Gala reception in Berlin
Logistics Hall of Fame: Inventor of the Mobile Robotic Fulfillment System honored
Mick Mountz, Dr. Peter Wurman and Prof. Dr. Raffaello D'Andrea, the three founders of Kiva Systems, were officially inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame at a gala reception in the Erich Klausener Hall of the Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin. The "Logistics Leader of the Year Award 2024" and the Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics were also presented on the evening.
More than 200 guests from business, science, non-governmental organizations and politics honored the achievements of the inventors of the Mobile Robotic Fulfillment System in intralogistics, which enables numerous e-commerce companies to make same-day, efficient and error-free deliveries of goods with the help of autonomous mobile robots (AMR).
Hartmut Höppner, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs, praised the achievement in his speech: "The mobile transport robots make shipping efficient and safer. They transport the goods in small racks between the storage areas and the picking stations in order to avoid long walking distances and accident-prone transportation with forklift trucks. The Mobile Robotic Fulfillment System thus facilitates prompt delivery, which is becoming increasingly important in times of booming e-commerce. This also impressed and convinced the international jury of the Logistics Hall of Fame."
Hendrik Kramer honored with "Logistics Leader of the Year Award 2024"
Hendrik Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Fernride, was also delighted to receive the "Logistics Leader of the Year Award 2024" sponsored by Still. Kramer had established an automation solution for the mobility of commercial vehicles on the market, which makes it possible to move trucks without a driver using a hybrid system called "Human-Assisted Autonomy".
"What Hendrik Kramer has already achieved today is extraordinary. But one thing stands out for me in particular: this uncompromising will to change the world, but even more so the clarity with which he sees automation as the only possible way to achieve this," emphasized Frank Müller, Senior Vice President Sales & Service Business Development at Still, in his laudatory speech. "For us, as the sponsors of this award, he speaks from the heart."
Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics awarded
The Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics was awarded for the second time at the gala reception in Berlin: This year, the medal, donated by the Californian Fritz Institute, went to the Kenyan aid organization Strategies for Northern Development (SND). The organization was honored for its exemplary pioneering work in the "Horn of Africa Extreme Weather Response" project in northern Kenya from April 2022 to August 2024, in which a strategy was developed to provide those in need with fast, secure and sustainable access to everyday products using electronic vouchers and multi-purpose cash assistance via cell phone.
As part of the project, more than 1,200 households affected by drought and flooding in the Marsabit district received assistance. SND was supported by the humanitarian organization Oxfam. The Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics is awarded annually to humanitarian organizations and their partners for outstanding logistics projects. The prize is awarded by the Logistics Hall of Fame. It is sponsored by the Fritz Institute in the USA.
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