate effect, Eiko Gramlich will... more
CEO of SBB Cargo to step down
Nicolas Perrin will resign from his position as CEO of SBB Cargo at the company’s annual general meeting in the second quarter of 2020. He has worked for the Swiss federal railways (SBB) for 32 years. During this time, he served as CEO of SBB Cargo for the last 12 years.... more
Uniform brand: AFG operates under new name
Effective immediately, the logistics services provider Allgemeine Fahrzeugübernahme-Gesellschaft (AFG), which was taken over by the Mosolf Group at the beginning of 2018, will be trading under the name of Mosolf Automotive Releasing Solutions. With this move, the Germany-based... more
Agility gains prestigious award in Africa
The new Mozambique park of Agility Logistics Parks (ALP) has won the “best industrial and logistics development in Africa” award at the Africa property and investment summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The award recognised the development in Maputo as a pioneering,... more
Gustav Seeland wins award
At the presentation of the award of the German federal working group heavy transport and crane work (BSK) in Rostock-Warnemünde (Germany) Gustav Seeland was again on the winners’ rostrum and won the first prize. The company was honoured for the development of a special steel... more
Columbia Shipmanagement celebrates 40 years
Captain Heinrich Schoeller, chairman of Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) and the Columbia board of directors, welcomed over 600 invited guests, staff and senior management to a party in the grounds of the company’s offices in Limassol, Cyprus to celebrate 40 years of Columbia... more
Chartersync expands team with two new appointments
The Go-Now air charter platform, Chartersync, has expanded its team with the appointment of two new members, to help fulfil their business objectives and growth plans. Izzy Hamilton and Andrew Burvill come with a wealth of experience and knowledge in their respected fields.... more
Hapag-Lloyd sets up new region South Europe
Hapag-Lloyd has officially opened its headquarters for the new region South Europe. CEO Rolf Habben Jansen presented the keys of the office complex in Genoa (Italy) to the new senior managing director Juan Pablo Richards. During the opening ceremony, Habben Jansen explained... more
Edoardo Podestá to head Dachser air & sea logistics
Dachser has appointed Edoardo Podestá as the COO of the air & sea logistics business unit. Podestá replaces Jochen Müller in this position. Dachser and Müller have mutually agreed not to extend his contract when it expires in 2020. Müller will stop working for Dachser with... more