OUR MANAGEMENT
SMT Management is responsible for deciding strategies, policies, goals and budgets. In addition, they determine the risk management framework and are ultimately responsible for the work of the business including procedures and compliance carried out by the day-to-day management.
OWNER
Mr. Anthonius Voorham was born in Wassenaar, the Netherlands in 1940. He attended the Maritime Academy in Rotterdam before beginning his career in shipping as 4th Officer working for Holland America Lines.
Mr. Voorham established SMT in 1989 together with three partners, Peter Hoffmann, Arvid Bergval and Jan Sorensen. The Company then purchased its first vessels in 1990, the Sea Pearl and Ice Pearl. Mr. Voorham served as SMT’s CEO from its establishment until 2004, and continues to be a vital member of SMT’s management team, in particular with respect to operational project development.
Mr. Voorham was crucial in SMT’s early development, as he worked closely with Mr. Kristian Gerhard Jebsen, Owner of Gearbulk, to establish GBSMT, which continues to be core to SMT’s business to this day. Meanwhile, Mr. Voorham’s operational expertise helped to facilitate SMT’s entry into the self-discharging bulk carrier market following the conversion of MV Antwerpen, a previously gearless bulk carrier.
Today, Mr. Voorham continues to actively support SMT’s various business operations with a focus on the Company’s transshipment activities in West Africa.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Mr. Mark Voorham was born in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands in 1967. Following his attendance of the Maritime Academy in Rotterdam and time spent at sea, Mark began working with SMT in 1990.
Following SMT’s founding in Cyprus, Mark moved to the US in order to establish the Company’s commercial presence on the US East Coast in the early 1990s. Throughout the 1990s, Mark helped to grow SMT’s commercial team and establish the Company’s contract portfolio by emphasizing close cooperation with cargo owners. This philosophy has continued to shape the identity of SMT's commercial strategy to this day.
In 2004, Mark was appointed CEO of SMT and continues to serve in that role today. The company has experienced a period of consistent, sustainable growth during that time and has undergone several key developments. SMT’s early joint ventures, GBSMT and Mariac,have continued their expansions organically whilst Eureka Shipping, SMT’s pneumatic cement carrier fleet, and CSMT, the Company’s MPP vessels were acquired. Additionally, SMT has formed significant new partnerships, including its cooperation with Canada Steamship Lines (“CSL”), which today represents SMT’s joint venture partner in both Mariac and Eureka Shipping.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
DIRECTOR OF FLEET OPERATIONS
DIRECTOR OF CONSTRUCTIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR
CHIEF RISK OFFICER
MANAGING DIRECTOR EUREKA
