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The secretariat of the European ports lascerà Verhoeven in order to guide that of the European shipowners
It will remain in ESPO until the summer, in order then to become general secretary of the ECSA
December 3, 2012
The general secretary of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), Patrick Verhoeven, the assignment in order to assume that of general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA lascerà). The current general secretary of the association of the European shipowners, Alfons Guinier, will go into retirement the next year and Verhoeven will cover the assignment as a result of the approved of nomination thursday slid from the shareholders' meeting of the ECSA.
"It is with much sorrow - the president of the ESPO, Santiago Garcia-Milà has said - that I must communicate this news. However Patrick not lascerà to us immediately. He is agreed with the ECSA that will not formally assume its new assignment before the summer, for giving the time to find a substitute to us and preparing the transition. He will allow us moreover, in the course of the shareholders' meeting and the conference of ESPO that will hold to Vahrn in the end of May, of greeting and thanking Patrick for those which they will be almost thirteen years of service".
"That to leave ESPO - Verhoeven has declared - has not been an easy decision since I am leaving a formed wonderful organization from friends, it is between the associates who in the secretariat. But at the same time the opportunity to serve the shipowning community offers the just type of challenge in this moment of my career. The change arrives after to have worked almost twenty years for the European harbour field, is in ESPO that, previously, in Feport. Subentrare to a value and experience man as Alfons Guinier will be a hard job, but I will face it is with enthusiasm that with simplicity".
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The general secretary of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), Patrick Verhoeven, the assignment in order to assume that of general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA lascerà). The current general secretary of the association of the European shipowners, Alfons Guinier, will go into retirement the next year and Verhoeven will cover the assignment as a result of the approved of nomination thursday slid from the shareholders' meeting of the ECSA.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
