Integrated services provider, Sogemar, a subsidiary of Contship Italia, itself owned by the German terminal operator Eurokai, will see its long serving CEO Sebastiano Grasso, replaced by Matthieu Gasselin in September.
Gasselin, 46 and born in France, brings a wealth of international assignments in senior management roles out of which several years at CNH Industrial and later at BCUBE as Managing Director of the Transportation Business Unit.
“The intermodal arm of Contship Italia Group has undergone remarkable development over the last years. The most important now is to exploit the company’s existing potential to make Sogemar and its operating companies Hannibal, Oceanogate Italia and Rail Hub Milano, even more competitive,” commented Gasselin.
In thanking Grasso for hi 20 years work at Sogemar Thomas Eckelmann, president at Sogemar group and president of EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA, the ultimate controlling shareholder of Contship Italia Group, also welcomed Gasselin; “With Matthieu Gasselin, we have been successful in recruiting a very experienced manager in whom we have full confidence to succeed and give new impulse to Sogemar Group,” he said.
