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JOHANNES FRITZEN , NEW PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN FREIGHT & LOGISTICS LEADERS FORUM (F&L)

Johannes Fritzen has been named the new President for the European Freight & Logistcs Leaders Forum (F&L).  Fritzen is Non-executive Director for the shipping line “K” Line, one of the biggest carriers in the world. Before assuming the role of President at F&L, he was Vice-President and member of the Management Comittee.

He was named President at the last F&L’s General Meeting that recently took place in Warsaw and this nomination is effective since the 1st of June. The Chairman of Transfesa Emilio Fernández, is to step down after nearly 3 years as President of F&L, however he will carry on as a member of the Management Committee.

Alongside Fritzen, Antti Vehvilainen (STORA ENSO OYJ, Finland) was named Vice-President. Other Vice-Presidents continue to be Franco Castagnetti (NEW OPERA, Italy) and Armand Toubol (SNCF, France) and the treasurer is Harald Bortolotti (LKW WALTER INTERNATIONAL AG, Austria). At the same meeting Sergio Menegazzi (Basell Polyolefine GmbH, Germany) became a member of the Management Committee in place of Kim Cartledge that has presented her resignation.

TheEuropean Freight & Logistics Leaders Forum -F&L- was founded in 1994 as a non-profit organisation. It consists of a club of 80 European companies that use, develop and organise multimodal freight transport in Europe. Its aim is to help towards creating a multimodal system that competitively integrates different transport modes in order to reduce the CO2 emissions.
F&L has been analysing and researching possible solutions to improve the efficiency of the logistics system for the European industry. They have agreed upon driving sustainable growth, yet supporting the implementation of comodality driven by the European Commission. F&L currently collaborates alongside DG TREN to promote e-freight as a way to improve the management of the transport capacity available in the market.
As the main promoter of the Project NEW OPERA, F&L have managed to obtain funding from the EU to develop the project. This project aims to build a 15,000 km railway net dedicated exclusively for the transport of cargo. Said Project is due to be finished in July of this year and its final conference to present results will take place on 30th September in Brussels.

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