CEVA promotes Jérôme Lorrain to COO Freight Management

CEVA Logistics has promoted Jérôme Lorrain to Chief Operating Officer Freight Management – which will add responsibility for Air and Ocean Freight to his current position as head of the ground business line.

Lorrain will continue to serve on the company’s Executive Board and takes over the air and ocean role from Helmut Kaspers, who has left the company.

Meanwhile, Michael O’Donoghue, currently Managing Director of the UK, Ireland and Nordics cluster, will be taking up the reins as Managing Director for North America from Lorrain on 1 January.

CEVA said that a replacement for O’Donoghue’s current role “will be announced in due course”.

Before joining CEVA, Lorrain was Chief Executive Officer of Wallenborn Transports in Luxembourg from 2009 to May 2014 and prior to that worked at Kuehne + Nagel for nearly a decade. He will continue to be based in Houston, Texas in the near term.