Tobias Schmidt takes the helm 
Tobias Schmidt is now CEO DHL Global Forwarding Europe, Deutsche Post DHL Group's air and ocean freight specialist. He succeeds Thomas George, who has managed the organisation since 2016. Schmidt will continue to lead the German and Swiss organisation. “We are confident that... more
Audi chooses Gerd Walker
Peter Kössler, who has been the board member for production and logistics at Audi since 2017, will retire as planned on 1 February 2022. His successor will be Gerd Walker, who began his career at Audi in production and is currently in charge of production at the Volkswagen Group... more
Stewart Angus returns to Dnata
Global air and travel services provider Dnata has appointed Stewart Angus as its regional chief executive officer for Europe. In his new role, Angus will lead Dnata’s airport operations at 23 airports in six countries in Europe, managing 6,300 highly-trained employees.... more
‘Air Cargo Excellence’ award for Turkish Cargo
Turkish Cargo, the airline with the world’s strongest cargo flight network, received the 'Air Cargo Excellence' award in nine different categories at a logistics fair in Bratislava, Slovakia. The airline offers flights to 97 direct cargo destinations, including express... more
Duisport reshuffles key positions
The Duisport Group is reassigning various key positions in its subsidiaries: Vanessa Hanhart and Sandra Strohbücker, who already head the group's superstructure and infrastructure management divisions, have been appointed managing directors of Hafen Duisburg-Rheinhausen,... more
Double promotion at Europa Road
Based at Prologis Park, Europa Worldwide Group’s Birmingham site has promoted two of its 100 employees. Jamie Hedgecox (previously Birmingham branch manager) has become regional manager (central) after being with the company for three years, and Abigail Brooks has been promoted... more
Iata appoints chief economist
Marie Owens Thomsen will join the International Air Transport Association (Iata) as its chief economist, effective 4 January 2022. She has served as head of global trends and sustainability at Banque Lombard Odier since 2020. Before that, she was global head of investment... more
South African wins Fiata’s last Yiffy award
Pandemic or not – Fiata, the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations, based in Geneva, and the international freight transport insurer TT Club, its partner since the inception of the Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award (Yiffya) in 1999,... more
BDP International picks Anthony Elwine
BDP International has appointed Anthony Elwine as its new chief commercial officer (CCO). He brings nearly 30 years of logistics and supply chain experience to the role, with a background in transportation, sales strategy, chemical, petrochemical, industrial and manufacturing... more
Gender balance on Atlas Air's board
At the Women’s Forum of New York 2021, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings was named as one among Corporate Champions in recognition of its leadership to attain gender balance on its corporate board. The “Breakfast of Corporate Champions” (BCC) event on 10 November 2021 in New York... more