Christian Lorenz
Press Officer
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A change in management at BeKa HGK GmbH
Duisburg / Kehl am Rhein. Monique Hezel-Reyntjens will be taking her well-deserved retirement from 31 December 2023 onwards after holding positions of responsibility in what is now known as BeKa HGK GmbH for almost 42 years. Her parents, Franz Josef and Corrie Becker, had founded the dry shipping company in 1982. Monique Hezel-Reyntjens has played a significant role in the success story at BeKa HGK; she worked in the chartering section from the outset and in the course of time became a shareholder and has been its managing director up to now. She will be succeeded by Florian Bleikamp (34), who will take over the position of Managing Director of BeKa HGK GmbH in conjunction with his work as Head of Chartering at HGK Dry Shipping GmbH. Pascal Rodius (56) will manage the operating business. He has had many decades of experience in the sector and has already been closely associated with the team at BeKa HGK for a year in his position as an authorised signatory.
“From the bottom of my heart, I’d like to thank my team and all our customers, owner operators and all those involved, who have worked alongside me for many years. And not least my husband, Patrick, who was a crucial element in our team for eleven years,” says Monique Hezel-Reyntjens. “Through transferring all the company shares to HGK Shipping one year ago, we’ve been able to secure the future viability of BeKa and therefore its continuation in the long term. I’ve been able to experience this for myself, particularly during the last twelve months of the transition period; and I’m genuinely delighted by what’s taking place. I wish Florian Bleikamp, Pascal Rodius and the whole BeKa HGK team all the very best and a great deal of success!”
"Monique Hezel-Reyntjens has put her heart and mind into making BeKa what it is today. We’d like to thank her for her many years of partner-like cooperation."
“Thanks to her experience, her knowledge and her standing in the sector, we’ve been able to further develop the company together in a successful way,” says Steffen Bauer, the CEO of HGK Shipping GmbH. He adds, “We’ll continue to pursue this course with Florian Bleikamp as the new managing director, Pascal Rodius as the operating manager and the experienced team in Kehl. As a result, BeKa HGK will enjoy further growth through cooperating with the HGK Shipping network in many different ways.”
BeKa HGK, which has been functioning as a fully-owned subsidiary of HGK Shipping since 2022, transports approximately 500,000 tonnes of goods along inland waterways in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria and Hungary every year. BeKa HGK is assigned to the Dry Shipping division within HGK Shipping. The company particularly transport fertilisers and agricultural products along the shipping routes in the regions close to the rivers Upper Rhine, Danube and Mosel. In addition to chartering inland waterway vessels, the services that it offers include transhipment and warehousing as well as pick-up and final delivery operations for combined traffic. The company has its headquarters in Kehl on the river Rhine.
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