In their new roles, Jensen and Sorensen will be responsible for customer service, sales and operations for Maersk Line in their respective countries. They will both will report directly to Jesper Praestensgaard, ceo for Maersk Line Asia-Pacific, who said, "We need to make it easier for our customers to do business with us and I am confident that both Henrik and Thomas will deliver on this. Apart from having a simpler organisational structure, modernisation of the shipping industry holds the key to less complex container shipping. Maersk Line is standardising documentation, data flow and processes across the entire transportation chain. When shippers are able to depend on these standards, container shipping will become easier and more cost-effective."
Jensen previously held the position of Head of South-east Asia (SEA) Country Management, and before that he headed the Liner and Operations activities in SEA.
Before his most recent appointment, Sorensen was the Head of Maersk Line in SEA, overseeing the Operations, Commercial and Market Intelligence teams. He also worked in the Commercial Management team in
The new appointments are part of the Maersk Line organisational redesign 'StreamLINE' introduced in January this year. Maersk Line, which has been re-organised from 14 Areas to 11 Regions globally, and country organisations believes that the new organisational structure will reduce complexities and bureaucracy and benefit customers. [
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