THE NEW Zealand government has appointed two new members to the Maritime New Zealand board. Each will serve a one-year term.
Ross Wilson and Parke Pittar were named as the new members.
Maritime NZ Board chair Dame Jo Brosnahan said: “The appointees have extensive governance experience and strong backgrounds in health and safety; regulation; port operations; and logistics and will add significant skills and experience to the Board”.
Mr Wilson was the national secretary for the New Zealand Harbour Workers Union and General Secretary for the Rail and Maritime Transport Union during the 1980s and 1990s, according to Maritime NZ. He became president of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions in 1999.
Mr Wilson led the development of the Government Regulatory Practice Initiative (G-Reg) Master Class for regulatory boards and was the Board Chair at WorkSafe New Zealand until 2022.
According to Maritime NZ, Mr Pittar has extensive operational experience in ports and logistics throughout New Zealand and offers broad operational maritime experience as well as being a chartered accountant.
Mr Pittar has been a chief executive of logistics provider and stevedore C3, a chief commercial officer at Port Nelson, a container terminal manager at CentrePort, and a stevedoring supervisor. He is now chief executive of AVA Timber.
With the new appointments, there are now six members of the board of Maritime NZ.
