Freight’s Global 100 Kenneth Glenn President, APL P
art of Neptune Orient Lines, APL is the seventh largest container shipping line in the world. It has 147 vessels, a million-plus teu container fleet and
more than 80 weekly services. Kenneth Glenn was appointed president in August
2011. Formerly President North Asia, he joined NOL in 200 after 23 years with Sea-Land Service and CSX Lines, where he held a variety of senior management positions. He has over 33 years’ experience in the shipping and
Owen Glenn Chairman, OTS Logistics Group O
Owen Glenn was born in Calcutta, but moved to New Zealand with his family at the age of 10.
He has spent almost his entire career in freight, with
stints at Air New Zealand and then Emery Air Freight before moving to the UK, where he joined Swire and was instrumental in setting up the company that eventually became Excel Logistics. In 1978, he took over Los Angeles-based non-vessel operating common carrier Direct Container Line and
turned it into the world’s largest NVOCC and second largest exporter of goods out of the US. The DCL brand is part of the empire he has built up
under the umbrella of OTS Logistics, which also includes Vanguard Logistics, Brennan, Export Freight Services and Box Consolidators. A noted philanthropist, the Owen Glenn Family
Foundation was formed around 30 years ago and is currently focusing on development projects in India and among disadvantaged New Zealand youth.
Emanuele Grimaldi CEO, Grimaldi Group W
ith ownership of slew of North European as well as Mediterranean ro-ro shipping lines and ferries, Emanuele Grimaldi is probably
the most influential man in the ro-ro shipping sector. The business empire that first his father, and latterly
he and his brother Gianluca, have built spans from Finnlines in Finland to Minoan Lines in Greece, and also including Atlantic Container Lines and eponymous Grimaldi Naples, the company has numerous deepsea oeprations to complement those in Europe.
The company has also been one of the few European
shipping lines to have made any use of the Motorways of the Seas subsidies offered by the European Union. But it is not just in the freight industry itself that
Grimaldi wields influence, but also in the public arena. He has been one of shipping’s most vocal opponents
of new emissions regulations being brought in by the European authorities and International Maritime Organisation.
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maritime industry. Glenn has also held the post of APL’s president
South Asia; senior vice-president, South Asia; managing director India and senior vice-president of APL’s Asia- Europe liner trade. He replaced incumbent Eng Aik Meng, shortly after
Ng Yat Chung took over from NOL’s CEO Ron Widdows, who took a keen interest in APL. Glenn recently said that he expects that the current overcapacity to force further consolidation in the industry.
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