Christian Millet, head of Logfret, dies

The head of the French freight forwarder Logfret, Christian Millet, died Sept. 17 at the age of 58.    Christian Millet, head of the French freight forwarder Logfret, died Sept. 17 at the age of 58.
   He had succumbed from a battle with brain cancer.
   After completing his university studies in Paris, he came to the United States and expanded Logfret, a company that his father, Jean-Francois Millet, founded in the early 1970s.
   He was also a founding member and past chairman of the North Atlantic Alliance Association, a non-vessel-operating common carrier-focused shippers’ association.
   Millet was awarded the medal of l’Ordre du Mérite National and decorated Chevalier of the French Legion Of Honor. Christian was on military reserve duty and present at the Pentagon during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
   He is survived by his parents, Anne-Marie and Jean-Francois Millet, his wife Andrea, brother Marc, sons Sebastien and Alexandre, daughter-in-law Guada, and grandchildren Noah and Zoë.