Status five months into 2012:
127 corporate members and growing, 2 chairmen, 11 events, 700 plus attendees, numerable VIP guests speakers including CEO Nykredit Group Peter Engberg Jensen, CEO of London City Airport Richard Gooding, 3 time 800m Gold medal winner Wilson Kipketer, former Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
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Inchcape shipping services
Inchcape Shipping Services is one of the world’s leading marine services providers tracing its origins back to Calcutta in 1847.
Today, through its proprietary network of some 255 offices employing over 3,500 people across 66 countries, ISS provides its customers with an unparalleled global resource delivered locally and tailored to each customer’s individual needs.
Its diversified customer base of shipowners, charterers and others includes clients across the oil, cruise, container and bulk commodity sectors as well as naval, government and inter-governmental clients. Additionally, ISS provides landside commercial and humanitarian logistics, transit, offshore support and other associated marine services.
The Company also provides a growing range of outsourcing services. These include global crew and marine spares logistics; port agency management and commercial representation; and sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning solutions through its subsidiary ShipNet and other associated services.
To mark a significant link with the Company’s past, ISS recently sponsored the Bicentenary of the building and lighting of the Bell Rock Lighthouse erected on the Inchcape Reef off the east coast of Scotland.
Speaking at a reception at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, attended by HRH The Princess Royal, ISS CEO Capt. Claus Hyldager, said: “We are delighted to be sponsoring these events marking such a remarkable engineering feat. It clearly meant a great deal to our founder, James Lyle Mackay who, upon the Lighthouse’s Centenary in 1911 when raised to the Peerage, took his title from the Inchcape Reef, and to whom we owe our name today.
“We have taken this opportunity to launch the ISS Lighthouse Relay Voyage – a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative inspired by the Bell Rock Lighthouse’s altruistic purpose. As a company with offices in over 60 countries around the world, Inchcape Shipping Services is committed to giving something back to the communities where we do business and this project will see us raising funds for the sick, underprivileged and disadvantaged within those communities.”
A baton containing a scroll listing charities nominated by each ISS country office around the world, began its voyage when Capt. Hyldager handing it over to the Company’s UK General Manager off the lighthouse on 3 February. It is now making its way around Europe’s ports on board vessels handled by ISS on behalf of its shipowning clients. Funds raised in aid of deserving charities have already far exceeded expectations.
