VietNamNet Bridge - Mr. Le Anh Son has been appointed General Director of the Vietnam National Shipping Lines Corporation or Vinalines. Son will officially assume the position from March 20.

Vinalines CEO Le Anh Son.

Son, who is currently Vinalines Deputy General Director, will replace the predecessor – Mr. Nguyen Canh Viet, who has just been promoted to the position of Deputy Director of the Storm and Flood Control Committee of the Ministry of Transport.

Son was born in 1971 and holds an MA in Finance – Banking. He used to serve as Director of the Maritime Consulting Company and Head of the Financial Consulting Committee of Vinalines. He is the 2nd child in a family with several generations working in the transportation industry.

In 2013, Vinalines did not operate effectively when its key business – cargo shipping – remained losses. Meanwhile, the equitization process went slowly.

At the conference on restructuring State-owned enterprises last month, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung criticized Vinalines for slow equitization. At present, up to 11 subsidiaries of Vinalines are not equitized yet.

Also at the conference, the Prime Minister asked ministries and localities to replace leaders of the State-owned businesses where equitization is performed slowly.

Transport Minister Dinh La Thang said that he replaced two leaders (General Director and Chairman) of the Traffic Engineering Construction Corporation No. 8 (Cienco8) for the similar reason.

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