Maritime Directory

LONDON, United Kingdom

ACM Shipping Ltd was founded in the Spring of 1982. The Directors responsible for the launch and the initial development of the Company were Keith Amato, Simon Clough , Andrew Morton and John Plumbe. All four were experienced brokers and directors of leading London Tanker Broking Companies before starting ACM. The Company fast developed into one of London's major broking houses, and, over the past decade, has continued to expand steadily. Today ACM is proud to enjoy successful business relationships with all the leading shipowners and oil companies around the world.

LAKIN, WV, United States

Located at Lakin, W.Va., milepost 257.0 on the Ohio River near Pt. Pleasant, W.Va., on State Route 62 (across the river from AEP's Gavin generating station). River Transportation transports approximately 25 million tons of coal annually to AEP generating stations on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. In addition, the division delivers four to five million tons of coal and stone for outside customers. River Transportation maintains a fleet of 15 towboats, 2 Harbor boats, and over 600 barges. It also operates two maintenance drydocks where it performs repair work for AEP barges and towboats as well as other customers marine equipment.

London, United Arab Emirates

The UK's leading ports group, ABP owns and operates 21 ports all around the UK and handles approximately a quarter of the country's seaborne trade. Its ports are: Ayr, Barrow, Barry, Cardiff, Fleetwood, Garston, Goole, Grimsby, Hull, Immingham, Ipswich, King's Lynn, Lowestoft, Newport, Plymouth, Port Talbot, Silloth, Southampton, Swansea, Teignmouth and Troon. ABP also has a property division which is responsible for managing the Group's extensive land and property assets. Issues relating to land that is used for port operations may involve anything from managing tenancy agreements to renegotiating leases, or providing expert advice on property-related matters when a disposal or acquisition is being considered. In addition, ABP's property division negotiates and manages the disposal of land and property that has been identified as non-core to the ongoing ports and transport business, adding value by securing alternative planning consents and infrastructure where appropriate.

Santurce,, Bilbao, Spain

Founded in 1914, Astilleros Zamakona S.A. is one of the most important private shipbuilders in Spain and among the first in the world in experience, prestige and quality. The philosophy of Zamakona is based on four principal ideas : - High Productivity - An Experienced team - Flexible Boats that give the highest performance - Client Satisfaction Together they outline our call as a leader. Something that can be seen in each one of the boats that we build. Zamakona builds boats of every type up to 130m (143 ft). In fishing boats these could be coastal, trawlers, freezer ships, and other specializad boats. With respect to Tugs and Work Boats, Zamakona builds every type of tug; escorts, salvage, fire-pumps, buoy maintenance, and others of every type.

Guayaquil, Guayas Province, Ecuador

The seaport of Guayaquil, a competitive port at your service. VISION To become the most efficient port in our region, with leadership in security, technology and trade facilitation. MISSION To provide competitive port services, optimizing our resources, protecting the ecosystem and supporting Ecuador’s modernization and development. TRADE CENTER Guayaquil is the commercial heart of Ecuador, and offers a wealth of business opportunities. The port handles 93% of container traffic in/out the country and 62% if total import-export cargo, representing 453,000 TEU’s and 5.1 million tons respectively, positioning it as the 13th largest port in Latin America and the Caribbean. STRATEGIC LOCATION Located in the west coast of South America, close to the most important north-south shipping routes, the Port of Guayaquil is of great importance for the logistics of main ocean carriers in the US, Europe, South America and Far East trade lanes and offers a secure area for berthing. ACCESS CHANNEL Its fifty nautical miles into a mangrove surrounded path of ecological importante and beauty, provides a shelter of calm water, properly marked with sea buoys and markers along the route in the Morro channel, taking an average of four hours to reach the piers area. WINDS An average of 3.2 m/s S.W wind makes a breezy transit in the channel, with a maximum of 7.4 m/s in certain months of the year. PORT FACILITIES · Container Terminal with three berths of 185 m each and 290,879 square meters of paved area for containers. · Multipurpose Terminal with five piers of 185 m each 85,234 square meters of warehouse for general cargo, including 4,086 square meters for the refrigerated cargo and 5,408 square meters for dangerous cargo. · Bulk Terminal with one marginal pier of 155 m, three silos for 8,900 cubic meters, belt conveyors, two warehouses of 900 metric tons capacity each, one grain warehouse for 30,000 metric tons, one vegoil tank of 240 cubic meters capacity and three of 9,800 cubic meters suitable for heavy liquids, i.e. molasses. SERVICE ALL YEAR ROUND The Port of Guayaquil works twenty-four hours a day and 364 days in a year, stopping only for New Year’s eve.

Gijon (Asturias), Spain, Spain

In the north of Spain, in the middle point of the Cantabrian sea coast, the Port of Gijón is the ideal gateway to Europe, allowing direct access to the western and centre of the Iberian Peninsula. Gijón is an excellent logistic platform for companies in its hinterland. The A-66 Madrid-Asturias highway and the Cantabrian highway ensure that goods are transported fast to and from the industrial areas of Valladolid, Madrid, the Basque Country, Lisbon and Oporto, among others. The port has all the necessary services and infrastructure for railway transport with a direct connection to the national railway net, RENFE, as well as a TECO station, container terminal, with a daily link to the European combined transport network. The Port of Gijón is the leader in the Spanish dry bulk traffic, the sixth in the general ranking of Spanish ports and the fourth in benefits. It is equipped with the most advanced installations, adequate and suitable for any traffic.

