Yves Laforgue is Bolloré's new CEO for the Americas 
Bolloré Logistics has appointed Yves Laforgue CEO of the Americas region. Having previously served as COO Asia-Pacific, he succeeds Tony Rodrigues. Since joining the Bolloré Group in 1996, Laforgue has spent most of his career in Asia. He most recently held the positions of... more
US Navy expects newest COD carrier
The first CMV-22B Osprey, built by Boeing and Bell Textron, completed its first flight operations at Bell’s Amarillo Assembly Centre. The CMV-22B is the latest variant of the tiltrotor fleet, joining the MV-22 and CV-22 used by the US Marine Corps and US Air Force. The US... more
Drone system spreads its wings worldwide
Tiaca sustainability award winner, the Dutch start-up Wings For Aid has developed an innovative approach to the "last-mile" problem of reaching people in inaccessible areas to provide them with life-saving supplies, designing self-landing delivery boxes for unmanned... more
Clark expands in Brazil
Clark Material Handling Brasil has moved into its new headquarters in the Campinas technology centre, a strategic step to prepare the company for further expansion in the Brazilian market. The new location spans over an area of more than 25,000 sqm, of which 4,500 sqm have... more
Seko Logistics promotes Brian Bourke to chief growth officer
Seko Logistics has promoted Brian Bourke to the new post of chief growth officer. Responsible for the acceleration of Seko’s organic growth, Bourke will drive Seko’s demand generation, revenue management and corporate marketing and communications initiatives. In his new role,... more
Rock-it Cargos named freight forwarder of the year
Rock-it Cargo, a provider of logistics services to live event shippers, has been honoured with the 2019 Parnelli freight forwarder of the year award. Rock-it non-executive chairman and outgoing CEO David Charles Bernstein was at the 19th Parnelli awards gala in Anaheim, CA... more
An interesting year for the port of Montreal
In December 2019, the Canada Infrastructure Bank announced that it would invest CAD 300 million in financing the port of Montreal’s project to build a new container terminal in Contrecoeur. This optimism seems to be well justified. In 2019, the port of Montreal handled 40.5... more
Mission Critical Electronics: changes at the top
Xantrex vice president and general manager Richard Gaudet is now president of Marine Power at Mission Critical Electronics, Xantrex’s parent company. Gaudet, who joined Xantrex in 1997 worked in a variety of roles before becoming its top leader in 2010. Under Gaudet’s... more
Performance down, but solid yields for American
American Airlines reports Q4/2019 net income up 27.5% to USD 414 million, with total operating revenues up 3.4% to USD 11.3 billion. For 2019, net income rose by 19.4% to USD 1.6 billion, with revenues up 2.8% to USD 45.7 billion. The carrier returned USD 1.3 billion to... more
Transplace appoints new head
Transplace, a Dallas (USA)-based provider of transportation technology and services, has appointed Greg Sebolt as its new executive vice president of strategic capacity services, the company’s over-the -road truck brokerage business. With more than 20 years specialising in... more