Ahlers, a shipping and transport group based in Belgium, is active in niche markets in the liner trades, shipmanagement, liner agency, cargo & commodity logistics, and consultancy.
The Amrok group is based in Kerala, South India, has its own fleet of Barges, Trailer, Tanker Trucks and Sea going vessels for the transport of variety of cargoes to take on the challenge of comprehensive transportation in terms of "multimodal services". The group has its own clearing and forwarding agency at Cochin and agents at all major ports in India and abroad. It also represents various shipping lines at Cochin for container and bulk cargo.
A U.S. based NVOCC that consolidates LCL cargo to wide range of international destinations.
Brostrom is a group of Swedish companies that provides high quality and competitive services in the fields of shipping, transport, logistics and other related areas. They are organized in two main business areas; Shipping (Tanker Shipping, Dry Bulk Shipping and Marine Technical Agencies, and Ship Management), and Transport & Logistics (Bulk and Ship Agencies).
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Based in Trondheim, Norway, Rimship A/S operate dry cargo vessels from 750 - 1250 dwt in the North Sea, Baltic and European trades. The company also has diversified expertise in shipbroking, ship operation, chartering, ship agency, and S&P.
A U.S. common carrier authorized by the Republic of Venezuela's Ministry of Transport and Communications to transport reserved and unreserved cargoes in the waterborne trade between the United States and Venezuela. With a fleet of multipurpose self sustaining dry cargo vessels, Total Ocean offers direct independent liner service for over size, heavy lift, project, break bulk and general cargoes.
WG & A is the largest domestic shipping company in the Philippines. Engaged in providing inter-island cargo and passenger transportation services with a fleet of 35 vessels, 26 passenger/cargo vessels, and 9 cargo vessels. The route network comprises of 22 ports of call, transporting over 3.23 million passengers and 380,733 TEU's of cargo a year.
LINER SERVICES
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This liner company operates a fleet of the latest-generation container vessels serving the South American and European markets.
American President Lines is a world leader in container transportation, offering a global intermodal system combining ocean, rail, and truck transportation.
A leading carrier of containers, Roll-on Roll-off cargo and automobiles.
AOL offer global full container services from all over USA. Their ships are available for charter worldwide.
With six vessels calling the ports of Oakland and Los Angeles every eight days. ANZDL runs regular services between North America, Australia and New Zealand.
A division of Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd, BHP Transport is one of the world's largest integrated transport companies. In Australia, BHP Transport is the nation's biggest shipper, ship owner and ship operator, and the largest user of the nation's ports.
Bowhead Transportation offer a full container and barge service that includes most Western Alaska ports. Bowhead provides a full complement of marine transportation solutions including Common Carriage, Contract and Charter services.
With a proud tradition of innovation and service, Canada Steamship Lines' history dates back to 1845. Canada Steamship Lines grew to become the largest Canadian fleet of self-unloaders and conventional bulk vessels by servicing Canada's steel, power, agriculture and construction industries. From its origin on the Great Lakes and Atlantic Canada, CSL has steadily expanded its operations around the world. Today, its domestic and international fleets account for over 20 million tonnes of dry bulk materials annually.
Ceylon Shipping Inc. of Sri Lanka offers a quality service with great responsibility and reliability, to cater to the various trade sectors of Sri Lanka and other countries in the Western and Eastern hemispheres and has earned a good reputation and credibility as an international carrier. CSCL continued to receive the Star Performer award for 1994/1995 from Lloyds of London, Liner analysis, for its service from UK to India and Pakistan.
Cho Yang Shipping, of South Korea, is both a major container mover and player in the dry bulk markets.
Columbus Line operates eleven purpose-built container vessels, ranging up to 1,200 teus under its own flag. The Group operates a service between Europe and the West Coast of South America, as part of the Eurosal consortium.(Columbus Line has recently established a relay service - the Miami Express - connecting the US Gulf to this service via Kingston, Jamaica). Finally, Columbus Line offers space on a slot charter basis in the trade between Australia and New Zealand to Europe via the Suez Canal.
Contship was founded in 1969 by Dr. Angelo Ravano, initially to operate container services within the Mediterranean. The concept of containerisation of cargo was only newly established and consequently Contship is still today considered as one of the pioneers within the industry. In the 27 years since the first voyage undertaken by Contship SA from Fos-sur-Mer to Casablanca, Contship has developed into a major group with integrated world-wide liner shipping, terminal, agency and diversified container handling interests. The Contship Group is now internationally recognised as a leading force in the container cargo handling industries. Overall, the Group has around 1350 employees and operates a leased and owned container fleet of approximately 58,500 teus.
