Following to a promotion in his professional carrier, the first PDA President, Mr Christian Steindl decided to resign from his function. In an extra-ordinary general assembly meeting, held on 31 October, a new management board was elected with Mr Friedrich Lehr becoming the new President. Mr Lehr holds the position of the commercial director of the Port of Vienna. He expressed the need to continue the excellent work in the start-up phase of PDA and thanked Mr Steindl for his strong commitment in the past.

As other new board members were elected: Ralph Gallob (Industrie-Logistik Linz), Christian Mokry (LogServ), Horst Felbermayr (Felbermayr), Alexander Klacka (Chamber of Commerce), Christoph Henöckl (Garant), Manfred Seitz (PDI) and Otto Schwetz who will function as Vice-President of the association.