Drewry Shipping Consultants Limited announced that Philip Damas has been appointed a director of the company, with responsibility for developing Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, the specialist supply chain consulting practice within the Drewry group. Philip joined Drewry in 2005 from American Shipper with many years of experience of analyzing the international logistics challenges of exporters and importers in Europe, the Americas and Asia, Philip will also be responsible for further improving specialist market intelligence and cost benchmarks for international logistics, including Drewry's industry-leading freight rate benchmarks.