Freight’s Global 100 Jacques Saade CEO, CMA CGM L to. After war in Lebanon broke out in 1978, he moved to


Marseilles and founded Compagnie Maritime d’Affretement. He then acquired France’s national container line, Compagnie Generale Maritime, when it was privatised in 1996, giving birth to CMA CGM. A massive power struggle with his brother Johnny


Neel Shah Chief Cargo Officer, Delta N


eel Shah has quickly become a key figure in the air cargo industry. He is chair of Airlines for America (previously the Air Transport


Association) Cargo Council, chairman of TIACA’s security sub-committee and is on the SkyTeam Cargo executive board. Shah joined Delta in 2008, and under his leadership


the cargo division has significantly improved revenue and profitability, growing cargo’s contribution by 25%. He restructured the worldwide sales team, and led the integration of the two cargo organisations when


Delta acquired Northwest Airlines – widely recognised as one of the smoothest mergers in airline history. Under Shah, Delta Cargo’s transatlantic joint-venture


with Skyteam partner Air France-KLM Cargo has become possibly the only successful alliance in the air freight business. Shah previously worked as VP sales and marketing


for United Airlines Cargo, increasing revenues by $145 million and doubling its contribution. Before that, he held management consulting roles at Arthur D Little and Beddows & Company.


Mohammed Sharaf CEO, DP World


has been little short of astonishing, and a key plank in the government of Dubai’s strategy to diversify off a hydrocarbon-based economy. CEO Mohammed Sharaf has been at the heart of that


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expansion. He began his career working at New York’s Howland Hook terminal before joining Dubai Ports Authority in 1993.


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he growth of DP World from a single port- operating company in Dubai into the select jgroup of major international terminal operators


In 2003, he became managing director of its


fledgling international operations and was named CEO in 2005 after the international and domestic arms of the business were integrated to become DP World. He subsequently managed the acquisitions of firstly


CSX World Terminals in 2005, and then of the P&O Group the following year, steering the company through what was an exceptionally difficult time due to the politically sensitive nature of the purchase in the United States.


ebanese-born Jacques Saade is typically described as one of the great survivors of container shipping, a title that he has repeatedly lived up


then ensued over control of the company, which he won in 2000, leaving him able to focus on building CMA CGM up into the world’s third largest box shipping line. This was down partially through organic growth, but also through the successive acquisitions of a whole series of niche operators, many of which have retained their traditional brands. His survival instincts came to the fore once more


during the current container shipping crisis despite several attempts to oust him.


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