The Korean team prides itself on contributing to its customers’ operational efficiency by fully delivering on its promises, offering a full range of services that include Unitor safety products, technical services, safety and refrigeration, ships agency services and maritime logistics. The office and warehouse occupy an area of 4,115 sq metres while the bonded warehouse spans 1,000 sq metres.
At KORMARINE, Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s Korean team is exhibiting its R-22 Refrigerant changeover capability, a necessary service resulting from the ban, from 31st December 2009, on the top up of any refrigeration systems containing R-22 or other ozone depleting HCFC refrigerants.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s Korean team is also showcasing its knowledge and specialisation in cargo hold cleaning. The Korean team has clinched contracts with various charterers to provide cargo hold cleaning chemicals, and has a sizable number of bulk carrier clients that are using its cargo hold cleaning solutions to enable their vessels reach their next destinations on time, with holds that are certified clean and ready for next cargo.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s cargo hold cleaning solution helps customers by reducing considerable time for cleaning and gives operators increased revenue by improving port turnaround times. Besides cost savings, Korea-based customers choose Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s cargo hold cleaning solutions because it improves safety and ease of operations.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is also targeting Korean customers with its Liferaft Rental initiative for all types of vessels, which swops service-due liferafts and life-saving appliances for operational ones. With a one-point contact, the service eliminates having to deal with numerous small contacts, while due date monitoring reduces owners’ chances of getting caught by unforeseen service dates. Fixed pricing also makes budgeting easy and predicable. By allowing operators to avoid a big initial investment in liferaft, the service arms them with better cost control and simple, easy control of their equipment.
The Korean office is aiming to promote an initiative aimed at the high level of newbuilds completing in 2009. Known as “Solutions for a Lifetime”, the initiative focuses on the importance of recognising the continued requirements of newbuilds to be supplied with the highest quality of products and services from the earliest construction stages through the life of the ship until scrapping. The initiative uses a unique Product Selector tool which enables newbuilding managers to compile an Initial Supply Package within the total Wilhelmsen Ships Service offer. Finding the right match of products with its accessories and consumables as well as compliance with rules and regulations is all taken care of.
Further information from:
Solveig Saether, Market Communication Manager, Wilhelmsen Ships Service,
Telephone +47 67 58 45 78 (office), +47 90 63 49 77 (mobile) solveig.d.saether@wilhelmsen.com
John Lim, Reputation Management Associates, Telephone +65 6298 2520 (office), +65 9756 3582 (mobile) jlim@reputation.asia