Liberian Registry appoints md in Japan

Tokyo: The Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR)has appointed Shigeki Fukuda to head up its dedicated office in Tokyo in order to handle growing Japanese business. Pointing out the scale and quality of Japanese ship operations, LISCR coo Brad Berman said "it is our strategy to be close to the owners and managers in order to offer the very highest and most responsive levels of service possible." Fukuda joins the world's second largest registry after previously spending 37 years with Japanese shipowner Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha, part of the Sumitomo group of companies, and then served as a director on the boards of a number of Daiichi subsidiaries. [18/12/06]