Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) has brought in alternative fuels executive Winifred Patricia Johansen as a new director.
The Norwegian owner of vessels that can carry both wet and dry cargoes said the decision was confirmed at a meeting on 26 April.
Johansen replaces Lori Wheeler Naess. She joins chairman and chief executive Lasse Kristoffersen, Magne Ovreas, Morten Skedsmo and Rebekka Glasser Herlofsen on the board.
The new director is senior vice president of commercial at Oslo-listed Quantafuel, a company backed by Vitol and BASF that is planning to scale up production of fuels made from recycled plastics.
She is also chair of the operational company Quantafuel Skive in Denmark.
Johansen has more than two decades of industrial and commercial experience in the subsea oil and gas sector with Aker Solutions and Nexans. She has also worked for Volvo.
Pioneering work
Her key objective as Quantafuel SVP is to get the world's first plastic-to-liquid refinery up and running.
Quantafuel believes it can make $50m per year from the biggest plants it plans to build to turn rubbish, such as shopping bags, into bunkers.
The test plant at Skive last year produced its first fuel, transforming the equivalent of 66,000 used bags into "high-quality liquids", the company said.
Johansen is also a member of the board of trustees at Partner Africa and a director of Ocean Oasis.
KCC says its vessels can reduce carbon emissions by between 30% and 40% compared to conventional ships, as there is no ballast leg.
