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Bruce Carlton President, Global Logistics Forum, NITL


Forum, Bruce Carlton can expect to see his influence extend over the coming years as the continuing struggle between shippers and transport providers intensifies. The 2009 repeal of the exemption that container line


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conferences enjoyed from competition law in the European Union is unlikely to be the last word on conferences, as shippers have now set their sights on other regimes where conferences can still be legally formed. It is highly likely that the banning of conferences in


Europe will be a debate that will take place in the US time and again, give Carlton’s barely concealed contempt at the conclusions of the Federal Maritime Commission’s study into the turmoil that the transpacific trades went through during 2009 and 2010, when US shippers and importers were thrown into chaos by service disruption, a lack of eastbound vessel capacity and an


s president of North America’s largest shipper association, the National Industrial Transportation League, and a board member of the Global Shippers’


acute shortage of export containers. “We were expecting that a ‘fact finding investigation’


conducted over a nine-month period would have yielded some facts about what happened, or did not happen,” he commented witheringly. And via his role on the board of the Global Shippers Forum, the industry can expect to see many of the issues that affect US shippers brought to international attention. Carlton comes with an imposing CV. A former employee


of the US Department of Transportation, he has more than 35 years’ experience in international and domestic freight, and an impressive track record working for the government – leading the teams that negotiated the bilateral trade agreements between the US and China, Russia, Vietnam, Brazil and Japan. His success as Chairman of the International Labour


Organisation in getting 120 countries to raify the 2006 Maritime Labour Act further demonstrates his formidable negotiating talents.


Abel Lopez Cernadas Head of Supply Chain, Inditex


to become the world’s largest apparel retailer. It has been an extraordinary ascent for a company


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based in Spain’s northern port of La Coruna, which largely the work of one man, its founder Armancio Ortega. It is not an exaggeration to say that a primary reason for its growth is found in its innovative


n the summer of 2008, Spanish fashion house Inditex, owner of the Zara chain of stores, among others, overtook San Francisco-headquartered Gap


approach to the supply chain, over which it has retained tight control. Abel Lopez Cardenas, a 25-year veteran of Inditex, is


now the group’s head of supply chain and in charge of its import, export transport and labelling issues. He is at the heart of an intricate supply chain that


has consistently managed to get its products to market quicker than its competitors, which has resulted in far fewer markdowns – thus massively increasing profits.


Yang Ho Cho Chairman & CEO, Korean Air Y


ang Ho Cho began to work for Korean Air in 1974, rising to become president and CEO in 1992, and chairman in 1999.


Cho became chairman of Hanjin Group, one of the


world’s largest transportation conglomerates in 2003, and he is also a director of Hanjin Shipping, one of the top-ten container carriers in the world, and Korean Airport Service. Korean Air is the world’s largest commercial airline


cargo carriers, with 24 B747-400Fs and orders in for seven B747-8Fs and five B777Fs. On the board of IATA, Cho ensured Korean Air was


one of the first airlines to embrace the association’s e-freight programme in 2008, and continues to promote it to other carriers. As part of the B20’s Trade and Investment Working


Group, he recently called for an “integrated air, sea and land logistics system to boost the global economy”.


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