Change in the management at NTB

The terminal operator NTB – North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven GmbH & Co. is undergoing a change in its management. NTB was set up 11 years ago, on 8 July 1998, as a joint venture between Maersk Line and EUROGATE. Managing director Gerhard Wahlers helped to get this joint venture moving and turn it into a profitable business. Now it is time to move in a new direction. In a joint decision taken by the shareholders and the Management Board, Gerhard Wahlers will retire with effect from 1 May 2009. His successor will be Jan Gelderland.

With Jan Gelderland (52), a highly experienced top manager in the container industry will take over at the helm of NTB. Prior to joining NTB, Jan Gelderland was in charge of the development of new terminal projects at Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) as Director, Business Development. As COO of the Europe
Container Terminal (ECT) in Rotterdam, he successfully restructured operations and the technical systems at the container terminal. Altogether, he held various posts with the Dutch container terminal operator over a five-year period. The native Dutchman, who speaks German, knows Bremerhaven personally from his
time with Sea-Land Service Inc. From 1990 to 1993, he oversaw first of all the US shipping line's German, and later European operations from the location on the River Weser.

Emanuel Schiffer, Chairman of the EUROGATE Group Management Board:
Eleven years is a befitting time in which to launch a company and steer it to success. After these eleven years, the time has now come for a change. We thank Mr Wahlers for his dedication and wish him all the best. We wish Mr Gelderland every success for his new tasks, which in these difficult times are certainly not going to be easy. We, that is the shareholders, are nevertheless confident that Mr Gelderland will prove to be a more than worthy successor to Mr Wahlers.

Source: Transpotweekly