Mr Podestá replaces Jochen Müller, who decided not to renew his contract in the new year and, said the firm, “will stop working for Dachser with immediate effect”. Dachser said: “In recent years, Jochen Müller was responsible for developing the air and sea freight business into a network co...

Xpediator has gone through a period of rapid expansion by acquisition over the past three years and now has over 940 employees across 10 different European countries. It said the new role “has been established to integrate the group’s workforce and create a centralised HR function”. Xpediator ...

Ms Simpson was most recently head of capital delivery for Severn Trent Water and previously worked for Network Rail, where she was chief engineer. Dover Harbour Board chairman Richard Everitt said: “I am delighted to welcome Jane Simpson to the board. With her background in infrastructure and engi...

Mr Hogg is the son of Unsworth founders Geoff and Kathy Hogg, who set up the company in 1974 and recently embarked on a transformation programme to make it a “new type of digital forwarder”. He is the brother of Unsworth’s commercial director, Charles Hogg. A chartered shipbroker, Richard Hogg...

Delegates to the Freight Transport Association’s (FTA) Ready for a No-deal Brexit event in London on Friday heard that, unless the UK government addressed potential problems, employers would face mounting difficulty in hiring staff after Brexit. Sally Gilson, head of skills at the FTA, said althou...

B.Aero will be headed by sales director France Nassim Aouana, who joined Bansard in July.  Bansard said it launched the unit to provide support to civil and business airlines, helicopter manufacturers, MROs and “every manufacturer of the aerospace and aviati...

He becomes chief commercial officer of the GSA, based in Paris. He first worked with ECS on a consultancy basis in 2017 after leaving Volga-Dnepr Group, and said “there was a ‘click’” when he got to know the management team.  “I think there are large opportunities to help develop this...

Mr Andersen has spent the last 19 years in executive and non-executive board roles at large companies across several industries, notably in Denmark where he was group CEO of APMM for nearly 10 years, until 2016. He was president and chief executive of Carlsberg, chairman of AkzoNobel...

Mr Shepherd has been head of digital ventures for IAG Cargo since moving on from commercial director in 2017, a few months after Lynne Embleton took over as chief executive. Sources at the time indicated that he had been hoping for promotion within IAG after chief executive ...

“Our goal is to offer a high-quality service while taking a different approach to improving the reputation of industry stakeholders.”   Ms Serdjebi headed ECS Group communications for eight years, culminating in her taking the lead in the group’s highly successful Next...