DHL held its 16th DHL Global Life Sciences & Healthcare Conference in Miami June 20-22, and may have scored an industry first, giving almost everybody who attended an award.
   The Carrier Award for Reliability and Excellence went to American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Swiss International Air Lines, and United Cargo.
   In fact, the presser we received—while mentioning the airlines by name—failed to list any people by name, except for (from left) Angelos Orfanos, President, Life Sciences & Healthcare Sector, DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation and David Bang, Global Head of DHL Temperature Management.
   Let’s see if we can help identify the rest of the people in the picture.
   Continuing from left—Angel Ramirez from United Airlines, Ashwin Bhat from Swiss WorldCargo, and Fred Ruggiero from Cathay Pacific. Then the tall guy is none other than Jim Butler, President, American Airlines Cargo, whom FT wrote extensively about last week; and next to him is Ingo-Alexander Rahn, Global Head of Air Freight, DHL Global Forwarding.
   “It makes us very proud that we have been awarded by DHL, and it encourages us to further improve on these core values and continue finding innovative solutions for our clients,” Ashwin said.
   We assume “ditto” was the sentiment from everyone else.
   Congratulations to all.
Flossie/Sabiha

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