Charles G. Raymond is a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. He held senior roles at Sea-Land Service from 1994 and was President and CEO of Sea-Land Service Domestic Shipping and CSX Lines, LLC from 1999 to 2003. From 2004 he was President and CEO of Horizon Lines, and in 2006 he became its first Chairman. He was inducted into the International Maritime Hall of Fame in 2003.
He was a panellist at Mare Forum USA 2004 and at the Port Risk Management Forum.