Namir Khanbabi has joined Zeamarine as its regional director for Asia and Oceania.
Khanbabi will be responsible for identifying new market opportunities for the Asia and Oceania business units of Zeamarine. He has more than 25 years of experience in the shipping and heavy lift markets and most recently served as chartering and operations director at AAL.
Meanwhile, Alexander Furst has been promoted to Zeamarine’s head of chartering, Asia and Oceania.
Shanghai Shipbuilding Research and Design Institute (SDARI), in collaboration with DNV and Toepfer Transport, has developed two state-of-the-art multipurpose vessel designs: Octopus 12.6 and Octopus 12.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has joined global public-private partnership the First Movers Coalition (FMC), which is working to scale the most critical, emerging climate technologies required to decarbonise the world’s heavy-emitting sectors.
The World Shipping Council (WSC) has appointed Joe Kramek as its president and ceo, succeeding John Butler who retires at the end of July.
Liebherr USA has named Shane Kuhlmey as divisional director of crawler cranes, deep foundation machines and maritime cranes.
Energy and marine consultants ABL has opened an office in Constanta, Romania, to support the Black Sea region’s offshore energy and maritime markets.
Spanish logistics service provider Bergé has set up an industrial process logistics division, which focuses on consolidating industrial logistics activity for the automotive and steel industries.
