World Campaign: Historic Milestones of Logistics

With immediate effect, associations, organisations, industry, politics, academia and the media are called upon to propose individuals who achieved a so-called milestone in logistics before the year 2000. The goal of the campaign is compile a worldwide documentation of outstanding logistics achievements – starting in fields like transport and logistics and extending through to intralogistics and information logistics. 

Individuals or groups of people can be proposed who have advanced the development of logistics in a decisive way through a societal, organisational, technical, scientific or business management achievement. The decisive factor is that the achievement was recorded before the year 2000 and has provably had positive impacts on a large group of companies or institutions.

An international "Historic Milestones Committee" headed by Christian Labrot, IRU President and Managing Director of the German Association for Business, Transport and Logistics (BWVL) in Bonn will manage the campaign and evaluate the submitted proposals. Scientific oversight for the campaign will be provided by Prof. Dr. Michael ten Hompel, Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics in Dortmund and himself a member of the Logistics Hall of Fame. The Historic Milestones campaign will be supported by other committee members such as the worldwide logistics associations FIATA (International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations) and IRU (International Road Union) or the ELA (European Logistics Association). 

Proposals and applications are free of charge and can only be submitted on the Internet at www.logisticshalloffame.net. The public proposal phase ends on April 30, 2016.  The newly elected members will be officially inducted at the annual Logistics Hall of Fame Gala in 2016 at the Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin, Germany.