As of October 1, Alexander Winter will assume leadership of Dachser's Air & Sea Logistics EMEA business unit. He succeeds Marc Meier, who will leave the company at the end of the month. The Kempten-based company announced this in a press release.
The 53-year-old Austrian Alexander Winter comes from DB Schenker (today part of DSV), where since 1999 he held various
management positions with a focus on ocean freight and contract logistics. Since 2018 he has been CEO for Austria and the Southeast Europe region for the Air & Sea Freight, Road Transport, as well as Contract Logistics businesses, and there he drove the growth of the logistics service provider. In his new role as Managing Director Air & Sea Logistics EMEA
at Dachser, Winter reports to Dr. Tobias Burger, COO Air & Sea Logistics.
"With Alexander Winter we have gained a leader with a lot of experience in international logistics for Dachser," explains Dr. Tobias Burger, COO Air & Sea Logistics at Dachser. "In his successful professional career he has proven that he can develop local markets in a customer-oriented way and
operate efficiently."
"Especially in our core market Europe, we need a strong Air & Sea Freight organization that drives growth with globally integrated end-to-end transports and Contract Logistics," explains Burkhard Eling, CEO of Dachser. "With his extensive logistics and management experience, Alexander Winter has the necessary toolkit to take the linkage with our European general cargo network to a new level."
