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Friday, September 09, 2011

    Scott Bergeron was appointed chief executive officer of the Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR), the U.S.-based manager of the Liberian Registry.     He joined LISCR in 2000 as chief operating officer. Before that, he worked for shipowner and manager Laurin Maritime, Det Norske Veritas, and the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as gained practical seagoing experience on a variety of different types of ships.       Yoram Cohen and Adam...

Friday, September 09, 2011

   Federico 'Kiko' Zuniga, a past president and chairman of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, will now join the organization's full-time staff as its educational director.    Zuniga played a key role in creating the NCBFAA Educational Institute, which offers certification courses, webinars and other types of educational outreach for members and non-members alike in an effort to increase professionalism in the broker industry.    Zuniga, who...

Thursday, September 08, 2011

   The U.S. Council for International Business has appointed Shaun Donnelly, a career diplomat who has held several senior executive branch posts during the past 30 years, as vice president for investment and financial services.    Founded in 1945, New York-based USCIB works to advance U.S. industry positions globally through a network of overseas business groups and official standing in a number of intergovernmental bodies, including the Organization for Economic Co-operation

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

   Overland Park, Kan.-based trucking company YRC has appointed Bill Schwar to vice president of exhibit services.    In his 28 years with YRC, Schwar has held positions of increasing responsibility, serving in management roles during the past 16 years in the Exhibit Services division.    YRC's Exhibit Services' customers cover a variety of industries including agriculture, banking and finance, entertainment, mining, construction, manufacturing, electr

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

   Saddle Creek Corp., a Lakeland, Fla.-based third-party logistics services provider, has named Mike DelBovo president of subsidiary Saddle Creek Transportation.    Saddle Creek Transportation provides asset-based and non-asset-based services, including transportation management, brokerage services and freight bill pay and audit services. In addition, the company operates its own fleet of trucks at six locations stretching from Florida to California.    DelBo

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

   Joel Sutherland, a veteran supply chain expert who helped create non-asset-based 3PL Transplace more than 10 years ago, has become director of the University of San Diego's Supply Chain Management Institute.    For the last five years, he was managing director of Lehigh University's Center for Value Chain Research in Bethlehem, Pa.    Sutherland has also provided independent supply chain management advice for 17 years through his own company, Envoy

Friday, September 02, 2011

   Keith W. "Tant" Tantlinger, 92, an engineer and inventor whose designs include the corner castings found on every shipping container, died in his home in Escondido, Calif., on Aug. 27.    Tantlinger, who worked for Malcom McLean as vice president of engineering and research at Pan Atlantic Steamship Co. (which became Sea-Land Service), developed the ubiquitous corner casting and twist-lock system used to load, unload and secure containers to ships, truck chassis and rail ca

Thursday, September 01, 2011

   Old Dominion Freight Line has appointed Ross Parr to vice president, deputy general counsel and assistant secretary.    Additionally, the Thomasville, N.C.-based company named Jim Raynor as vice president of equipment and maintenance.    Parr joins Old Dominion's legal team wi

Thursday, September 01, 2011

   Third-party logistics services company Transplace said Wednesday it has promoted George Abernathy to president of Transplace Logistics, which comprises the company's 3PL, truck brokerage and consulting business units.    The move allows Chief Executive Officer Tom Sanderson to focus on the company's long-term goals and strategic acquisitions, while maintaining direct responsibility for Transplace's ocean and air forwarding as well as its Mexico business units, t

Thursday, September 01, 2011

   Longistics, a Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based logistics services firm, has named Andy Marchiano to president.    A 21-year veteran of the logistics and trucking industry, Marchiano was vice president and general manager of Raleigh, N.C.-based Cooper Leasing, a full-service leasing and truck rental provider.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

   Jensen Maritime Consultants, a naval architecture and marine engineering firm, has expanded operations in the U.S. South by opening a second office within parent company Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Jacksonville, Fla., headquarters.    This new office will be managed by senior naval architect Daniel Cavalier, who recently transitioned from Crowley to Seattle-based Jensen. Crowley acquired Jensen in 2008. Other organizational changes at Jensen include a 30 percent increase in st

