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Some brokerage firms have developed into large companies, incorporating departments specialising in shipping's various sectors, e.g. Dry Cargo Chartering, Tanker Chartering, Container Chartering, Sale & Purchase, Demolition, Futures and Research; other "boutique" shipbroking firms concentrate on specific sectors of the shipping market.
The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) is a professional and learned society for all members of the commercial shipping industry worldwide. After being founded in 1911 in London, the ICS was granted a Royal Charter in 1920. [2] The Institute is the only internationally recognised professional body in the commercial maritime sphere. [3]
The International Chamber of Shipping is one of the world's principal shipping organisations, representing around 80% [2] of the world's merchant tonnage through membership by national shipowners' associations. [1] It is concerned with maritime regulatory, operational and legal issues. [1] Its membership includes over 40 national shipowner ...
Bombardier Challenger 604, operated by Surveillance Australia, at Wagga Wagga Airport, 2023. Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is an Australian statutory authority responsible for the regulation and safety oversight of Australia's shipping fleet and management of Australia's international maritime obligations.
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has noodled for years with the idea of building Titanic II: a full replica of the doomed luxury liner that sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. Now he’s set a ...
Pacific International Lines (PIL) Singapore: 295,567 89 1.0% [Note 8] 13 Shandong International Transportation Corporation (SITC) China: 160,156 101 0.6% 14 X-Press Feeders Singapore: 157,681 81 0.5% [Note 9] 15 Korea Marine Transport Corporation (KMTC) South Korea: 150,704 64 0.5% 16 Sea Lead Shipping Singapore: 141,202 32 0.5% 17 Unifeeder ...
For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations, [1] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as well as those in operation (figures as of the 400th edition, 2012/13). A 2020 academic ...
The Federated Shipwrights' and Ship Constructors' Association of Australia was an Australian trade union which existed between 1916 and 1976. It represented shipwrights and boatbuilders in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as sea-going shipwrights aboard vessels in the merchant navy .