COSCO (Hong Kong) presently owns, manages and operates a modernised ocean-going fleet of nearly one hundred vessels, aggregating 4.8 million deadweight tons, including bulk carriers, general cargo and passenger ships. These vessels sail between the main ports of the world, carrying major dry bulk commodities such as grain, fertilizer, coal, iron ore and steel products. The fleet of COSCO (Hong Kong) ranks first among other fleets in Hong Kong in terms of fleet scale, and has become an important transportation force in the world shipping market.
Crowley Maritime Corporation, founded in 1892, is primarily a family and employee-owned company engaged in marine transportation and related services. CMC has two subsidiaries, organized to provide services in two major segments of operations. Crowley American Transport, Inc. provides liner services and Crowley Marine Services, Inc. provides worldwide vessel contract and related services.
CSX is an international transportation company offering a variety of rail, container shipping, intermodal, trucking, barging, contract logistics and related services worldwide. In 1995, the company earned $10.5 billion of operating revenue and $1.2 billion of operating income.
Libra Group, a Brazilian shipping corporation with more than forty years of experience and quality in the maritime trade, is formed by four shipping companies, Libra, Nacional, Paulista, and CAN. They operate an intermodal transport network, offering customers a reliable door-to-door service and the expertise to handle a remarkable variety of containerized cargoes.
For the past 50 years, Hanjin Shipping Company has developed as the leader of the South Korean shipping industry and ranks amongst the top five container carriers world-wide.
Hapag-Lloyd AG deploys 18 modern containerships of its own in addition to many charter ships, chiefly on the main routes Europe-Asia, Europe-North America and North America-Asia. The final vessel of its recent series of eight 4,400 TEU newbuildings costing an overall DM 1.2 billion was delivered at the beginning of 1995. In 1995, with a view to participating in the steady growth in container transport, Hapag-Lloyd ordered three more newbuildings also with capacity for 4,400 standard containers. A new 3,400 TEU vessel was integrated into the fleet in 1996. In 1996 Hapag-Lloyd's annual transport volume will exceed one million TEU.
Huelin-Renouf Shipping, based in the Channel Islands, offer a range of services including consolidation, full containers, and Ro-Ro.
Hyundai Merchant Marine, with headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, is a very large multimodal, bulk, and tanker shipping company.
From its headquarters in Rekjavik, Joklar Line has transported Reefer shipments (fish etc.) to the United States of America and Canada. Although, in recent years the company has diversified into container shiping.
With headquarters in South Africa, Kestrel Shipping (Pty) Limited is predominantly involved in the international transport of heavy lift materials, for major corporations engaged in the manufacture of heavy capital goods, the offshore, petrochemical, construction, steel and non - ferrous metals and mining industries. As part of an International network of offices, Kestrel Shipping provides the necessary first class service and expertise in this specialist industry.
Lloyd Triestino was established as a Shipping Company on August, 2nd 1836 and concentrated its activities mainly in the Adriatic Sea and the Mediterranean basin. Today the company ranks as one of Europe's major container lines.
P&O Containers is one of the worlds leading through transport specialists with a global routing network, first class feeder services and inland transport systems enabling them to deliver door-to-door, promptly and reliably throughout the world.
A worldwide leader in container-shipping transportation and related trade services. Sea-Land operates a fleet of 105 container ships and approximately 200,000 containers in U.S. and foreign trade and serves 120 ports in 80 countries and territories.
Seaway Bulk Carriers is a General Partnership between ULS Corporation of Toronto and Algoma Central Marine in Sault Ste. Marie, that provides transportation of bulk cargoes throughout the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence seaway. It operates a large fleet of 26 gearless vessels ranging in size from 26,000 DWT with a combined floating DWT of 735,000 tons.
This US based company operates a total of six bulk carriers. All the vessels are singledeckers ranging from 10,077 mt of deadweight to 27,213 mt. The vessels trade mostly between the U.S. and Central and South America, however, a couple of them are dedicated to the world trade.
SSA is an international transportation company based in Seattle, Washington. SSA provides a full spectrum of services offering clients flexible and comprehensive operational strategies including: Equipment Procurement, Feasibility Studies, Information System Design, Marine Terminal, Operations, Marketing and Sales Support, Personnel Training, Project Management, Rail Yard, Operations, Stevedoring, Trucking and Warehousing.
