Dutch air cargo award for van Loon 
Sjoerd van Loon, CEO of logistics company IJS Global is the first ever winner of the Martin Schröder Award. Van Loon received the trophy from the founder of Martinair – after whom the trophy is named – at the Dutch National Air Cargo Awards held in Amsterdam on 28 November. The... more
Kukla bundles third-country transport services
Rainer Haas assumed responsibility for third-country traffic at the Munich-based German forwarding company Kukla on 1 December. The new manager has worked in the logistics industry for over 30 years, and in his previous post spent more than ten years as the branch manager and... more
DGX amends management team
Dependable Global Express Inc (DGX), a global ocean freight forwarder, has adjusted its management team. Within the continental USA, Raj Dias has joined the company as vice-president of global business development. He will primarily focus on South Asia as well as intra-Asia... more
Raben Group appoints industry veteran to supervisory board
Industry veteran Hans-Jörg Hager took on his new mandate on the supervisory board of Raben Group NV at the beginning of December. Hager, a former CEO of Schenker Germany and a Schenker AG board member, was in charge of European overland transport services there. He was also a... more
Umco expands management
Umco Umwelt Consult is enlarging its managerial team. Authorised signatory Anika Biehl has been made a member of the German company’s executive board with immediate effect. In addition, the firm granted power of attorney to Tobias Schulte, the new deputy head of the chemicals... more
Geodis Wilson bolsters industrial projects in Asia
Geodis Wilson has appointed Igor Muñiz Tinoco as head of industrial projects in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Muñiz, who will be based in Singapore, is to take charge of Geodis Wilson’s industrial projects freight management and logistics operations in Australia, Indonesia,... more
Ratioform reorganises management
The packaging dealer Ratioform has announced that Ulf Heber will become its managing director on 1 January 2014. He succeeds Michael Vollmer, who began to work for the company in 2000 and who is leaving for personal reasons. Under Vollmer’s leadership Ratioform grew into a mail... more
DNV greets new regional manager for Germany
DNV GL has named Matthias Ritters as maritime regional manager for the Germany region. He has transferred from Germanischer Lloyd, where he assumed responsibility for the Europe/Middle East/Africa region in 2006. Prior to that, he was technical director at the Schlüssel shipping... more
Aviation industry bids farewell to Icao president
Air transport industry operators attended an event hosted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (Icao) on 22 November to honour outgoing Icao council president Roberto Kobeh González, for his tremendous contributions over the last seven years to the sustainable... more
Descartes appoints new CEO
Descartes Systems Group, a provider of on-demand software-as-a-service solutions for the logistics industry, has appointed Edward J. Ryan as its new chief executive officer. Ryan has been the company's CCO since 2011, and prior to that held several other senior executive... more