Golden Meadow, LA, United States

Dockside repair facility located within Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Provides easy access from the central Gulf of Mexico for deep draft vessels and offers a safe area to jack-up drilling rigs and work over units for leg and hull repairs, leg extensions and modifications. Full service ISO 9001 certified shipyard facility with 24 hr service.

Lockport,, LA, United States

Bollinger Shipyards Lockport,L.L.C. New Construction Division is a Bollinger Shipyards Inc company, located on Bayou Lafourche in Lockport Louisiana.

Cortez,, Florida, United States

The Bowman Diving Corporation, based in Sarasota, FL is a fully certified and insured Corporation serving the United States and Caribbean since 1994. Bowman Diving was formed to aid contractors and the maritime industry in all aspects, from deep water construction, scientific support, environmental issues to hull inspections and ship husbandry. Our dive teams are made up of seasoned commercial certified divers. All dive support teams are available and ready to travel on short notice in as little as four hours. We are conveniently located near Sarasota/Bradenton Airport. Bowman Diving prides itself on a quick response and professional manner.

Voula,, Athens, Greece

Box Ships Inc. is an Athens, Greece-based international shipping company specializing in the transportation of containers. The Company’s current fleet consists of two containership vessels with a total carrying capacity of 6,852 TEU’s with agreements to acquire an additional four containerships that will increase the total capacity to 28,177 TEU’s with a weighted-average age of 2.5 years. The company's shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TEU.

White Plains, New York, United States

Bunge North America is a vital link between America's growers and the world's food and feed processing, foodservice and bakery industries. From farm gate to table, Bunge North America is committed to "Enhancing the Value of America's Harvest." We operate primarily in the United States, Canada and Mexico as the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited. Our headquarters are located in St. Louis, Missouri. As a leading North American agribusiness and food processing company, our facilities include eleven processing plants, four corn dry milling plants, five edible oil processing and packaging plants, five edible oil bottling facility, seven food processing plants and more than 70 grain elevators, located primarily along the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Tampa,, FL, United States

CP Ships provides international container transportation in four key regional markets: TransAtlantic, Australasia, Latin America and Asia. CP Ships also owns Montreal Gateway Terminals which operates one of Canada's largest marine container terminal facilities. Following its acquisition in 2005 by TUI, CP Ships is being integrated into TUI's shipping subsidiary Hapag-Lloyd to create the world's fifth-largest container shipping company.

Fairfax,, VA, United States

CSC Scientific supplies laboratory equipment with four areas of concentration: moisture analysis, particle size analysis, titration analysis, and surface tension analysis.

Beijing, China

China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) is the largest group in China in the field of merchant and military ships, marine engineering and marine equipment which it designs, manufactures and sells. CSIC consists of more than 100 subsidiaries, including six shipyards, 48 industrial enterprises and 28 research institutes. Its factories manufacture many types of ship equipment and include four major engine factories. The total number of CSIC employees in China is 160,000.

Calcutta, India, India

Calcutta port started operations in 1870. It was initially designed by the then British Government in line with the Port of London, to take care of its business and colonial interest. Despite innumerable odds faced by the port since its inception, it used to enjoy a premier position amongst the major ports of India and accounted for nearly 50% of the sea-borne trade till independence. However, with the rapid industrialisation in Western India concomitant to gradual deterioration of the industrial sector in Eastern India, the glory of this grand port has been outstripped. Calcutta port, the only riverine major port in India has two docking arms the Calcutta Dock System (CDS) and Haldia Dock Complex (HDC). CDS with its impounded docking arrangement, is located within Calcutta city and connected to Bay of Bengal through 156 nautical miles long navigational channel through river Hooghly. The Hooghly channel, longest ever riverine waterway used by ocean-going vessels, is infamous for its traps, siltations and known to maritime world as one of the highly unpredictable and risky navigational route. HDC is located at the bank of river Hooghly and Haldi, has started operations in 1968 as a satellite port of CDS. It also operates through impounded docking arrangement due to low river draft. The port serves to a vast hinterland, which includes states of West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, states of North-East India and the two land-locked nations of Nepal and Bhutan. Future plan Calcutta Port has outlined expansion plan for handling 50 million tonnes of cargo by 2000-01. The port is considering a fourth oil jetty to handle projected POL traffic.

United States

Callahan Company was founded in 1958 by James B. Callahan, Sr. The Company has grown in sales over 43 years to its present size of approximately 73 million dollars in annual sales. A family owned and operated concern, the company services virtually every chemical-consuming industry, including pharmaceuticals, nutritional products, flavor and fragrance, personal care, paint and coatings, urethanes, foods, specialty resins, epoxies, and household, institutional and industrial formulators. Callahan is proud of its efficient and knowledgable work force, which includes superior warehousing, transportation and customer service personnel in four different plant locations. In addition, our professional sales force is without peer in the industry. The firm represents more than 20 different manufacturers and suppliers, including industry leaders such as Dow Chemical, Lyondell Petrochemical, Eastman Chemical, The Stepan Company, Rhodia, Inc. and many more. Callahan Company is proud of its position as a strong and vital independent chemical distribution firm, poised to serve and grow with our customers into the next millennium.

