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Henry Bath are pleased to announce that Mr Peter Marc Waszkis has been appointed as Co-Group General Manager of Henry Bath, together with Mr. Wang Haibin, who has acted as Chief Executive Officer of the company since July 2022.

Peter joins Henry Bath with over three decades of experience in the sector and his impressive career history spans a range of senior positions in notable market players.

His strategic vision is geared towards leveraging Henry Bath's storied heritage and global footprint, fostering cross-market opportunities, and enhancing the company's offerings to meet clients' evolving needs worldwide.

Our Group COO Phil Smith has been discussing the benefits of using the Trakk system from Komgo for document verification.

Making sure you have complete confidence in Henry Bath allows us to build exceptional and long-standing relationships with you, our valued client and we are continually looking for ways to enhance the levels of security and peace of mind we can offer.

Trakk is a tool to increase the security of digital documents exchanged via email to assist with managing operational risk and provides a quick, efficient, and most importantly, an accurate way to verify a valid Henry Bath document. Using Trakk creates a digital audit trail against a document, that will strongly mitigate the risk of it being reused for fraudulent purposes.

Across all Henry Bath locations, documents relating to title transfer and ownership can be uploaded to Trakk, which adds a unique banner to the document. All Trakk registered documents can be verified via the Henry Bath website, where all you need to do is drag and drop the document into the dedicated space

Henry Bath is continually looking for ways to enhance document security and to mitigate the risk of fraudulent activity to provide our clients with confidence in our service.

We are committed to promoting this secure environment by partnering with Komgo, and implementing the Trakk system to provide our clients a way of authenticating documents relating to title transfer and ownership

Trakk is a tool for you to increase the security of digital documents exchanged via email to assist with managing your operational risk and provides a quick, efficient, and most importantly, an accurate way to verify a valid Henry Bath document. Using Trakk create a digital audit trail against a document, that will strongly mitigate the risk of it being reused for fraudulent purposes.

Trakk registered documents can be verified by the Henry Bath website, where all you need to do is drag and drop the pdf into the dedicated space.

Komgo CEO, Souleima Baddi says ‘Trakk is a simple, scalable and cost-effective tool to mitigate against documentary fraud risk supported by an ecosystem of trust for digital trade documents, which includes all industry stakeholders. We’re extremely pleased to welcome to this group working for a safer and more secure environment, warehouses like Henry Bath.’

Today, we announce that Sean Ginnane will step down from his position as Chief Executive Officer of Henry Bath Group on 7 July and move away from full-time work into retirement. Sean has been with Henry Bath since April 2012, initially serving as the Asia Group General Manager and most recently as Chief Executive Officer. The Board respects Sean's decision and would like to extend its appreciation to Sean for his commitment and contribution to the business over the years.

During his time with Henry Bath, he has overseen the expansion of our footprint in Asia by establishing operations in Port Klang, Kaohsiung, and Taichung and transitioning our Shanghai warehouse into a registered entity. He has helped us diversify our business model and become a key player in the concentrates blending market and, most recently, into agricultural products in Asia.

The Board formed by the shareholders of Henry Bath - CMST and Mercuria - have appointed Mr Wang Haibin to take the role of Henry Bath's Chief Executive Officer from 7 July 2022. With rich experience in the commodity warehousing and logistics industry, Mr. Wang Haibin has been General Manager of CMST Shanghai since 2011 achieving an outstanding track record and also Director of Henry Bath and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors since 2016. He is a proven leader who brings wide experience across the industry and continues to develop supply chain management service offerings with expanded capabilities. This has provided extensive opportunities for the business to connect with international markets. He has also established broad relationships with global industry players in the commodity industry.

Based on its global warehousing footprint and unique link with the Chinese market, Henry Bath will continue to leverage the connectivity of global warehousing and logistics services, designing more integrated cross-market logistics solutions for customers and providing more specialised global network support and supply chain management services.

We would like to welcome Robert Holthausen to Henry Bath who joins us as our Director of Agricultural Products Asia.

Robert brings wth him a wealth of experience, skills and knowlegde in this sector. He will be responsible for developing our business approach and seeking new opportunities for Henry Bath in the agricultural products market that will both compliment and grow our current service offerings.

Robert will be based out of our Singapore office.

Globally Henry Bath has been monitoring the Covid-19 outbreak since mid-January 2020. Our focus has been to protect the health and safety of our staff during this time. We have been successful in our ability to operate our global warehouses network as normal during this period and maintained good communication with the Exchanges. In compliance with the various Government direction, most staff have operated in a ‘Work From Home’ manner. Our Shanghai Staff have now fully returned to the Office and continue to support our wider Asia business. Over the June – September period staff will gradually return in greater numbers to our Offices but we will be conscious of any further localised outbreaks and will adjust accordingly. We thanks our customers for their support and patience during this time.

The Henry Bath Management Team would like to confirm the appointment of Jerome (Jerry) Hack as the new General Manager for Henry Bath LLC. Jerry is well known in the Steel and Aluminium Industry in the US where he was President and COO of Dearborn Steel Center Detroit and President of Stone Logistic Detroit. Jerry is charged with continuing the development of the US Business, developing new locations and our market offers.​

Henry Bath are now members of the European Cococa Association (ECA). The ECA is a trade association that includes companies involved in the cocoa bean trade, from processing all the way through to warehousing and logistics.

The Henry Bath team will be attending LME Week so come and visit us on Stand 2 in the exhibition space or email us to arrange a meeting to discuss how we can assist with your commodity logistics and storage needs. moreoptions@henrybath.com​

Our Liverpool location has been extremely busy creating more options for our clients and working on our capability to receive and handle bulk cocoa. This is now live and fully operational.

If you would like to speak to the team about how you could benefit by using Henry Bath for your bulk soft commodity needs, please email softs.uk@henrybath.com ​

Reagan Nettleingham and David Gast will be attending the Harbor Ali Summit in Chicago, June 5-7. If you would like to meet the team please email moreoptions@henrybath.com

Henry Bath's New Yangshan Warehouse is open for business.

The two level 20,000sqm facility was officially opened on 16th March 2018 during a ceremony attended by key industry members.

The warehouse, located within the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ), is protected by state of the art security features and backed by the rigourous Henry Bath Risk, Compliance and Control Standards. In conjunction with CMST, we are able to offer full service capability including reliable efficient national and international logistics.

For more information, please contact yong.shen@henrybath.com.