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

   SATO, a Tokyo-based bar code printing, labeling and radio frequency device applications developer, has appointed Kazuo Matsuyama to president and chief executive officer, effective Oct. 3.    Koichi Nishida will step down as president and CEO to take over as SATO's chairman.    Founded in 1940, publicly traded SATO has sales and support offices in more than 20 countries. For the fiscal year ended March 31, the company reported revenue of 78.37 billion y

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

   Florida's Agency for Workforce Innovation on Friday awarded $2 million in job training and education grants aimed at helping the logistics industry find skilled workers that can boost its productivity and increase the state's ability to engage in international trade, especially export activity.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Wong    Liner carrier OOCL said last week that long-serving executive Henry Wong, director of corporate logistics and fleet management, will retire from the company on Oct. 3

Thursday, August 25, 2011

   The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers has appointed Julie Lithgow as director, effective September.    Lithgow was head of business intelligence for Pole Star, Lithgow worked with governments, naval authorities and ship owners on vessel tracking systems, ship security and International Maritime Organization regulations. She has also held management positions at V.Holdings Ltd. and the Nautical Institute. Lithgow will be based at the institute's London headquarters.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

   Swiss forwarder Kuehne + Nagel has appointed Yngve Ruud to regional manager for Northwest Europe, effective Oct. 1.    He succeeds Tim Scharwath, who will become a member of the management board of Kuehne + Nagel International AG on Sept. 1.    Ruud is credited with building K + N's Norwegian operations during the past 16 years, after his own company was merged with Kuehne + Nagel Norway in 1995.    K + N's Northwest European network

Thursday, August 25, 2011

   The Port of Redwood City elected officers for the next year at its Wednesday meeting.    Dick Claire, appointed to the port commission in 2007, succeeds Ralph Garcia as chairman. He is a finance and accounting professor emeritus at Canada College in Redwood City and served 21 years on the city council, including four as mayor.    Dick Dodge, who has been a member of the port commission since 1980, was elected vice chairman.    Tom Cronin, a

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

   RWI Transportation, a Wilder, Ky.-based trucking firm, has promoted Robert Savage to director of logistics services.    Savage will focus on developing logistics at the six regional RWI offices that provide over-the-road truckload and less-than-truckload, expedited, intermodal, air cargo and warehousing across the United States. One of Savage's first initiatives in this role will be to broaden RWI's contract carrier base by tapping into external fleet capacity, the

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Wei    China COSCO Holdings Co., parent of liner carrier COSCO Container Lines, will this week replace longtime chief executive Wei Jiafu, according to a report by Reuters.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

   UPS has appointed Jim Barber, a 26-year company veteran, as its new president of the Europe region with responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.    Barber, 51, was chief operations officer of the Europe region and succeeds Wolfgang Flick as the region's president. Flick retired a

Monday, August 22, 2011

Bowers    John M. Bowers, 88, who spent a lifetime working on behalf of unionized dockworkers through the International Longshoremen's Association, died on Sunday at his

Thursday, August 18, 2011

   Southwest Airlines Cargo Management Group has appointed Jim McKeon to the new position of strategic advisor.    McKeon brings air cargo experience, particularly in the areas of international air cargo sales and marketing, interline strategy development, and product development. 'All of these strengths will be great assets as Southwest Airlines moves forward with its efforts to integrate AirTran into its network and as Southwest adds the 737-800 series aircraft to its fl

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

   Horizon Lines has appointed Alherd Kazura to the new position of vice president of international services.    He was vice president of international planning and development at Horizon, where he led the transition team that established the carrier's Five Star Express (FSX) transpacific service in December 2010.    He takes overall responsibility for the FSX service, which calls Shanghai, Ningbo, Los Angeles, Oakland and Apra Harbor, Guam.   

