ECS Group concentrates on responsibilities in USA 
Shaun Hawkett has been appointed commercial director USA for Globe Air Cargo to support the ECS Group’s planned expansion of its GSSA business in North America. In this newly-created role Hawkett will be based in New York City and will be responsible for overseeing all of Globe... more
Group7: new branch manager in Dusseldorf
Stephan Wolk was recently appointed branch manager air and ocean freight at Group7 AG in Dusseldorf (Germany). He already held leading positions at logistics companies, including one in Japan. In his previous post he was responsible for Röhlig’s branch office in Dusseldorf.... more
Change of leadership at Swedish Envirotainer
Envirotainer, a Swedish specialist for active temperature-controlled air transportation of pharmaceuticals, has announced that Simon Angeldorff will succeed CEO Gustaf Ljunggren. Ljunggren, who joined the company as CEO in May 2012, is leaving. He has been thanked by... more
Karl Gross team in Frankfurt goes global
Tommy Chun has been appointed branch manager of the Frankfurt airfreight division of Karl Gross Internationale Spedition GmbH. Prior to that, he spent two years at the German service provider’s Chinese subsidiary Karl Gross Logistics (Shanghai) Co Ltd, where he was jointly... more
Panalpina upgrading IT department
Panalpina’s chief information officer (CIO), Rod Angwin, will become the sixth member of the company’s executive board as of 1 January 2014. The promotion reflects the ever growing importance of IT for Panalpina and the industry as a whole. Angwin, a British citizen, joined... more
Geography of freight traffic
In recognition of his services to the transport industry, Dr Gordon Wilmsmeier was named honorary professor for maritime transport geography by the University of Bremen (Germany) on 24 October. He lectures in nautical science and maritime transport. Wilmsmeier, who hails from... more
Logistics Initiative Hamburg is expanding
Hamburg's economics senator, Frank Horch, has appointed Frank Schnabel, chairman of the board of the general association of Schleswig-Holstein ports and Heiko Fischer, CEO of VTG Aktiengesellschaft, as members of Logistics Initiative Hamburg’s board of trustees. The move is... more
FedEx appoints new head of Emea
David Binks is to be the new FedEx regional president for the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and Africa (Emea), effective 1 January 2014. He succeeds Gerald P. Leary, who is retiring after serving the express service provider for 39 years. Binks, who will be based at the... more
Swisslog finds new CEO
The management of Swisslog Holding Ltd is to be entrusted to Peter Hettich. He replaces Remo Brunschwiler, who left the intralogistics provider on 1 January 2013. Hettich has headed the Grenzebach Group’s general industry division since 2012, and worked for Porsche from 2000 to... more
MOL crossing the Alps
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) will open its own office in Switzerland. The new office will be located in Basel and will be operational on 1 January 2014. Jochen Veldmann, MOL's area director, said that the decision to open the new office in this important market is part of the... more