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A shipping agency, shipping agent, or ship agency is the term used to refer to the appointed companies that handle operational and procedural (legal) requirements for a commercial vessel's call at a port for the purposes of cargo handling (loading/discharging), emergency calls, repairs, crew changes, or ship demolition, and protect the general interests of their principals on behalf of ship ...
Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc. is a U.S. based steamship agency company, with its corporate office in Providence, Rhode Island.Moran Shipping Agencies is the largest independently owned shipping agent in the U.S.; providing full agency attendance and ship husbandry services for over 5000 port calls per year, as well maritime port and vessel security services, in over 100 ports in North America.
The American Bureau of Shipping ( ABS) Courier is an American maritime classification society established in 1862. [ 1] Its stated mission is to promote the security of life, property, and the natural environment, primarily through the development and verification of standards for the design, construction and operational maintenance of marine ...
Tióng-êng Hái-ūn. Evergreen Marine Corporation ( Chinese: 長榮海運; pinyin: Chángróng Hǎiyùn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tióng-êng Hái-ūn) is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company that is headquartered in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. [ 5] With over 150 container ships, it is part of the Evergreen Group ...
t. e. Protecting agent or protective agent or supervisory agent in shipping is the person or entity that provide shipping agency services to the shipowners, charterers, time charterers in the situations where the conflict of interests exists or anticipated from the shipping agent. The main task of the protecting agent is to protect the interest ...
The United States Maritime Administration ( MARAD) is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation. MARAD administers financial programs to develop, promote, and operate the U.S. Maritime Service and the U.S. Merchant Marine. In addition, it conducts research and development activities in the maritime field; regulates the ...
Robert FitzRoy. Original release. 24 August 1867 (by telegraph) The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecast dates back over 150 years.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]