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P&O GROUP RESHUFFLES PORT EXECUTIVES

P&O GROUP RESHUFFLES PORT EXECUTIVES

   U.K.-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. announced on Tuesday changes to its board of directors and to senior executives at its port arm, P&O Ports.

   Douglas Anderson, managing director of P&O Ports, will leave the group’s board of directors and return to Australia, following the relocation of P&O Ports’s head office from Sydney to London.

   Robert Woods, a P&O board director, is appointed executive chairman of P&O Ports.    He will continue in his present role as group managing director of P&O Nedlloyd.

   Alistair Baillie, currently deputy managing director of P&O Ports, has been appointed as its chief operating officer. Tom Boardley, who is at present European trades director of P&O Nedlloyd, is appointed to the new post of commercial director of P&O Ports.