“It was not a job that was posted and then I applied,” he told TradeWinds at the end of the recent Danish Maritime Forum, part of Danish Maritime Days, which he headed up as its secretary-general.

He declines to say who approached him to take on the role at Zim. “It is a company, like many, going through its difficulties and as a consequence of that would be looking to create the right strategy for the future,” he said.

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