Anne Marie Kappel
Anne Marie Kappel
Vice President
Anne Kappel joined the World Shipping Council in 2005 and provides functional expertise in marketing, communications and operations as well as monitoring issues related to transportation infrastructure, environmental impacts of shipping and U.S. regulations.
Anne joined the Council from Maersk Inc., the North American agent for A.P. Moller-Maersk, where she was most recently responsible for corporate communications, including employee communication and public relations. Anne has worked in the liner shipping industry for over twenty-five years and has held a broad range of positions in sales, marketing, communications and trade management at Maersk Sealand, Sea-Land Service and U.S. Lines. She graduated with honors from Monmouth University and has completed a number of post-graduate courses including an executive education program at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
Today, Anne serves on the Ports and Channels Committee of the National Academy of Science's Transportation Research Board, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Containerization and Intermodal Institute (CII), and was a member of the Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council (MTSNAC) from 2005 to 2009, which wwas chartered to advise the U.S. Secretary of Transportation on issues affecting the U.S. marine transportation system. Additionally, she represents the interests of the liner shipping industry on the Freight Stakeholder's Coalition, which is comprised of all sectors of the supply chain and meets regularly to exchange information and develop consensus positions on U.S. transportation legislation and public policy. She is also a member of the Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT), the largest chapter of the Organization of Women in International Trade.