Freight’s
Martin Ohlsen Logistics Director, UN World Food Programme
tsunami or the earthquake in Haiti, or for longer-term efforts, such as the constant food programmes into refugee camps in Somalia and other African nations. The Rome-based Word Food Programme (WFP) has the
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mandate to provide both passenger and cargo services for United Nations Relief, and Martin Ohlsen heads the logistics arm. The WFP moves between 20,000 and 25,000 tonnes of aid per year, making it a major customer for logistics organisations. Logistics Emergency Teams work with the UN Global
Logistics Cluster, which coordinates the logistical response of the humanitarian community in times of disaster. The Logistics Cluster, which is currently working in some
umanitarian logistics makes up a significant amount of global transport volumes – whether it is for emergency relief for disasters such as the Japanese
13 countries, is led by WFP, the UN’s frontline agency for fighting hunger worldwide. The WFP also runs the Humanitarian Response Depot,
which prepositions, stores and handles emergency supplies and equipment in five hubs around the world, in Ghana, the UAE, Malaysia, Panama and Italy. Ohlsen has been a freight forwarder for some 30 years,
both in the commercial sector and on the humanitarian side, and he previously held the post of senior logistics adviser for WFP’s regional West African office. He notes that although the organisation works with
many international logistics organisations, one of its aims is to source a proportion of the food needed either locally or regionally, but in a way that doesn’t distort the local market.
Global 100
John Pattullo CEO , CEVA Logistics
Middle East and Africa division, responsible for freight forwarding and contract logistics. Following Deutsche Post-DHL’s acquisition of Exel,
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he ran the combined Exel and DHL contract logistics business in the region before being appointed CEO of CEVA in August 2007.
Lisa Phelan Chief, Anti-trust Division, US Department of Justice
transport sector, including airlines, freight forwarders and coastal shipping companies. The office has raised more than $1.6 billion in fines
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from airlines alone. The affect the investigations have had on the industry has been dramatic – and not just in financial terms. The air cargo industry has been weakened
isa Phelan’s office has been responsible for the arrests and prosecution of executives and companies for price-fixing throughout the
considerably by the inability of executives to communicate with each other on industry strategy and sustainability, and it has become an easy target for governments and other regulatory bodies to penalise. Despite the allegations of price-fixing, airlines have
collectively lost hundreds of billions of dollars over the last ten years and many have faced or fought off bankruptcy. A veteran of price-fixing cases, Phelan was appointed to her present position in 2002.
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ohn Pattullo began his career working in the supply chain division Proctor & Gamble, before joining Exel in 2005, where he was made CEO of its Europe,
CEVA was created after US private equity fund
Apollo Management had acquired first TNT Logistics and then in 2007 Jim Crane’s Eagle Global Logistics. It has focused on an asset-light model with contract
logistics and freight management the core services, although its strategy will see it targeting ocean freight forwarding and the Chinese market. It has announced its ambition to land itself a place in the top five ocean freight forwarders within the next three years.
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