Glauc
Glauc Fornés Gil
A career forwarder, General Manager at 29, FIATA award winner for Europe, and now CTO of a transport AI. I build tools so the rules can be understood.
- 2021 · Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year — FIATA/TT Club
- 2023 · Regional LCL Hub Manager — Mediterranean & South Africa
- 2024 · Business Process Manager — Mediterranean & South Africa
- 2026 · Investor & CTO — Auriga Intelligence
What I can do for you
Four things I do outside the day job, all on the same thread: making transport easier to understand and to run.
Talks and classes
For vocational schools, universities and industry events: the forwarder as a strategic partner, real operations, cases with 50-metre pieces and e-bikes. In Catalan, Spanish or English.
For your training centre
The quiz classroom is free and will stay free. With the first centres I am building what comes next: per-student reports, session history and your own question banks.
Processes and tools
Twenty years automating what used to be done by hand, from inside operations. If a process in your traffic department is asking for a tool, I know what to look at first.
Auriga Intelligence
Investor and CTO. Software to automate logistics processes and the first sovereign, 100% European AI specialised in transport. The assistant on this site is its first public door.
Why this site exists
I do not do this only to explain it
I do it to professionalise the sector, without charging for it, and to move it into software: so we stop working with systems that are no use to anyone. That is why the tools are open.
API documentation →- 01
Explain
Every calculation, question and term says which rule it comes from. Whoever uses it learns the why, not just the result.
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Professionalise
Reference tools, exam practice and a classroom, free, for people who work in transport or are preparing to. Altruistic and without sign-up: the sector wins if everyone wins.
- 03
Digitise
The same logic is an open API, no key, so any developer can build it into their software. Let the sector’s systems calculate properly, at last.
- 01Business Process Manager for a. hartrodt’s Mediterranean & South Africa region: processes, quality and efficiency with each country’s operations managers.
- 02Auriga Intelligence: the first sovereign European AI specialised in transport. The assistant on this site is its public trial.
- 03The quiz classroom with the first training centres: per-student reports, history and their own question banks.
Trajectory
I entered the sector twenty years ago through the lowest door there is: as a stock boy in a warehouse. Vocational training at Fundació Prat in Barcelona and, from there, an entire career inside operations: six years at DHL and three at IFS International Forwarding, moving through Import Operations and Pricing.
In 2015 I joined a. hartrodt España as Pricing Manager. In July 2019, aged 29, I was appointed General Manager of the Spanish organization, with offices in Barcelona and Onda (Castellón), leading it together with Managing Director Lorena Fígaro.
In 2021, FIATA and TT Club named me Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year — Europe region winner and one of the four world finalists. In 2023 I became Regional LCL Hub Manager for the a. hartrodt group’s Mediterranean & South Africa region, and in 2024 Business Process Manager for the same region: day-to-day operational leadership with each country’s Operations Managers, plus regional ownership of processes, quality and efficiency. Certified OKR specialist.
The through-line of the whole route is the same: improving processes with my hands inside them. At every company I have been part of, I ended up automating what used to be done by hand — and that is exactly the natural continuation software represents. In 2026 that convergence became formal: I am investor and CTO of Auriga Intelligence, a software venture building products to improve and automate logistics processes and developing the first 100% European, sovereign AI specialized in transport. My primary role remains BPM at a. hartrodt; Auriga is a venture running in parallel.
I also collaborate actively with educational centers developing the next generation of logistics professionals.
The path in dates
2006
Warehouse stock boy
Into the industry through the bottom door. Vocational training at Fundació Prat, Barcelona.
2006–2015
Import Operations & Pricing
Six years at DHL and three at IFS International Forwarding, inside operations.
2015
Pricing Manager — a. hartrodt España
Joined the German freight-forwarding group.
2019
General Manager — a. hartrodt España
General Manager at 29, offices in Barcelona and Onda, co-leading with Managing Director Lorena Fígaro.
2021
Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year — FIATA/TT Club
Europe region winner and one of four world finalists.
2023
Regional LCL Hub Manager — Mediterranean & South Africa
Regional coordination of the group’s LCL product.
2024
Business Process Manager — Mediterranean & South Africa
Regional operations leadership; processes, quality and efficiency. Certified OKR specialist.
2026
Investor & CTO — Auriga Intelligence
Software to automate logistics processes and the first 100% European AI specialised in transport. A project alongside the BPM role.
The award
Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award (YIFFYA) 2021 — Region Europe winner, organized by FIATA (International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations) and TT Club. I represented FETEIA (Spain), nominated via ATEIA-OLTRA Barcelona as Spanish Young Freight Forwarder of the Year 2021. As the European winner, I was one of the four regional winners competing for the world title.
“More than just a freight broker”
The dissertation, "More than just a freight broker", defended that a forwarder is far more than an intermediary in freight buying and selling — with two real case studies: the export of a crane with pieces over 50 m long and 6 m wide, and the import of e-bikes with distribution across Europe.
How I think about the profession
- 01The forwarder as strategic partner, not intermediary: traditional expertise plus new technologies, with consultancy as the core value. Many customers don’t know exactly what they need — that is why advice adds value.
- 02A website or an app cannot be a forwarder: they are a freight marketplace. Technology serves the expert; it does not replace them. That is exactly why I build tools.
- 03A commitment to logistics education and young talent: international internships and normalizing English in daily office life.
Write to me
A talk for your class, reports for your centre, a tool you are missing, your country in the holidays or the weight limits. I reply within a day or two.