From Vision to Reality: My Journey
in Sustainable Energy
I have been in the shipping business for more than 45 years, since 1978. I founded and managed Matina Lines in Antwerp, Belgium whose main business focus was shipping cars to Lebanon and Egypt. I further expanded the business to Spain and Turkey. The company owned more than 35 vessels with the capacity of several thousand cars per vessel
In 1998 I founded ACLN, a company specializing in shipping cars from Northern Europe to Africa. ACLN was listed on the New York Stock exchange two years later and finally I took it back in private ownership, having settled the lawsuit with the SEC for the amount of 27 mln usd. Among my other clients three vessels were chartered to Compagnie Tunisienne de Navigation (COTUNAV) in 1989