News / DHL Global Forwarding search for new CEO ends with K+N's Tim Scharwath

Kuehne + Nagel’s recently departed head of air freight, Tim Scharwath, was this morning named as the new chief executive of DHL Global Forwarding (DGF).

The freight forwarding subsidiary of the world’s largest logistics company, Detusche Post-DHL, DGF has been beset by internal problems for well over a year, principally due to the ill-fated IT transformation project New Forwarding Environment, which cost previous DGF chief executive Roger Crook his job around a year ago.

The €750m project was cancelled after the division ...