Athol Emerton

Mr Emerton has over 31 years of experience in commerce in Southern Africa, including Mozambique and has chaired the South African Shipping Association (SAASOA) training committee for 8 years, including the scoping panel that developed the TETA shipping qualification and headed the establishment of an industry wide shipping learnership programme. His experience and skills set has been gained through working with many of the large, well known, international resource and shipping companies around the world, and he is considered a specialist in developing landside, marine and transport solutions in inhospitable regions or ports. He is the Managing Partner of the African operations of global logistics company LBH. After establishing the LBH operations in South Africa and Mozambique 36 years ago, he has grown the business into one of the premier logistics and ships agency enterprises in the region.