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Former Cargolux chief executive Dirk Reich is to join forwarder Panalpina as a new board member. He will succeed Roger Schmid, who will not stand for re-election. Reich, a dual Swiss and German national, has also been a member of the management board of Kuehne and Nagel.
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Panalpina has opened a new office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It offers air and ocean freight, customs brokerage, in-land transportation, cross-border trucking with Vietnam and Thailand, container freight station consolidation, and warehousing and storage services.
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Panalpina is to streamline its IT systems, replacing a string of existing local and regional services with a single provider – BT. The UK based telecoms provider will overhaul the global forwarder's network infrastructure and move it to a single integrated platform. It will also provide services from its BT ...
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CEO Peter Ulber has been nominated as Panalpina's new chairman at the annual general meeting due to be held on 10 May. He would succeed Dr Rudolf Hug who has served as chairman since 2007 and will not stand for re-election due to the age limitation in the company’s bylaws. ...
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UNICEF and Panalpina have joined forces for the third year in a row to fly much-needed medical material to African children. A cargo aircraft chartered by the forwarder landed in Burundi with 70 tons on board in the early hours of 27 November.
Last year, Panalpina supported the fight against Ebola ...
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Panalpina is to acquire a majority stake in Airflo, a company based in Kenya and the Netherlands specialised in the export of flowers and vegetables. Airflo is part of Dutch Flower Group (DFG), the world’s largest flower and plant trader.
Airflo is Kenya’s second largest air freight forwarder with a ...
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Freight forwarder Panalpina has opened its own office in Myanmar, in the largest city, Yangon. It can handle ocean and air freight shipments, both imports and exports.
Myanmar had been isolated from international trade for decades until 2011, when a new civilian government was elected. As economic sanctions against Myanmar have ...
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Panalpina has signed a strategic alliance with Hong Kong-based Spread Logistics to offer a return logistics service for faulty consumer electronics. It will pick up the goods, carry out failure analyses and – if need be – return them to the original manufacturer in mainland China. The customer has visibility ...
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Freight forwarding and logistics company Panalpina said on 23 July that it had kept profitability stable in the first half of 2015 despite a challenging environment. While the group’s gross profit decreased 5% (adjusted at constant currency rates: +2%) to CHF 736.1 million, earnings before interest and tax and consolidated ...
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Swiss-owned forwarder Panalpina has promoted Andy Weber to chief operating officer, while Ralf Morawietz becomes chief information officer, taking over from Rod Angwin who will leave the company for personal reasons during the year.
Andy Weber, who started his career with Panalpina, re-joined the company in January 2015 as global ...
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