By Costas Paris
LONDON--APM Terminals, a unit of Danish shipping and oil giant
A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S and the world's third-biggest port operator,
has dismissed three senior executives, a company spokesman said
Friday.
"They were asked to leave because they did not follow internal
business policies," Erik Eisenberg, APMT's vice president for
communications, told The Wall Street Journal. He declined to say
whether an internal probe has been launched into the matter, or
give any other details.
Christian Møller Laursen, APMT's vice president and chief
financial officer, was replaced in January, Mr. Eisenberg said. He
said chief commercial officer Martin Gaard Christiansen and the
head of global project implementation, Michael Lund Hansen, have
also been replaced.
The new CFO is Henrik Lundgaard Pedersen, previously head of
APMT's Asia-Pacific region, Mr. Eisenberg said. He said the new
commercial chief is Joe Nicklaus Nielsen, who retains his previous
role as head of container business development.
The three dismissed executives are well-known in the shipping
community and held key positions in APMT and the mother company for
more than 20 years.
Mr. Møller Laursen had been APMT's vice president and CFO since
2004, and a vice president for the parent company since 2007. Mr.
Christiansen started his career at Maersk in the 1990s as a
management trainee and became APMT's chief commercial officer in
2011.
News of their dismissal came after APMT on Wednesday reported a
net profit of $900 million for 2014, up 17% compared with the
previous year.
APMT employs more than 20,000 people and operates 160 ports in
58 countries around the world.
Write to Costas Paris at costas.paris@wsj.com
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