Sunmar Line offers a full range of container services, using first class and modern equipment, both reefer and dry. They run a regularly scheduled container and breakbulk transportation service between the USA and Russian Far East, operating two vessels each in a direct service between Seattle, Korsakov (Sakhalin Island), and Magadan with departures from Seattle every third Tuesday.
Tecmarine Lines, Inc. is a containership line operating a fleet of ships in United States East Coast, and Caribbean and South America trade, with scheduled service to most of the important markets. The line is a family owned business founded in 1985 with annual sales of approximately US$80 million.
TOTE shuttles cargo-laden trucks and trailers to and from Alaska. They own three steamships, a fleet of nearly 1,200 flatbeds, dry vans, and refrigerated and insulated trailers. With headquarters in Seattle, TOTE maintains dock and yard facilities in the Port of Tacoma and the Port of Anchorage, a sales office and trailer yard in Fairbanks, and several sales offices throughout the USA.
Waterman Steamship Corporation is engaged in various types of waterborne freight transportation LASH (Lighter Aboard Ship) carriage, Pure Care Carrier services, RoRo, breakbulk and bulk carrier services, inland vessel and barge transportation.
Wilhelmsen Lines maintains it's position as the largest deep sea Ro-Ro operator in the world, and operates 13 of the most sophisticated vessels of their kind. Additionally, Wilhelmsen Lines controls the operation of 16-18 highly advanced industrial car carriers in world wide services (NOSAC). The company has it's own offices in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, the PRC, Singapore, Germany, the UK, Sweden and Finland.
Yang Ming Line, of Taiwan, operate a fleet currently comprising 42 vessels with a total tonnage of more than two million DWT. 30 of these ships are fully owned by Yang Ming Line itself and the composition of the fleet includes full-container ships, huge bulk carriers, ore/coal carriers and super tankers.
Yukong Line, part of the Sunkyong Group, South Korea, was founded in 1982 to transport crude oil for Yukong Ltd., and has today expanded its business into areas such as dry cargo service, bunkering, car ferry service and logistics.
Zim Israel Navigation Company is one of the largest container shipping companies in the world operating an International network of intersecting shipping lines carrying a wide range of cargo around the world. Supported by a fleet of specialized vessels and a network of shipping lines, bridging six continents and connecting hundreds of ports of call around the world.
TANK SHIPS
Chevron Shipping Company owns and operates one of the largest oil company tanker fleets. To support its worldwide operations, CSC maintains offices in the United States, Europe, West Africa, Australia, Singapore and the Middle East. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. The company owns and operates 35 tankers that total more than 5 million deadweight tons. These include seven new double-hull tankers built as part of its ongoing fleet-renewal program. In addition, Chevron charters 30 to 40 tankers to supplement its own fleet. Most of these ships operate internationally, moving crude oil and products from the Middle East, West Africa, Indonesia and Mexico.
Latest company and financial news from Front Line, a Swedish tanker and bulker owner.
With its fleet of tankers, Hamburger Lloyd transports liquid petroleum products and chemical products in bulk.
BARGE TRANSPORTATION
McAllister Towing and Transportation Company, Inc. operates a fleet of 58 tugboats and 10 barges along the U.S. East Coast and in Puerto Rico. The corporate headquarters is in New York; in addition, the company has fully staffed offices in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Wilmington, N.C., Georgetown, Charleston, Jacksonville, and San Juan. In each port the company is engaged in shipdocking, general harbor towing, coastal towing, and bulk transportation, handling work for the more than 1,000 major steamship companies in business today.
RMS, of Germany, is one of the leading companies in the European Coastal and in particular Sea-River Shipping Industry. Their fleet of 40 modern vessels offers services in all European waters. In addition they offer a variety of shipping related services including: Stevedoring, Clearing Agency, Bunkering Agency, Ship Sale & Purchase, Forwarding, Trucking, Warehousing, Brokering, Liner Agency and Ship Financing.
The St. Lawrence Seaway System is the world's longest deep draft inland waterway. It is jointly managed by The St.Lawrence Seaway Authority of Canada and the United States Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
Wide Shine Terminals Limited, the leading mid-stream industry in the port of Hong Kong. They have taken delivery of 5 units of new jumbo container barges with a capacity of 150 TEU laden containers, 6 units of new CVS laden container reach-stackers, 6 units of new Lancer Boss empty container front loaders with a capacity of 9-high stacking, coupled with a new container storage terminal of 250,000 sq. ft.
