Associated British Ports poaches APM Terminals' CCO Henrik L Pedersen for CEO role

As CEO of ABP and a former Chairman of UKMPG, James Cooper has been a strong supporter of the idea that the UK’s deep sea ports have much to gain from Brexit. It will be interesting to see if Mr Pedersen pursues this line with the same vigour.

Ilari Kallio has been appointed Chief Digital Officer at Konecranes. He starts in his new position on 18th June, 2018 and reports to Juha Pankakoski, Executive Vice President, Technologies. Kallio joins Konecranes from Wärtsilä, where he has been recently working as Director, Digitalization, for one of the marine business units. Kallio has experience from leading large technology functions, developing new digital business models and building innovation ecosystems. He has also participated in driving the Finnish industry forward in many innovation hubs, like DIMECC Oy and Click Innovation Oy as a chairman and board member. Kallio was selected Chief Technology Officer 2016 in Finland.

“Konecranes is a fantastic company and a real industry forerunner in digitalization. I’m extremely excited to learn the business, products and the people behind - the true enablers of digital business - and to see how I can best support Konecranes and its customers in accelerating their digital business transformation,” said Mr Kallio.

Peel Ports has appointed Richard Goffin as Port Director at its London Medway Sheerness facility to drive forward growth plans at the port. He will also continue to be Port Director at Peel Ports Great Yarmouth.

Following its recent purchase of the shares in Metrans that were held by the company’s management, HHLA now owns the Czech intermodal operator outright and, through the Metrans Supervisory Board chaired by HHLA’s CEO Angela Titzrath, has appointed Peter Kiss, who has been with Metrans for a number of years, as the new Chairman of the Executive Board. The founder and previous CEO of Metrans, Jiri Samek, will remain connected in a advisory role, according to HHLA. The Metrans group now incorporates another HHLA intermodal company, Polzug. Their consolidated rail traffic in 2017 exceeded 1M containers, or around 1.6M TEU.

Air Partner PLC has appointed Chris Mann as Interim Chief Financial Officer. He will remain with the company until a permanent CFO is appointed in due course.  He will not be a director of the Company, nor a member of the Board. Air Partner has engaged an executive search firm to assist in the search for a permanent CFO.