Week In Review : Corporate Appointments

The Maritime Association of the Port of New York and New Jersey will honor five senior executives by inducting them into the International Maritime Hall of Fame on May 12. The five honorees are: • Yung-Fa Chang, founder and chairman of the Evergreen Group. • Anthony ”Tony” A. Chiarello, executive vice president and chief operating officer of NYK Logistics (Americas) Inc. • Jam...

Ten House lawmakers representing districts on the southwestern border on Thursday urged the Senate to get moving on the stalled confirmation of Alan Bersin to be commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Baucus The Congressional Border Caucus expressed concern in a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus that CBP is without a permanent leader at a time when securit...

Ocean carrier NYK Line on Wednesday announced a series of changes among its Group Americas executive team. President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Nozaki will return to Japan as executive vice president of Kinkai Yusen Logistics. Yasuyuki Usui will succeed him as president and CEO of NYK Group Americas. Peter Keller will retire and become a senior advisor to the board of NYK Group ...

The Association of American Railroads has named Thomas Farmer assistant vice president of security, responsible for working with individual railroads and federal oversight agencies on freight rail security. Farmer joins the railroad lobby from the Transportation Security Administration, where he was acting general manager for mass transit. He also was senior counsel for intermodal program...

Performance Team, an Atlanta-based third-party logistics firm, has appointed John Hurst to vice president of contracts. Hurst has held key positions at APL Logistics, including eastern region managing director and vice president of contract logistics for the Americas. ...

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen has been named “port person of the year” by the American Association of Port Authorities. Allen will receive the award next week during the association’s annual spring meeting in Washington. The ports group said Allen was selected for the award because of his efforts to make the marine transportation system safe and efficient. “Adm. Allen rec...

Citigroup Inc. has hired a director from a London shipbroker to develop its physical shipping operations as the bank seeks to expand its commodities business, Bloomberg reported Monday. The bank has lured Alistair McLuskie, a director with Simpson, Spence & Young Ltd., the world's second-largest shipbroker, to join as director of physical freight on April 1, Citigroup said in an e-mailed ...

Japanese ocean carrier “K” Line on Friday announced changes to its executive team, effective April 1: • Hiroyuki Maekawa, president and chief executive officer, will become chairman executive officer. • Kenichi Kuroya will be promoted from vice president to president and CEO. • Keisuke Yoshida will move from managing executive officer to senior executive officer. • Shigeo Itay...

Ahern Jayson Ahern, who retired in December as acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, has joined the Chertoff Group, a security-consulting group established last year by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Ahern's hiring has not been formally advertised through a press release, but the veteran law enforcement official is listed on the company's Web site...

Geodis, the logistics subsidiary of SNCF Group, has appointed Bruno Mandrin to director of its groupage and express division. Mandrin, who entered the transport and logistics industry in 1977, joined Geodis Calberson in 1994. He became deputy director of the groupage division in May 2009. The division comprises about 11,000 employees across 160 sites in five European countries. Gilles...