Tersaneler Cad No 20, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey

Cicek Shipyard, located in Tuzla Bay, has two slipways and a panamax-sized building dock. Construction of vessels in the building dock began in 2006. The first and still the only such facility in Turkey, it is served by a 300 tonne gantry crane and has already been used to construct four IMO II chemical tankers. The building dock is currently being extended to 250m in length. Construction of smaller ships takes place on two slipways. The larger one is 160m in length and is served by a 200-tonne gantry crane. A smaller slipway suitable for building coastal vessels is currently being used for the construction of four 3,100 dwt IMO II chemical tankers.

Richmond, BC, Canada

Marine & Industrial component reconditioners serving marine propulsion, power generation, and heavy industries since 1920. Reconditioners of 2 stroke and 4 stroke diesel engine components, hydraulic drive motors, turbochargers, pumps, and more.

Baton Rouge,, LA, United States

Diesel Specialists, Inc.(1-225-928-1913; 1-800-768-0742) provides total and complete support for the four best heavy duty diesel engines in the world; Caterpillar, Cummins, Detroit Diesel and Perkins. Frankly, we think you will see that our combination of customer focus and technical expertise will prove that few support these product lines better. Whether you are looking for parts or complete engine packages, we have the knowledge and equipment to do it right. So when quality, pricing and service matter, no one performs better than Diesel Specialists, LLC.

Jefferson, LA, United States

Bethesda, MD, United States

EJK produces more than 60 events in 16 industries around the world. From Asia to Europe, from North America to South America, from your office to your target market, EJK helps you to shrink the marketing world to extend your message and drive your bottom line. EJK's global network of 16 offices on four continents offers hands-on, personal service and a thorough knowledge of exhibition and conference marketing and management.

Pembroke, MA, United States

For over 150 years each compass manufactured by E.S. Ritchie & Sons, Inc. was recorded by serial number in hand written ledgers. These ledgers are still maintained at the Ritchie factory, shown above, located in Pembroke, MA USA. The first successful liquid dampened compass was awarded a U.S. Patent in 1860. It is just one of the compasses that we see highlighted in company literature dating back to the formation of E.S. Ritchie and Sons. Early compass dials were hand painted using egg white based paint for the background and India ink for the graduations. This photo shows three different types of early float chamber dials. Today's dials are printed using modern lithographic processes on extremely light aluminum or composite dials. Ritchie manufactured all the US Navy standard compasses for over forty years. The dial on the left shows the prominent float chamber which reduced weight on the pivot, reducing wear and greatly improving performance. The four vertical rods are actually bundles of needle magnets which gave this compass the power to lock on to magnetic north. Ritchie Compasses have won many awards for design and engineering excellence in the past 150 years. An early Ritchie liquid filled compass with a floating dial is exhibited in the Albert Museum of Science and Industry in England, proudly displayed along with a collection of nautical instruments created by the famous Lord Kelvin.

Singapore,, Singapore

With a team of over 50 experienced brokers covering petroleum, chemical, vegetable oil, and dry cargo shipping in international markets, we provide an extensive range of services to the shipping community. These include spot and contract chartering, time-charter, sale & purchase, shipping consultancy, general agency, etc. Eastport Maritime has grown from a modest four-member operation in our first year of business to a diversified shipbroking group of 130 personnel worldwide. Since 1995, we have established offices in China, the USA, and Europe to better serve our international clientele. In the constantly evolving global environment, Eastport Maritime will continue to pursue opportunities for expansion and remain focused on building our strength in the Asia Pacific region.

Bracknell,, England, United Kingdom

Exel is a multi-modal, multi-industrial global logistics organization with a clear, customer-focused strategy that continues to provide competitive advantage enabling us to address our customers supply chain challenges with our expertise and solutions. The four cornerstones of this strategy (global coverage and local strength; integrated capability and breadth of solutions; consistent processes and occupational excellence; skilled people and supply chain expertise) closely match the growth market in which we operate. We are a global company with a single brand and a clear mission—to create new value in the supply chain for our customers, employees and shareholders. Our strategy and business model make us ideally positioned to develop within the logistics marketplace, meeting our customers' needs with innovative solutions that bring together the best of our people, processes and core capabilities. Our core expertise in contract logistics and freight management, supported by consultancy services, information management and focused specialist services means that we can significantly reduce logistics costs for our customers, whilst at the same time improving efficiency and enhancing levels of customer service. These core services have evolved over a long period of time, are available globally and can be purchased on a stand alone basis. We continuously review the effectiveness of how these services are delivered to our customers to ensure that they continue to meet the need of the markets in which they operate. We believe that this commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence is a significant element of our global uniqueness.