
Stéphane Doudet becomes Managing Director of Kratzer Automation in France
Kratzer Automation, specialist for logistics automation and test systems, has appointed Stéphane Doudet as Managing Director of its French subsidiary.

Kratzer Automation, specialist for logistics automation and test systems, has appointed Stéphane Doudet as Managing Director of its French subsidiary.

Mirko Pahl will leave the railroad company TX Logistik on July 31. His successor as CEO of the company will be announced in the coming days.

Third edition of the E-Commerce BBQ
On September 6, everything will revolve around e-commerce for one day in Bielefeld. Store operators, practitioners and experts from the online business will meet at the E-Commerce BBQ in the Logistikpark Fuggerstraße.

The General Assembly of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) on June 28 in Toulouse, France, unanimously confirmed the incumbent President Robert Holliger and the entire EPAL Board in office for a further three years.

Research for lightweight construction
Dr.-Ing. Almut Albiez was awarded the Bertha Benz Prize 2019 for her dissertation. The results of her research open up new opportunities for lightweight construction applications.

The Supervisory Board of MAN Truck & Bus SE has made two new appointments to the Executive Board. Christian Schenk (45) will take over the Finance, IT and Legal department of MAN Truck & Bus SE as well as the Finance department on October 1.

The GEFCO Group is expanding GEFCO Forwarding Germany with a number of new appointments: Andreas Kujawski, Managing Director since the beginning of 2019, is expanding the sales structure with Choi Kuen Sum and Markus Leutner.

New election and repositioning
The Group of European TransEurasia Operators and Forwarders (GETO) will in future be headed by Harm Sievers. The Annual General Meeting elected the former GETO Board member to the new position.

At a ceremony, Ulrich Humbaur congratulated his co-managing director Oliver Czech on his 30th anniversary and thanked him for his commitment to the company.

Bavarian Freight Forwarders Association
Heinrich Doll remains President of the LBS - Landesverband Bayerischer Spediteure for a further two years. His two deputies, Manfred-Jürgen Fichtl and Henning R. Mack, were also confirmed in office at the 40th general meeting.

Florian Grewe took up his position as the new Central Marketing Manager at logistics service provider Zufall logistics in Göttingen on July 1. He will also take over the provisional management of the central press and public relations department.

Ingo Bauer is the new Head of the Transportation & Logistics division at PwC Germany. He took over the role from Dietmar Prümm at the end of the financial year on July 1.

Dr. Klaus van Marwyk took over as Chief Financial Officer of Schnellecke Logistics on July 1st.

Henry Puhl has been appointed by the Supervisory Board of Still GmbH for a further four years as Chairman of the Executive Board and thus also as President of the KION Operating Unit Still EMEA.

Dr. Peter Waller will succeed Dr. Christian Göseke as Chief Financial Officer at Swissport at the beginning of September.

The viastore Group, provider of intralogistics systems and intralogistics software, is expanding its management team. Anja Zschernig will be working for the company as CFO in future.

At the beginning of August, Silja Pieh becomes the new Head of Strategy at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. At the same time, she will take over the newly created function "Overall Strategy and Business Development MaaS/TaaS in the VW Group".

Karl-Heinz Dörhage, founder of Med-X-Press GmbH, hands over the management of the company to his son Lars Dörhage on July 1.

Central MarCom division changes
Messe München GmbH is strengthening its corporate communications. Christian Krause will start on July 1 as the new corporate spokesperson in Messe München's central MarCom department.

The Air Freight Forwarding Committee of the DSLV German Freight Forwarding and Logistics Association elected Timo Stroh, Head of Global Air Freight, Dachser Air & Sea Logistics, as its new Chairman at its meeting on June 19.