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

   LinkAmerica Corp., a regional asset-based carrier based in Tulsa, Okla., has appointed John Simone as president and chief executive officer.    Simone has more than 20 years of experience in transportation and logistics, many of those at the senior executive level. Most recently, he was president and chief operating officer of Greatwide Logistics Services. Prior to that, he was senior vice president of the truckload division at UPS Freight. Simone was also with Ryder Transp

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

   Freight forwarder SBS Worldwide has appointed industry veteran Philip Brown to U.K. managing director.    Brown joins SBS from NYK Logistics Europe where he was a director. He has also worked in senior executive positions at Zeigler and Schenker, and was previously president and chief executive officer of Geologistics SpA Italy.

Monday, August 15, 2011

   The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America will honor long-time industry executive and association volunteer William Evans during its upcoming Government Affairs Conference in Washington on Sept. 18-20.    Evans spent more than 40 years in the freight forwarding and c

Monday, August 15, 2011

   DnB NOR, a Norwegian bank with deep ties to the shipping and energy sectors, has appointed Vidar Andersen to head its Shanghai branch.    Andersen replaces Espen Lund who has returned to the bank's headquarters in Oslo after an eight-year stint as China country head.    'China continues to be a very important market for the bank in terms of our overall growth strategy in Asia, and I wish to help to promote DnB NOR as a key player in Shanghai's p

Friday, August 12, 2011

   Old Dominion Freight Line has appointed Darek Nowak to vice president of its Midwest region.    Nowak has more than 20 years of experience in the transportation industry and has been with Old Dominion for 13 years. He previously served as manager of the company's Chicago service center.    Nowak is responsible for Old Dominion's sales and operations in a seven-state region. He is based in the company's Des Plaines, Ill. service center.

Friday, August 12, 2011

   Alabama State Port Authority has promoted four within his senior management team.    'We are experiencing significant growth in a number of commodity groups and these personnel changes will allow us to provide better service to both our customers and within our organization,' said James K. Lyons, director and chief executive officer.    The promotions are:    ' Linda Paaymans from vice president to senior vice president of finan

Thursday, August 11, 2011

   As part of the ongoing restructuring since the merging of two NYK Group companies in April 2011, Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. has made several changes to the management team in its Transportation Division.    John Lucas, senior vice president and general manager of transportation, has left the organization, effective immediately. Mike Noone, Yusen Logistics' executive vice president and chief operating officer, will now lead the division along with his existing dutie

Thursday, August 11, 2011

   Navis, a port technology subsidiary of Cargotec Corp., appointed Troy Thompson to vice president for global account management.       Thompson comes to Navis from Cargotec where he served as president of port security as well as president of Bromma, Americas.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

   Non-vessel-operating common carrier Vanguard Logistics Services has named Kurt Breinlinger to senior vice president of specialized cargo for Asia and the Middle East.    In this role, Breinlinger will oversee Vanguard's newly created Specialized Cargo Division for the two regions. As part of this development, Vanguard will initially work on establishing a regional sub-structure of specialized cargo coordinators in key locations by using existing staff.   

Friday, August 05, 2011

   Non-vessel-operating common carrier Vanguard Logistics Services has appointed Terry Groff to vice president and general counsel for legal administration, effective Aug. 8.    Groff brings with her more than 20 years of experience as an attorney in the freight forwarding industry. She started as a maritime attorney specializing in NVO matters, and has legal and industry expertise in all transport modes.

Thursday, August 04, 2011

   Two of the nation's largest barge companies are changing leadership.    Mark Knoy, 52, is leaving AEP River Operations to become president and chief executive officer of American Commercial Lines, based in Jeffersonville, Ind.    David Huls has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer. Huls, 45, after having served as president and CFO at PBH Marine Group, which like American Commercial Lines is owned by Platinum Equity and operates a fl

Thursday, August 04, 2011

   Australian logistics company Toll Holdings said Thursday it has named Brian Kruger managing director.    Kruger, Toll's chief financial officer, will replace longtime managing director Paul Little on Jan. 1. Little is retiring after 25 years with Toll, a period in which the company transitioned from a small domestic trucking business to a global logistics company with more than $8 billion in annual revenue.    Little will serve as a non-executive direct

