Wilhelmsen Ships Service Opens New Office in Tunisia

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has opened a new office in Sousse, south of Tunis and conveniently located between Tunisia’s main ports.

The new facility will service a growing market in the region, including vessels calling on Tunisian ports and a number of offshore customers, with Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s range of agency services and Unitor marine products.

The facility will be operated by Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s sub-contractor Damak.

By establishing the new Sousse office in Tunisia, Wilhelmsen Ships Service now offers a network of coverage in North and West Africa countries including Casablanca (Morocco), Dakar (Senegal), Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Lagos and Port Harcourt (Nigeria).

Eric Gergaud, General Manager North and West Africa comments, “The new site at Sousse offers the company’s services to our customers calling in here. This is another important step in the continuing progression of Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s comprehensive network coverage in the north Africa region.”

During February 2011, Wilhelmsen Ships Service will also be opening a new site at Pointe Noire, Congo, covering also the Southern ports of Cabinda and Soyo in Angola.

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has the world’s largest maritime services network, with the ability to service 2 200 ports in 115 countries. The company’s main focus is to deliver improved vessel operating efficiency to the merchant fleet. Last year the company made 208 000 product deliveries to 22 000 vessels and handled 53 000 port calls. Wilhelmsen Ships Service supplies Unitor marine products, technical services, ships agency services, maritime logistics. The company has 4 400 employees operating out of 318 offices in 72 countries.

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Source: Dredgingtoday.com, January  13, 2011;