Excellence, 7th Edition - BBC Chartering

Dear business partnersand friendsWe hope you had a successful start in 2013 so far. It isa pleasure again presenting you this first excellence issuein 2013.Our ‘world in motion’ continues to grow together and withthat our challenges are becoming more global, however,our mission stays the same: offering you highest levelsof performance on your shipping project, for any cargo,at any port on any service. I like to take the opportunityof the first ‘excellence’ in 2013 to quickly highlight a fewinteresting facts about our business as this might give youa better understanding of what you can expect from us inthe future.As partners to a global community we continue to upgradeour fleet for you and finish our recent new-buildingprograms by taking delivery of all remaining heavy-liftvessels this year. Also we are proud to have just completedtwo other vessel programs (BBC Congo type this Januaryand BBC Bergen type last year) which added to our vesselportfolio enable us to offer you an even younger andmore economic MPV/HL fleet. Also we continue to growour business by matching our fleet portfolio with marketdemands to ensure we continue to become your partnerof choice in the future.Improving market access on a global scale continues tobe a major theme for us this year as well. Easy access tofleet and services of BBC Chartering will bring leadingshipping solutions to you in any corner of the world. Herewe look forward to provide you the local service youneed to manage and execute your transport efficientlyand safe, adhering to highest quality standards.Our global network of professionals continues to be awareand alert as always for any business opportunity andprepares for this on a continuous basis. As the past hasshown, we invite you to consider BBC Chartering as theplace where innovative shipping solutions are developedand executed for any shipping request, no matter if this ison tramp, liner or contract services.‘Energy’ continues to be the driving theme for manyshipping projects and demand is driven by offshore, oiland gas, mining and infrastructure projects worldwide.Those sectors are busier than ever executing importantassignments especially in emerging economies. BBCChartering is pleased to support these projects on a globalscale as we continue to provide tailor made solutions forour clients in any field directly or indirectly involved insuch programs.page 4 | excellence