News / CEO Caesar Luikenaar: a few growing pains as WEC Lines eyes new horizons

Image: Casear Luikenaar, CEO WEC Lines.

Dutch shipowner WEC Lines is undergoing “open heart surgery” in its goal to combine shipping and logistics, recently appointed CEO Caesar Luikenaar (above) told The Loadstar.

WEC Lines has remained focused on its role as a shipping line throughout its 50-year existence, currently seeing some 80% of its turnover from shortsea feeder operations in Europe, while niche services in the Africa region, focusing on commodity trades, account for the remaining 20%.

However, the line is now looking to “stand on its own ...