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CEVA Logistics has appointed Hakan Bicil as chief commercial officerr. He joins CEVA from Panalpina where he was executive vice-president, head of strategic business development and prior to that was managing director, EMEA for Toll Global Forwarding.
Ceva has also appointed Michael Schaecher as chief operating officer, global airfreight. He has held a wide selection of senior leadership and operations roles in the industry, most recently served as chief executive ...
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Panalpina says has becomethe first global logistics company to gain accreditation for its lean training program. The Lean Competency System (LCS) accreditation developed in partnership with Cardiff University, UK, means that Panalpina’s in-house training program is on a par with the university’s own world renowned practices. It follows a programme ...
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Forwarding and logistics company Panalpina says it has made steady financial progress in 2013, posting double earnings before interest and tax of CHF 48 million – or CHF 108 million when adjusted for non-recurring items. It also outperformed the market in air and ocean freight, it said. However, CEO Peter ...
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Panalpina says it expects to reach 500 less than containerload (LCL) services by the end of 2014, having reached a record 450 weekly services worldwide in 2013, adding 41 new routes. Roughly 15% of Panalpina’s current 450 LCL services operate two or three sailings a week.
The forwarder monitors and evaluates ...
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A Panalpina 747-8 freighter has flown 100 tons of desperately-needed relief goods free of charge to the Central African Republic on 18 December. This shipment was organised in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) from Luxembourg into Bangui. Instead of giving Christmas gifts to its customers and employees ...
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Forwarder Panalpina says it has become the first company in the world to achieve completely paperless flights for general air freight, on its own controlled modern 747-8 freighter planes. The first flight departed Huntsville, Alabama at 05:49 local time on November 19heading for Luxembourg - the world’s first paperless round-trip ...
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Panalpina said on 23 October that it had entered into a preliminary agreement to settle a US class lawsuit filed in 2008 over anticompetitive practices on freight surcharges. The forwarder has agreed to pay US$35 million, which includes previously received proceeds of USD 5.8 million, in an unrelated class action ...
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Panalpina Group is appointing a chief commercial officer (CCO) and setting up a fourth Middle East, Africa and the CIS (MEAC) region headquartered in Dubai from 1 January. Countries in the current region Europe, Middle East, Africa and CIS will be split among the new MEAC and Europe regions, to ...
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The Panalpina Group returned to profit in the first quarter of 2013 after last year's loss said the company, in announcing a consolidated profit of CHF 14 million for the first three months of the year. Net forwarding revenue increased by 4% to CHF1,602m and gross profit by 0.5% to ...
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Panalpina CEO Monika Ribar is to step down at the end of May 2013 and will be succeeded by former Kuehne + Nagel management board member Peter Ulber. In late 2011, he set up the logistics consultancy, the Charleston Enterprise Group. Ribar, who in addition to her role as CEO ...
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