New ECSA chairman to combat ill-fitting EU legislation
When DFDS CEO Niels Smedegaard takes over as chairman of the European Shipowners Association (ECSA) in 2016, he will focus the organization on working to avoid the implementation of inappropriate political decisions, he explains to ShippingWatch.
BY JOHANNES HARTKOPF-MIKKELSEN
"If I can make a small, modest contribution to reorient the shipping industry towards a more Scandinavian approach, this could help to move us away from often somewhat random and quick-fix legislation applied to the shipping industry by the EU," says Niels Smedegaard, who in addition to serving as CEO of DFDS will also assume the chairman role in the European Community Shipowners Association (ECSA) from January 2016.
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