Pictured at the christening of the CFS Paradero are (from left) Alfred Kramer, deputy register (Hamburg); Claudia Grant, deputy director general, Maritime Authority of Jamaica; and Harold Kropp of Bremen. In the background is the CFS Paradero. - Contributed photos

The Jamaica Ship Registry (JSR) registered the second German-owned ship, CFS Paradero, on Thursday, October 25.

The first to be registered with the JSR was the CFS Pafilia, which was registered in May 2006. Like the CFS Pafilia, the CFS Paradero is operated by the Bremen-based Harren & Partner Group. Thus, continuing what has been so far a viable partnership between Harren & Partner and the JSR.

The 139.6-metre vessel was christened in Bremerhaven, Germany, on October 26. The 972 TEU container feeder was christened by Anne Grönwoldt, daughter of Peter Grönwoldt, one of the principals of Harren and Partner. On hand to witness the naming and christening was Claudia Grant, deputy director general of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica.

Peter Harren, in his christening speech, gave a background to their foray into Jamaica which, he notes, started in 1999 with the container vessel Pampero, "which was the foundation for the development of a successful container line in Jamaica".

Good relationship

Harren attributes the fact that a second vessel from the Harren and Partner Group will carry the Jamaican flag to the "good relationship with the local representatives of the port and the maritime authorities".

He went on to mention that they are intensifying cooperation with the Caribbean Maritime Institute through their support of the training of the cadets for deck and machinery by making available a nautical officer and a technician to assist.

The CFS Paradero was built by the Rolandwerft Shipyard in Germany. It is a multi-purpose container vessel with gross tonnage of 8,246. The CFS Paradero should arrive in Kingston on November 13.

Seaboard Marine recently hosted a customer appreciation cocktail party at the Montego Bay Yacht Club for customers in western Jamaica. Pictured (from left) are Anna Hamilton, director of sales and marketing, Seaboard Freight & Shipping Jamaica Ltd.; Robert Schicchi, vice-president of Seaboard Marine; Corah Ann Robertson Sylvester, chief executive officer, Seaboard Freight & Shipping Jamaica Ltd.; Edward Gonzalez, president, Seaboard Marine; Pauline Reid, president, Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce; and Charles Johnston, chairman of Sea-board Freight & Shipping Ja. Ltd.