New Commodore

The Connecticut Maritime Association (“CMA”) went out of the box with this year’s pick for the 2009 Commodore. Captain Wei Jiafu, the President and CEO of China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company has been named the CMA Commodore for 2009 and will receive the award at the gala dinner which concludes the CMA Conference in March.

It is hard to argue with the choice given China’s preeminent role in world trade and the important role that COSCO plays in ensuring the inflow of raw materials and the outflow of finished goods for what has become the world’s industrial manufacturing center. By honoring what is probably the world’s largest shipping company, the CMA has met its diversity goals by including for the first time in its shipping pantheon a liner company

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