Port of Kiel Bids Farewell to Knud Sörensen
January 1st 2018 will be Dr Timo Rosenberg. He has been with the company since 2013 as Head of Corporate Development. Knud Sörensen, a trained shipping company and shipping business administrator, started his career in 1971 at Sartori & Berger. That was followed by service in the German Navy and positions with the H. Klinck shipping agency and timber import company and with Zerssen on the Kiel Canal as well as in agency work with the former Langeland-Kiel-Linjen. In 1985 Knud Sörensen joined HVB (the Hafen-und Verkehrsbetriebe) in the Schleswig-Holstein capital, which in 1996
Wölk Named CEO of bMC
. Wölk is a German lawyer and member of the Hamburg bar association but also an engineer for maritime transport, who studied Nautical Sciences. He has gained considerable industry insight throughout his career. First nautical experiences he collected on board of the Gorch Fock of the German Navy, later also on commercial vessels. Prior joining bMC, he has been for nearly five years the Claims Director of Hanseatic Underwriters, a fixed premium P&I and FD&D provider. Prior to this he gained deep experience in maritime law as well as large casualty handling while first working as
Vivek Bhatia New CEO of Thyssenkrupp AsiaPac
the past 2014/15 fiscal year and employs more than 4,100 people there. The shipyard of ThyssenKrupp is an expert in the design and construction of non-nuclear submarines than ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems with its Operating Unit Submarines (Kiel). The Operating Unit partners the German Navy and has also delivered submarines for coastal and blue water deployment to the navies of 19 other countries.
