Hapag-Lloyd Executive Board to loose a member

Jesper Praestensgaard leaves the Executive Board of the German liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd AG
 
Jesper Praestensgaard, who has been responsible for the Global Markets and Global Accounts departments on the Executive Board at Hapag-Lloyd AG since January 2011, will be leaving the company at his own request in June in order to take on new challenges. Until further notice, Michael Behrendt, Chairman of the Executive Board of Hapag-Lloyd AG, will assume responsibility for the departments. “Hapag-Lloyd would like to thank Jesper Praestensgaard for his dedication during this time and would like to wish him all the best for the future, both privately and professionally,” says Dr Jürgen Weber, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hapag-Lloyd AG.
 
Around 150 modern ships, around 90 liner services between all continents, a fleet with total capacity of around 670,000 TEU, 5 million TEU transported in a year, 6,900 staff at 300 locations in 114 countries make Hapag-Lloyd one of the leading global liner shipping companies. The container stock of more than one million TEU includes one of the world’s largest and most modern reefer container fleets. The owners of Hapag-Lloyd are the Albert Ballin consortium (77.96%, consisting of the City of Hamburg, Kühne Maritime, Signal Iduna, HSH Nordbank, M.M.Warburg Bank and HanseMerkur) and TUI AG (22.04%).

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