Delta Air Lines Cargo has appointed Rafael Figueroa to take over from Julian Soell as managing director – cargo operations and customer experience.
Figueroa has twelve years in the airline industry, most recently as vice president for Aeromexico Cargo. He will join Delta in the autumn to lead a team of 1,600 managing Delta’s worldwide cargo operation.
Since 2005, Wolfgang Niessner (63) has headed the international logistics company Gebrüder Weiss. Now, at the end of this year, a career that has been crowned with huge success will be completed – at least from an operational point of view. As the company’s Supervisory Board has announced on May 14th, Wolfgang Niessner will retire…
JSC RZD Logistics, the largest multimodal logistics operator in the CIS and Baltic countries, in cooperation with its subsidiary company Far East Land Bridge (FELB) in the course of the first six months of 2017 essentially increased the volume of container shipping in comparison to the same period of the last year – the volume…
Deutsche Post DHL expects to complete its £243 million takeover of UK Mail before Christmas. The two organisations have published the timetable for the deal, which will be implemented through a scheme of arrangement. UK Mail shareholders will vote on the deal at a general meeting on 18th November, and assuming all the conditions of…
CM Downton has won a contract renewal with specialty papers supplier Glatfelter. The logistics business currently handles all aspects of Glatfelter’s operations under separate contracts. This includes: warehousing of raw materials coming from the Far East, supplying these materials on an in-bound, just-in-time basis to Glatfelter’s UK manufacturing plants, all finished goods warehouse operations, and…
Corporate and entertainment events transporter, Tudor Services, has switched to general haulage in the wake of the changing logistics landscape throughout Covid-19. The company recently partnered with box trailer provider Krone, to compete with the growing demand for cargo transport to and from Europe. Luke Power-Hippisley from Tudor Services said: “The pandemic created a massive…
How do you recruit your employees: advertising, agencies, social media? Malory Davies, FCILT, Editor. There are well publicised staff shortages in key areas of logistics and with Brexit looming these are likely to increase. For example, in November last year, the Freight Transport Association produced a report highlighting the fact that EU workers made up…
