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Russ Peters
Russ Peters is a British businessman, who was the managing director of P&O Ferries from 1998 to 2006. Career Peters joined P&O in 1987, initially as freight director of P&O European Ferries. He then became managing director of P&O North Sea Ferries in 1990, before becoming serving as managing director of P&O Ferries Dover from 1994 until 1998. When the joint venture with Stena Line created P&O Stena Line in March 1998, Peters became its managing director. After eight years and chief executive, he retired in 2006, being replaced by Helen Deeble Helen Deeble CBE is a British businesswoman. She was the Chief Executive of P&O Ferries until December 2017, and was formerly President of the UK Chamber of Shipping. Career Mrs Deeble trained as an accountant and worked at Sears plc. She entered .... At the same time he retired from the Chair of Ferrymasters and the main board of P+O He is currently a non-executive board member of International Students House a registered charity that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
P&O Ferries
P&O Ferries is a British shipping company that operates ferry, ferries from United Kingdom to Ireland, and to Continental Europe (France, Belgium and the Netherlands). The company was created in 2002 through mergers and acquisitions within P&O (company), P&O. It has been owned by Dubai-based DP World since 2019. History 1960s – 1989 P&O (company), P&O originally established ferry services in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s in the North Sea and the English Channel. In the late 1970s P&O was affected by a reduction in traditional shipping activities which saw the sale of a number of its businesses and assets. This continued into 1985 with the sale of its cross-channel ferry activities to European Ferries, which at the time consisted of services on the Port of Dover, Dover–Boulogne and Port of Southampton, Southampton–Le Havre routes. In January the following year, P&O purchased a 50.01% interest in European Financial Holdings Ltd, which held 20.8% of shares in Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stena Line
Stena Line is a Swedish shipping line company and one of the largest ferry operators in the world. It services Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Stena Line is a major unit of Stena AB, itself a part of the Stena Sphere. History Formation Stena Line was founded in 1962 by Sten A. Olsson in Gothenburg, Sweden, which still serves as the company's headquarters, when he acquired Skagenlinjen between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn, Denmark. In 1972, Stena Line was one of the first ferry operators in Europe to introduce a computer-based reservation system for the travel business area. In 1978, the freight business area also started operating a computer-based reservation system. Freight The first freight-focused route started between Gothenburg, Sweden, and Kiel, Germany. The ship was the MS ''Stena Transporter''. North Sea During the 1980s, Stena acquired three other ferry companies. * 1981, Sessan Line, Stena's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Deeble
Helen Deeble CBE is a British businesswoman. She was the Chief Executive of P&O Ferries until December 2017, and was formerly President of the UK Chamber of Shipping. Career Mrs Deeble trained as an accountant and worked at Sears plc. She entered the shipping industry at Stena Line in 1993, becoming finance director of the merged P&O Stena Line in 1998. Since May 2006, she has been Chief Executive of P&O Ferries, succeeding Russ Peters. She is a board member of Interferry, the UK Chamber of Shipping and the Standard P&I Club. Deeble is a non-executive director of the Port of London Authority and chairs the management committee of the Authority's pension fund. She was vice-president and president of the UK Chamber of Shipping from 2011 to 2013. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 2013 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to Orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
