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Panalpina has promoted Andy Weber to chief operating officer, while Ralf Morawietz will assume the position of chief information officer, taking over from Rod Angwin who is leaving the company for personal reasons. Andy Weber, who started his career with Panalpina, re-joined the company in January 2015 as global head of operations.
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Panalpina is to acquire its Egyptian agent Afifi. The family-owned company specialises in freight forwarding, customs clearance and logistics and has been Panalpina’s agent in Egypt for the last 20 years. Afifi was established in 1936 in Cairo and today employs around 150 staff in offices in Cairo, Alexandria and ...
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Panalpina is to operate a wet-leased 747-8F freighter on its transatlantic route, which includes calls in Mexico and the UK. It comes as part of a new five-year agreement under which the forwarder with Atlas Air, under which Panalpina will switch one of its wet-leased aircraft to more than 200 ...
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Panalpina has opened new bases in Morocco and Kenya to take advantage of growing opportunities, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Morocco has emerged in recent years as a leader in the region’s wind power generation. Investment in solar power technology, such as the Noor-Ouarzazate Solar Complex, is helping reduce ...
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Panalpina has joined forces with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to fly aid to countries ravaged by the Ebola crisis. A Panalpina freighter flight took off from Luxembourg for Freetown, Sierra Leone in the early hours of 16 December, carrying almost 80 tons of vital supplies and equipment destined ...
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International forwarder Panalpina said it maintained overall profitability in the first nine months of 2014. Undeterred by ongoing restructuring, group gross profit and EBIT both increased 1% (currency adjusted +6% and +4%), to CHF 1,178.7 million and CHF 94.4 million respectively. Losses in Logistics were “reduced drastically” to CHF 6.9 ...
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Panalpina has launched an online less than container load (LCL) sailing schedule. It aims to simplify service sxelection on its network of nearly 35,000 point-to-point connections worldwide. Global head of ocean freight LCL Clas Thorell explained: “Our new tool gives customers a clear and precise way to search through our ...
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Panalpina has added Puerto Rico to its Cargolux-operated controlled freighter network. The weekly service from San Juan to Luxembourg gives healthcare customers guaranteed uplift on a Boeing 747-400F as well as the best possible control of temperature-sensitive goods. Most of the world’s healthcare giants operate production plants in and around ...
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Former DB Schenker director and head of air freight at Panalpina, Steve Williams is joining Allport Cargo Services as managing director - air freight. ACS joint group managing director, Danny Clayton, said he brings over 15 years senior executive experience while his “extensive industry knowledge will be invaluable as he ...
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Panalpina has appointed Karsten Breum as its new chief human resources officer and board member. He joins the Swiss-based forwarder Breum from the A.P. Møller - Maersk Group's forwarding arm, Damco where, most recently, he was regional CEO for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore.
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