Freight’s Global 100 Stan Wraight Managing Partner, Strategic Aviation Solutions International S


tan Wraight has been – and continues to be – instrumental in shaping the air cargo industry, both through his own accomplishments, and


through training its future leaders. He started in the business at 18, working at KLM,


and led the Dutch carrier’s cargo push into Asia in the 1990s. He left to work with Michael Chowdry at Atlas Air,


during which time the company grew from six to 52 aircraft in just four years. He then moved on to the Russian Volga-Dnepr


Group, where he founded AirBridgeCargo, the first Russian scheduled freight carrier to operate Boeing 747Fs. His next airline launch was Cargoitalia. Wraight, a Canadian, started his company SASI in


2005, along with his partners. It provides consultancy, management and training services to air cargo companies around the world. But, says Wraight, his proudest legacy will be those


people he trained, who will help take the industry on to its next level.


Vladimir Yakunin President, Russian Railways


does not rise to president of the country’s most important infrastructure – its railways – without also having serious political clout, and he is often said to be a member of prime minister Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. The sheer size of Russian Railways merits his


V inclusion, in part because Russsia’s place between the


ladimir Yakunin is not really a freight man in the way that many on this list are. His career is that of a political animal, and in today’s Russia, one


Asian and European landmasses means that the potential for all-land services between the two will always hinge on its involvement. In part, also, because Russian Railways has embarked


on one of the most extensive reform programmes that may ultimately see the entire company privatised. In freight terms this has partially happened, with its intermodal subsidiary TransContainer partially listed on the London Stock Exchange. Yakunin is central to further reform.


Sung-koo Yeo President & CEO, Pantos Logistics S


outh Korea’s leading freight forwarder and logistics provider, Pantos Logistics has grown rapidly since its inception in 1977, when it began


life as an air freight forwarder. It now runs the full gamut of logistics roles and has


operations across 139 locations globally and handles around 1.3 million teu of ocean freight per year, although much of its early growth was due to the volumes and logistics outsourcing done on behalf of Korean electronics giant LG.


36 IFW-Lloyd’s Loading List | Freight’s Global 100 | 2012 President and CEO Sung-Koo Yeo, appointed to his


present role in 2002, has set an ambitious strategy for the company through to 2020, with a goal to increase revenues from around $2 billion a year currently to $12 billion. He has been credited with revolutionising the


company’s approach to IT and also serves as chairman of the logistics committee at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and senior vice-chairman of the Korea Integrated Logistics Association.


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