Thursday, August 04, 2011

   Logistics technology company CargoWise has appointed Sydney-based Owen Senior as general manager of development.    Senior has been tabbed to lead all CargoWise's software development teams, with ultimate responsibility for the company's global software development program and all technical project management activities.    The company said Senior has more than 15 years of global development experience in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Sanderson    Tom Sanderson, chief executive officer of logistics provider Transplace, has been named chairman of the Alliance for Safe, Efficient and Competitive Truck Tra

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

   Wilder, Ky.-based trucking company RWI Transportation has appointed John Adams to senior director of operations.    Adams, a 40-year industry veteran, will direct RWI's operations at the logistics offices and terminals across the United States. He leads the soon-to-be launched RWI Transportation Management System project, which aims to provide greater efficiencies and customer access to data and status reports. He is also responsible for strategic planning.  

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

   Woodcliff Lake, N.J.-based Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has appointed John Felitto to president and chief executive officer of WWL Vehicle Services Americas.    Felitto, who joined the company more than 10 years ago, had been commercial head for the Americas regions since late 2010. Felitto will be focused on overseeing WWL's North American supply chain management and land-based technical service operations, including a network of 21 plant- and port-based processing,

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

   U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke formally resigned Monday and was sworn in as the country's next ambassador to China by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Locke <

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

   Sidney Aki, assistant director for border security for the Detroit Field Office, has been named port director at the Laredo checkpoint on the Mexican border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.    Aki, a native of Hawaii, replaces Gene Garza who held the position for many years before being promoted earlier this year to regional field director in the Laredo sector, with responsibility for eight ports of entry.    Last year, the Laredo port of entry pro

Monday, August 01, 2011

   DHL Supply Chain has appointed Agust'n Croche to general director of its Argentina operations.    Croche joined the DHL group in 1997. Mostly recently, he was senior director of the pharmaceutical sector in Brazil. He previously worked in the automotive industry from 1994 to 2006.    DHL Supply Chain began operations in Argentina in 2007 and has nine distribution centers there. The company employs 730 people in Argentina and provides storage and transpo

Friday, July 29, 2011

   Tom Heine, chief executive officer of Aljex Software, said Joe Hirschman has been named president of the Middlesex, N.J-based provider of hosted software solutions for freight brokers, carriers and other transportation companies.    Hirschman was vice president operations and has been with the company since its inception in 1996.    'Joe has been my right hand and more,' Heine said. 'He will still oversee our day-to-day operations, but now he ta

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

   Los Angeles-based Consolidators International Inc. has opened a facility in Houston.    The freight forwarder appointed Steve Roper, vice president of sales and operations for the Southwest region, to head the Houston office.    "While we are based in Houston, CII is offering its services throughout the entire Southwest where much of the energy industry is located," Roper said.    He noted that two of the initial assignments of the just ope

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Craig    Liner carrier MOL said Monday that Richard Craig, area operations vice president for MOL (America), has been promoted senior vice president of operations. &

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

   Crowley Maritime Corp. has appointed Cole Cosgrove to vice president of marine operations for the company's liner services groups.    Cosgrove will be responsible for the marine operations of Crowley's Puerto Rico and Caribbean services fleet of four vessels serving the Bahamas, the eastern Caribbean and the Caribbean Basin as well as the Central American fleet of eight to 10 vessels serving the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, El Salv

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

   Exel, the North American supply chain management unit of Deutsche Post DHL, has announced a number of recent senior level management hires and promotions:    New hires:    ' Craig Brace, vice president of asset management for the Americas.    ' Claudius

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

   The International Longshoremen's Association is expected to elect Harold J. Daggett as its new leader at its 53rd Convention this week in Hollywood, Fla.    Richard P. Hughes Jr., current ILA president, noted the ILA executive council has endorsed Daggett's nomination and said he is "in full s

Monday, July 25, 2011

   Thomas Kelly, executive vice president and chief operating officer of MOL (America), will retire at the end of July, the Japanese container line said Friday.    Kelly joined MOL in July 1999 as the regional vice president for the Midwest region. In 2004, he was appointed vice president of North America operations, ascending to his current roles in 2006. Prior to joining MOL, Kelly held several director and vice president level positions at American President Lines and Lykes

