MANILA, Philippines - Philippine Transmarine Carriers, Inc. (PTC) vice-chairman and CEO Gerardo A. Borromeo was elected as the new president of InterManager, an international trade association for in-house and third party ship managers. Borromeo is the first Filipino to be elected unopposed for this leading post and will serve a two-year term of office, succeeding Alastair Evitt, the managing director of Meridian Marine Management. The decision follows other high-profile appointments of Asian executives. Since January, Koji Sekimizu has led the International Maritime Organization and in May, Masamichi Morooka took over as chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping. “I am honored to be the first Filipino to be appointed InterManager president, given that Asia now supplies more than half of the world’s seafarers and nearly half of the world fleet is under Asian control,” he told Lloyd’s List.“I will be able to interact with Asia more closely but at the same time I will be expected to retain a global focus,” Borromeo said. PTC, which deploys more than 33,000 seafarers annually, is one of the largest crew management companies in the Philippines and Borromeo believes his crewing experience was another key factor in his appointment.