Widdows receives top NDTA award

Mr Widdows – who has 35 years’ experience in the industry and who took charge of APL in 2003 – was honoured before a dinner audience of military personnel, Defense Department officials and representatives of all modes of logistics companies at the NDTA’s 60th annual forum in Memphis.

Presenting the award, the NDTA said: “Mr Widdows has played a key role in implementing some of the most innovative developments in the container shipping industry, including APL’s implementation of revolutionary supply chain concepts such as double-stack trains and liner trains.

“He has been a key figure in the evolution and development of the sophisticated carrier alliances that have created worldwide service networks and have driven the concept of ‘gateway’ terminal facilities on the US West Coast, a key step in the advance of multimodalism.”