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Niels Smedegaard (DFDS) will be the new president of shipowning association European ECSA
Vice president will be Panagiotis Laskaridis
December 9, 2015
Niels Smedegaard, president and managing director of shipowning group Danish DFDS, are named president of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA). Smedegaard will at the beginning assume the assignment of the next year succeeding to Thomas Rehder, that it is to the guide of the association of the European shipowners from December 2013.
"Constructing on the base of the excellent job of my predecessor - Smedegaard has declared - my objective as president of the ECSA will be to evidence the importance of the shipping and that we, like field, we become more and more proattivi in searching solutions to the challenges that attend to us. The review of European politics for the marine transports of the EU in 2017 is on top of my agenda and is convinced that the improvement of the dialogue with all the interested parts will ahead allow the necessary steps in a series of political issues".
Besides that of Smedegaard has happened also the nomination of the vice president of the ECSA, charge that is entrusted Panagiotis Laskaridis, founder and managing director of the Greek Laskaridis Shipping.
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