Welcome to F&L, where senior freight logistics leaders & their teams shape their own international strategies through confidential, invitation-only roundtable peer & expert exchange, enabling them to implement a more effective response to market changes.
Agenda. The meeting will provide an opportunity to identify where the logistics sector is with energy transition focusing on innovation providing impetus, examples of leadership, and embedding change across organisations to ensure long term success. In particular we will be assessing, comparing & learning from cross mode progress and key factors driving change. What is transferable and what do we need to understand to develop multimodal options? Finally, we experience how different it is to drive an electric truck!
Meeting date & location. Volvo Trucks Customer Experience Center, Gothenburg. 18-19 November 2026. Dinner and evening programme 18 April.
What to expect. In difficult market conditions it is important to be in the room and to frame the agenda and debate with other leaders. Leaders’ round-table discussion agenda including cross-sector, expert & external viewpoints, community-led, no sales pitches. F&L is a neutral (independent), non-lobby members’ forum. Meetings are based around debate, panel discussions, workshops & site visits rather than presentations, thus ensuring opportunity and full participation by all. F&L competition law & antitrust compliance policy.
Costs. €450 card/ €500 payment by invoice + relevant VAT. These discounted rates apply to F&L members: non-member companies pay €2,000 + VAT. F&L is a not-for-profit members’ forum focused on using knowledge, skills and collaborative opportunities across the freight logistics sector to drive improved standards, learnings & the success of Members of the community.
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This meeting is for senior business leaders & their teams; people who are actively leading industry today. There is a capacity limit due to venue sizes. F&L seeks a diverse mix, breadth, balance & blend of current industry leaders from 20+ countries, academics, policymakers and others.
Details of attendees in November in due course.
In the meantime:
F&L is a business network for commercial senior freight logistics practitioners & their teams to shape their own international strategies through confidential, invitation-only roundtable peer & expert exchange, enabling them to choose more effective responses to market forces. Established 1994.
Mission – F&L has a single purpose: to exploit knowledge, skills and collaborative opportunities across the freight logistics sector to drive improved standards, learnings & the success of Members of the community.
How is this achieved? F&L is structured as a neutral (independent), not-for-profit, non-lobby, confidential, antitrust compliant Members’ forum and is registered in Belgium as an ASBL. Multi-stakeholder membership is deliberately balanced to ensure a variety of perspectives across a host of variables.
Members are global / regional heads of logistics & supply chain, CEOs & senior management focused on freight logistics across the supply chain, asset owners, founders of critical solutions, all industry sectors and transport modes, based across Europe & globally (list).
“The important thing is to avoid the ‘narrow’ trap & the echo chamber”
“Access to informed external views & sheer breadth which it is not possible to organise by yourself”
“Where else can you ask questions openly and listen to others doing the same?”
“Learn, benchmark & challenge”
“We make better, more informed, more robust decisions”