movements

TIACA Singapore

Bertrand Schmoll, Chairman at General Sales and Service Agent (GSSA) ECS Group, was elected to the board of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA). Schmoll’s election to the TIACA board is concurrent with the early departure of Sebastiaan Scholte, Chairman, TIACA, who is stepping down a few months earlier than planned and is also departing from his position of CEO of Jan de Rijk Logistics on July 1. Returning to Schmoll’s election to the board, a statement from TIACA noted that ECS Group is the first GSSA to be represented on the board, which Scholte noted as a positive move providing representation for all sectors of the supply chain.

Allcargo Logistics Mumbai

Allcargo Logistics has announced the appointment of Eddy Bruyninckx as Independent Director on ECU Worldwide board. ECU Worldwide is the fully-owned international subsidiary of Allcargo Logistics. Bruyninckx has been associated with Port of Antwerp as CEO for 25 years. He has been instrumental in strategising extremely strong performance for the port. Under his able leadership, Port of Antwerp has emerged as a major logistics hub.

ACP Worldwide United Kingdom

ACP Worldwide has promoted Rod Entwistle to the newly created position of Managing Director. Entwistle has a total of 33 years of experience in the aviation industry and for almost 30 of those has worked alongside ACP’s Founder and Chief Executive, Graeme Howard. Together with Howard, Entwistle has helped spearhead the company’s global development including commercial operations, airline client sales strategies, project planning and service delivery.

Marseille-Fos Port France

Hervé Martel, Managing Director of the Port of Le Havre since March 23, 2012, has been appointed Head of the Seaport of Marseille (Grand Port Maritime de Marseille). He replaces Christine Cabau-Woehrel, who turned down the opportunity to renew her five-year contract with GPM de Marseille to return to CMA CGM. The Port of Le Havre is a major hub for foreign trade and the fifth ranking port on the North European range for container traffic. It welcomes nearly 6,000 vessels each year, including the largest containerships in the world.

JSW Infrastructure Mumbai

JSW Infrastructure appointed Arun

Maheshwari as its Joint Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Maheshwari has been associated with JSW Group since November 1995 and has handled multiple roles and responsibilities, including his role as Executive Vice-President (commercial), JSW Steel. With over two-and-a-half decades of experience in the steel industry, he has been responsible for sourcing major steel and power generating raw materials, corporate strategy, and international marketing, steering each of these areas with his entrepreneurial skills, creative approach and lateral thinking.

Imperial Logistics China

Joshua Mclarin has been named as the company’s new Managing Director for China. Originally from New Zealand, Mclarin has spent the past 13 years of his logistics career in senior positions at Singapore Post group companies in New Zealand, Thailand, Australia and (most recently) Singapore, where he was Vice-President, Group Sales, responsible for 13 countries. Mclarin has considerable experience in providing logistics solutions for some of the world’s largest and best-known online and retail brands, and successfully drove the positioning of Singapore as an e-commerce consolidation and distribution centre for Asia.