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Executive Moves: Hamburg Süd and Port of Hamburg

Brückner promoted to assistant vice president; Lengenfelder joins port marketing department.

   Hamburg Süd has promoted Felix Brückner to the position of assistant vice president of Area West Coast sales based in Long Beach, Calif., effective July 16.   
   He joined Hamburg Süd Region Europe in November 2011 and was export sales manager for Area Central Europe. In January 2016, Brückner transferred to the United States as manager of Northeast sales based in Morristown, N.J. 

  Karin Lengenfelder has joined the communications department at Port of Hamburg Marketing.
    She previously worked for Havas PR Germany handling logistics customer UPS. Earlier Lengenfelder was head of marketing and communications at BUSS Port Logistics and a press officer for the Hamburg Port Authority.

Kim Link Wills

Senior Editor Kim Link-Wills has written about everything from agriculture as a reporter for Illinois Agri-News to zoology as editor of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. Her work has garnered awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Magazine Association of the Southeast. Prior to serving as managing editor of American Shipper, Kim spent more than four years with XPO Logistics.