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Maritime London is a not for profit trade association for companies that provide professional services to the international shipping industry. [1] The chief executive is Jos Standerwick. Maritime London runs a scholarship scheme, MLOCS , to allow young people to train to become Merchant Navy officers.
Maritime UK is the umbrella body and representative body for the UK maritime sector. The UK's maritime sector comprises shipping, ports, marine (leisure, shipbuilding, technology and science) and maritime business services. Maritime contributes around £46.1bn to the UK economy and supports over 1,000,000 jobs. [1]
The ITF Seafarers' Trust was established by the ITF Executive Board in 1981 as a body with charitable status under UK law. [1] The Trust financially supports organisations that directly provide welfare services to seafarers, acting as a lobbyist for change in the maritime community, and support long-term programmes that improve maritime workers’ health and welfare. [2]
The Marine Society, the world's oldest public maritime charity, was an initiative of a group of London merchants and gentlemen, who first met at the King's Arms Tavern, Cornhill, London on 25 June 1756 to discuss a plan to supply two or three thousand seafarers for the navy. [citation needed] Recruitment began immediately. Sponsors were sought ...
The Baltic Exchange (incorporated as The Baltic Exchange Limited [1]) is a membership organisation for the maritime industry, and freight market information provider for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts. Situated since Edwardian times at 24-28 St Mary Axe, London EC3, the building was destroyed by a bomb in 1992.
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in June [citation needed] 1896. [1] In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership of 19.7 million transport workers [2] in all industrial transport sectors: civil aviation, dockers, inland navigation ...
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is a government corporation of South Africa and a subsidiary of Transnet, responsible for managing and governing eight of South Africa's major seaports. TNPA is a landlord authority responsible for the master planning, controlling of port navigations, controlling of port services & facilities and ...
Transnet Engineering is a rolling stock manufacturer and maintenance company. It was established when the engineering workshops of Transnet were transferred to a separate division as Transwerk. It was rebranded Transnet Rail Engineering, and then again to Transnet Engineering after it began assembling port equipment such as straddle carriers ...