Effective from 1 October 2023, Alberto Nobis will become the new CEO of VTG. Alberto comes to VTG from DHL Group, where he was active in several managerial positions for over two decades. Until the summer of 2023, he was the CEO of DHL Express.
When tasked about VTG, Albert Nobis says: “Hardly any other European asset and logistics company has such potential, which is simultaneously associated with so much tradition and innovation, as VTG."
With Chief Financial Officer of VTG, Mark Stevenson and Chief Operational and Safety Officer of VTG, Sven Wellbrock, he intends to continue making rail freight transport more attractive for the shipping industry.
VTG, A Hamburg-based company, operates the largest privately owned fleet of freight wagons in Europe. It is active in 50 locations in 20 countries. Its core business is wagon leasing, where its fleet comprises around 84,000 rail freight wagons - mostly tank cars, modular freight wagons, standard freight wagons and sliding-wall wagons – plus about 5,000 tank containers.
VTG also has an in-house railway company, Retrack. The Retrack network – a subsidiary of VTG Rail Logistics – operates in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.