Why Cargo 

• Strategic advice to shareholders and the Board
• Air Cargo and Logistics create Jobs and Trade Opportunities
• Air Cargo as a driver for the regional economic development
• Air Cargo as a driver for Job creation
• Air Cargo as a driver for the Airport to develop Passenger Routes and Real Estate Development

How Cargo

• Strategic advice to Management and Business Development team
• Cargo Community approach - from Shipper to Consignee
• Intermodal Logistics with the Airport as Anchor point
• Business Model for Cargo traffic and Cargo Community development
• Marketing Approach - P / P / P and P analysis, definition, implementation, evaluation

When Cargo

• Timeline for longterm, sustainable cargo development

Koen Servaes  - although a geologist by education, Koen Servaes made his career in aviation.  He started his career at the operations department of Belgavia, a Brussels based handling agent, in 1976. He became operations manager at Flying Tigers in Brussels five years later. 

When Flying Tigers, at that time the largest cargo operator in the world, was taken over by Federal Express, he left the company and started his own consultancy company in 1985.  With his company he handled a wide scope of activities. He developed operation software for the cargo aviation industry, organized over 300 cargo charter relief flights to Africa and had several mid and long term consultancy and representation jobs for several main players in the aviation or general industry. (DHL, Brussels airport, Liege airport, Sabena, Ford Motor Company, Eurohandling, Anova, SA Airlink, Simba Air Cargo)  

In a career that spans over 38 years he approached the industry from various different viewpoints: handling agent, cargo airline, airport operator, GSA and broker/expeditor. He has been dealing with the operational, commercial and management aspects of the cargo aviation industry.  

 Previously already strongly involved with African aviation, the focus became completely on Africa when he moved to Kinshasa in 2008.  On behalf of investors he established a handling company in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. 

In 2010 he became the first non-Ethiopian director at Ethiopian Airlines.  As cargo director he was involved with all cargo aspects. 

He had a great contribution to the restructuring and development of the African cargo network and the hub in Addis Ababa. End 2011 he became business development manager for Avient. He opened new stations in Pemba and Juba and restructured existing stations in Pointe Noire, Bamako and Ouagadougou. 

In October 2013 he made an eighteen-month contract as CEO for Triple F, a Nairobi based handling agent. He restructured the company and turned it into a profitable enterprise after four consecutive years of loss making.  

Since April 2015, Koen is also working on FB Cargo Strategy projects on a freelance basis. In the last years Koen has been dealing with airlines, handling companies, airport operators, shippers, freight forwarders and civil aviation authorities in more than 20 countries.        

Cargo Forwarder Global  Cargo veteran Steven Verhasselt goes his own way 

Complacent airports should pay more attention to their cargo operations

Cargo Forwarder Global  Steven Verhasselt. The former Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Marketing at Liege Airport has meanwhile set up his own business, focusing on consultancy services for the logistics and cargo industry (www.fbcargos.com). His task at LEJ: to develop a strategy for non-express cargo as precondition for attracting additional freight carriers keen to transport standard shipments such as automotive components, machinery, consumer goods, livestock, or special freight such as temperature-sensitive items as core products in addition to some e-commerce.  More....

Mr Steven Verhasselt

Director

FB Cargo Strategy

steven@fbcargos.com

Tel : Hong Kong + 852 9431 3305

        Belgium      + 32 477 22 5276

Skype : stevenverhasselt

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