With Carsten Mortensen's decision to leave BW Group, the now 52 year old Danish shipping man has probably completed his last turn as CEO of a shipping company, he says after having headed Norden and the Singapore-based shipping group for a total of 14 years.
With offices in both Singapore and Copenhagen, the strain of the job became too much, with a professional life in which he was traveling most days of the year, and one of the few certain things for his future is that his base will now be Copenhagen, presumably an office in the maritime cluster just north of the Danish capital.
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