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Helena Kyster-Hansen

Chief consultant | Freight Transport at MOE A/S

Helena has over 30 years of multinational experience in different parts of the transport area, mainly freight and both market and production perspective, through studies, surveys and assessments in relation to marketing, logistics services and concepts at regional, national and international level. She has extensive experience in the intermodal and railway sector, as well as within trials with High Capacity Transport (HCT). Experienced in negotiation on all levels in English, German, and the Scandinavian languages, as well as conversation skills in French.

Work Experience

Chief Consultant | Freight Transport

MOE | Tetraplan

May 2016 to Present

Senior Adviser, transport and development

MOE | Tetraplan

Sep 2008 to Present

MOE|Tetraplan is a consultancy company working within the main areas traffic planning, strategy analyses, traffic models, etc within all areas of the transport sector, both freight and passenger transport.

  • Project leader for Baltic Transport Outlook - www.baltictransportoutlook.eu
  • Was Project Leader for MOE|Tetraplan's part of Freightvision - freight transports in Europe until 2050

    • Project Coordinator

    ERS Railways B.V.

    Feb 2008 to Jul 2008

    Interim Project Coordinator on different development projects.

    Editor

    www.X-Rail.net (NTBD)

    Jul 1997 to Nov 2010

    The European Railway Business Portal www.X-Rail.net was an extensive railway business portal with a large database of Contacts throughout the business, importand documents as well as news.

    The weekly newsletter contained the latest information from all parts of the European railway business.

    Senior Consultant and Editor

    www.X-Rail.net | New Thinking - Business Development ApS

    Feb 1996 to Aug 2008

    The company was specialised in counselling and facilitating of innovative business development, mainly within the European transport business-to-business market. The competences were offered within the following main areas:

  • Business process development
  • Supply chain management
  • Traffic planning and logistics
  • Concept development and implementation
  • Market analyses and assessments
  • Surveys and market surveillance
  • Research and development.

    • Product Manager

    Intercontainer-Interfrigo SA

    Jan 1993 to Aug 1995

    Responsible for all traffics between Scandinavia and Benelux, France, Spain, Portugal, and inner-Nordic traffic and inland traffic in Scandinavia.

  • Daily leader of a team of 3 in a production- and sales-department
  • Marketing of the different products externally as well as internally
  • Construction of new products, production wise as well as commercially
  • Purchasing various services directly from the different railways.
  • Market analyses, and result- and quality control of whole train systems

    • Sales Manager

    Intercontainer-Interfrigo SA

    Sep 1988 to Dec 1992

    Sales of environmentally compatible transport forms in Europe, mainly to Scandinavian customers.

  • Customer responsibility for Volvo through 7 years, one of ICF's biggest customers
  • Customer contacts and monthly travels mainly in Scandinavia
  • Quotations and customer care
  • Contacts with agent network in the whole of Europe

    • Transport Consultant

    SJ Gods

    1986 to 1988

    Customer responsibility for all customers in northern Gothenburg, incl. shipping companies in England traffic.

    Education

    University of Gothenburg, 1986 to 1987

    English

    Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet, 1983 to 1984

    Language, Transport and EDB