Sovcomflot (SCF Group)’s Sergey Frank sees five aspects to his new role as non-executive chairman.

In first place is delivering on what he said is the “ambitious” 2019-2025 growth strategy for state-owned Sovcomflot and its 143 million quasi shareholders of the Russian population.

A second task for him and the board will be to look beyond this to the next stage of planning for the 2025-2030 and 2030-2035 strategy periods.