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Philip Damas

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Managing Director, Head of Supply Chain Advisors

Qualifications

B.Sc. and M.Sc. Finance, University of Strasbourg | MBA University of Bradford

Languages

English, French

Telephone

+44 20 7538 0191

Office

London

Philip Damas

Philip is the founder and head of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, the logistics management arm of the Drewry Group and a global leader in ocean freight cost benchmarking and procurement management. He is also Managing Director of the Drewry Group.

 

Profile

Philip heads up Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, the logistics arm of the Drewry Group and has more than 30 years experience in the international ocean transport sector and maritime supply chain design and optimisation.

 

Prior to joining Drewry in 2005, he worked for CMA CGM and the container shipping consortium Cobra in various management and financial control roles until 1990. He then spent the 1990s analysing the logistics policies of exporters/importers and of logistics service providers when working with American Shipper and Containerisation International.

 

In 1998, Philip became a founding director of the shipping research and database company ComPairData (now Blue Water Reporting). In 2007, he set up Drewry Supply Chain Advisors. In 2014 and 2016, respectively, he launched the BCO ocean contract “benchmarking club” of Drewry and the e-Sourcing Ocean Freight Solution outsourced tender execution service of Drewry.

 

Having spent a career in the international container shipping sector, he now advises retailers, manufacturers and investors on ocean freight strategy, freight rate benchmarking, network optimisation, logistics property investments/due diligence, carrier contracts and port competition.

 

Philip holds an MBA from the University of Bradford Management Centre and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. Finance from the University of Strasbourg.