Container ship veteran Peter Lund is switching jobs for a second time between AP Moller-Maersk and Costamare, becoming the Greek company’s chief commercial officer.
Lund, currently vice president and head of chartering at Maersk, is expected to take up his new position in October, Costamare said in a statement.
“We are very pleased to welcome back Mr Lund,” Costamare chairman Konstantinos Konstantakopoulos said.
Costamare had hired Lund once before in 2012, as commercial director in its Singapore office.
Lund, who studied law at the University of Copenhagen, however, left the job in 2014 to move to back to Maersk.
Lund worked for 15 years at Maersk Line and Maersk Broker, as well as nearly four years as commercial director at Ship Finance International (SFL).
“His broad international shipping background and detailed knowledge of several of our target segments will be very valuable for us as we continue our profitable growth and diversification,” Konstantakopoulos said on Wednesday.
Lund’s appointment is part of a wider trend in which several major Greek companies have placed outsiders, mostly from northern Europe, to senior positions over the past couple of years.
Examples include Sveinung Stohle, deputy chief executive officer of the Angelicoussis Shipping Group, Athenian Tankers’ chief executive officer Jens Martin Jensen and Craig Jasienski as chief executive officer at Neptune Lines.
Costamare, a company that benefited greatly from the boxship boom during the coronavirus crisis, has been expanding not just in personnel, but in business scope as well.
Over the course of the year, the Konstantakopoulos family company expanded its already considerable bulker exposure with a chartered-in fleet of newcastlemaxes and capesizes and it also took a controlling stake in Neptune Maritime Leasing.
Latsis and Costamare-backed Neptune Maritime last month appointed former Ocean Yield chief executive Lars Solbakken to its executive board.
