Fabio Duque

Chief Commercial Officer & Chief Operations Officer, Americas and EMEA APL Logistics

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Fabio Duque is Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Operations Officer for the Americas and EMEA at APL Logistics, the global supply chain company that grew out of American President Lines and has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s Kintetsu World Express since 2015. APL Logistics runs warehousing, distribution, freight forwarding, customs brokerage and finished-vehicle logistics for automotive, consumer, industrial and retail customers across more than a hundred locations worldwide. Duque’s post is one of only two of its kind in the company — the other covers Greater Asia — and it deliberately fuses the commercial and operational sides of two regions under a single owner, with a mandate to raise efficiency, control cost and improve profitability through better technology, systems and process across the network. He is a mechanical engineer by training who came up through APL Logistics’ own Latin American and Americas regional leadership.

Career Highlights

• Named on APL Logistics’ own leadership page as Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Operations Officer for the Americas and EMEA regions, reporting into a team headed by President Thad Bedard.
• Holds one of the company’s two combined regional CCO/COO mandates, the counterpart covering Greater Asia.
• Responsible for enhancing efficiency, cost control and profitability through better technologies, systems and processes across the network.
• Previously Regional Vice President for the Americas at APL Logistics, the post he held immediately before the group-level role.
• Earlier Regional Vice President for Latin America at APL Logistics.
• Serves as a Board Director of the Chilean Logistics Association (ALOG).
• Trained as a mechanical engineer at FEI in Brazil before taking a Master’s Degree in Logistics at IECAT.

Professional Journey

Duque’s training is in mechanical engineering, taken at FEI in Brazil, and he followed it with a Master’s Degree in Logistics from IECAT. That combination — an engineer’s grounding in physical systems plus formal logistics education — maps closely onto what APL Logistics actually sells, which is the reliable physical movement and storage of goods rather than software or freight capacity alone.

His career at APL Logistics has been an internal progression through the company’s regional structure. He held several roles before becoming Regional Vice President for Latin America, and then Regional Vice President for the Americas, broadening from a single sub-region to the full western hemisphere.

From there he moved up to group-level executive leadership in a role that is structurally unusual. Rather than separating sales from operations, APL Logistics gives one executive both the commercial and the operational mandate for a region, and Duque holds that combined post for the Americas and EMEA. The explicit framing of the job is efficiency, cost control and profitability delivered through better technologies, systems and processes — the language of a network operator rather than a sales leader, and a reflection of the margin discipline expected of a subsidiary inside Kintetsu World Express, which bought APL Logistics from Neptune Orient Lines in 2015.

Alongside the executive role he serves as a Board Director of the Chilean Logistics Association, the industry body ALOG, which keeps him engaged in the regional policy and standards side of the business as well as its commercial operation.

Education

IECAT, Brazil

Master’s Degree, Logistics

FEI, Brazil

Degree, Mechanical Engineering