Europe/Singapore: ZAG International has appointed Daniel Ulestig as Managing Director, Head of Global Shipping and European Business operation. He will have responsibility for all of ZAG’s shipping activities around the world as well as leading the company’s business interests in Europe.
Ulestig started his career as a trainee at Holcim Trading in Madrid, Spain in 1998. In 2003, he joined Belden Shipping as a market analysts and moved to Singapore in early 2004 later becoming its Commercial Director. Belden Shipping was subsequently acquired by Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Skipsrederi of Bergen, Norway in late 2006. In 2008, Ulestig was named Assistant Vice President of KGJC Cement (Singapore), with responsibility for all chartering activities east of the Suez. In 2010, he assumed oversight of the Singapore office and was named to the entity’s board of directors in 2011. In 2014, Ulestig was made Vice President of KGJ Cement in Singapore. He moved back to Sweden in late 2017 where he continued to serve as KGJ Cement’s Vice President Chartering.