ALDRIDGE LEAVES SEA-LAND TO BE NEW APL PRESIDENT
Edward Aldridge, Sea-Land Service’s senior vice president, North
America, resigned Monday to become president of American President Lines.
Aldridge’s office in Charlotte confirmed the move, as did sources at
APL’s headquarters in Oakland, Calif. Timothy J. Rhein, who had been APL’s president and
chief executive officer, will remain at APL in what a company spokesman called a
"broadened capacity."
A senior Sea-Land official confirmed that Dan McHugh, Sea-land’s vice
president for the Americas, had also resigned. Sea-land had no comment on industry reports
that McHugh would go with Aldridge to APL.
A Maersk spokesman declined to comment on Aldridge’s and McHugh’s departures
from Sea-Land. Maersk announced a deal with Sea-Land’s parent CSX Corp. to purchase
Sea-Land’s international liner business.
Maersk and Sea-Land had said last month that Aldridge would be senior vice
president, responsible for sales in North American, following the Maersk/Sea-Land merger.
McHugh was slated to be president of Maersk Gulf Ltd., responsible for management
activities in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.