Inchcape Shipping opens agency in Vietnam through JV

INCHCAPE Shipping Services has started providing full agency services in Vietnam by establishing a joint venture called ISS-Gemadept with the Gemadept Corp.

SS-Gemadept has its own offices and staff and already handles vessels in Ho Chi Minh City and Vung Tau. The office in Ho Chi Minh City will oversee all agency related matters at other ports where a network of subagents is in place.
Expansion into other ports is currently being evaluated, an Inchcape statement said. The new joint venture will be responsible for developing new business as well as handling existing ISS clients, to provide a high level of data integrity and boarding and agency related services.
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CMA CGM, Maersk, MSC launch two joint China-California services

CMA CGM, MAERSK and MSC, the world's three biggest container lines, are launching two joint services in April, the "Yangtze", serving central and south China, and the "Bohai Rim", serving central and north China.

The new services will deploy ten 8 000 TEU vessels (5 on each loop) creating a weekly direct service between China and the United States. For the Yangtze service, the rotation will be: Hong Kong, Yantian, Kaohsiung, Shanghai, Qingdao, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. For the Bohai Rim service the rotation will be: Dalian, Tianjin Xingang, Shanghai, Ningbo, Long Beach, Oakland and Dalian This rationalises current services into a more powerful customer-responsive offering, said a CMA CGM statement. They also provide customers with extensive port coverage in China with direct calls twice a week between China (Hong Kong, Yantian and Shanghai) and California ports.

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Raft of changes in top management at NYK Line

NYK LINE is removing directors and making sweeping changes in management this month, issuing a list of new appointments and departures at the executive level effective April 1.

Departing March 31 will be NYK executive vice presidents, Minoru Sato and Takao Manji, who "will resign as directors with the right to represent NYK". Also departing will be managing corporate officer Naoki Takahata at the "expiration of his term of service".
Two new directors have been appointed, Hidenori Hono, currently serving as managing corporate officer and Hiroshi Hattori, the company's existing chief representative for China, will assume their new roles as director managing corporate officers at the end of the month.
Mr Hattori will also continue to serve in his current post as well, the NYK statement said.
Other executive changes include Yasushi Yamawaki, now representative director, executive vice president corporate officer, who becomes executive vice-chairman, executive vice-chairman corporate officer.
Hiromitsu Kuramoto, now representative director, senior managing corporate officer, becomes representative director, executive vice-president corporate officer.
Yasumi Kudo, now representative director, senior managing corporate officer, becomes representative director, executive vice-president corporate officer.
Hiroshi Sugiura, now representative director, senior managing corporate officer, becomes representative director, executive vice-president corporate officer.
Shinji Kobayashi, now director, managing corporate officer, becomes representative director, senior managing corporate officer.
Makoto Igarashi, now director managing corporate officer, representative director, senior managing corporate officer, becomes representative director, senior managing corporate officer.
Masamichi Morooka, now director, managing corporate officer, managing director of NYK Group Europe Ltd, director, senior managing corporate officer, becomes managing director of NYK Group Europe Ltd.
Toshinori Yamashita, now corporate officer president of NYK Line (Japan) Ltd, managing corporate officer, corporate officer, becomes president of NYK Line (Japan) Ltd and managing corporate officer.
Tomoyuki Matsubara, now corporate officer general manager of Technical Group, becomes managing corporate officer.
Hiroshi Sekine, now corporate officer general manager of safety and environmental management group, becomes managing corporate officer.
In the container trade, Hiroyuki Shimizu, appears to have his role largely unchanged. He is currently representative director, senior managing corporate officer in charge of the container trade management group, logistics group, logistics integrator group, Yokohama branch, Kansai branch, and matters related to Tokyo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd and NYK Line (Japan) Ltd. According to the NYK statement, the representative director will now be in charge of the Harbour Group as well, where he previously served only as an assistant to the director.
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