Monday, July 25, 2011

   Ryder System has appointed Dennis C. Cooke to senior vice president and operations chief for its Fleet Management Solutions business segment in the United States and Canada.    Cooke joins Ryder following a 22-year career with GE and related companies. In 2005, he was named president and chief

Monday, July 25, 2011

   The Los Angeles City Council on Friday unanimously approved the appointment of Sung Won Sohn to the Port of Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners.    Sohn is an endowed professor of economics for the Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics at California State University, Channel Isl

Friday, July 22, 2011

   The Waterways Council has tentatively selected Mike Toohey to be its next president and chief executive officer.    A special meeting of the WCI board has been called for Aug. 2 to formally consider his election to the organization's presidency.    Toohey has more than 30 years of federal government service and most recently served as a consultant with The Livingston Group's Transportation, Shipbuilding, Shipping and Ports practice.    Pri

Friday, July 22, 2011

   The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command said Thursday Capt. Sylvester Moore has assumed command of its Pacific operations.    Moore replaces Capt. Jerome F. Hamel.    The Pacific Command is responsible for Military Sealift Command ships operating in the Eastern Pacific and is 'dual-hatted' as Commander, Task Force 33, directing the underway delivery of fuel, provisions, ordnance and towing services to Navy warships in the U.S. 3rd Fleet.

Friday, July 22, 2011

   RIM Logistics, a Roselle, Ill.-based logistics services provider, has appointed Rob Mueller to president.    Formerly vice president of sales, Mueller joined RIM in 2000 as director of Asia development, based in Hong Kong.    Previous to RIM, Mueller was with Fritz Cos. in Hong Kong, first as sales manager for Hong Kong, South China and the Philippines, and later as manager for global accounts.    Earlier, he had served with Fritz in both the Unite

Friday, July 22, 2011

   The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority has hired James White as its first director of sustainable infrastructure programs.       White will lead programs to integrate sustainable practices across port activities; oversee port work to develop a market for sediment dredged from the river so it can be put to beneficial use; and manage renewal projects on the Cuyahoga River, including a debris-removal operation.    White, a 30-year veteran in e

Thursday, July 21, 2011

   Swissport International, a provider of ground services to the aviation sector, has appointed Roman Hermann to executive vice president for business development, effective Oct. 1.    He joins Swissport from ABB Asea Brown Boveri, where he has managed mergers and acquisitions projects. Prior to that he was head of valuations at KPMG Switzerland.

Monday, July 18, 2011

   SATO Corp., a barcode printing, labeling and radio frequency identification systems provider, said it has appointed J. Michael Fowler as general manager of its international business division.    Fowler succeeds Kaz Matsuyama to become SATO's first non-Japanese general manager. While remaining president of SATO International America, Fowler will be based at the company's headquarters in Tokyo and will direct SATO's international business strategies including sal

Thursday, July 14, 2011

   MIQ Logistics, formerly YRC Logistics, has appointed Michael Brennan to director of business development within its sales team.    Brennan is based in Chicago and responsible for strategic account development and new business efforts. Before joining MIQ, he was vice president of global supply chain at Videojet, a Danaher Co. He also spent 17 years with Motorola, leading the company's global logistics for manufacturing, distribution, aftermarket services and repairs.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

   John Ballestero, senior vice president and general manager of the Port of Miami Terminal Operating Co. will retire, effective Aug. 12, the company announced.    He has been with POMTOC for more than nine years.    POMTOC said it has hired Charles J. Arocha, a 30-year maritime industry veteran and one of the partner's that formed POMTOC in 1994, to fill Ballestero's position.    Ballestero was instrumental in constructing new high-te

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

   Linda 'Lindy' Johnson was posthumously awarded the International Maritime Prize this week, for her significant contribution to the work of International Maritime Organization, in particular with regard to the protection of the marine environment.    Johnson, who passed away in October 2010 after a long illness, joined the Office of General Counsel for International Law of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1992 and was a regu