Horizon Global Board Appoints Debra Oler As Director
John Kennedy, chair of Horizon Global’s board of directors, stated, “We are pleased to announce Deb’s appointment to the board. Deb is a proven leader with substantial commercial experience, including, notably, in the aftermarket and e-commerce sales channels. We look forward to Deb’s immediate contributions to the Board.” LSI President Brett Tennar says, “Steve’s success in developing operational strategies that improves the bottom line, builds teamwork, reduces waste and ensures quality product development and distribution checks many of the boxes of what we were looking for in a COO. This, coupled with his career in the Air Force working with highly technical systems and his in-depth understanding of Lean Six Sigma and Business Process Management sealed our offer. As our tagline states, our products are Powered by Science. This data driven approach is one reason why our company has grown exponentially as we employ the most advanced technology to product development. I am confident that Steve is the right person to drive operational strategy for our diverse and growing brands.” Advertisement Oler served as senior vice president/president, North American sales and service for W.W. Grainger, Inc., a leading global supplier of maintenance, repair and operating supplies for businesses and institutions, from 2014 until her retirement at the end of 2019. Oler joined Grainger in 2002 and held several roles with increasing responsibility from 2002 to 2014. Oler currently serves on the board of directors of Pool Corporation, a position she has held since October 30, 2018.,Lubrication Specialties Inc. (LSI), manufacturer of Hot Shot’s Secret brand of performance additives and oils, recently announced the expansion of senior leadership. Steve deMoulpied joins LSI as the company’s chief operating officer (COO). AdvertisementClick Here to Read MoreAdvertisement DeMoulpied comes to LSI from the Private Client Services practice of Ernst & Young where he managed strategy & operations improvement engagements for privately held client businesses. Some of his prior roles include VP of strategic development, director of strategic initiatives, and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at OptumHealth, UnitedHealth Group’s health services business, as well as Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at General Electric, where he applied operations improvement principles to customer service, supply chain and product development. A successful entrepreneur, deMoulpied is also the founder of PrestoFresh, a Cleveland-based e-commerce food/grocery business. Horizon Global Corporation, a leading manufacturer of branded towing and trailering equipment, announced recently that the company’s board of directors increased the size of the board from eight to nine directors, and appointed Debra Oler as a director, effective immediately. Oler was also appointed to the board’s compensation committee and corporate governance and nominating committee.AdvertisementClick Here to Read MoreAdvertisement DeMoulpied has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Management from the United States Air Force Academy and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Dayton in Marketing and International Business. He served six years with the USAF overseeing the development of technology used on fighter aircraft and the E-3 Surveillance aircraft, finishing his career honorably as Captain. With more than 20 years of experience across multiple industries and functional areas, deMoulpied has particular expertise in organizations with complex technical products. Combined, his prior positions have required a spectrum of skills in corporate strategy, operations improvement, product quality, and revenue cycle management. He has an impressive history of utilizing data driven problem solving (Lean Six Sigma) and project management (PMP and CSM) to achieve strategic goals surrounding customer satisfaction, operational efficiency and improved profit. 
