Freight’s Global 100
Richard Lidinsky A
Director, US Federal Maritime Commission
s head of the US Federal Maritime Commission, Lidinsky wields considerable influence on one of the largest container shipping trades in the
world, the transpacific. It was Lidinsky who pushed for a report on the
practices of liner shipping companies and the shortage of containers during the 2009-2010 recovery, and although, ultimately, shippers were disappointed with its findings, this appears to have forced him to sharpen his teeth.
John Lu President, Global Logistics Forum, Asian Shippers’ Forum T
he importance of John Lu is that he was the founder of the Asian Shippers Council, which will be crucial to the regulatory environment in
which exporters from the most economically dynamic region in the world are to work. Appointed as chairman of the Singapore Shippers’
Council in 1997, he helped set up the Asian Shippers’ Council in 2004 and has led it since, being on the of the most vocal opponents of the conference system in Asia.
From his perch in Singapore, at one of the most
important crossroads of global trade, he has developed a key understanding of how the recession and subsequent recovery – in Asia at least – fundamentally changed the circumstances of Asian shippers and the region’s trade with the wider world. Asian governments are likely to hear a lot from him
in the coming years, as he continues to press for the repeal of the conference system.
Wing Kai Ma Joint MD, Kerry Logistics I
n the space of a little over a decade, Kerry Logistics has emerged to become one of Asia’s leading logistics providers and one of the first to boast a
genuinely global network. It was born out of the Kuok/Kerry group, a
diversified conglomerate with interests in property, hotels, media, agribusiness and finance, and was initially based around its home market Hong Kong, given it the perfect platform to invest in China as the outsourcing boom took place.
22 IFW-Lloyd’s Loading List | Freight’s Global 100 | 2012 It has spent the last decade establishing a host of
operations in Europe, North America and Autralasia, and has branched out of logistics into owning and operating port terminals, intermnodal terminals and container freight stations Win Kai Ma joined Kerry Properties in 1990 and was
transferred to its warehouse and logistics division in 1999 as it was drawing up plans for its Asian and international expansion.
Hence, his announcements this year that the FMC
was looking to bring the container leasing sector under its control, as well as looking at the role of Canadian and Mexican ports in the US supply chain. A 37-year veteran of the shipping business, Lidinsky
held early roles in the US Coast Guard and began his legislative career with the FMC in 1973. He was at the port of Baltimore for a decade and
then acted as the US representative for the Sea Containers.
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