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| Vol. 21 No. 41 | Thursday
November 3,
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PumpingTraffic For November 3, 2022 |
 Etihad
Cargo in partnership with Etihad
Airport Services and Abu Dhabi
Airports to launch a new state-of-the-art pharmaceutical
cool chain facility. The facility will will double Abu Dhabi Airport’s
cool chain storage capacity and enhance the airport’s capabilities
for the storage, handling and transportation of cool chain products. Etihad
Cargo's customers will benefit from the carrier's International Air Transport
Association (IATA) Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV)
Pharma  certification
for pharmaceutical and life science. Martin
Drew, (left) Senior Vice President Global Sales & Cargo
at Etihad Aviation Group. "This joint venture located at Etihad Cargo’s
hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport provides the perfect location to
link the Middle East to not only Asia and Europe, but also the U.S. and
Africa, so life-saving medicines and the latest treatments can be transported
seamlessly around the world to those that need them the most.”.
. .  Hans
Hickler (right) joins Seko
Logistics as president of the Americas where he will oversee
the company’s development plans in the region. Hickler will have operating
authority and responsibility for the Americas Region including people growth
and commercial development, operations and customer experience, cash management
and compliance and regulatory. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he will report
directly to chief executive James Gagne
and chief operating officer – international, Steen
Christensen. Well known in the logistics industry he has
worked with Seko over the last seven years in an advisory role, and prior
to that he was with Agility Logistics
and before that at DHL. Hickler
said: “I’m excited to be at the company full-time after working
for several years as a strategic thought partner. I’m looking forward
to being a part of such an aspirational and forward-thinking organization.”
. . . Lufthansa
Cargo’s seven sales regions are now mapped into five,
enhancing the focus on the customer, simplifying the structure to increase
speed to market and
support the new phase of growth at the company. Stephanie Abeler, formerly Head of “Sales & Handling Midwest USA”, takes over the responsibilities of the newly created America, a merged region of North and South America. She will remain based in Chicago. A single European region consisting of Eastern & Northern Europe and Western Europe will now be headed by Oliver von Götz in Frankfurt.  The
region of Middle East & Africa will be expanded to include the markets
of South Asia & the CIS region and is headed by Dr.
André Schulz, based in Frankfurt. Achim
Martinka, who has headed Lufthansa Cargo's German sales
as Vice President Germany has expanded his area of responsibility to include
the markets Austria and Switzerland, thus leading the newly created DACH
sales region. The structure of the Asia Pacific region (except for the South
Asia market) remain the responsibility of J.
Florian Pfaff based in Singapore. Digital Sales, which was
previously a head office function is now defined as a customer-facing function
led by Marcel Kling. All managers
of the Sales Regions as well as Digital Sales will report to Ashwin
Bhat, the Chief Commercial Officer of Lufthansa Cargo. |
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