Hemas Maritime, agents for Evergreen Lines
Hemas Maritime (Pvt) Ltd, a member of the Hemas Group, has been
appointed by Evergreen Lines as its general agent in Sri Lanka. Hemas
maritime is engaged in shipping, chartering, and related services
businesses.
The new appointment will also support Hemas Group's future goals of
expanding in the shipping and logistics sectors enhancing Sri Lanka's
maritime and logistic hub aspirations. The appointment was made through
a formal tender process, from among many professional ship agency
companies, the company said in a release.
A spokesman for Hemas said, "We are honoured with this appointment by
Evergreen Lines as its agents in Sri Lanka. We will ensure that we
support Evergreen to enhance its presence, using Colombo Port as its
regional hub and in expanding services through Colombo, thereby
providing Sri Lankan exporters and importers greater service options for
ocean freight logistics to and from Evergreen's comprehensive global
network".
Hemas' shipping agency business functions currently as agents for Far
Shipping, one of the largest feeder carriers servicing the Port of
Colombo. This is also complemented with Hemas Logistics, through its
Container Freight Station and haulage business and its growing third
party logistics offering.
The Evergreen Group began with the setting up of Evergreen Marine
Corporation (EMC) by Dr. Yung-Fa Chang on September 1, 1968, and is now
one of the leading international shipping companies in terms of fleet
operations, service quality and innovative shipbuilding concepts. It is
ranked sixth globally by Alphaliner.
The liner launched operations in Colombo in 1986. Today, it is the
third largest mainline carrier to the Port of Colombo.
Evergreen Line is the unified common trade name for the shipping
companies of the Evergreen Group. The brand 'Evergreen Line' is used for
international marketing purposes for Evergreen Marine (UK) Ltd,
Evergreen Marine (Hong Kong) Ltd, Evergreen Marine (Singapore) (Pvt)
Ltd, Evergreen International S.A, Italia Marirrima S.P.A., Evergreen
Marine Corp. (Taiwan) Ltd., and Greencompass Marine S.A. |