Over the past week there have been several new appointments as Bolloré Logistics, Wallenius Wilhelmsen and Wilson chose within their own ranks. 

Bolloré Logistics has named Loig Pavard as the managing director of Bolloré Logistics Singapore. Reporting directly to Cyril Dumon, Managing Director of Bolloré Logistics Asia Pacific, Loig will be in charge of further developing the company’s business in the country and sustaining its growth on the market.

Loig Pavard boasts more than 22 years of experience in the supply chain and logistics industry. Throughout his career at Bolloré Logistics, he held several finance positions in Europe and Asia before becoming Regional Managing Director for Southern Europe and then CEO for the French Overseas regions.

Pavard will support the company’s development by leveraging new technologies to anticipate customer needs and achieve operational excellence. He also intends to focus on talent management and the promotion of sustainable solutions in line with the company’s commitment to reduce scope 3 CO2 emissions by 30 percent by 2030 (baseline 2019).

Wallenius Wilhelmsen names new COO Shipping

Wallenius Wilhelmsen has dipped into its own ranks to search for experienced name that will take up the role of COO Shipping. The company’s CEO Lasse Kristoffersen unveiled that Chief Customer Officer Xavier Leroi has been named the new COO of Shipping. Leroi has an extensive business background, including 25 years at Wallenius Wilhelmsen. He has held positions across the company: Shipping, Logistic and Customer Growth. He starts in his new position on November 1.

Leroi has held assignments in Asia, South Africa and Europe, in areas such as sales, business development and operations.

Wilson adds Renate Vik to project department

Wilson unveiled its newest addition at the project department is Renate Vik. She has been working for the operation department in Wilson for the last 10 years and she will now work together with a team of trained project charterers at the project department.

“I look forward to step into my new position as project coordinator at the project department in Wilson. We have many parties involved in project shipping both from chartering, operation, crew, customers, agent and suppliers. It will be exciting to go more in-depth on the project segment from small details that needs to be coordinated to anticipate incidents that may occur,” Vik explains.

Chartering Manager for the project department, Arild Stikholmen explains that Renate will play an important role for the team by combining her experience as an operator to coordinate complex project cargoes.