Fednav Group
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| Fednav Group | |
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| Type | Corporation |
| Founded | |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Canada |
| Key people | Laurence G. Pathy, President[1] |
| Employees | 275 office staff worldwide 1,100 onboard ships and at terminals. |
| Website | http://www2.fednav.com/anglais/home.html |
Fednav Group is a group of eight Canadian companies in the Ship transport industry.[1] Primarily involved in transporting bulk cargo and breakbulk cargo worldwide, the group is also involved in vessel servicing and cargo handling.[1]
Group company Fednav Limited is Canada's largest ocean-going, dry-bulk shipowning and chartering group.[1] It primarily is engaged in transporting bulk cargo and breakbulk cargo worldwide.[1]
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[edit] Business units
The group's companies include Fednav Limited, Fednav International Ltd., FALLine, Federal Marine Terminals, Inc., Fednav Direct, Canarctic, Enfotec, and Agro-Hall. The group is headquartered in Montreal and has offices in London, Tokyo, Antwerp, Hamburg, Brisbane, and Rio de Janeiro.[1] It also has numerous local offices in Canada and the United States.[1]
The group has a number of revenue streams. It is primarily known as an owner and charterer of ships.[2] According to the company, its main business is marine transportation of bulk and breakbulk cargoes worldwide.[2] The company has expertise in ship transport in the Canadian Arctic and ice navigation services.[2]
The group also provides services off of ships. One example is providing stevedoring services at terminals owned and operated by the Group.[2] It also provided logistics services such as warehousing and ground transportation.[2]
[edit] Fleet
As of 2008, Fednav owns a fleet of 23 ships.[3] The ships were built between 1978 and 2006.[3] All but one of the ships lie in the range of 28,000 DWT to 38,000 DWT, with the exception of the Federal Maple with a capacity of 76,608 DWT.[3] Two of the ships are registered in Canada, 11 in Hong Kong, 5 in Barbados, and 4 in the Marshall Islands.[3]
The rest of Fednav's fleet consists of 61 short- and long-term charters.[4] These ships were built between 1984 and 2008.[4] Three of these are over 70,000 DWT, 15 more are over 50,000 DWT, 2 more are over 40,000 DWT, and the rest fall in the range of 17,000 DWT to 37,000 DWT.[4] Three of these are registered in Antigua & Barbuda, 7 in the Bahamas, 1 in Croatia, 12 in Cyprus, 5 in Hong Kong, 8 in Liberia, 1 in Malta, 6 in Norway, and 18 in Panama.[4]
Many of the ships in the Fednav fleet are rated for work in ice.[4][3] They work in locations such as the Beaufort Sea and Bent Horn at latitude 76°77′ north.[5] Vessels such as the Federal Baffin and Federal Franklin, for example, have been classified with the Ice Class 1A* notation by Det Norske Veritas.[5] This allows them to work in the Canadian Arctic with the assistance of icebreakers.[5]
Fednav vessels operating in the arctic are required to have specially trained ice advisors on board.[5] Ice advisors advise the ship's master in issues such as minimizing ice accretion.[5]
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Fednav Group (2007). Fednav Group Divisions. Fednav Group. Retrieved on 2008-04-21.
- Fednav Group (2007). Fednav Limited. Fednav Group. Retrieved on 2008-04-21.
- Fednav Group (2007). Fleet Owned. Fednav Group. Retrieved on 2008-04-21.
- Fednav Group (2007). Fleet Chartered. Fednav Group. Retrieved on 2008-04-21.
- Fednav Group (2007). Management Contacts. Fednav Group. Retrieved on 2008-04-21.
- Røe, Magne A. (2008-02-12). Fednav Limited, Montreal: Solving the Canadian Arctic Transportation Challenge. Det Norske Veritas. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
