The Buxtehude company has successfully completed its reorientation from a ship manag-ing company to an internationally present maritime service provider and at the same time put a change in the management into effect. As from January 1st, 2019, Helmut Ponath, NSB’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), passes his management tasks as CEO on to his son Tim Ponath. Markus Thewes and Dirk Kleinekampmann will complete the team.

Buxtehude – In 1985 NSB Niederelbe Schiffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG obtained its independence. Helmut Ponath led the company from originally two ship units to one of the largest German ship managers. In 2015 he started the restructuring of the company to-gether with Tim Ponath, the brand NSB GROUP was established. At the same time a far-reaching internationalization began with new branch offices amongst others in Sri Lanka, China and lastly in Indonesia.
With effect from January 1st, 2019, REEDEREI NSB completes the initiated generation change in the management team. In the course of this, Helmut Ponath passes his tasks as CEO on to his son Tim Ponath, who, in addition to his present responsibility as Chief Op-erating Officer (COO) will become spokesman of the management. Furthermore, Markus Thewes and Dirk Kleinekampmann will be appointed as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) respectively. Markus Thewes will lead the business areas with commercial focus, like marketing and sales, public image and project planning. As CFO, Dirk Kleinekampmann will especially be responsible for the areas financial engineer-ing, project finance and automation. Both Markus Thewes and Dirk Kleinekampmann have been employed at REEDEREI NSB for many years, Markus Thewes most recently as Head of Global Sales and Dirk Kleinekampmann as Head of Finance and Accounting.
“During the past four years, REEDEREI NSB broke new ground to position itself in a mar-ket which is subject to continuous change. In order to be able to make use of the chances of this change, we broadened NSB’s business activities considerably and thereby created valuable connections to new maritime business sectors”, explains Tim Ponath, Managing Director of NSB