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All change as port group
announces reshuffle
Associated British Ports announces a number of
key management changes...
Associated British Ports (ABP) yesterday, 22 January, announced a
number of key management changes, with new Port Directors appointed
for Grimsby & Immingham, Hull & Goole, the Company’s 11 Short-Sea
Ports and its five South Wales Ports.
All Port Directors will assume their new roles on 1 February 2008.
Grimsby & Immingham
John Fitzgerald – currently Port Director for ABP’s five South Wales
Ports of Newport, Cardiff, Barry, Port Talbot and Swansea – has been
promoted to the role of Port Director, Grimsby & Immingham. For
personal reasons, Nick Palmer, the incumbent Port Director for Grimsby
& Immingham, has decided to take early retirement.
Mr Fitzgerald, 45, joined ABP in 1997 as Sales & Marketing Manager for
Grimsby & Immingham, becoming its Deputy Port Manager in 2002. He was
then promoted to Port Director, Short-Sea Ports in 2004, before being
promoted again to Port Director, South Wales, in October 2005.
South Wales Ports
Matthew Kennerley – currently ABP’s Port Director for Hull & Goole –
will become Port Director, South Wales Ports.
Mr Kennerley, 41, joined ABP as a management trainee in 1989. He took
over his current role in June 2005 after previously serving as
Assistant Port Manager for the Port of Southampton. Before this, he
was Deputy Port Manager for ABP’s South Wales Ports, and before that,
he held the post of Marketing Manager for ABP Grimsby & Immingham.
Hull & Goole
Matt Jukes – currently Port Director for ABP’s 11 Short-Sea Ports –
will assume the position of Port Director, Hull & Goole.
Mr Jukes, 36, joined ABP as a Dredging Technician in 1994, before
transferring onto the company's Management Trainee scheme. He assumed
his current role in October 2005 after previously serving as Deputy
Port Manager, Hull & Goole. Prior to this, he held various positions
around the Company including positions in South Wales and Grimsby &
Immingham, where he spent time as an operational Quay Foreman. He then
moved to Hull & Goole where he undertook a number of commercial and
operational positions including Head of Operations.
Short-Sea Ports
Nick Ridehalgh – currently ABP’s Port Manager for the Company’s four
North-West Ports of Barrow, Silloth, Fleetwood and Garston – will take
on the role of Port Director for ABP’s Short-Sea Ports of King’s Lynn,
Lowestoft, Ipswich, Teignmouth, Plymouth, Garston, Fleetwood, Barrow,
Silloth, Ayr and Troon.
Mr Ridehalgh, 41, joined ABP as a management trainee in 1991. He
assumed his current role in September 2004, after previously serving
as Port Manager for the Ports of King’s Lynn and Lowestoft. Before
this, he was Assistant Port Manager for ABP Ipswich, and before that,
he held the position of Marketing Manager for ABP Hull.
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