Safmarine announced the promotion of Bimal Kanal as their new Regional Executive for the Indian Subcontinent (ISC). The new region covers India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, The Maldives, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Bimal is an Indian national with twenty years of experience in the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group, which includes ten years in senior positions in the Container Business in India. He will move to the Regional Headquarters in Mumbai from Shanghai, where he has overseen Safmarine's Greater China Area grow into the second largest Safmarine country cluster by volume. He was previously appointed in senior positions in the Group in Africa and the Middle East which completely matches the focus of Safmarine's commercial ambitions.
CEO Tomas Dyrbye commented "I am delighted Bimal has accepted this important role in our new Indian Subcontinent Region. His leadership of the Safmarine Greater China Cluster has earned him this accolade and I am fully convinced his return to Mumbai will be a highly successful one. He is the right 100 percent Safmariner for the job and my Safmarine Leadership Team is now complete. I look forward to our team taking Safmarine commercially to the next level."
