GLO Marine appoints Thomas Wittlin as Chief Executive Officer in International Shipping News 30/04/2026 GLO Marine has appointed Thomas Wittlin as Chief Executive Officer, effective Q2 2026, signaling the start of a structured growth phase in which the company will evolve from a retrofit-led contractor into a production-enabled marine engineering and integration business. Thomas Wittlin brings over 25 years of experience at the intersection of shipyard operations, commercial leadership, and global maritime business development. He spent nearly eleven years as Sales Director at Grand Bahama Shipyard — one of the world’s leading dry dock and ship repair facilities — before building IMBC and Docking Partner into a global platform representing 87 shipyards and shipyard groups across international markets. His career combines deep shipyard commercial knowledge with the ability to develop and scale maritime businesses — a combination directly relevant to the stage GLO Marine is now entering. “I have spent 25 years in this industry watching the gap between what clients need and what contractors can reliably deliver,” said Thomas Wittlin. “GLO Marine is in a position to close that gap. It is what drives me — and it is exactly what we are going to build. The market does not need another contractor. It needs a contractor that can be counted on at scale — and that is exactly what GLO Marine is becoming.” Thomas Wittlin With this appointment, GLO Marine enters a growth phase built on three pillars: contract scale progression toward integrated EPCI packages in the €3–10 million range; in-house production infrastructure, with a marine integration facility in Galați, Romania at 60% completion and launching January 2027; and regional expansion into the Middle East through local yard partnerships. The appointment is the first in a series of institutional steps. A Board of Directors will be formed in the coming months to provide governance oversight as contract scale and complexity increase. “Thomas brings exactly what this stage requires,” said Liviu Galatanu, Co-Founder and Commercial Director of GLO Marine. “He understands how shipyards and vessel owners think, and what it takes to scale a maritime business without losing delivery discipline. The leadership, governance, and production infrastructure are now all being put in place — deliberately and in sequence.” GLO Marine’s ambition is clear: to be among the leaders in complex marine and offshore integration, and the contractor of choice for decarbonisation retrofit programmes across global vessel markets. Source: GLO Marine 2026-04-30 hellenicshippingnews... window.___gcfg = {lang: 'en-US'}; (function(w, d, s) { function go(){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], load = function(url, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.src = url; js.id = id; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }; load('//connect.facebook.net/en/all.js#xfbml=1', 'fbjssdk'); load('https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js', 'gplus1js'); load('//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'tweetjs'); } if (w.addEventListener) { w.addEventListener("load", go, false); } else if (w.attachEvent) { w.attachEvent("onload",go); } }(window, document, 'script')); tweet Share