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Change of management at Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg
On January 1, Tom Eckelmann (35) will take over the management of Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg from Wolfgang Schiemann (63), who will advise the Eurogate Group Management Board as Senior Advisor.
Tom Eckelmann knows the company and the industry. After studying at the University of Edinburgh and Cass Business School at City University London, he gained his first professional experience as a line manager at X-Press Feeder in Singapore and as an analyst at Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, an investor group in London. Since September 2012, Tom Eckelmann has been Head of Strategy as well as Energy and Sustainability Management at Eurogate. Through strategic projects that he initiated in this context, he has already contributed to the development of the EUROGATE container terminals in Germany. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Contship Italia SpA since April 2015.
Michael Blach, Chairman of the Group Management Board of Eurogate GmbH & Co. KGaA, KG, said on the occasion of the decision: "Wolfgang Schiemann has steered Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg convincingly and successfully through very difficult times. We are very grateful to him for his tireless efforts and are delighted that he will continue to make his passion and invaluable experience available to us. In Tom Eckelmann, we have found a successor from within our own ranks who will continue our efforts to increase the capacity utilization of Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg and, in addition, drive forward important future issues for our group of companies at the Hamburg location. We are firmly convinced that he will successfully master these complex tasks."
Throughput figures at Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg fell sharply due to the consolidation of shipping companies in recent years. In the last two years alone, Eurogate has had to cope with the loss of two customers (UASC and China Shipping) due to mergers and takeovers and one customer due to its insolvency (Hanjin) in Hamburg. A new customer (Hyundai Merchant Marine) and new services (Hamburg Süd) have already partially compensated for these setbacks.
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