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Chris Welsh joins ICHCA board
Chris Welsh, the secretary-general of the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF), has been invited to join the Board of Directors of the International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA), which describes itself as “the voice of global cargo handling” and of which GSF is a member.Welsh enthused that he was “honoured to ...
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Kevin McAllister appointed president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Kevin McAllister has become president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, succeeding Boeing Company vice chairman Ray Conner in the role.McAllister has joined Boeing from GE Aviation.Meanwhile, Conner is to continue to serve as Boeing vice chairman through 2017. Amongst other tasks, Conner will be expected to provide strategic ...
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Vladimir Zubkov is TIACA’s new secretary general
Vladimir Zubkov will be TIACA’s new secretary general, replacing Doug Brittin, who retires at the end of the year.Zubkov has more than 40 years’ experience in the air transport industry, including senior roles with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and, most recently, as vice president of the Volga-Dnepr group ...
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Ex-Delta cargo boss Neel Jones Shah joins the Amerijet board
Ex-Delta cargo boss Neel Jones Shah has been appointed to the board of managers at the parent group of Amerijet, the Miami based scheduled freighter operator.Shah’s appointment, “to help the company fulfil its strategic growth objectives and operational goals” follows a change of ownership at Amerijet in the summer of ...
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New management appointments for dnata
Handling company dnata has appointed Steve Allen as divisional senior vice president, UAE airport operations, and Mark Gibb as senior vice president, dnata safety and standards, responsible for dnata’s safety culture globally and the company’s One Safety programme.Allen has 15 years of experience in British Airways, helping to design Heathrow’s ...
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Van de Weg promoted to group VP role at Volga-Dnepr
Robert van de Weg has been promoted to the post of senior vice president of sales & marketing at Volga-Dnepr Group.In his new role, van de Weg assumes commercial responsibility for both the Group’s scheduled cargo operations and charter businesses, namely AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Atran Airlines.The three ...
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NewsForson is new Cargolux chief executive
Cargolux has confirmed that Richard Forson will take over as president and chief executive of the all-cargo airline from Dirk Reich, who is stepping down for personal reasons.In a statement sent out this afternoon, the Luxembourg-headquartered carrier said that Forson would take over in the role from August 1.Cargolux also ...
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Debbie Ng joins Envirotainer in Asia Pacific operations role
Debbie Ng has joined Envirotainer, the cool chain container provider, as head of Asia Pacific operations at its new operation centre in Singapore.Prior to joining Envirotainer, Ng was the business process manager for Semitech Analytical Service and spent four years as the area customer service manager, Southeast Asia and Australia, ...
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Young Forwarder award goes to Australia's Shanon Gould
Shanon Gould from Australia won this year’s Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year (YIFFY) Award, presented at the FIATA annual congress in Dublin.Other regional finalists were: Lorraine Zhou, Zimbabwe (Africa/Middle East), Evgeny Kapustin, Canada (Americas) and Kostiantyn Hapii, Ukraine (Europe).Award sponsors the TT Club said the awards were of ...
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Nielen joins Cargolux as VP sales from IAG Cargo
Chris Nielen has joined European freighter airline Cargolux as vice president sales, joining from IAG Cargo where he held the position of regional commercial manager Europe.Nielen has 16 years experience in the airfreight business which "have enabled him to build a solid knowledge base about the airfreight market especially in ...
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Damco gets new head in reshuffle
Klaus Rud Sejling, the current head of East West trades for Maersk Line, will become CEO of Maersk freight forwarding operation Damco with effect from 1 October.The current Damco CEO, Hanne Sørensen, has decided to leave the Maersk Group.Sejling has previous experience of working in Maersk Logistics, still a part ...
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Röhlig appoints Jens Haas as national air freight manager in Germany
Jens Haas has been named by international logistics company Röhlig as national air freight manager for its business in Germany.Based in the company’s Frankfurt office, he has been responsible for air freight business since September and also forms part of the management team of Röhlig Deutschland.Haas is expected to expand ...
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Nancy Matthews named as global lead for life sciences at Crane
Crane Worldwide Logistics, a US full-service air, ocean, trucking, customs brokerage and logistics company, has named Nancy Matthews as its new senior director and vertical lead of life sciences.Matthews will take charge of the US headquartered company’s global strategy for the life sciences market, developing customised logistics solutions for customers ...
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British Aviation Group names Graham Bolton as chairman
Graham Bolton has been named as chairman of the British Aviation Group, the representative trade body for UK companies involved in the airport and aviation development sector.Bolton is the aviation market director at Epsom, Surrey-based Atkins, which provides integrated services for the planning, design and delivery of all aspects of ...
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Peli appoints Greg Wheatley as VP engineering
Peli BioThermal, which both designs and manufactures temperature-controlled single- and multi-use packaging used in the lifesciences and pharmaceuticals sector, has appointed Greg Wheatley as its vice president worldwide product development and engineering.Wheatley is expected by Peli to lead the development of “new and enhanced products to be released over the ...
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Brussels Airlines appoints Lufthansa high flyer to board
Brussels Airlines has confirmed that Christina Foerster will join the carrier’s Management Board as chief commercial officer on 1 October.Foerster is currently senior vice president network & partner management hub airlines at German flag-carrier Lufthansa. Brussels Airlines forms part of the Lufthansa Group.Reporting directly to Brussels Airlines chief executive Bernard ...
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Zehren takes on Cargolux pilots' role
Cargolux Airlines has confirmed Claude Zehren as EVP and Nominated Person Flight Operations. Zehren took over all duties from his predecessor, Jason Holt, on an interim basis in September.“I’m excited to take on this challenge,” Zehren said, adding: “Cargolux pilots have always strived to deliver the highest standards in operation ...
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Air X launches major expansion
US-based Aircraft lessor Air X Aviation has named Darren Banham as president of its AirX America arm as part of a “strategic launch in the western hemisphere”.Banham, a leading broker in the industry, is one of several key senior appointments from the air cargo and passenger air charter industry announced ...
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Polmans joins TIACA board and urges greater industry collaboration
Brussels Airport head of cargo Steven Polmans has been appointed to TIACA’s board of directors.Polmans pledged to continue encouraging greater collaboration across the supply chain to cope with a rapidly changing industry.“I strongly believe that more cooperation between all stakeholders is to the benefit of our industry,” said Polmans.“We are ...
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Virgin promotes Phillips to regional sales manager role for Europe
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Claire Phillips as Regional Sales Manager – Continental Europe.Phillips, who takes up her new post from September 5, has worked for the airline for five years, initially as Route Development Manager and Capacity Controller.Prior to this promotion, Phillips played an integral role in the training ...