Independent/Gordon M. GrantTo help community members in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Sag Harbor Cinema Community Relief Fund will donate $250,000 over a six-month period to organizations that are dedicated to food security and emergency relief on the East End.“We have received so much love and support from the community that it is particularly wonderful to have the ability to help others now,” said cinema chair and artist April Gornik. “Not only are these donors helping sustain our community, they have also worked with us to determine greatest need with a deeply committed, hands-on involvement.”The first round of grants will be made in May and funds will go toward Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, Children’s Museum of the East End, Eleanor Whitmore Center, Hamptons Art Camp, Meals on Wheels – East Hampton and Montauk, and Organización Latino-Americana. “This effort reflects Sag Harbor Cinema’s intention to focus on all aspects of the community it serves, and directly connects with the interests of the East End based couple who made the donation,” a press release stated.“The cinema’s mission is to provide entertainment and artistic excellence that enhances the quality of community life in the East End. Our mission also builds community by providing an anchor institution on Main Street,” said Sag Harbor Cinema board president John Alschuler. “These funds that will provide food, childcare, and other benefits, build upon that mission at this extraordinary time, and will further express our values and our mission.”Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center is dedicated to rebuilding, maintaining, and operating the historic Sag Harbor Cinema with programming and education for all ages.“The rebuilding of the historic Sag Harbor Cinema and its return to full operation will continue to be the priority of the organization, with its array of programs and educational opportunities designed to serve its diverse community,” the release read. “We look forward to serving our community as soon as it is safe for people to gather again.”jessica@indyeastend.com Share
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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., LLC, from Oak Brook, Illinois, has won a $25.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for the Arthur Kill Channel Navigation project.This development program will include the following activities: dredging, blasting and disposal of rock.Work will be performed in Elizabeth, New Jersey (10 percent); Linden, New Jersey (40 percent); and Staten Island, New York (50 percent), with an estimated completion date of November 20, 2015.Bids were solicited via the Internet, with three received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, is the contracting activity.Founded in 1890, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) leads the North American market in dredging as the largest industry service provider, and is the only U.S. Company with substantial dredging operations overseas.Leading a diverse dredging fleet, GLDD owns over 200 specialized maritime vessels and operates marine yards in six locations nationwide.[mappress mapid=”19498″]Source: defense.gov
Acknowledging the importance of India in the present global economy, the next meeting of the IFCBA will be held in India, which will allow members of FFFAI to interact with the members of IFCBA and IFCBA members to share their experience as CHAs/Customs brokers in their country as well as explain the activities of the body.The IFCBA has been representing the interests of the world’s Customs brokers and their clients since 1990. It works to bring about improvement in Customs policies and practices on a global basis. These improvements benefit both members and their clients.www.ifcba.orgwww.fffai.org
Miller, who was most recently employed as an industry consultant, has almost 30 years of experience in the heavy transport sector. He has held several roles in the transport engineering and logistics sector, including SPMT operator, transport supervisor and project director, before becoming president of an international heavy lift and engineered transport company in 2011.OXBO ceo Keith Settle said that Miller is joining the team as the company continues to expand its presence throughout the USA and Canada.www.oxboinc.com
The Department for Education has taken two key steps to relieve councils of duties related to children with special educational needs (SEN) during the Covid-19 crisis. One is an amendment to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, which the secretary of state for education is permitted to make under the Coronavirus Act 2020. The amendment allows ‘relaxation of time periods due to coronavirus exception’.Specified time periods are a key lever used when seeking to make local authorities fulfil a duty to make assessments on which future support and service will depend. Now the secretary of state has directed, ‘action to be taken within a specified period of time or by a certain day is to be read instead as a requirement for such action to be taken as soon as reasonably practicable’.The second step is a ‘modification notice’ allowing local authorities and health commissioning bodies to discharge their legal obligations to children with education, health and care plans (EHCPs) by using ‘reasonable endeavours’. Section F of EHCPs, which includes specific legally enforceable items, is affected. Mason: ‘Local authorities cannot sit back and do nothing’.Hayley Mason, senior solicitor at specialist firm SEN Legal, told the Gazette the move represented ‘a temporary downgrading of the absolute duty to deliver provision’ under section 42 of the Children and Families Act 2014.Mason added: ‘There remains a duty for these processes to be carried out – local authorities cannot sit back and do nothing. Local authorities will also need to show that compliance isn’t reasonably practicable for a reason relating to the incidence or transmission of coronavirus and continue to justify that reason throughout any delays.’She said local authorities should also be creative in the delivery of section F, ‘wherever possible, or alternatively provide for these vulnerable children at school. I expect we will however see those trying to use it as an excuse to down tools and we must push back against that’.The notice will end on 31 May and the amendment to timescales on 25 September. Both could be renewed on expiry.In another Coronavirus Act development, Coventry City Council and Derbyshire County Council are the latest local authorities to ‘switch on’ measures allowing them to suspend social care duties to disabled adults.Where councils’ directors of adult social care at councils have introduced ‘easements’ to the Care Act 2014, they no longer have a duty to carry out assessments of individuals’ and carers’ needs, the provision of detailed care plans, or to meet the needs of someone assessed as eligible for care and support. These duties are replaced by the ‘power’ to provide support and services.In a statement Coventry said it was using four easements. A spokesperson for Derbyshire said: ‘Following an assessment of all clients, we have suspended, reduced or changed some non-essential homecare services in line with changes to government legislation for those people who have support of family and friends. These arrangements have been agreed with everyone affected and will be reviewed regularly.’After the Gazette exclusively revealed the list of councils using easements last week, the government made a commitment to publish the names of such councils. This is now being done through independent regulator the Care Quality Commission. The majority of councils currently using the easements are in the Midlands.
