Shipping

Did you know? The Shipping Association of Jamaica was registered in 1939 as a trade union.

Jamaica succeeded in securing a seat in the most sough-after Category 'C' of the Council of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)...

Newton Brown, stevedore, is the Shipping Association of Jamaica's (SAJ) Port Worker of the Year 2013. Brown topped a list of 184 nominees to win the prestigious award....

Minister of industry, Investment and Commerce G. Anthony Hylton has commended the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) for what he called its "zealousness in ensuring the competitiveness and viability of the shipping industry"....

Jamaica's proposed development as a logistics hub has sparked recent discussions on the economic prospects for local business and workers as the country seeks to serve the global supply chain and take advantage of the increased opportunities ...

This is the second of a two-part seriesHarriat "Harry" Maragh, Chairman and CEO of Lannaman and Morris (Shipping) Ltd, became a partner in the company that is headquartered in Florida, and of which he is now Chairman.He surmised that many...

Author Peter Senge is famously quoted as saying, "In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails." If one has any difficulty fully understanding the profound nature of this statement...

Dr Morais Guy, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, deposited Instruments of Accession on the Convention of Maritime Salvage (1989) and two Maritime Protocols on behalf of the Jamaican Government...

Though he treasured his years at sea, Captain Diedrich Suendermann, general manager of Carib Star Shipping, was forced to accept the reality that there was limited scope or hope of upward movement aboard the merchant ships on which he served for 23 years.

This is part one of a two-part article on Captain Diedrich Suendermann, general manager of Carib Star Shipping.The general manager of Carib Star Shipping, a fully owned subsidiary of and local agents for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd, barely...

The Thomson Dream, a cruise ship belonging to Thomson Cruise Lines, will homeport at the port of Montego Bay for the 2014-2015 winter season.

Denise Lyn-Fatt, managing director of Freight Handlers Limited, was among the over 1,500 global clients, partners and agents who recently joined the management and staff of SACO Shipping GmbH ...