Founder and owner of the Offen Group, Claus Peter Offen, is to step down as its chairman and chief executive, with Arnt Vespermann, formerly with Hamburg Sud, taking over the container shipping sector of the German owner, with more than 40 ships on its books.
[s2If is_user_logged_in()]Until February this year Vespermann, joined Hamburg Sud 20 years ago, and was CEO at when the company was sold to Maersk at the end of 2017, he oversaw the integration of Hamburg Sud into the AP Moller Maersk group following the carrier’s acquisition by the Danes in 2017. It is understood that Offen will remain involved at the company as chairman of a supervisory board.
The Offen Group website lists 41 container vessels of between 4,000 and 14,000TEU, mainly chartered to Swiss carrier MSC and the French operator CMA CGM. While the fleet has declined over the last decade, the vessel sizes mean that the group’s importance as one of the more significant tonnage providers remains assured.
Offen Group was founded in 1971 with the acquisition of the 1959-built general cargo ships Annie Hugo Stinnes.
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