Benin: Rites has placed an order with India’s Golden Rock workshop for the refurbishment of three metre-gauge diesel locos for use in Benin. They will be shipped in October.Bosnia: BHZJK has awarded Croatian firm TZV Gredelj a €4·1m contract to modernise three ex-DB Class 212 diesel-hydraulic locomotives and one Class 642 diesel-electric by September 2009.Croatia: HZ has awarded TZV Gredelj a 30m kuna contract to modernise four locos by September 2009.Czech Republic: In June CD Cargo rolled out a Class 218 electro-diesel loco converted from a Skoda Class 210.028 by the Ceské Budejovice works and CZ Loko. The frame, bogies and cab have been retained, and it has been fitted with a 384 kW Caterpillar 3406 engine and a Siemens alternator. CD Cargo may convert several more if the loco proves successful on trip freight and shunting duties. On June 11 railway authority DÚ granted unrestricted approval for the use of ÖBB Class 1216.2 electric locomotives on Czech infrastructure.On July 9 CD Cargo awarded CZ Loko a contract to rebuild 30 out-of-use Class 750 and 753 diesel–electric locos as Class 753.7 by 2010. To be fitted with Caterpillar 5312B DI-TA engines rated at 1 455 kW, they will be sold to ING Lease and leased back.India: Czech firm Bonatrans has won a €10m contract to supply wheelsets for 424 metro cars Bombardier is building for Delhi (RG 5.08 p279).US firm ITT Corp is to supply Indian Railways with Koni dampers and shock absorbers worth US$1m.Ireland: The Railway Procurement Agency has awarded Alstom a €15m five-year contract to maintain 18 additional Citadis trams on order for Dublin’s Green Line. Israel: The first of 87 coaches ordered from Siemens for inter-city and regional services arrived in Ashdod on June 18. ISR expects to begin trials this month, and regular service by November. Built in Praha with bogies from Graz, the coaches are 24·4 m long and 2·86 m wide, and weigh 47 tonnes. One car per set has a generator and cab for push-pull operation at up to 160 km/h. Malaysia: China Northern’s Tai-yuan plant has won an order to supply a TY2T-C300 catenary maintenance vehicle with a top speed of 95 km/h.Mozambique: At the end of June India’s Golden Rock workshop dispatched two refurbished diesel locomotives to Nacala. They have been fitted with new lights and converted from metre to 1 067 mm gauge.Netherlands: On June 25 Stadler’s Bussnang plant rolled out the first of eight GTW EMUs ordered by Veolia in February 2007 at a cost of €29m. They are to be used on Maastricht – Kerkrade services.Poland: On July 9 the Opole region signed a 34·5m zloty order with PESA for five two-car DMUs for local services between Opole, Nysa and Kedzierzyn-Kozle. The first will delivered this year, the last in 2010.Sole bidder Siemens is to supply PKP Intercity with 10 ES64UA multi-system electric locos for 200 km/h passenger services. Testing of the first is expected to begin by the end of 2008, and deliveries will be completed in two years. The €44·5m order is financed from a 2006 EIB credit agreement.Slovenia: SZ has awarded ÖBB Technische Services a €12m seven-year contract to maintain its 32 Class 541 Siemens Taurus 3 electric locomotives.Spain: A consortium of Bombardier and Talgo has been awarded a 14-year contract to maintain 45 S-130 trainsets at RENFE’s Santa Catalina and Fuencarral depots in Madrid.. The contract runs to 2022, with Bombardier valuing its share at €128m. Ukraine: Ferrexpo Poltava Mining plans to lease a further 440 wagons for its iron ore and pellet traffic during 2008, following an initial trial with 110 vehicles last year. Swiss-based Ferroexpo group expects to benefit from UZ’s reduced tariffs for customers providing their own rolling stock.Sinara Transport Machines has signed a 300m rouble