Maritime Directory

St. Petersburg, Russia

AKO BARSS Group is a world-class Russian engineering and construction group with the capability and resources to undertake the most challenging projects. The Group’s activities are organised in two core business areas: 1. Offshore units construction & upgrading 2. Shipbuilding & repair/conversion Other current activities, which include production of large-size steel and aluminium structures, are also available.

Valparaíso,, Chile

ASMAR is a Chilean Shipyard devoted to satisfy shipbuilding and ship repair needs of military and commercial ship owners.

El Astillero, Santander, Spain

ASTANDER provides first class facilities for any kind of ship repairs and conversions. The experience and skill gained during the more than 100 years presence of ASTANDER in international ship building, conversion and repair markets, together with the modernization and updating programs continuously being developed in the yard, have put ASTANDER among the leading yards in the world, specialized in Conversions.

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.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

China International Marine Containers (Group) Ltd. (CIMC) is one of the first container manufacturers and sino-foreign joint ventures in China. CIMC was founded by China Merchants Holdings and the East Asiatic Company Ltd.(EAC) in Jan.1980. CIMC went into production on 22nd Sep., 1982. In 1987 CIMC became a tri-party joint venture after COSCO joined in. CIMC went public in 1993 and has been listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange market since 1994. The operation of CIMC started to run as Group structure in 1995. As CIMC fixes the mission to be a major supplier of modern transport equipment in the global market, now CIMC is dedicated to manufacturing and supplying of container, trailer and airport equipment. With the net assets of over 2.8 billion, CIMC has more than 30 subsidiaries around China and all over the world and has over 14,000 employees. The core business of CIMC is container manufacturing. It has 12 production bases lay out in South, East and North of China. The product ranges from dry van, reefer, tank and various special containers. CIMC is a container-manufacturing group with the biggest scale and most abundant product variety in the world. The customers of CIMC include world leading shipping companies and leasing companies. The products of CIMC are serving for the logistics industry all around the North America, Europe and Asia. Since 1996, CIMC has ranked the world No.1 container manufacturer by the largest annual container output and sales volume in the world. Nowadays with over 40% market share in the international container business, and over 50% market share in reefer container market, CIMC has become a world leader in container industry. Trailer Project is the key business CIMC is developing. The goal is to supply the top-ranking ground transportation equipment for the global market and accelerate the modernization of the ground transportation equipment in China. CIMC has developed many kinds of trailer model and established production base with advanced technology and equipment. The product has been put into market. The Airport Equipment business of CIMC majors in passenger boarding bridge, automatic air cargo and logistic management system and automatic solid garage. And local market share of passenger boarding bridge is over 80% and entered international market successfully, such as US, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Mongolia and others.

Norfolk, VA, United States

Marine Hydraulics International, Inc. (MHI) is a major ship Maintenance and Modernization (M&M) contractor located in Norfolk, VA, and holds a current Master Ship Repair Agreement (MSRA) with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).

Norfolk,, United States

NORSHIPCO (Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation) is a subsidiary of United States Marine Repair, Inc. (USMR), America's largest non-nuclear ship repair, modernization, conversion and overhaul company.

Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States

Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (NGSS), headquartered in Pascagoula, Mississippi, includes the Ingalls Operations and the Full Service Operations, also in Pascagoula, and the Avondale Operations, in New Orleans and Tallulah, Louisiana, and Gulfport, Mississippi. NGSS, which currently employs more than 17,000 shipbuilding professionals, primarily in Mississippi and Louisiana, is one of the nation's leading full service systems companies for the design, engineering, construction, and life cycle support of major surface ships for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and international navies, and for commercial vessels of all types.

Balboa-Ancon, Republic Of Panama

Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is in charge of the operation, administration, management, preservation, maintenance, and modernization of the Panama Canal

Haifa,, Israel

Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd is one of the largest container-shipping companies in the world. Zim offers transportation services along most of the major international trading routes to customers throughout the world. From its corporate headquarters in Haifa, it operates an intermodal system, which combines sea, land, and air transportation, enabling the Company to provide fast, reliable, frequent, and complete door-to-door services around the world. Since its establishment in 1945, service to clients through modernization and improvement has always been the hallmark of our company.