Belgium
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February 2009
Vol. 2, No. 6, Winter 2009
Francis Sarre
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Francis Sarre – born in Dublin 1962 and educated in both the United Kingdom and Belgium. Read law and European Community law at Ghent University and qualified in 1986.
Became a Research Assistant at the University of Ghent at the European Institute in 1986 and joined Bocimar in 1989. Is currently head of the legal department and Secretary General (Corporate Secretary) of CMB NV a Belgian publicly-listed Antwerp-based shipowner and –operator.
CMB
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CMB primarily through its fully-owned subsidiaries Bocimar International and Bocimar Belgium operates bulk carriers of all sizes owned or chartered in from third party owners. CMB/Bocimar carries out tramp shipping activities which comprises the carriage of cargoes from one port to another as directed by the vessels’ charterers as opposed to liner/container shipping where vessels are traded on a fixed route from one fixed port to another. The CMB/Bocimar fleet comprises a number of cape size, panamax, handymax and handysize bulk carrier vessels that in the main carry cargoes of iron ore and coal. Bocimar carries cargoes worldwide.
Belgium
Dispute Resolution
Shipping
February 2009
Vol. 2, No. 6, Winter 2009