contract to supply mining logistics firm Region with 10 TGM6D diesel locomotives. They will be built at the Lyudinovo Locomotive Plant in Russia.UK: By the June 30 deadline both prequalified consortia submitted bids to supply trains under the Department for Transport’s Intercity Express Programme (RG 4.07 p185). Express Rail Alliance is a consortium of Bombardier, Siemens, Angel Trains and Babcock & Brown, while Agility Trains comprises Hitachi, Barclays Private Equity and John Laing Projects & Developments. The Scottish Government announced an order for 16 four-car and 22 three-car Siemens Desiro EMUs on July 11. HSBC will finance the trains in a deal valued at more than £180m, and they will be leased by First ScotRail under a 17-year contract. USA: The first two Colorado Railcar diesel railcars for TriMet’s Wilsonville to Beaverton Westside Express Service in Oregon were delivered to the Wilsonville depot on June 19. TriMet has ordered three single-car units each with two 600 hp Detroit Diesel engines, plus a trailer car for times of high demand. Work on the $117m line is more than 90% complete, with revenue service on the 22 km route scheduled to start in October or November. Trains will initially run in peak hours only, operated by Portland & Western Railroad.
USA: Joseph Boardman has been appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of the National Railroad Passenger Corp for a one-year period with effect from November 26. He takes over as the head of Amtrak from Chief Operating Officer William Crosbie, who has been acting CEO since the resignation of Alexander Kummant earlier this month. The appointment of Boardman is on an interim basis while the board searches for a permanent replacement for Kummant, who left following a reported disagreement with the board over financing provisions in the Amtrak reauthorisation legislation recently approved by Congress.Boardman has worked in transport for 34 years, moving to Amtrak from the Federal Railroad Administration where had been Administrator since April 2005; he was also the Department of Transportation’s designee on the Amtrak board. Prior to his time with the FRA he was Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation from July 1997, where he was involved in the operation of Amtrak services in the state. He has also been Chief Operating Officer of transport management company Progressive Transportation Service Inc, was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board in 2005, and chaired the American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials’ standing committee on rail transportation in 2000-05. ‘Amtrak is at a critical juncture and needs a vigorous management vision and ability to take advantage of this unique time’, said board Chairman Donna McLean. ‘The board has unanimously chosen Boardman in this capacity because we have complete confidence that his depth of experience and leadership skills will allow Amtrak to maintain growth and implement the requirements of the recently enacted authorisation legislation’.
FRANCE: Indian rolling stock and earth moving equipment manufacturer Titagarh Wagons Ltd has made its first overseas acquisition, purchasing the assets of French rolling stock supplier IGF Industries-Arbel Fauvet Rail which went into receivership in February last year.TWL said AFR has the capacity to produce up to 5 000 wagons a year at its site in Douai, northern France, and possesses strong research & development competencies. TWL established a wholly-owned French subsidiary for the deal, spending €1·9m to acquire the assets and providing €13m in working capital. Former head of SNCF’s ERMEWA wagon leasing business Pascal Varin has been appointed Chief Executive of AFR and taken a 10% shareholding.