TRANSOCEAN

Our Agency and Chartering Department is working in close contact with shippers and receivers of all kinds of products. The department is staffed 24 hours a day and allways do their utmost to optimize turnround to reduce costs for charterers, owners and all other parties concerned. clearance is affected in all Danish and Swedish ports. Also crew changes and STS operations are offered.

S5 Agency World Ltd is a global ship agency company, established in London with regional hub centres in the US, North Europe, Southern Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Asia Pacific and Australia, and represented in Denmark by Transocean Shipping Agency.

It will provide major operators, ship owners, charterers and managers with worldwide agency coverage whilst maintaining strong local contact points.

Whilst S5 is a new force in international shipping, it is built on strong foundations with a long heritage through its stakeholders stretching back to the early 19th century.

S5 will offer clients seeking international hub agencies:

• An international agency company with a strong investment base
• Flexible trans-regional products tailored to the client’s specific needs
• Complete operational and financial transparency
• World class integrated systems
• A management team experienced in managing international partnerships.

The stakeholders are:

• Kerr Norton Strachan in the Americas (working with Agunsa in South America)
• Royal Burger Group in North Europe
• Euroshipping in South Europe and North and West Africa
• Kanoo Group in the Middle East
• Sturrock in South and East Africa
• Jardines in Asia Pacific
• McArthur Shipping in Australia

Handling in excess of 40,000 port calls a year, S5’s stakeholders all have strong and deep-rooted experience of running and managing shipping agency operations in their particular geographic regions but recognise that in the 21st century many international clients require the facility to one-stop shop with a single trans-regional agency company, a function S5 has been created to fulfil.

‘Agency World’, S5' s state of the art IT system, is seen as a key differentiating factor, enabling S5's unparalleled operational depth to be harnessed to significantly facilitate clients' voyage management.

The system has been developed by drawing on a wealth of IT and operational expertise from around the globe. Fully integrated, Agency World offers clients complete operational and financial transparency. This is achieved through a fully automated web- based tool (complete with operational alerts) for managing the vessel call, an ability to view the daily updated disbursement position and a highly flexible management information module which assists the client in making sound business decisions.

Graham Bog explains that the name S5 reflects the five key elements in S5’s product offering, namely:

• Shipping
• Service
• Systems
• Solutions
• Security

It also highlights the geographic regions: Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Australasia.

For more information:www.s-5.org

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