Forwarding veteran Robert Reiter is DHL GF's new CEO in the US

DHL Global Forwarding has appointed freight forwarding veteran Robert Reiter (above) as its new chief executive for the United States.

Mr Reiter has spent the past two decades in Asia, the last six working for DB Schenker, where he was most recently its chief commercial officer for the Asia-Pacific region.

That followed some 17 years at Panalpina, where he held a variety of positions, culminating as head of ocean freight for its Asia-Pacific until its takeover by DSV. He first joined Kuehne ...