F&L Insights
Welcome to the European Freight Leaders’ meeting at Volvo Trucks Experience Center in Gothenburg
By Roger Alm & Marie Carlsson
Why tracking decarbonisation in logistics over a decade matters
By the Kuehne Climate Center (KCC) & Kühne Logistics University (KLU)
Here’s my beef! Fear of change is keeping our trucks half empty
By Ciaran Doherty
Here’s my beef! We are asking the wrong question about AI in freight
By Gökalp Kobe Ertuğrul
Here’s my beef! Our industry needs a mindset shift
By Christina Sauter
How the EU’s sustainability transition is reshaping the competitiveness of the European logistics sector
By Emmanouil (Manos) Xanthoulis
Here’s my beef! Helping your team with the art of a strategic pause
By Elena Kharlamova
Here’s my beef! The EU got the strategy right; delivery is what counts now
By Dr. Louise De Tremerie
Next meeting ... in person
18/19 Nov 2026: Supply chain logistics metamorphosis - beyond today's energy transition
Confidential, senior strategic peer insight & exchange across all industry sectors and transport modes.
What could you achieve if you stopped looking at the challenges through the lens of your own business? Where could you reduce costs, improve margins, unlock productivity or create new revenue?
Building on the good work that many others carry out across the sector, F&L brings together the powerful community & independent platform to help everyone move forward. Because tackling issues in isolation can lead to unintended consequences and/or simply shift the burden elsewhere.
Everyone will also be able to drive a truck around Volvo’s challenging test track.
Last meeting... online (next date TBC)
8 October 2026, 12:00 - 12:30 CET
Leading teams in the age of AI: what every people-manager should know. Covering new career architecture, how AI is changing roles in teams and career resilience in the AI-driven era, Elena Kharlamova shares some useful tips & possible actions.
“The uncertainty of the moment might keep you and your team longing for more control. They might think that … “
Our next event...
22 - 23 April 2026 F&L Spring Round Table Ghent & Antwerp
Collaboration provides a critical strategic opportunity in disruptive times. Accelerated changes in global trade as reflected across supply chains, Europe’s competitive position and the desire for greater harmonisation, driving value-added collaboration through clusters in logistics and other industrial hubs, and illustrated by the specific needs of Europe’s Defence sector.
This event is hosted by North Sea Port & Port of Antwerp-Bruges.
F&L is the neutral forum where senior freight and logistics leaders from shippers, carriers and solution providers meet in confidence to shape what’s next for the industry together.
Confidential, neutral, and solutions-focused forum for the most senior leaders across the entire European freight and logistics ecosystem to openly discuss strategic challenges and collaborate on future-oriented solutions.
Safe Space: we are committed to providing a neutral and confidential environment.
Independent: F&L is a not-for-profit organisation, funded solely by membership fees.
Year-Round Engagement: F&L offers year-round engagement with the community in a variety of formats & locations.
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We host the table where those initiatives meet the people who can act.
F&L is a neutral leadership forum; we collaborate with specialist organizations and give our members a space to stress-test, align and scale such initiatives across the ecosystem.
“These discussions open my mind and that’s when the good ideas come”
