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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. Structural change is faster than we can see. Commercial logistics leaders & their teams leverage peer & expert knowledge in a unique protected environment to de-risk the transition and drive mutual commercial benefit. Because resilience is not built with hindsight. Everyone will also able to drive an electric truck around Volvo’s challenging test track. See [Agenda] & [Take Home] tabs. Please note that this is not a meeting for sustainability leaders, although they are encouraged to attend as well.
Meeting date & location. 18-19 November 2026, Gothenburg, Sweden.
What to expect. Talking in confidence, commercial business leaders across industry sectors and all transport modes will be supported by academics, financiers, sustainability teams and others. Leaders’ round-table discussion agenda including cross-sector, expert & external viewpoints, community-led, no sales pitches. F&L 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. See [Take Home] tab.
Costs. €450 card at registration / €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 neutral (independent), non-for-profit and non lobby members’ forum 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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In association with (& others will be confirmed)
Transition – fuel, but much more
A closed-door, high-level strategic commercial dialogue across industry sectors & transport modes
in-person | Chatham House Rule | no recording
The transition is not about swapping diesel for an electric plug — it is a complete rewriting of the commercial, financial, and operational rules of logistics and the supply chain. As competitive pressures intensify, commercial senior logistics leaders and their teams leverage F&L’s neutral, confidential structure & international peer community to de-risk the transition and to drive mutual commercial benefit today.
Talking in confidence, commercial leaders, academics, financiers, a variety of associations working in logistics and experts discuss strategic imperatives. In particular we link, assess, compare and learn from cross mode progress and refer to today’s many disruptions and other key factors driving change. What is transferable and what do we need to understand? Finally, we experience how different it is to drive an electric truck.
18 November 2026 (Wed)
June 2026 – there is tremendous activity behind the scenes as we plan for this meeting. Many F&L Member companies will be present. This meeting is for commercial logistics leaders and their teams. We are currently agreeing together the best format for the agenda. All participants will meet everyone present. No media, no recording, no online participation.
Please register now because at F&L we build agendas to match the interests of those in the room.
09:00 – 17:30, Gothenburg
Hosted by Volvo Trucks HQ, Gothenburg
Welcome
Harnessing all of today’s disruptive forces to create a stronger and more successful business tomorrow
- Why and how? We hear from key players shaping change across the sector
A new financial reality, remembering that the sector & E2E supply chain journey is actively being reconfigured by others and avoiding the cost trap. If we wait for regulation, we are already too late.
- Chicken & egg resolved – bridging the gap between asset owners and asset users: who pays, who benefits, and sharing risk
- Aligning conflicting KPIs
What will make the difference?
- Commercial levers, short, mid and long term solutions as well as obvious opportunities that we have all missed.
19:00 – 22:30
Evening networking dinner programme
19 November 2026 (Thurs)
09:00 – 13:30, Gothenburg
Hosted by Volvo Trucks HQ, Gothenburg
Continued: what will make the difference?
- Commercial levers, short, mid and long term solutions as well as obvious opportunities that we have all missed.
Everyone interested will drive an electric truck around Volvo’s challenging test track!
Lunch
13:30 private airport bus to Gothenburg Landvetter
13:30 choice of visits followed by 15:30 airport bus to Gothenburg Landvetter
Transition – fuel, but much more
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.
“Take Home” deliverables for those attending the Meeting:
- Open peer exchange in a protected environment.
- Interactive agenda on key focus areas.
- Commercial priorities & actions – planning to prosper regardless of external challenges:
- Building on discussion from April & online
- New & original research created by F&L Members with Academics:
- Results – “Green corridors are being developed to decarbonise freight journeys. Should they be an end in themselves, or should the focus be on developing collaborative E2E solutions for freight logistics?”
- Further to be added
- Reports
- To be added
- Choice of behind the scenes visits.
- Continued KPI company priority benchmarking, building on F&L work 2025 & 2026 to date for Members who wish to add external insights, expertise & inspiration to the knowledge they have internally around future capabilities needed to support their network execution.
High level overview
- Wed 17 Nov – welcome dinner & industry visits (tbc)
- Thurs 18 Nov – F&L agenda 09:00 – 17:30 + evening dinner programme
- Fri 19 Nov – F&L agenda 09:00 – 13:00 including practical ‘stations’ & driving trucks around Volvo’s test track
Venue addresses
- Meeting venue – 18 & 19 Nov – Volvo Trucks Experience Center VTEX, VTDC, 423 52 Göteborg, Entrance via TLA-porten, Pressvägen 2.
- Sleeping hotel – 17 & 18 Nov – Elite Plaza Hotel 4* in Gothenburg is centrally located at Västra Hamngatan 3, 411 17 Göteborg, Sweden. 15% discount details in the registration confirmation email.
- Welcome dinner 17 Nov – walking distance of Elite Plaza Hotel, location will be confirmed.
- Networking dinner 18 Nov – location will be confirmed and transport will be included.
Dress Code & Questions
- General businesswear and any F&L members‘ products!
- Questions welcome – please get in touch.
Transition – fuel, but much more
Legal:
Data subjects’ explicit GDPR consent: The data subject hereby explicitly consents to submit his/her personal data to F&L and to F&L’s processing thereof in accordance with the F&L general privacy policy that is available on the F&L website (https://www.europeanfreightleaders.eu/privacy/). The data subject explicitly consents to occasional silent photographs / filming during F&L events/meetings and to the consequent processing of his/her personal data by F&L in accordance with the provisions of the said general privacy policy. The data subject hereby also confirms that he/she has read, fully understood and entirely approves F&L’s general privacy policy without making any reservations.
F&L events are in principle governed by a tailored “Chatham House Rule”. That Chatham House Rule helps to create a trusted environment to understand and resolve complex matters. When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the tailored Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) in relation to his/her particular content may be revealed externally. Speaker presentations /materials can however be shared with F&L members and participants to the F&L event but should not be shared externally without the consent of the speaker or without his/her anonymization.
Transition – fuel, but much more
This meeting is for senior business leaders & their teams; people who are actively leading industry today.
Participants will be added in due course and, in the meantime, you can see who attended recent meetings below.
Participant list for “Priorities & Choices: stuck in Crisis Mode?” (Apr 2026)
Participant list for F&L at Nike (Oct 2025)
Participant list for Poland (Apr 2025)
Participant list for Zaragoza Spain (Oct 2024)
A different goal...
… 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 Members’ forum with a single remit: to facilitate and enable worthwhile peer discussion across the industry sectors and transport modes in a confidential, antitrust compliant environment. F&L does not seek commercial gain.
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”
Volvo Trucks is part of the Volvo Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment, and marine and industrial engines. It supplies complete transport solutions through a full range of medium- and heavy-duty trucks and offers customer support through a global network of dealers. Volvo trucks are assembled in 12 countries across the globe.
Port of Gothenburg is the largest port in Scandinavia. An important feature is the port’s highly efficient rail network. Geographically, the port is uniquely positioned within a 500 km radius of 70% of Scandinavia’s population and industrial base. The port is directly connected to over 2 million square meters of modern warehouse and logistics park space, making it a natural hub for centralised Nordic distribution.