Dover Harbour Board appoints Doug Bannister as its new CEO

Dover Harbour Board has appointed shipping industry veteran Doug Bannister (pictured above) as its new chief executive.

Mr Bannister, currently group chief executive of Jersey Airport and Jersey Harbours, is due to join Dover on 1 March next year, less than a month before the Brexit deadline and when the UK’s most import trading link with continental Europe is expected to come under levels of scrutiny it is unlikely to have experienced before.

Richard Everitt, Dover Harbour Board chairman, said: “After an ...