Maersk man heads up Walvis Bay lobby group

LEONARD NEILL MAERSK NAMIBIA managing director David Williams has taken over as chairman of the Walvis Bay Port Users’ Association (WBPUA). “Port users now have a real hands-on person at the head of their operations,” says Johny Smith, Namport’s manager sales and service who has been transferred from the port to Windhoek to handle Namport’s international clients. Vichaya Nguluwe has been appointed the Walvis Bay Corridor Group representative in Zambia. She moves there after six years as Global Logistics agent in Zambia for the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) where she was seafreight manager in charge of all Zambian imports and exports moved by MSC. “My main task is to create a greater awareness of the Trans Caprivi Corridor and the advantages it offers,” she says. “My goal is to divert as much cargo as possible from traditional options of Dar es Salaam and Durban to Walvis Bay.” Nguluwe is closely associated with government institutions, especially the Revenue Authority in Zambia, as well as the country’s clearing and forwarding companies.