Mr Waterman is based at the company’s Hamburg headquarters and has replaced Claude Lebel who has retired after a long career with CMA CGM Group. Since March 2013, Mr Waterman has been chief executive of CMA CGM UK, based in Liverpool, while prior to joining CMA CGM, he was managing director of Saf...

Mr Holt has spent the past few months lobbying the UK government for additional support for the handling industry, speaking on behalf of all the major companies. He will be replaced by Liam McElroy, (pictured) interim chief operating officer in the UK and Ireland. Mr McElroy has worked as regio...

Steven Polmans, director of cargo and logistics for the airport, has announced he is to leave the company at the end of this year. The announcement immediately caused a flurry of industry gossip involving names of companies likely to be his next move. But Mr Polmans, one of the most recognisable fac...

Gonzalo Hernandez (pictured) today becomes general manager – cargo sales for Asia Pacific. He will manage the cargo sales functions for Japan, Korea and South-east Asia, including the cargo business for Delta’s joint venture partnership with Korean Air. He replaces Eric Anderson, who has returne...

Other new board members confirmed at the AGM were Wincanton group property director Ian Henderson and Meacher’s Global Logistics’ commercial director, Gary Whittle. Neil Bowker, commercial director of Bowker Group, was elected vice chair of the board, which saw the resignations of former chairma...

This time it’s DB Schenker losing Ditlev Blicher, who joins the shipping line as regional managing director for Asia Pacific. Mr Blicher spent four years at the German company as chief executive of Asia Pacific. Prior to that he was president of Asia Pacific and Europe for UTi, and executive vice ...

William (Bill) Armistead Robinson III: Born December 1, 1938. Passed away June 10, 2020. Bill Robinson was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. Until the age of 31 he meandered through life – school, university, a two-year stint in the military as a courier for classified documents, before a move to San...

Mr Erni, who spent more than seven years at Panalpina following 14 years at Kuehne + Nagel, is moving into the family-owned Dachser business, in what will be a very different environment to his previous jobs. He succeeds Burkhard Eling, who becomes chief executive on 1 January 2021. Current CEO Bern...

He takes over from Dirk Schmitt, who held the role for five years, before leaving in December to become cargo community manager at Luxembourg Airport. Andrea Führing, chief financial officer of Swissport Cargo Germany, has covered the role on an interim basis. Mr Dieter will oversee the management ...

SASI will add “extensive” material on economic sustainability for all stakeholders in the air logistics chain, with the emphasis on airlines, airports, GHA and GSSA, beneficial cargo owners, forwarders and any other stakeholders “participating in a possible seamless solution”. “Data exchan...