CEO appointed for Dube TradePort

The board of the Dube TradePort Corporation (DTPC) has announced that current acting-CEO, Hamish Erskine, has been appointed as CEO after 143 applicants had been screened for the post.

With over 13 years’ experience in an executive role at DTPC, he has created two of its commercial divisions, Dube iConnect and its property investment portfolio.

And, in his stint as acting-CEO from February 2015, the corporation has:

•             Secured a clean audit for the fourth consecutive year;

•             Achieved 84% of the organisation’s annual performance plan in the 2015/16 year;

•             Secured three new international airlines - Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and Qatar Airways;

•             Recorded a 46% growth in international air passengers between July 2015 and July 2016;

•             Recorded a 25% growth in international cargo airfreight from January to July 2016;

•             Had the department of trade & industry (dti) designate DTPC as a special economic zone (SEZ);

•             Had Yangtze Optics Africa Holding open a new R250-million, 150-job optical fibre manufacturing facility;

•             Seen Samsung Electronics add a R35m warehouse facility; and

•             Seen SA Health’s R150-million condom manufacturing facility creating 145 jobs.