Kevin Kelly named chief executive officer of American Fast Freight

Kelly will continue to serve as both president and a member of AFF’s board of directors.    Kevin Kelly has been named to the additional post of chief executive officer of American Fast Freight. He will also continue to serve as both president and as a member of AFF’s board of directors.
   Headquartered in Fife, Washington, AFF and its affiliated companies and divisions provide a wide range of ocean freight forwarding, trucking, project logistics and warehousing-distribution services. The core business is ocean freight consolidating and forwarding, specializing in domestic service to Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
   Since joining AFF in 1990 Kelly has held several roles, notably leading AFF’s Hawaiian Ocean Transport business.
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Chris Dupin has written about trade and transportation and other business subjects for a variety of publications before joining American Shipper and Freightwaves.