Norway-based Wilhelmsen Ships Service provides a full range of shipping, logistics and maritime services in China via Wilhelmsen Huayang Ships Service, a joint venture with Huayang Maritime Centre, owned by China's Maritime Bureau.
The company's comprehensive network of offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Qingdao, Xingang and Ningbo serviced almost 1,000 port calls on behalf of some 150 principals in 2008.
The Chinese team prides itself on contributing to its customers' operational efficiency by fully delivering on its promises, offering a full range of services that include Unitor safety products, technical services, safety and refrigeration, ships agency services and maritime logistics.
The Chinese team has the expertise and experience to handle specialised cargoes and vessels. Its team can handle all types of vessels from container ships, car and Ro-Ro carriers, tankers and bulk carriers to LNG vessels.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is targeting Chinese customers with its Liferaft Rental initiative for all types of vessels, which swops service-due liferafts and life-saving appliances for operational ones.
With a single point of contact, the service eliminates having to deal with numerous small contacts, while due date monitoring reduces owners' chances of being caught by unforeseen service dates. Fixed pricing also makes budgeting easy and predicable. By allowing operators to avoid a big initial investment in liferafts, the service arms them with better cost control and simple, easy control of their equipment.
The China office is aiming to promote an initiative aimed at the high level of newbuilds completing in 2009. Known as "Solutions for a Lifetime", the initiative focuses on the importance of recognising the continued requirements of newbuilds to be supplied with the highest quality of products and services from the earliest construction stages through the life of the ship until scrapping.
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