The twin challenges of the pandemic and Brexit have led to nearly 80,000 EU nationals leaving the country’s logistics industry in the past 12 months, leaving a significant skills gap, Logistics UK’s Skills and Employment Report 2020 found. Director of policy Elizabeth de Jong said: “...

Ms von Boxberg becomes chief executive and chair of the executive board on 1 March, when Mr Bhat takes up his new role and joins board. Mr Bhat will be responsible for the external organisation of sales and handling, product, revenue management, pricing, network planning and sales management worldwi...

Marta Ramirez (pictured above) becomes the global VP for human resources, based in Florida, joining from DB Schenker, where she was chief HR officer for the Americas for more than four years. She held similar roles at Geodis, IATA and DHL in a 25-year career in the sector. “It is an honour to join...

The Hall of Fame honours those with “outstanding achievements in the development of the air cargo industry, exquisite leadership record and innovative spirit”. Mr Coyne certainly fulfils this brief. He set up Coyne Aviation in 1994, providing cargo flights to CIS countries (without aircraft...

It announced today that Electrolux former head of logistics Bjorn Vang Jensen (pictured above), Nestlé former head of logistics procurement and global freight Jochen Gutschmidt and ex-P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk container shipping veteran David Macleod had all been named vice presidents of advisory...

He will succeed Carl Potter who, after nearly 11 years in the business, will retire in January. Mr Potter has worked with group MD Andrew Baxter since he acquired Europa in 2013, and “has been a pillar in the growth and development of the now £205m turnover business”. “After seven years of wo...

Mr Knagge, who will take over on 1 January, has been SAS Cargo’s head of sales for the US market for the past six years. Although he had a six-month stint in Doha at Qatar Airways, he has been at SAS for the entirety of his career. He is a board member of the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce...

He also won the regional title for Asia Pacific. Mr Sheikh joined the industry four years ago, and comes from a country where 64% of the population is under 30 years old.  His dissertation took into account the effects of digitalisation on freight forwarding activities and concluded t...

Mr Braun replaces Martin Holst-Mikkelsen, who is relocating to Singapore to become Flexport’s head of ocean for Asia in January. He is based in Flexport’s Hamburg office. At DB Schenker he served as vice president of Ocean 4.0, responsible for digital ocean strategy. Before that he was...

It follows the September merger that saw Copenhagen-headquartered Scan Global Logistics and US TransGroup become one brand under CEO Allan Melgaard and executive chairman Tom Gartland. Mr Sidler will act within a newly formed advisory council, the company said. “We are delighted to have Bruno join...