Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG becomes Silver Partner
The Group is now supporting the Logistics Hall of Fame and is committed to recognizing outstanding logistics achievements.
The inventors of the Mobile Robotic Fulfillment System in intralogistics, Mick Mountz (59), Dr. Peter Wurman (59), and Prof. Dr. Raffaello D'Andrea (57), are entering the Logistics Hall of Fame. With their developments for the company Kiva Systems, founded in the USA in 2003, the trio has enabled numerous e-commerce companies to deliver goods efficiently and error-free on the same day. Logistics employees no longer walk along shelves looking for orders; instead, Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) move a shelf with inventory to the picking stations.
The Group is now supporting the Logistics Hall of Fame and is committed to recognizing outstanding logistics achievements.
Winner Spedition will remain a Silver Partner of the Logistics Hall of Fame this year. Gudrun Winner-Athens herself was inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame in 2020 as a pioneer of combined transport.
The Logistics Hall of Fame nomination portal is open again. Anyone can suggest personalities or groups of people for induction into the global Logistics Hall of Fame at www.logisticshalloffame.net now.
The application portal for the Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics is open again. Humanitarian and development aid organizations with completed, successful logistics projects can now apply for the medal on the Logistics Hall of Fame website. The medal is also intended to help draw the attention of potential donors and partners to the excellent achievements of the winners.
The owner-managed investment company in the logistics real estate asset class has extended its network partnership with the Logistics Hall of Fame for the year 2024.
The company has extended its membership of the supporters' circle for the year 2024.
The robotics specialist headquartered in Lille, France, has become a new member of the Supporters' Circle of the global Logistics Hall of Fame.
The Logistics Hall of Fame® honours leading figures who have made outstanding efforts to promote the further development of logistics and supply chain management. In addition, ist aims to document outstanding achievements in logistics and to encourage and promote innovations. In this way, it raises public awareness for the performance capability and innovative drive of logistics, helping to underpin the competitiveness and improve the image of the entire logistics sector. Dr. Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, is the patron.