Torsten Wefers, the former VP Marketing & Sales at Liège Airport, has been appointed Head of Cargo Commercial Europe at the airport service provider Swissport in Frankfurt. FRA is Swissport’s largest branch in Germany and one of its busiest throughout Europe. Based in Frankfurt, Wefers will be responsible for further expanding the Swissport network and the company’s operations in Europe, India, Africa, and the Gulf region.
With Wefers’ arrival, Swissport scored a second notable coup in quick succession. Only five months ago, on 02NOV25, the company surprised the international cargo community by announcing that former TIACA Chairman and cargo veteran Steven Polmans would be joining Swissport in the role of “Global Senior Vice President Cargo.”
From Liège to Frankfurt
By hiring Wefers, the Swiss aviation group has brought in another top-tier executive who knows the cargo business in and out thanks to his previous management roles at CGN and most recently LGG airport. He’ll be based at Frankfurt Airport where Swissport has been managing a 17,000-square-meter cargo terminal with an integrated pharmaceutical center since 2020.
Under his stewardship, Liège experienced a cargo bonanza comparable only to Leipzig-Halle in terms of employment and revenue growth, kicked off back in 2008 by DHL Express and its feeder companies. At LGG the Master Plan 2040 paved the way for its fast infrastructural expansion, coupled with the rapid growth of the e-commerce business, mostly driven by Chinese and Far Eastern freight carriers. The political support of the Belgian provincial government of Wallonia was instrumental in LGG’s continuous upswing and current status as fast growing hub for cargo traffic.
Structural change
Thanks to a focus on air transport and logistics, combined with the establishment of promising industries such as biotechnology, renewable energy, and green chemistry, the entire region surrounding Liège has succeeded in transiting from a former stronghold of the steel and mining industries to a region with high value-added activity.
Much of the credit goes to the leadership team led by CEO Laurent Jossart and VP of Marketing + Sales, Torsten Wefers, for tailoring LGG Airport’s service offerings to the needs of the local and regional economy. This quantum leap from yesterday to tomorrow culminates in the designation “Cargoland,” which was first introduced at Air Cargo Europe in Munich in early June 2025 and with which the airport has since positioned itself internationally.
Stark cargo growth
Under Wefers, who was responsible for the air cargo business in Liège for four years, cargo volume grew from under one million tons to 1.32 million in 2025.
Swissport executives are likely hoping for a similar outcome following Wefers’ hiring. It can be assumed that he’ll start his new job highly motivated and full of energy. After all, he and his wife just returned last weekend to their home in Cologne, ending a three-week lasting cruise through Caribbean waters.
