{"id":128295,"date":"2017-12-14T13:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/european-shipowners-president-niels-smedegaard-hands-over-the-presidency-to-panagiotis-laskaridis\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:31:34","slug":"european-shipowners-president-niels-smedegaard-hands-over-the-presidency-to-panagiotis-laskaridis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/en\/european-shipowners-president-niels-smedegaard-hands-over-the-presidency-to-panagiotis-laskaridis\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shipowners\u2019 President Niels Smedegaard hands over the Presidency to Panagiotis Laskaridis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-128293\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/7810920c894682ec78c57b7ba2469935.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/7810920c894682ec78c57b7ba2469935-200x125.jpg 200w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/7810920c894682ec78c57b7ba2469935-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/7810920c894682ec78c57b7ba2469935-400x249.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/7810920c894682ec78c57b7ba2469935.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/>ECSA, European Community Shipowners\u2019 Associations held its Board of Directors\u2019 meeting today and Niels Smedegaard of Danish Shipping and CEO of DFDS handed over ECSA Presidency to Mr. Panagiotis Laskaridis,<\/p>\n<p>Member of the Board of the Union of Greek Shipowners and CEO of Laskaridis Shipping Co. Ltd. and CEO of Lavinia Corp. Mr. Panagiotis will start his two-year term as ECSA&rsquo;s new President from January 2018. Mr. Smedegaard will remain Board Member representing Danish Shipping.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am very pleased of this trust, and committed to focus the European shipping agenda on shipowning matters, work with stakeholders for an efficient, competitive and future oriented European shipowning community&rsquo;&rsquo;, Laskaridis said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Martin Dorsman Secretary General of ECSA said: &ldquo;We look forward to working closely with Mr. Laskaridis and welcome his profound expertise and experience of the global shipping sector&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Claes Berglund of the Swedish Shipowners and Director Public Affairs and Sustainability, from Stena AB will start as ECSA&rsquo;s Vice-President in January. &ldquo;I feel honoured of this appointment and look forward to supporting ECSA&rsquo;s work. Shipping is dependent on a strong EU with a clear focus and we need to ensure an open market and free trade&rdquo;, he commented.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dorsman thanked on behalf of the Board and ECSA staff Niels Smedegaard for steering ECSA the last two years through intense discussions and reaching unanimous positions. &ldquo;The excellent chairmanship of Niels Smedegaard stands out even more taken into account the very challenging circumstances for shipowners the last years&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;Combining environmental improvements with maintaining the competitive position of EU shipowners is a real achievement. I&rsquo;m really pleased that Mr. Smedegaard will continue to contribute to the ECSA Board discussions the coming years&rdquo;, Martin Dorsman concluded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ecsa.eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECSA, European Community Shipowners\u2019 Associations held its Board of Directors\u2019 meeting today and Niels Smedegaard  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritimes-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>European Shipowners\u2019 President Niels Smedegaard hands over the Presidency to Panagiotis Laskaridis - Maritimes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/en\/european-shipowners-president-niels-smedegaard-hands-over-the-presidency-to-panagiotis-laskaridis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"European Shipowners\u2019 President Niels Smedegaard hands over the Presidency to Panagiotis Laskaridis - 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