EPG picks Yannick Peton 
Yannick Peton joined EPG as country manager for France this year. He has many years of experience in sales, marketing and account management and has held various positions at Checkpoint Systems and IER, two internationally active RFID experts. In his new role, Peton will... more
Atlas Air promotes Michael T. Steen
Atlas Air Worldwide has appointed Michael T. Steen, executive vice president and CCO, as chief executive officer, effective 15 June 2023. He succeeds John W. Dietrich, who is retiring from the company after nearly 25 years. Executive vice president and CFO Spencer Schwartz is... more
Peter Weber returns to ITA Consulting Group
Peter Weber returned to the ITA Consulting Group as the new chief digital officer on 1 May 2023. His task will be to continue the company’s digitalisation programme. With his many years of experience in the digital development of companies, he will be a key player in planning... more
Holger Schmidt heads technical innovations at VTG
Holger Schmidt assumed his new position as VTG’s head of technical innovations on 1 May 2023. He will oversee current and new innovation projects relating to concepts for modular freight wagons, sensor technology and telematics, as well as technical developments for the new... more
SAS Cargo promotes Markus Ek
Markus Ek, currently VP global sales and acting head of transformation office at SAS, has been appointed CEO of SAS Cargo and will assume his new role on 1 August 2023. Ek has been part of SAS since 2008 and has held positions mainly within purchasing and sales. When he was... more
Kerissa Khan to head Royal Aeronautical Society
Kerissa Khan MRAeS began her mandate as president of the Royal Aeronautical Society at its AGM on 4 May 2023. The AGM also voted David Chinn as president-elect. Khan was educated at Naparima Girls’ High School in Trinidad and Tobago. She graduated from the University of... more
Manhattan Associates expanding base in Germany
Manhattan Associates, which specialises in technology for supply chains and omnichannel commerce, is growing its business in Germany. Since the beginning of 2022, the number of employees in the office in Düsseldorf has increased from originally 24 to 38 today. New staff has... more
Changi airport presents 2023 awards
The Changi Airport Group (CAG) celebrated a year of strong air traffic recovery and the revival of air travel with its 2023 Changi Airline Awards, held at Singapore’s Shangri-La hotel. The annual event was attended by more than 150 representatives from 70 airlines. 2022’s top... more
70th anniversary for Fischer & Rechsteiner
Fischer & Rechsteiner, an international shipping company based in Valmadrera, about 45 km northeast of Milan (Italy), celebrated its 70th anniversary on 29 April 2023. It carries on a tradition of a brand that appeared on the market more than a century and a half ago, in... more
Havi with a new chair in Germany
On 1 May Stavroula Ekoutsidou became the new chair of the management board of Havi Germany, putting her in charge of the supply chain specialist’s entire German market. In addition to her role as chair of the German management board, Ekoutsidou is also vice-president in... more