Hafnia´s Founding Partner Anders Engholm Retires After 43 Years in Shipping

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Anders Engholm, one of Hafnia’s founding partners, is set to retire as of June 1st 2023, after 43 years of working in the shipping industry. 

Anders Engholm together with Torben Bager, Peter Sebber Larsen and Søren Steenberg founded the pool company Hafnia Management in 2010, after having spent the past 12 years of his career at Denmark’s TORM.

Hafnia said that during his tenure the executive has contributed significantly to the launch of the MR and LR1 Pool (the latter turning into Straits Tankers in partnership with Japan’s MOL) in 2011, formed under Hafnia Management. 

As it is also said by the company, he has a significant contribution to the establishment of Hafnia Tankers in Copenhagen, in 2013, following a 3-way merger with Blackstone / Tufton and Tankers Inc founded by Mikael Skov, Jan Mechlenburg and Thomas Andersen.

Anders has also played a pivotal role in the launch of the Hafnia Handy pool in 2014, the merger between BW Tankers and Hafnia Tankers in 2019 (to form the Hafnia we know today) – and the establishment of the Specialized Pool in 2019.

Since 2020, Anders Engholm has been a key member of the Pool Management team, helping to drive Hafnia Pools as one of the largest and leading fleets in product and chemical tankers, the company concludes in its statement.

On retiring from Hafnia, Anders expressed his reflections on the tanker market and the exponential growth Hafnia has experienced in only 13 years. “Working with wonderful Hafnia colleagues, partners, customers, and brokers over the years has been the single most important factor for me. I feel proud for having started and leaving my mark in a true “people-first” organization.”

Hafnia CEO Mikael Skov thanks Anders Engholm on behalf of Hafnia for his years of dedication, commitment, and most importantly friendship and mentorship with his colleagues at Hafnia– which has been “both immeasurable and invaluable over the years. Anders has been instrumental in our enormous growth journey, and we could not have done this without his input”.