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Friday, 29.03.2024, 13:54
Latvijas Dzelzcels council chairman Zeltins put forward for Freeport of Riga CEO
The commission's chairman, Maritime Administration of Latvia
head Janis Krastins told at the
beginning of the week that the commission had shortlisted three candidates. In
total, 24 candidates had applied for the vacant position of the Freeport of
Riga CEO.
The Freeport of Riga board will interview Zeltins on June 28.
The Freeport of Riga board chairman
Andris Ameriks (Honor to Serve Riga) believes that the candidate has to
receive unanimous support of all board members. If he does, the port will ask
the transport minister to confirm Zeltins in his new job.
According to Latvijas
Dzelzcels website, Zeltins has a Master's degree in business management
from the University of Salford and Master's degree in oceanic transport from
the Latvian Maritime Academy.
Since 2000, Zeltins has been working at various transport
companies, including the Maritime Administration, shipping company Latvijas Kugnieciba's subsidiaries LSC Marine Training and LSC Shipmanagement. He has also worked
as transport advisor at the Latvian Representation in the European Union.
As reported, applicants for the job had to have higher
education in management, finance, economy, engineering, transport or maritime
education. The candidates also had to have the experience of working in an
executive position, for a private or public company or organization, for at
least five years. All candidates must have perfect command of Latvian and - at
the very least - speak English and Russian.
The previous Freeport of Riga CEO Loginovs stepped down
effective March 10. He had been the freeport's CEO since 1998.