Freight’s Global 100 Steve Gunning MD Cargo, International Airlines Group


for British Airways World Cargo in 2004. Two years later, he became head of internal control


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at British Airways, and joined the Finance Leadership team. He became Managing Director of British Airways World Cargo in 2007. British Airways merged with Iberia in January 2011,


to form the International Airlines Group. Gunning was given the top cargo spot, making him responsible for


teve Gunning joined British Airways in 1998 as a senior manager in the airline’s finance department, becoming general manager finance


both carriers’ cargo operations. The two airlines carry in excess of 6,421 CTKs of freight each year, with a combined revenue of €1.35 billion. BA is one of the few European combination carriers


to offer freighter services, and is replacing its B747- 400Fs with B747-8Fs under a five-year lease agreement with Global Supply Systems, a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings. Iberia began regional freighter operations in 2011


with leased B737s. Both carriers also operate an extensive trucking network.


John Harvey Transaid I


f one man can be said to be the figurehead of transport charity Transaid it is John Harvey. He joined it in 2000. Since then, he has largely been responsible for the


way in which it has become the principal industry charity in the UK, with its programme of training truck drivers in Africa having contributed to a substantial reduction in roads deaths in the continent. He began his business career with Unilever in 1957,


and was later named Chairman of SPD the conglomerate’s UK logistics subsidiary, becoming


responsible for its 1968 investment in Tibbett & Britten. He served as Chairman of Tibbett & Britten for 20


years, until its sale to Exel in 2004. Harvey has also served on the executive board of the


UK Freight Transport Association, and is currently Chairman of the logistics investment firm of Keswick Enterprises. He is also VP of the Chartered Institute of Logistics &


Transport and was awarded a CBE for his services to the industry in 1992.


Jason Keegan Head of Logistics, Marks & Spencer T


here are a number of UK shippers that could be placed on this list. The UK high street is a busy place – at least it was, until the recession cut a


swathe through it, which it continues to do. There are of course all types of shippers in the UK –


both importers and exporters (it is often easy to forget that the UK remains the world’s sixth largest manufacturer) – but the retail industry has been at the forefront of globalisation. And Marks & Spencer has


been at the forefront of retail. This position was cemented by M&S’s head of


logistics Jason Keegan’s public support for Maersk’s call last year “to change the way we think about shipping”, decrying the traditionally transactional relationship between shippers and shipping lines and calling for far better service levels. He took the role in July 2008, joining from New Look, where he had restructured the entire supply chain.


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