After a long and varied career, Nicolas Sartini left French carrier CMA CGM last year. He will now share chief executive duties at Yilport with chairman Robert Yildirim

Kofod-Olsen was appointed V.Group chief executive at the end of 2020, replacing Graham Westgarth, who moved up to chairman. Earlier this month Wallem chief Frank Coles resigned to focus on crew welfare issues

Hong Kong-based dry bulk owner appoints Martin Fruergaard as chief executive. He assumes his new role in July

His expertise includes loan financings, sale and lease back transactions, restructurings, loan portfolio transfers, corporate acquisitions and sale and purchase

Huang has 240,000 share options in the company, which he has yet to exercise, and these will be settled in accordance with China’s stock market rules

David Hammond, the founder and chief executive of Human Rights at Sea, explains why the crewing crisis has helped highlight wider abuses in the maritime sector and why we can’t let that attention fade along with coronavirus once the vaccination programme kicks in

The price of getting caught can be high, she said, noting that there are reputational, financial, and legal risks associated with importing goods made by forced labour into the US, underlining that societal expectations are more than ever impinging on reputations and brands

Kristian Sørensen will be joining Avance Gas on April 1 this year. The appointment comes three months after the gas company’s chief Peder Carl Gram Simonsen departed in early September last year

Mike Phillips, who spent six years as Stephenson Harwood’s head of marine and international trade, has left the firm to join Watson Farley & Williams as a partner in London