18-19 November (in person)

Confidential strategic commercial dialogue across industry sectors and transport modes between a diverse senior international community of supply chain & logistics leaders offers a rare opportunity to step outside the day-to-day, learn from Volvo’s industrial transformation and challenge thinking with international peers

in-person only | Chatham House Rule | Everyone will be able to drive a truck around Volvo’s challenging test track

Tension is building. The rules of global freight and logistics are being rewritten. Yet leaders risk becoming consumed by immediate pressures alongside 1:1 discussions and legacy KPIs while struggling to turn promising opportunities into scalable advantage.  Systemic change including the effects of growing trade imbalances & the sustainability imperative, demands a broader perspective: new alliances, fresh thinking and a willingness to look beyond individual business priorities.  As Roger Alm’s invitation makes clear, no one company can shape the future of transport alone.  

In Gothenburg, senior leaders and their teams come together in F&L’s neutral, independent and confidential forum to challenge assumptions, exchange perspectives across the ecosystem and shape the future we want to build — starting with the variables we can influence today.   Opportunity is still here. But for how long?

The impact of our actions

Welcome from the F&L team and our host; Volvo Trucks.  Understand the form and speed of transformation of the sector alongside the value we each create within that transformation.

• Q&A with Roger Alm, President Volvo Trucks
• Welcome to F&L (invitation from Roger Alm & Marie Carlsson)
• Visualising what’s next  (speaker confidential)

The state of the global logistics market?

A sector under severe pressure – signals from the marketplace reflecting structural change; triggers but also commercial realities.  Where will value & competitive advantage come from as the economics and business models behind global logistics continue to change? 24 hours is a long time in logistics.

• Focus, dependencies & ambition, Magnus Ödling (Wallenius Wilhelmsen)
• Multimodal – smooth delivery?  Bart van ‘t Hof (Samskip)
• Impact of geoeconomics on sector transformation? Stavros Karamperidis (International Hellenic University)
• ETA – are we “on schedule” with sustainability? Alan McKinnon (KLU)

Where do you fit in & how big is the elephant in your room?

Competing priorities added to more & bigger challenges.  If actions speak louder than words, what is required to make further action(s) viable?  Supply chain models and innovation have rapidly progressed but  … where are we going?  ETA?

• Reflection on today’s discussion, Johan Woxenius (University of Gothenburg)
• Variables that each of us can influence  (speaker confidential)

Catalysts & multipliers – practical tools for problem-solving

Our sector has plenty of pilot projects, but how do we convert these into customer value, profitability and productivity?  Against the backdrop of historic data which illustrates that companies in our sector tend to do only what one company can do alone.

Focus on levers that you can control or influence, moderated by Jakob Muus

• Panel. Jemima Atkins (Pioneer Point Partners), Shery Awad (Eraneos), two global shippers
  • Barriers. People / red tape / the ROI case / prisoner’s dilemma
  • Levers. Which ones you can pull, with whom & which tools help, AI included
  • Case study. How to build and present a financial case the CFO says yes to, with cost, carbon and risk included
  • Collaboration. Beyond 1:1 and leveraging the full logistics network to create action
• Breakouts to help you drive momentum. Led by Jessica Öhrblad (Logivity), Cathrin Idén (Milence), Jemima Atkins (Pioneer Point Partners), Ciaran Doherty (Loadar), Fredrik Kangevall (Seerefine), Shery Awad (Eraneos).
• Feedback. Review & judges’ opinion. Alan McKinnon (KLU), Ronald Kleijwegt (Vinturas), Folkert Bloembergen.

What next?  Actions agreed for and by those present

Reflections and what actions we take today. Paving the way for success tomorrow? Led by Rob Moen (Cargill), Ciaran Doherty (Loadar), Saskia Weis (MB Energy), Alan McKinnon (KLU) moderated by Joost Vreeswijk (EY)

1. Energy
2. Competitiveness in a changing global marketplace & when Plan B becomes Plan A
3. AI / technology / rebuilding the model
4. Reconfiguring stakeholder contractual relationships in an ever-changing world

Your Take-Aways

• Results – Variables that each of us can influence Confidential speaker
• Results – Jakob Muus

17:15 close & hotel transfer followed by

19:30 – 22:30, Krog Axet – Gothenburg

• Networking dinner evening for all participants

Beyond discussion to practical application

The transition is no longer simply an environmental ambition. It is a strategic question about infrastructure, capital allocation, operating costs and future competitiveness.

• Introduction: Marie Carlsson (Volvo Trucks) and Jenny Westermark (Volvo Group)

How does the experience of an industrial leader like Volvo challenge us to re-think our business models, our investment choices and our industry’s approach to creating value in a world of accelerating change?  In a series of short beehive discussions, Volvo provide the provocation – the international peer group provide the challenge – and the outcome may hep us all change gear?

