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Antonov Airlines appoints UK sales team
Antonov Airlines – operator of the Antonov AN-124, AN-225 and AN-22 aircraft – has appointed Dreamlifts Limited as its general sales agent, replacing Ruslan International.Based at Antonov’s new offices in Stansted Airport’s Diamond Hangar, Dreamlifts’ sales team includes experienced names in the outsize cargo sector.Paul Furlonger continues his long association ...
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Turkish Airlines appoints Turhan Özen as chief cargo officer
Turkish Airlines has appointed Turhan Özen as chief cargo officer.Özen, who joined the carrier in 2006, started his career in 1991 at IVECO, where he worked in sales, marketing, and logistics management positions.In 2000, he joined TNT Logistics as business development manager, and later took the position of distribution operations ...
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Marcel de Nooijer appointed executive vice president Air France-KLM Cargo
Marcel de Nooijer has been appointed executive vice president Air France-KLM Cargo. He will join the Air France-KLM Group Executive Committee.De Nooijer replaces Bram Gräber, who stepped down as executive vice president of the airlines' joint cargo arm in June 2016.De Nooijer, aged 48, holds a business administration and management ...
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WFS appoints David Clark as global head of safety & security
David Clark is to join Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), the world’s biggest airfreight handler, as its new global head of safety & security on 27 February next year.Reporting directly to WFS chief executive Craig Smyth, he will be based in Paris.Clark joins WFS from British Airways, where he spent 17 ...
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DSV strengthens commercial team
Freight forwarder DSV has appointed Michael Hansen as divisional chief commercial officer for air and sea and Wilbert Tholhuijsen for DSV Road. They join Meinderdjan Botman (DSV Solutions) and Jenny Purchase ( Sub Saharan Africa) in a team of four chief commercial officers as part of the DSV Global commercial ...
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Lufthansa Cargo to divide regions as part of management cull
Lufthansa Cargo has revealed more details on how it will divide up its regions in order to offload a layer of management in line with its cost cutting programme.The German airfreight giant will now operate with eight regions instead of the previous four to allow it to remove a management ...
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Chapman Freeborn reorganises senior management
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has made senior management level changes in a move that it says will “help deliver further growth across the group”.In one change, the air charter broker has appointed Pierre van der Stichele to a newly created role, that of group cargo operations director.During his 14 years with ...
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New hand on the tiller at the Kenya Airports Authority
The new managing director and chief executive of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), Jonny Andersen, has officially taken up his new position.Andersen was formerly director of national airports at Avinor, the operator of seven state-owned Norwegian gateways.He took over at the KAA from Nicholas Bodo, who had been heading the ...
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Muhammad Albakri to serve as IATA regional vice president for Africa and the Middle East
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that Muhammad Ali Albakri will join IATA as its regional vice president for Africa and the Middle East (AME) in a move effective as of 1 January.He will be based at IATA’s regional office in Amman, Jordan.“Muhammad Ali Albakri is stepping into ...
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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 ...