{"id":21955,"date":"2025-12-02T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcargoglobal.com\/?p=21955"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:42:56","slug":"maersk-appoints-new-md-for-uk-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcargoglobal.com\/?p=21955","title":{"rendered":"Maersk appoints new MD for UK & Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Cook, currently Managing Director of Maersk\u2019s India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka (IBS) Area, will take over as the new Managing Director of UK & Ireland Area with the start of the new year. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The British national joined Maersk as a trainee in 2002 and has worked over the last two decades across Africa, Europe, Middle East and India with both Damco and Maersk. Christopher Cook has spent the last 7 years in the IMEA region, initially as Managing Director in the UAE Area, successfully leading the integration and transformation of the business there. Most recently, he served as Managing Director for IBS Area where he has operationalised the long-term strategy for the Area, deepened the operational execution capability and lifted the profitability with successful growth across the portfolio. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am very pleased to welcome Chris to our Region Europe leadership team as our new head of UK and Ireland Area,\u201d says Aymeric Chandavoine, EVP & President Region Europe at Maersk. \u201cChris is no stranger to the UK and brings a strong customer focus. He is also known for his passion about people and developing strong culture in the organisations he leads.\u201d <\/p>\n

 
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Christopher Cook, currently Managing Director of Maersk\u2019s India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka (IBS) Area, will take over as the new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-21955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-maersk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcargoglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Christopher-Cook-MD-Maersk-.jpeg?fit=640%2C356&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyrk-5I7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21513,"url":"https:\/\/projectcargoglobal.com\/?p=21513","url_meta":{"origin":21955,"position":0},"title":"FSA 2025 winners announced following record voter turnout","author":"Project Cargo Global","date":"October 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Cathay Cargo beat out a crowded field to land the gong for Sustainable Cargo Airline of the Year as the Freightweek Sustainability Awards (FSA) returned with a record number of industry nominations and votes. 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