Standing well over six-foot tall, Robert Kinlocke’s height can be intimidating, but get to know him and you’ll realise that the chief executive officer (CEO) of Gateway Shipping Limited is a gentle giant. It was on August 31, 1970 that his illustrious career in the shipping industry began. The ambitious young man from Westmoreland learned […]
More than 70 members of the shipping industry last Thursday participated in a Logistics 101 Course hosted by the Shipping Association of Jamaica. The course, developed by the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, was delivered by Dr Fritz Pinnock, executive director of the CMI. The course […]
Did you know? The Shipping Association of Jamaica was registered in 1939 as a trade union. It was formed with the following goals: 1. To improve conditions of employment. 2. To establish uniformity in the rates paid to labour on wharves and ships. 3. To ensure the payment of fair and reasonable rates. 4. To […]
Maersk Line has appointed long-serving employee, Rodrigo Artavia, as its new managing director for the Caribbean Country Cluster comprising Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, Surinam, Guyana, and the Caribbean islands. Artavia joined the AP Moller – Maersk Group in 1999 in connection with the Sea Land acquisition where he previously worked for 13 years, holding […]
Ladies and gentlemen, while I’m personally very saddened that we have occasion to meet in this way, I’m honoured to have the opportunity to pay tribute to a true son of Jamaica, a personal friend, and a member of the Shipping Association of Jamaica, which I represent today. Benjamin Disraeli said: “Life is too short […]
Jamaica succeeded in securing a seat in the most sough-after Category ‘C’ of the Council of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The seat was fiercely contested during elections at the 28th IMO assembly held at the IMO’s headquarters in London last December. The council is the highest decision-making body of this United Nations specialised agency […]
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. Nominees were assessed from among the SAJ’s pool of registered and casual workers. Operations managers and supervisors at both Kingston Wharves Limited and KCT Services Limited independently […]
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”. Speaking at the SAJ’s 75th anniversary church service at the Kingston Parish Church last Sunday, the minister indicated that as the Government […]
To the man and woman in the street, ‘shipping and logistics’ connotes images comprising several cargo ships docked at a port and the towering cranes used to unload and stack containers. However, the industry is made up of organisations and companies offering a myriad ofservices, with involvement at various stages in the supply chain. The […]
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 that will emanate from the expansion of the Panama Canal. Emerging as one of the key areas of […]
