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NYK Line Opens New Office in Austria
As from August 1st 2013, NYK Line will be opening its own Liner office in Vienna. Liner services covering the Austrian market will be handled by the new NYK office.
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The international Transport and Logistics Service Provider NYK, has awarded its Environmental Award ???Captain Eco 2012??? to Container Maintenance Repair Hamburg GmbH (CMR), a specialist for the maintenance and repair of reefer containers. The award was presented by Dennis Dannfeld, Team Leader Port Operations and Jürgen Koppelmann, Team Leader Maintenance & Repair/Senior Technical Inspector in the name of NYK Line in Hamburg to Kai Tiedemann, General Manager of CMR.
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Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of NYK Group Europe Ltd, Svein Steimler, will receive an honorary degree fromSouthamptonSolentUniversityfor his outstanding accomplishments in the maritime industry.
He will be awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Maritime Operations at a ceremony at Southampton's Guildhall on Thursday 22 November.
Svein Steimler started his shipping career after leaving the Norwegian Navy 35 years ago. Since entering the industry, he has held a variety of senior positions within various ship broking and ship owning companies.
In 1996 he was appointed Executive Vice President of NYK Bulkship (Europe) Ltd with responsibility for building NYK's RORO business in Europeas well as increasing NYK Group's activities.
With headquarters in Tokyo, the NYK Group operates out of 230 world wide locations and employs approx 55,000 people. The company owns 838 vessels plus cargo aircraft, trucks and warehouses.
Svein spearheaded the purchase of a Belgian car terminal in 2002. He now chairs the company, whose Zeebrugge terminal is amongst the largest in the world, handling three million vehicles annually. Svein is determined to make the terminal a state-of-the-art facility and the most environmental of its kind, using solar and wind-turbine technology.
Svein was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of NYK Group Europe Ltd in 2008. In 2010 he initiated talks with Knutsen OAS which led to the joint-venture Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers (KNOT), which he now chairs. KNOT is the world's second largest shuttle tanker company.
ENDS LONDON, 14th November 2012