Freight’s Global 100


John Maccarone G


CEO, Textainer


lobalisation would not have happened to the degree that it has without the container. In that respect, there ought to be a nod to its inventor


Malcolm MacLean. But since this list is restricted to those that are alive,


we are unable to do so and instead have elected Textainer’s John Maccarone – without question the dominant figure in the container leasing sector, which has been in resurgent form over the last couple of years.


He has been at the helm of Textainer since 1987 and


in container leasing for a decade before that. He built Textainer up into the world’s largest box


lessor through a combination of canny asset investments, effective acquisitions and a series of innovative deals with either container shipping lines – such as sale-leaseback arrangements – or with financial investors such has KG funds which have invested in container fleets and signed up with Textainer to manage them.


Ram Menem Senior VP, Emirates SkyCargo R


am Menem is not only the leader of one of the world’s top cargo carriers, but he is a driving force in the industry and influences much of the


strategy and debate. Menem is chairman of the IATA Cargo Committee


and has been instrumental in helping form IATA’s cargo strategy, and in launching GACAG. He is a founding member of TIACA, and was


president and chairman of the board in 1995. He is a trustee and member of the chairman’s council. Menem began his career in 1976 at Kuwait Airways


before directing British Airways World Cargo activities in Kuwait. He joined the Al Qutub Shipping Agency in 1984 where he managed its air freight forwarding unit in Dubai, before moving to Emirates when it launched in 1985. He was responsible for conceptualising and


developing the LD-36 ULD, which increased useable space on the lower deck pallet base. In 2004 he was listed in World T


rademagazine as


one of its “Fabulous 50” people or institutions that are transforming world trade.


John Meredith Group MD, Hutchison Port Holdings A


ship is nothing without a port, and container shipping in particular could not have had the impact that it has without the corresponding


investment in the world’s container terminals. The leader in this sector has always been Hong


Kong’s Hutchison Port Holdings, and the man that has been the engine of the company’s incredible global expansion is John Meredith. After a 16-year spell at sea, he came ashore to work for P&O in the port of London, and saw at first hand


the nascent container industry. Joining Hutchison in Hong Kong, he can rightly be


said to have witnessed – indeed helped – the birth of containerisation. HPH was the world’s first truly global ports


company, and it has provided the template that its principal competitors have emulated, although it continues to handle the largest volume of containers. Its operations now span 52 ports in 26 countries.


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