Cairo – Mubasher: Suez Canal Container Terminal’s (SCCT) board of directors elected Lars Vang Christensen as chairman and CEO for the company, effective from 18 December 2019.
Christensen, who will succeed Abd El-Khaleq Ayad, chaired SCCT’s board in January 2018, and spent most of his career at Danish shipping AP Møller – Maersk, after holding leading positions at international companies in a variety of fields, including energy, logistics and supply chain.
It is worth noting that Maersk’s subsidiary APM Terminals holds 55% of SCCT, while China’s biggest shipping company COSCO owns 20%.