Freight’s Global 100 Zhao Huxiang Chairman, Sinotrans P


ower in China’s largest multi-faceted logistics company ultimately rests with chairman Zhao Huxiang.


Hehad already held positions in the Marine Bureau in


China’s Ministry of Communications and then served on the board of one of the country’s most important port groups, China Merchents, before being appointed president of Sinotrans in late 2005 and named


chairman the following March. Alongside his role at the head of Sinotrans – whose


subsidiaries also operate around 70 containerships, 20 ro-ro vessels, as well as shipbuilding facilities and terminal developments – Zhao is also chairman of the Chinese express joint-venture DHL-Sinotrans, chairman of China International Freight Forwarders Association and is a vice-chairman of Fiata.


Satoshi Ishizaki CEO, Kintetsu World Express S


atoshi Ishizaki has been with Kintetsu Worldwide Express almost since the start, joining it three years after its foundation in 1970.


He was appointed CEO and president in June 2009,


and has managed to steer the company through the troubling times that have followed, managing to post a 35% increase in profits while revenues grew by just over a measly 2%, principally through carrying out a rationalisation plan that was developed in the wake of the Lehman collapse.


Siim Kallas Transport Commissioner, European Commission T


he European Commissioner for Transport is always going to be in a position of considerable influence, as he or she is ultimately responsible


for the environment in which both freight operators and shippers work in one of the world’s largest markets. With a population of around 500 million people, the


European Union, particularly those countries within the Schengen area are more integrated than either India or China and their inter-state bureaucracy.


20 IFW-Lloyd’s Loading List | Freight’s Global 100 | 2012 Former Estonian prime minister Siim Kallas may have


little first-hand experience of the freight business, but he faces a number of issues over the rest of his tenure that will have a lasting impact on the industry. Shipping, aviation, haulage, rail and transport


infrastructure development all come under his remit, and at the heart of the numerous challenges facing him is the balancing of a sensible transport policy with the increasing environmental pressures. The 2015 low- sulphur emissions regulations are just one example.


A core competence of company has been its


expertise in serving the automotive industry, and it has followed customers as they have spread their manufacturing across the world, opening new warehouse facilities in India, Thailand and Indonesia in the last six months. It has also launched joint-venture distribution and


warehousing operations in the Chinese cities of Chongqing and Chengdu, have been the focus of large investments over the past couple of years.


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