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Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is gearing up for expansion across the East Africa region and toward that end has added to its African regional management team. Heading the team and to be based in Nairobi is Riaan Blom who takes up the position of VP Sales, Africa. Blom has extensive ships’ agency experience specializing in project management, freight forwarding and large oil & gas contracts with his most recent appointment as Regional Manager Oil & Energy, East Africa at DHL Global Forwarding, also based in Kenya.
According to senior VP at ISS David Mackay, Riaan will help the company grow by using his expansive industry knowledge. Riaan will be working across all of the company’s business verticals, expanding and enhancing the value proposition that ISS offers in the region.
“We have been strategically growing the company’s presence in Africa, which is a key growth platform for ISS. We have been able to consistently demonstrate our ability to deliver excellent levels of service to our customers measured against international standards in some of the world’s most challenging locations, which is one of the reasons why we have been able to attract some of the best talent in the business,” say Mackay.
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