Thorsten Mackenthun is Managing Director of the Hansa Mare
Reederei as well as Managing Director and co-founder of the companies Hanseatic Lloyd Reederei and Hanseatic Lloyd Schiffahrt, with their head offices in Bremen/Germany. The qualified shipping businessman and business administrator has been at the Hansa Mare Reederei since 1994 and was appointed Managing Director in January 2001. Since 2002 Thorsten Mackenthun has been a member of the Board of Management of the Bremen shipowners’ association (Bremer Rhederverein) and was elected its Chairman in 2007. Since 2008 he has been a member of the administrative board of directors of the German shipowners’ association (Verband Deutscher Reeder) in Hamburg.

Dr. Andreas Opatz

Since 1st April 2008, Dr. Andreas Opatz has been a Managing Director of the Hansa Mare Reederei and since 1st January 2008 a Managing Partner of the Schlüssel Reederei. The qualified shipping businessman and graduate in economics worked for 24 years in various shipping companies and companies closely associated with shipping in Germany and abroad. Before taking up his duties at the Hansa Mare Reederei, he was a member of the company management of a fund raising house in Hamburg.