Nixon steps down at ONE

In a determination that could awesome further alteration successful instrumentality shipping, Ocean Network Express announced founding Chief Executive Jeremy Nixon is stepping down successful a planned enactment transition.

Till Ole Barrelet, CEO of Emirates Shipping Line, volition articulation Singapore-based ONE connected May 1 arsenic Chief Executive Officer-Designate. He volition win Nixon arsenic CEO connected July 1, astatine which clip Nixon volition presume the relation of elder advisor.

Nixon led the historical consolidation of Japanese carriers K Line, MOL and NYK that established ONE successful April 2018. Operating an iconic fleet of pinkish containers, the institution is present the sixth-largest carrier, with 260 vessels and capableness of 2.1 cardinal 20 ft equivalent units (TEUs), oregon 6% of the market.

The 49-year aged Barrelet has much than 20 years of maritime and logistics experience, having served arsenic CEO of ESL since 2022, with heavy expertise successful vessel owning, financing, instrumentality shipping, and commercialized improvement crossed Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.

Emirates ranks 20th among planetary carriers, with capableness of 116,000 TEUs.

To amended presumption ONE for its adjacent signifier of growth, the institution volition modulation to a caller enforcement absorption squad operation comprising the CEO and 7 representatives from crossed each divisions. The squad and six determination leaders volition study to Barrelet.

“This expanded enactment operation volition facilitate person collaboration crossed a planetary matrix operation astatine ONE,” the institution said, portion of a planned enactment modulation that volition not interaction customers and stakeholders.

“Jeremy’s publication to Ocean Network Express has been extraordinary,” said Jotaro Tamura, committee president of Ocean Network Express Holdings Ltd. “As our founding CEO, Jeremy has helped physique ONE from the crushed up, establishing our firm civilization and marketplace position. We are profoundly grateful for his beardown enactment and imaginativeness successful creating a resilient, financially beardown company.”

Nixon said, “Leading ONE from Day One has been the defining section of my career. Together with an exceptional team, we person built thing genuinely special. I americium incredibly arrogant of what we person accomplished – navigating unprecedented challenges, investing successful sustainable technology, and gathering a civilization of work excellence. Now is the close clip for caller leadership, and I americium precise assured successful Till’s quality to pb ONE forward.”

Said Barrelet, “I americium honored to pb Ocean Network Express astatine this pivotal time. Jeremy has built a formidable bequest with a beardown culture, talented team, and coagulated operational foundation. ONE is well-positioned to navigate manufacture headwinds with an progressively modern fleet, fiscal strength, and proven capabilities.”