Søren Toft, who has been a director for four years delegate of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has been elected president of the World Shipping Council (WSC), the international association representing the main global container shipping companies, a market of which MSC is a leader having the cargo capacity of its fleet surpassed three years ago that of Maersk, a company in which the Toft himself had held managerial positions for a few years.

In addition, the WSC Board of Directors elected vice president Randy Chen, who is vice president of Wan Hai Lines. Toft and Chen, who will remain in office for the next two years, take over with immediate effect to the President and Vice President of the WSC Rolf Habben Jansen and Jeremy Nixon who are CEOs respectively of Hapag-Lloyd and ONE.