HAPAG-LLOYD EXECUTIVE CHANGES

Interesting.  Hapag-Lloyd has sat on the sideline with logistics, deferring to its major forwarder customers.  Does this portend a change to be a 3PL player?

Former Damco chief takes over Hapag-Lloyd

Grace M. Lavigne, Associate Web Editor | Jul 01, 2014 12:35PM EDT

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Rolf Habben Jansen

Former Damco head Rolf Habben Jansen has taken over as CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, effective today.
Habben Jansen has been a member of the Hapag-Lloyd’s executive board since April 1. He succeeds Michael Behrendt, who left the container line’s executive board on June 30, along with Ulrich Kranich, who was chief operating officer. The new COO is Anthony J. Firmin, who joined the executive board today after 19 years at the company. Peter Granz continues as CFO, a position he has held since April 2009.
Habben Jansen has spent his career in the logistics business. Prior to joining Hapag-Lloyd, he served for five years as CEO of Damco, the logistics unit of Maersk Group. Before that, he spent several years at DHL, where he was responsible for contract logistics for large parts of Europe beginning in 2001; as head of global customer solutions for DHL starting in 2006, he was in charge of the services to DHL’s 100 most important customers.
Habben Jansen will give the opening keynote address at the 8th annual JOC TPM Asia conference in Shenzhen on Oct. 14-16, 2014. The event focuses on container shipping and associated logistics, with an emphasis on China and the Asia-Europe, trans-Pacific and intra-Asia markets.
The new executive team is taking the helm of Hapag-Lloyd as the company pins its financial future to the expansion of the G6 Alliance into key east-west trades and its takeover of Chile’s CSAV, as its first-quarter loss widened and revenue declined.