Guinea Shipping Corporation plans to join the Guinean freight gold rush
The new head of Guinea Shipping Corporation (GSC) wants to put this Conakry-based company at the service of Guinea’s mining economy.
08/06/2020 at 18h01, by Thibaud Teillard
Bernt Meldgaard Christensen, a Dane based in Copenhagen with a 30-year career in shipping, has just taken over the reins of GSC following the death of his brother Henrik. Hong Kong-based Henrik Christensen created the company in 2010 to try to overcome the challenge of setting up a liner shipping company after the disappearance of West African national shipowners (such as COBENAM, SITRAM and Camship) in the 1990s. But GSC has, since then, remained on stand-by.
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