• Test-driving Volvo trucks utilising a mix of fuels – understanding today’s practical realities of operationalising new technology, performance, charging & driver experience led by several of Volvo Trucks’ senior leaders.
• Cyber security & digital resilience – as fleets, infrastructure & supply chains become increasingly digital, cyber resilience is business-critical as well as a prerequisite for building trust across value and supply chains – what do we need to know?  Led by Volvo Trucks – Adi Karahasanovi (Chief Information Security Officer)
• Safety drives innovation & peak performance – can shared values, attitudes, perceptions & behaviour drive growth & competitive edge?  Led by Volvo Trucks – Anna Wrige Berglingli (Director Traffic & Product Safety)
• Sustainable logistics in practice – learning points from Volvo’s own journey to help customers make ‘sustainable’ transport operations a priority today rather than a future ambition.  Led by Volvo Trucks – Marion Velley (Sustainability Manager) & Laurent Rosin (Supply Chain Transformation & Sustainability Leader)
• Driver performance – why & how create and maintain a high performance workforce through an environment where everyone including drivers contribute to business success?  Led by Volvo Trucks – Tatu Ljokkoi (Driver Development Manager) & Louise Karlsson (People & Culture Partner)
• Productivity & up-time – another element of competitive advantage.  Led by Volvo Trucks  – Johan Eknander (Director Feature Development) & Johan Rundberg (Product Manager) 

12:30 Conclusions & lunch

Afternoon – choice of visits to important industry sites

1. Port of Gothenburg
2. Milence charging station at Gothenburg Landvetter site

There will be an F&L bus going to Gothenburg Landvetter; timing will be confirmed with participants

“I suddenly understood the problem, when I started talking to peers and leaders outside my industry and expertise”   

“What one sector hails as a “breakthrough” is often just standard practice from an industry that has been doing it for decades”

“What got our businesses here today will not get the results we are looking for tomorrow, but it’s not as simple as swapping diesel for an electric plug”

“Like compound interest or the Chinese bamboo tree, actions we take today change tomorrow…”

“If we re-perceive energy system transformations as a series of potentially fast, opportunity-rich, modest cost and demand-led tipping points of uncertain timing – rather than just a single, slow-moving, costly and supply-led ‘hard slog’ – then we might start getting somewhere”

The issues that supply chain and logistics leaders & their teams are tackling today – from the impact of multiple separate yet interconnected global crises, to environmental degradation, to the future of Europe and of our own companies – are systemic.  Tackling these in isolation can lead to unintended consequences and/or simply shift the burden elsewhere.

“…this changes the core strategic question from “should I gear up to move quickly or slowly?” to “Given that the precise timing of disruptive take-off can never be predicted, is it wiser to err on the side of potentially moving too soon or potentially moving too late?” 

This meeting is for senior business leaders & their teams; people who are actively leading industry today.  All participants have a copy of the confidential participation list. Many F&L Member companies are present.

Confirmed participants include:

2M Holding
4PL Central Station Nordic
Cargill
DFDS Logistics
DP World Logistics Europe
duisport
Eraneos
Euro-Rijn Logistics Holding
EY
Heriot-Watt University
K2Mobility
KNAPP
Kühne Logistics University
Leica Biosystems
LKW Walter
Loadar
Logivity – Volvo Group
Lots Group
MB Energy Holding
Milence
Nike
Nimling
North Sea Port
OG Clean Fuels
Owens Corning
Pioneer Point Partners
Port Boulogne Calais
Port of Gothenburg
Russell Group
Samskip Multimodal
Samskip Multimodal BV
Scania
Seerefine
SKF Group
Stora Enso
Terberg Benschop
Tesisquare International
Toyota Material Handling Europe
Trimble (Transporeon)
UIRR
Unit 45
University of Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law
Various Independent leaders
Vega International
Vinturas
Volvo Group
Volvo Trucks Europe
Wallenius Wilhelmsen
Wärtsilä
Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) / MIT Global Scale Network

• Participant list for “Türkiye: Important Customer, Supplier & Partner“
• Participant list for “Priorities & Choices: stuck in Crisis Mode?” (Apr 2026)
• Participant list for F&L at Nike (Oct 2025)

We are hosted by Volvo Trucks Experience Center (about 30 mins from Gothenburg Landvetter airport)
Address at Volvo: “Pressvägen. TLA-porten via Sörredsvägen, Torslanda”.  Lat/long – 57.725897, 11.845861.  What3Words: situated.teams.waxes

• Tues 17 Nov –  19:30 onwards, casual dinner at Nonna (Kungsgatan 12) – 5 mins walk from Elite Plaza hotel (Västra Hamngatan 3, 411 17 Göteborg)
• Wed 18 Nov –  08:30 F&L agenda at Volvo (return transport leaves Elite Plaza Hotel 07:50 and returns approx 17:30).  Plenty parking at Volvo – use address above for sat nav.
• Wed 18 Nov – 19:30 onwards, relaxed dinner at Krog Axet (Bratteråsgatan 38) – we leave Elite Plaza together just before 19:00.
• Thurs 19 Nov –  08:15 F&L agenda and truck-driving at Volvo, lunch, visits (transport leaves Elite Hotel 07:40).  Plenty parking at Volvo – use address above for sat nav.

• General businesswear and any F&L members‘ products!
• Questions welcome – please get in touch.

… F&L was created in 1994 by shippers & logistics providers who realised that they could not tackle logistics issues alone in their companies, or within a commercial structure. They created a neutral, independent not-for-profit platform for senior logistics leaders and their teams to utilise cross-industry peer exchange to – judge today’s trade-offs – identify new opportunities for resilience and growth – catch blind spots – de-risk decision making – and determine facts, helping everyone build on real world experience to develop more practical, durable solutions and choose their own paths forward, together and separately.

Mission – to drive improved standards, learnings & the success of Members by leveraging the multi-stakeholder international community to spark knowledge sharing & tackle obstacles from every possible vantage point.

How is this achieved?  F&L is structured as a neutral (independent), not-for-profit, 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.  F&L does not lobby but it does have strong relationships with policymakers and many other institutions and communities for its Members’ benefit.

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).  Unlimited licences are provided for leaders to share the membership with colleagues (no charge).

“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”