Regional port management association gets new chief
Ms Nozipho Mdawe, who has been appointed secretary-general of the Port Management Association for Eastern and Southern Africa. PHOTO | FILE
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Ms Nozipho Mdawe from South Africa will now lead the Mombasa-based Port Management Association for Eastern and Southern Africa (Pmaesa), succeeding Tanzania’s Franklin Mziray who held the position from March 2013
Arusha. The regional port management body in eastern and southern Africa has a new secretary general.
Ms Nozipho Mdawe from South Africa will now lead the Mombasa-based Port Management Association for Eastern and Southern Africa (Pmaesa), succeeding Tanzania’s Franklin Mziray who held the position from March 2013, The Citizen was informed yesterday.
“She comes to Pmaesa with a wealth of experience from Transnet, South Africa’s giant freight logistic chain,” said a statement issued by the organization’s communication officer George Sunguh.
Prior to her appointment, Ms Mdawe was the general manager for the Mineral Mining and Chrome Business Unit at Transnet Freight Rail of South Africa.
She had served Transnet in Operations and Human Resource over many years in various senior management positions, including the Business Unit Executive at Transnet Port terminals where she got the Leadership Award for the transformation of two diverse terminals.
In 2013 she won the Chief Executive Award for efficiency improvement through the successful implementation of cost containment initiatives through the Lean Six Sigma Methodology.
Ms Mdawe is credited with piloting the Transnet Value Chain Co-ordinator concept in 2013 which was subsequently adopted by the Transnet Group for a number of key corridors.
According to the statement, she will be the eighth Pmaesa Secretary General since the Association’s inception in 1973 and was appointed to her new post during a special Council meeting held recently in Windhoek Namibia.
Pmaesa founded in 1973 is a regional organisation for the ports and maritime sector in Eastern and Southern Africa seeking to promote and nurture best practices among member ports by creating an enabling environment for exchange of information and capacity building.
