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#ArdmoreShipping – The New Year brings changes at Ardmore Shipping, where new promotions have been made for Gerry Docherty and Paul Tivnan.

Gerry Docherty has been promoted to the position of Director of Technical Services, in which his new role is responsible for Fleet Performance Management. He, will manage regular reporting and communication of fleet performance statistics.

In addition, Docherty will combine this new responsibility with his current duties as Technical Superintendent for the Ardmore fleet. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, this will include leading the newbuild team in Saechon, South Korea, where four 50,000DWT product tanker carriers are on order.

Paul Tivnan, has been promoted to the position of Chief Financial Officer. In his new role, Tivnan will have primary responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all financial-related activities of the Cork based company. In addition to continuing his work with the CEO and COO on strategic and commercial matters.

Published in Ports & Shipping

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago