ruben.maritime: Chin to push Singapore's ambitions

Chin to push Singapore's ambitions

SINGAPORE 10 January – Singapore Maritime Foundation, a private sector initiative to promote Singapore as an International Maritime Centre, has appointed trade and industry veteran David Chin as its new executive director. Chin, who replaces Teh Kong Leong, had retired recently as Director-General in the trade and industry ministry. “He [Chin] is the architect of the Approved International Shipping scheme and is eminently suitable to carry the IMC vision forward,” SMF chairman SS Teo told Fairplay. The scheme, which involves tax breaks over a specified time frame, has proved to be popular. Chin was also employed with shipyard group Keppel. Teo added Teh had resigned to pursue other interests. “We are parting ways,” Teh told without elaborating. Teh, 54, who had served in senior positions in Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority and shipping company NOL, joined SMF as executive director in January 2005. SMF is backed and partly funded by the Maritime and Port Authority, which has been designated as the “champion” agency to promote the government’s IMC objective.

Etiquetas: Asia, international maritime affairs