Guinea Shipping Corporation plans to join the Guinean freight gold rush

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.

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            ▪ 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.

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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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