157 Kon Laramanli Avenue Voula GR-166 73 Greece Company Perspectives: Attica Enterprises endeavors to control and operate leading modern brands in the sectors of sea transportation and leisure. Europe is our home market. We strive for the highest professional standards providing our customers with services of better value for money than any of our competitors. The services we offer must manifest …
3655 N.W. 87th Avenue Miami Florida 33178-2428 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our mission is to deliver exceptional vacation experiences through the world's best-known cruise brands that cater to a variety of different lifestyles and budgets, all at an outstanding value unrivaled on land or at sea. Begun with one ship that ran aground on its maiden voyage, Carnival Corporation has since grown into t…
38th Floor East, China Merchants Tower Shun Tak Centre 168-200 Connaught Road Central Hong Kong Company Perspectives: Corporate Culture: China Merchants has stridden across two centuries of development and set up many precedents in modern economic history of China. The corporate culture of China Merchants is characterized by "profoundness and innovation," which is unique compared with other enter…
6100 Blue Lagoon Drive, Suite 400 Miami, Florida 33126 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Cunard, the world's leading luxury cruise line, maintains a fleet of five elegant ships: Cunard's flagship Queen Elizabeth 2, Royal Viking Sun, Vistafjord, and super yachts Sea Goddess I and Sea Goddess II. The ships call at more than 300 ports throughout the world. Cunard Line Ltd. has been in the forefront of pa…
Evergreen Marine Building 166, Minsheng East Road, Sec2 Taipei, 104 Taiwan Company Perspectives: Evergreen is committed to maintaining its traditional philosophy of serving world trade by providing the best transport services possible. By so doing, it is certain to play an even more important role in the world of commerce. With more than 130 owned and long-term chartered ships, Evergreen Marine C…
Mercury House, 101 Front St. Hamilton HM12 Bermuda Company Perspectives: The Company's vision is to provide the customers with a flexible and reliable transportation service, and use this flexibility to develop unique industrial relations that will give material benefits to the customers as well as the Company. Legally a Bermuda corporation, Frontline Ltd. is a shipping company operated out of Os…
35 West 56th Street New York, New York 10049 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: General Maritime Corporation is a leading provider of international seaborne crude oil transportation services, owning and operating one of the largest tanker fleets in the world. General Maritime Corporation owns and operates a fleet of close to 50 mid-sized tankers, making it the world's second largest tanker company (bas…
One Belle Meade Place 4400 Harding Road Nashville, Tennessee 37205 U.S.A. Ingram Industries, Inc. is a privately held Nashville-based company with a broad array of activities. The company is the leading distributor of books in the United States, through its Ingram Book group. Ingram Book's subsidiaries also wholesale videocassettes, magazines, and other materials. Ingram Marine is the third large…
650 Poydras Street, Suite 1700 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The company's strategy is to (i) identify customers with high credit and marine transportation needs requiring specialized vessels or operating techniques, (ii) seek medium- to long-term charters or contracts with those customers and, if necessary, modify, acquire or construct vessels to meet the requirements…
Hibiya Central Building 2-9 Nishi-Shinbashi 1-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 105 Japan Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) is the third largest shipping company in Japan, operating a fleet of 218 vessels totaling 10.37 million deadweight tons, including 35 Japanese flag vessels of 2.33 million deadweight tons owned by the company itself. More than 95% of sales come from shipping activities. These acti…
Hibiya Central Building 2-9 Nishi-Shinbashi 1-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8421 Japan Company Perspectives: Amid intensifying international competition, truly customer-oriented service is growing in importance. To fulfill its mission as an international integrated distribution enterprise, "K" Line is greatly expanding its domestic and overseas networks, thus further increasing the overall strength …
55 Waugh Drive, Suite 1000 Houston, Texas 77007 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our goal is to be the best. By listening to our customers and embracing the concept of continuous improvement, we will provide our customers the highest value for their dollar and create long-term value for our shareholders. As the largest inland barge operator in the United States, Kirby Corporation and subsidiary Kirby…
Norwegian Cruise Line 7665 Corporate Center Drive Miami Florida 33126 U.S.A. Company Perspectives NCL Corporation Ltd. ("NCL") is one of the leading cruise ship operators in the world and is increasing the size and modernity of its fleet. NCL currently operates 12 ships with over 21,600 berths, which represents approximately 9.0% of the overall cruise capacity in North America in terms of berths.…
1 Station Place Stamford, Connecticut 06902 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: OMI Corporation provides seaborne transportation services for crude oil and petroleum products in the international shipping markets. Operating out of Stamford, Connecticut, OMI Corporation owns and operates a fleet of 39 international crude oil and petroleum transport vessels, with another four new builds scheduled for deli…
Pershing Road Weehawken, New Jersey 078087 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: NY Waterway has the largest ferry and excursion fleet in the NY Harbor, but it is still a family business with all the personal attention to service and amenities that it had when it was just Arthur's ferry. The largest ferry operation in North America, Port Imperial Ferry Corporation serves the New York City metropolitan are…
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90067 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Caribbean, Alaska, Europe and the Panama Canal, these are just a taste of the world that awaits you on ships as legendary as the places they visit. You can journey as far north as Norway's North Cape and as far south as Tierra del Fuego's Cape Horn. You can circle the continents of South America and Africa…
41 Cedar Avenue P.O. Box HM 1179 Hamilton HM EX Bermuda Sea Containers House 20 Upper Ground London SE 1 9PF United Kingdom Sea Containers Ltd. (SCL) operates in more than 80 countries through three main businesses. In mid-1999 its passenger transport division operated 21 ferry routes, ranging from cross-Channel to between Wall Street, Manhattan, and Brooklyn; high-speed passenger trains between …
79 Pall Mall London SW1Y 5EJ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Throughout its 150 years P & O has been a premier British shipowner, and in its time the largest in the world. It has flown the same quartered flag, embodying the royal colours of Portugal and Spain, from its very beginnings. And it all started with a handful of paddle-steamers and a contract to carry mails--the first application o…