Sustainability and sensibility: Schiphol needs the best of both worlds

The furore over Schiphol’s plans to cut slots to appease locals and quell noise, has led to some dissatisfaction over the appointment of ex-union firebrand Joost van Doesburg as head of cargo. 

Mr van Doesburg has always been a passionate supporter of the causes he is employed to take up, which in part explains local shippers’ disappointment that the former employee of the European Shippers Council is not fighting their corner, as might have been expected. 

But in fact, the problem may ...