Natasha Solano is the global business development manager of perishables logistics at Kuehne + Nagel. Natasha started in the perishables industry at Martinair Cargo, with responsibility for developing perishables flows from Colombia, Ecuador and Central America. Subsequently she was international business development manager at Hellmann Perishables Logistics, focusing on the warehousing and distribution of seafreighted fruit in the Netherlands. After years in perishables logistics Natasha took up a new challenge, becoming a business development manager and researcher at NEA Research, working mainly on agro-logistics projects for the EU and the Dutch government. Prior to joining K+N, Natasha was managing the airfreight and seafreight sales teams in the Netherlands for the Japanese freight forwarder Yusen Logistics.