Hans-Rüdiger Kasper joined the company April 1st 2010 to start airfreight operations for perishable products in Frankfurt airport in Germany for K+N and to build up international traffic to and from the already existing perishable network of K+N and to help expand the network internationally. He has more than 32 years experience in perishable airfreight logistics.

Before he had been MD of Nagel Airfreight (founded 1987) as well as MD and initiator of the Perishable Center Frankfurt (PCF) (founded 1995). 

Parallel to this he was a consultant to the german GTZ, visiting numerous countries in South and Central America as well as in Africa to consult in perishable logistics from the field to the P.o.S (Point of Sale). 

From 1978 till 1987 he managed the perishable airfreight business of Balth.Papp Munich / Papp Burlington Express in Germany. 

For more than ten years he was the speaker of the supervisory board of the Bremen Fish Fair.