AMI has promoted its General Manager South Africa, Milton French, to the post of VP - Africa, following the retirement of Mike Todd. French has spent over 30 years in the freight industry, holding a variety of senior posts for leading forwarders including Mitchell Cotts, Micor Meadows Airfreight and, most recently, Rohde and Liesenfeld where he was a director. His industry experience includes airfreight forwarding, transport and warehousing; he was also responsible for launching a GSSA company for the Micor Group, representing Singapore Airlines’ newly-commenced services into South Africa. In 2003, French joined MMA Consolidators, founded a year earlier by Mike Todd (for whom he had earlier worked at Micor). MMA was subsequently sold to AMI in 2008. In his new post, French will be responsible for AMI’s thriving operations in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, and will spearhead the company’s further development in South Africa. Says AMI Chief Executive Stephen Koller: “We are delighted to reward Milton’s long and dedicated service to MMA and AMI with this promotion, and equally pleased that the business passes into the hands of somebody who has been involved almost from its birth.” Mike Todd will meanwhile continue to provide the company with part-time consultancy support. Concludes Koller: “We wish Mike every happiness in his well-deserved retirement, and thank him for his many years of sterling service. We are also pleased that we will continue to have access to his wealth of wisdom and expertise.”