Imperial Logistics International has appointed Robert Berganus to the newly-created post of Chief Operating Officer (COO) Contract Logistics.

Based in Zurich and Duisburg, Berganus will be responsible for contract logistics operations across the business’ key industry verticals, reporting to CEO | International Hakan Bicil.

The new post is part of a more focused structure which divides and reallocates the much wider responsibilities previously undertaken by the COO of Imperial Logistics International, Jürgen Mues, who has left the company.

Berganus has spent his entire 36-year career in logistics, working in senior roles for leading operators including Hays Logistics, Schrader (now CEVA), Kuehne + Nagel (culminating in the post of Senior Vice President Contract Logistics) and Schenker (where he was Chief Operating Officer Global Contract Logistics).

His experience includes handling major blue-chip customers in the Aerospace, Automotive, Industrials, Healthcare, Hi Tech, Retail and FMCG sectors. Berganus is a graduate of Hamburg and Berlin Universities, where he studied Business Administration.