Supervisory Board appoints new Management Board members: Pierre Timmermans for Sales and Marketing and Marek Staszek for Production

Schenker AG is looking to the future, with three new top managers who will make the Management Board younger, more international and even more customer focused. The Supervisory Board of Schenker AG today appointed Xavier Garijo, 47, to serve as the Board Member for Contract Logistics. Garijo, who holds degrees in chemistry and physics, is originally from Spain. He has many years of experience in management positions at French, British and US companies – most recently at Reckitt Benckiser, and Revlon and Elizabeth Arden, in the consumer goods sector – and he is well versed in the needs of logistics customers. His future fellow Board Member Thorsten Meincke, 49, brings extensive expertise in global air and ocean freight on board. Meincke, who majored in economics and most recently...

DB Engineering & Consulting, a Deutsche Bahn company that is active internationally, acquired the Mainz-based IT company infraView in October. infraView specializes in developing digital solutions for monitoring, inspecting and analyzing infrastructure assets and vehicles. It was infraView who created the DIANA diagnostics and analytics platform for DB. This is one of the world's largest digital switch diagnostics platforms and is connected to more than 20,000 switches. Its intelligent diagnosis and analysis of data allows maintenance and damage repair required on infrastructure and vehicles to be identified and carried out before problems arise. This can reduce the number of switch malfunctions by up to 50% for instance, contributing to higher quality and punctuality in rail...