Wilhelmsen Ships Service has today announced that its office in Piraeus, Greece has won three new husbandry agreements with shipping companies operating worldwide.
As a result of effective teamwork within the Wilhelmsen Ships Service network, Wilhelmsen Ships Service in Piraeus recently signed husbandry agreements with Meadway Shipping, Lotus Shipping, and Ionia Management. These agreements commit Wilhelmsen Ships Service to handling several hundred port calls per year, and indicate that our frame agreements for Ships Agency are proving successful in an increasingly demanding market.
Meadway Shipping Inc. is an international shipping company located in Athens, specializing in the transportation of dry bulk cargoes. Apart from managing dry-bulk Vessels, Meadway is involved in Chartering and S&P activities, which operate as separate divisions within the group. Wilhelmsen Ships Service agents will be responsible for husbandry agreements in 12 ports around the world.
Lotus Shipping, located in Athens, own several chemical tankers, chartered out around the world. They have signed a husbandry contract with Wilhelmsen Ships Service to cover ports in Malaysia and Singapore, and will later expand this to include some Indian ports.
Ionia Management SA is based in Piraeus. The company operates oil, product and chemical tankers around the world.
Several hundred port calls
“We are delighted to be representing these companies,” said Costas Despotides, the Wilhelmsen Ships Service Sales Manager for ships agency in the Eastern Mediterranean. “They represent different cargoes in a variety of different locations worldwide. This is exactly what our agency network is designed to handle. We look forward to the challenge of managing their business, which should amount to several hundred port calls around the world.”
Further information:
Costas Despotides, Sales Manager - Ships Agency, Eastern Mediterranean, Wilhelmsen Ships Service
Telephone: +30 210 4239100 / 4239123 Mobile:+ 30 6944 911264
Solveig D Saether, Marketing Manager, Wilhelmsen Ships Service
Telephone +47 67 58 45 78 (office), +47 67 58 45 78 (mobile) solveig.d.saether@wilhelmsen.com
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is part of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services, a Wilh. Wilhelmsen group company. It has the world’s leading maritime services network, with the ability to service 2 200 ports in 116 countries. The company’s main focus is to deliver improved vessel operating efficiency to the merchant fleet. In 2008 the company made 222 000 product deliveries to 21 400 vessels and handled 53 000 port calls. Wilhelmsen Ships Service has 4 400 employees operating out of 310 offices in 69 countries.
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