E-business expert back in town

A FIGURE previously well-known in the forwarding and clearing market has reappeared in SA, with the intent of remaining in this country. Willi Schalk, an e-business expert, has just returned from a more than four-year relocation in Germany, and is now resident in the Cape. On this stint in Germany he first opened Röhlig blue-net (RBN) - a 4PL company intended to provide freight-logistics in Bremen. But, it was found that the German market was not quite ready to hand over in-house logistics departments to RBN – which had no track record as a 4PL provider. Schalk therefore took up a position as head of the Hamburg company, i’net-logistics – whose parent company, Gebrueder Weiss, has numerous global joint ventures with Röhlig. But his yearning to live in the Cape nearer to family has persuaded him to “return home” to SA – where he now hopes to apply some of his extensive e-business experiences
gained in the European Union (EU) in his future employment in this country.