{"id":86,"date":"2018-05-01T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/05\/01\/ex-apm-terminals-executive-takes-top-abp-job\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:42:10","slug":"ex-apm-terminals-executive-takes-top-abp-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/ex-apm-terminals-executive-takes-top-abp-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-APM Terminals executive takes top ABP job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Pedersen, who will take up the role in August 2018, has been APM\u2019s COO since January 2017 and has 20 years\u2019 experience in a wide range of senior leadership roles across parent company A.P. Moller-Maersk\u2019s businesses worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pedersen said: \u201cWith ABP handling around 25% of the UK\u2019s seaborne trade, making sure the business can continue to develop and grow is vitally important for our customers and the wider UK economy. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt\u2019s an immensely exciting challenge and I look forward to working with everyone at ABP to achieve that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABP chairman, Dr Phil Nolan, commented: \u201cWe are all very much looking forward to welcoming Henrik on board. \u201cHenrik brings with him a wealth of experience and we are confident that under his leadership ABP will continue to go from strength to strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paying tribute to departing CEO James Cooper, Dr Nolan said, \u201cWe are deeply grateful to James for his outstanding contribution to the business and wish him every success for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APM Terminals\u2019 chief commercial officer (CCO) Henrik L. Pedersen has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of Associated British Ports (ABP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}