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completely from its European operations, which was taken earlier this year. Eric Born joined Wincanton in 2009 as Chief


Eric Born W


CEO, Wincanton


incanton is undergoing a period of restructuring and retrenchment, following the strategic decision to withdraw


Operating Officer and was later appointed Executive Director in October 2010, before being named CEO in December last year. He has taken the job at a time of considerable


Chris Cargill Group MD, Allport Cargo Services


operations has been current Group Managing Director Chris Cargill. Joining the company as a school-leaver in in 1970,


U


Cargill was fast-tracked to the Allport boardroom at just 24, taking responsibility for the then nascent forwarder’s air freight service, developing it into one of the UK's largest operators.


ntil its merger with Chinese logistics firm Cargo Services, Allport was one the true heavyweights of UK freight forwarding, and at the heart of the


He became a group shareholder by the age of 30. In his current role, held since December 2010, he is


using his earlier experience setting up Allport's 30 international subsidiaries and joint-ventures to harness the group’s global strengths to drive his ambitious plans for the future of Allport. The company, which recently merged with key


partner CS Logistics Holdings, has 4,500 employees globally and a combined revenue of US$1 billion. That integration represents a further challenge.


Helen Deeble CEO, P&O Ferries; Vice-President, UK Chamber of Shipping A


s CEO of P&O Ferries Helen Deeble holds one of the main jobs that links the UK to the European mainland.


She was appointed to her present position in 2006,


previously having been chief operating officer during the tumultuous takeover of P&O by DP World. Prior to that she was finance director at both P&O


and Stena Line UK. In April 2011 she was appointed Vice-President of UK


Chamber of Shipping. Her public prominence has increased considerably


over the last year or so as, in the constricted UK economy, P&O Ferries has found itself fighting a number of concurrent battles. Firstly there is the ongoing acrimony between Dover


Harbour Board and its three main ferry lines over the port’s planned privatisation. Secondly, there is the question of what is to happen


to its arch rival SeaFrance, amid fears that it will receive state aid in its resuscitation, as well as continuing fierce completion with DFDS and Eurotunnel.


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uncertainty, not just for Wincanton but for the UK economy as a whole, and while the operator’s reliance on a series of big ticket contracts with blue-chip clients ought to see it come though the recession, there is no telling who will be the downturn’s next victim. Nonetheless, the withdrawal from Europe can also


be seen as a bold move, as well as its exit from other verticals that have not performed so well, and the next year will be a crucial in the process of refocusing its operations.


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