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John Smith to head up FedEx Freight after Ducker's retirement
FedEx has named John Smith as president and chief executive of FedEx Freight effective August 16.Smith currently serves as senior vice president of operations at FedEx Freight and will succeed Michael Ducker, whose pending retirement was announced earlier this month. A 32-year veteran of the transportation industry, Smith joined FedEx ...
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Mann steps into interim finance role at Air Partner
Air Partner has appointed Chris Mann as interim chief financial officer.The company's former chief financial officer, Neil Morris, resigned after the UK charter broker revealed an accounting error related to the collection of receivables from customers for uncollected amounts since the 2010/11 financial year.Mann is a chartered accountant who has ...
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Mack to leave DB Schenker for DP DHL
DB Schenker airfreight boss Thomas Mack is joining Deutsche Post DHL, in a story broken by German trade paper DVZ.Mack will lead DP DHL's air cargo business from July 1.A spokesperson for DP DHL said: "We can confirm that Thomas Mack will be joining DHL Global Forwarding and take on ...
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Air Partner appoints Ian Holder as managing director of Baines Simmons
Air Partner, the UK-based global aviation services group with a cargo charter division, has appointed Ian Holder as managing director of Baines Simmons, the aviation safety consultancy it acquired in 2015.Holder takes up the role immediately, reporting directly to Air Partner chief executive Mark Briffa, and will also sit on ...
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Former Amazon supply chain executive Wagers joins XPO Logistics
XPO Logistics has appointed ex-Amazon logistics executive Kenneth Wagers as chief operating officer, with responsibility for the company's operations in 32 countries.Wagers was most recently with Amazon, where he had executive oversight of Amazon's Worldwide Transportation and Logistics business (last mile, middle mile, and air and ocean cargo), as well ...
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DoKaSch appoints new Americas chief executive
DoKaSch Americas has appointed Douglas Wettergren as chief executive.Wettergren’s main duties will be sales and business development for DoKaSch’s Opticooler RAP and RKN temperature controlled ULDs to pharmaceutical and forwarding companies.“Douglas knows the needs of the pharmaceutical industry, especially regarding cool-chain transports from the inside out,” said Andreas Seitz, managing ...
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UPS appoints George Willis as president of US Operations
UPS has appointed George Willis to the position of president of US Operations, effective May 1.Willis, a 30 year veteran of UPS operations, will report to Jim Barber, UPS chief operating officer. Willis will join UPS’s Management Committee, the most senior leadership group in the company. Willis succeeds Myron Gray ...
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Two more directors for Kerry Logistics
Kerry Logistics Network has appointed Mathieu Renard Biron as its managing director, global freight forwarding, and Patrick Cheah as executive director, global air.Based in Hong Kong and Bangkok, Biron will be responsible for steering the strategic development of the Group's international freight forwarding division and overseeing its overall management, both ...
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FedEx Freight’s Mike Ducker to bow out
Mike Ducker, president and chief executive of Fedex’s forwarding arm, FedEx Freight, is to retire on August 15. Ducker, a 40-year FedEx veteran, took the helm at FedEx Freight in 2014. His successor will be named later.FedEx Corporation chairman and chief executive Fred Smith said: “For more than 43 years, ...
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New chief executive for Saudia Cargo
Saudia Cargo has appointed Omar Hariri as its new chief executive. The carrier said he has joined at a time when the airline is going through an important stage of its transformation 2020 program launched early 2017.Hariri has held a number of leadership positions in transportation, supply and logistics.In a ...
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NewsVon Hoensbroech to leave Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo chief commercial officer Alexis von Hoensbroech will move across to Austrian Airlines, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, to fill the role of chairman of the executive board.The role of Lufthansa Cargo chief commercial officer, also referred to as executive board member product and sales, will be filled by Dorothea ...
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Van de Weg makes surprise return to Volga-Dnepr Group
Robert van de Weg has rejoined Volga-Dnepr Group just over a year after leaving the airline group.He will take on the role of vice president for sales and marketing, the same role he occupied until the start of 2017.In the role, he will look after the commercial activities of all ...
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Industry mourns passing of Mark Whitehead
Air Cargo News is saddened to report the death of Mark Whitehead, a well-known face in the air cargo industry and until recently the chief executive of Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl).A statement from Hactl said: "It is with the utmost sadness that Hactl reports the death of ...
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New young professional networking group to launch at Multimodal
A new networking group for young professionals working in logistics and supply chains will be launched at next month's Multimodal event in the UK.The NextGen Logistics Network will connect online via a LinkedIn group, and companies backing the initiative will pledge to host networking and information events, which will include ...
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Shipper champion Welsh to retire from FTA and GSF roles
After 36 years' service, Chris Welsh MBE will be retiring from the Freight Transport Association (FTA) as its director of global and European Policy and as secretary general of the Global Shippers' Forum (GSF) at the end of May 2018.Welsh helped establish FTA's Brussels office in 1995 and served as ...
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DoKaSch appoints Behne as global sales director
DoKaSch Temperature Solutions has named Andreas Behne as global sales director in a newly created position to expand the global use of its Opticooler climate-controlled air cargo container.Behne reports directly to Andreas Seitz, managing director of DoKaSch Temperature Solutions.Behne has been working in leading positions in international logistics for more ...
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Beti Ward: A pioneer in the US air cargo industry
Air Cargo News is sad to report the death of Beti Ward, the founder and chief executive of Pacific Air Cargo.Beti, who passed away after a brief illness, was a pioneer in the US air cargo industry and a savvy lady in a man's world.She was a panelist at our ...
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Tony Bauckham joins Volga-Dnepr UK team
Tony Bauckham has joined Volga-Dnepr UK, a global charter sales centre for Volga-Dnepr Airlines, as its commercial director.Bauckham will be responsible for proactive charter sales management as well as for development of the commercial sales team and regional management.The appointment, says Volga-Dnepr, reinforces the cargo carrier group’s strategy of “building ...
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Vanneste to take over as chairman of Cologne Bonn Airport
The Supervisory Board of Cologne Bonn Airport has elected Johan Vanneste as a new member and both chairman and chief executive of the airport’s Board of Management.The appointment will take effect no later than June 1 this year but – in the case of earlier availability – as soon as ...
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Smart choice as boss of East Midlands Airport
Karen Smart, currently director of landside operations at London Stansted Airport, has been appointed managing director of East Midlands Airport.Smart will take up her role at the UK’s largest pure cargo airport in April 2018 and will lead a team of over 500 employees.She joined MAG, parent group of Manchester, ...