Freight’s Global 100 Alan Waller International President, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport S


omeone from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport had to make an appearance in this list, due to the range of services it provides the


industry and the way it promotes the professional standards of those working in it. The question was who? Perhaps chief executive


Steve Agg, or director of professional development Dorothea Carvalho? Ultimately, we have plumped for Professor Alan


Waller, previously both president and chief executive of the institute, and currently its


international president. Waller is one of the best known names in the freight


industry. He is also a visiting professor in international supply chain management at Cranfield, chairman of the European Logistics Users Providers and Enablers Group, chairman of Leaders in Supply Chain UK and president of Leaders in Supply Chain Benelux. He has worked in fright for over 35 years, including a


long stint leasing PriceWaterhouseCoopers supply chain consultancy and has been a pioneer in logistics education


John Whittaker Chairman, Peel Group J


ohn Whitaker is the billionaire mastermind behind Peel Group, which has substantial interests in ports and shipping, especially in northern England,


Scotland and Ireland. Peel Group was a family business that he entered


upon leaving education, which was traditionally focused on textile mills. He refocused the business onto property and during the 1980s began built vast swathes of warehousing as UK retailers began sourcing from overseas. That culminated with an ultimately successful three-


year battle to acquire the Manchester Ship Canal, and when later he bought the Mersey Docks & Harbours Company he became the first person to unite the cargo handling facilities of Liverpool and Manchester under one ownership – a feat that has allowed the company to develop a north-west port-centric strategy. Peel also owns the shortsea container lines BG


Freight Line and Coastal Container Line; it owns and operates Clydeport, and runs terminals in Dublin and Belfast.


John Williams MD, Maritime Transport A


30-year veteran of the UK transport industry, John Williams has long been recognised as one of its shrewdest operators.


As the UK container haulage sector entered into the


most difficult trading conditions in living memory, Williams embarked on one of his most ambitious plans, an aggressive expansion of Maritime Transport’s container haulage, with the acquisition of DHL Container Logistics in a deal that was signed on the stroke of midnight on 1 January 2010.


The acquisition took the overall size of Maritime’s


fleet up to around 900, and, along with the 200 DHL trucks, the deal also included depots with lifting equipment in Felixstowe and Old Trafford, Manchester. Last year saw it break into the garment distribution


business after it acquired 50 curtain-sided trailers, while at the end of 2010 it also opened a new rail- connected port-centric facility at the port of Tilbury, further extending its presence in the south-east.


46 IFW-Lloyd’s Loading List | Freight’s Global 100 | 2012


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48