Sembcorp Marine appointed Wong Teck Cheong as the managing director of PPL Shipyard starting June 2013, succeeding Douglas Tan Ah Hwa. Tan has been the Managing Director of PPL Shipyard since 2007.
Prior to his appointment as Managing Director, Wong served as the General Manager for Special Construction and the Chief Risk Officer at PPL Shipyard. He was also the General Manager of Baker Marine, a subsidiary of PPL Shipyard. Wong joined PPL Shipyard in 1999. Prior to that, he was a project manager with Promet and IPEC. He obtained a Masters in Engineering Science (Structural) from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1991.
Sembcorp Marine also appointed Altaf Hossain as the Deputy Managing Director at PPL Shipyard. He formerly held the position of General Manager (Tuas Yard) at the Jurong Shipyard. He joined Jurong Shipyard in 1995 as a repair manager and held several posts thereafter, including Deputy General Manager (Project Management Office). He obtained his Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland in 1983.