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Dube TradePort Corporation announces its new CEO
Dube TradePort Corporation announces its new CEO
The Board Chairperson, Dr. Zanele Bridgette Gasa, gathered the DTPC staff to introduce their new CEO. The atmosphere of anticipation was broken by jubilance at the announcement of the organisation's acting CEO being appointed as their new CEO.
Following the support by the Provincial Cabinet, the announcement of the appointment by the DTPC Board came today after Mr. Hamish Erskine has been leading the organisation's operations in an acting role since February 2015.
"A number of crucial processes had to take place in the appointment of our new CEO," remarked Dr. Gasa in her address to DTPC employees. "After receiving 143 applications, the Board embarked on a meticulous recruitment process which resulted in Hamish Erskine being selected as the most suitable candidate to lead Dube TradePort Corporation."
"We are grateful to Hamish for his tried and tested leadership over the last 19 months. Although it appears to have been an extended length of time that the organisation has been lead by an acting CEO, there has been no negative impact on the performance of DTPC. In fact, the organization has excelled over the last 19 months and continued to deliver on its mandate.
To highlight just a few achievements secured:
• A clean audit for the fourth consecutive year;
• Achieving 84% of the organisations' Annual Performance Plan in the 2015/16 year;
• Securing three new international airlines, namely Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and Qatar Airways, all within two months;
• A 46% growth in international air passengers between July 2015 and July 2016;
• A 25% growth in international cargo airfreight from January to July 2016;
• Confidence by the dti to designate DTPC as a Special Economic Zone;
• Yangtze Optics Africa Holding's new R250-million optical fibre manufacturing facility, with 150 jobs created, 98% of these jobs going to local people;
• SAMSUNG Electronics increasing their footprint at DTPC with an additional R35-million warehouse facility; and
• SA Health's R150-million condom manufacturing facility creating 145 jobs.