Crowley Promotes Nickless

Crowley Maritime promoted David Nickless to vice president of finance and planning for Crowley's shipping and logistics business line.

Nickless will remain domiciled in the company's Jacksonville office and report to Steve Collar, senior vice president and general manager, logistics.

In his new position he will support Crowley's liner and logistics business units and be responsible for leading their finance and accounting functions and strategic business planning. The units account for more than $700 million in revenue from operations throughout the United States, Central America and the Caribbean.

Crowley is No. 16 on The JOC Top 40 Container Lines in U.S. export trade lanes.

Nickless, who joined Crowley more than 20 years ago, has held various positions in trucking, finance and management reporting, including manager of business planning, and most recently, director of corporate planning. He worked for 11 years with PIE Nationwide prior to joining Crowley.

-- Contact Peter T. Leach at pleach@joc.com.

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