CEVA Logistics, a Dutch global supply chain management company, has announced the creation of Ground Transportation as its fourth business division.

Ground will run alongside the company's existing air, ocean and contract logistics businesses and be headed up by Jerome Lorrain as its chief operating officer.

Mr Lorrain will relocate from Dubai, where he served as regional vice president and has been now appointed to the executive board reporting to CEO Xavier Urbain.

Mr Lorrain has extensive knowledge of the supply chain, logistics and transport industries in almost every market sector.

Before joining CEVA, he was CEO of Wallenborn Transports in Luxembourg where he made the company into one with an international dimension, said the CEVA statement.

CEVA's ground operations will remain strongly embedded as a part of the local cluster strategy, which was part of the new operating model introduced in 2014.

"Mr Lorrain's first priority will be to optimise CEVA's US organisation by further developing its regional footprint, and to align its global approach through stronger coordination and optimisation of processes," said the company statement.