COMMUNITY NEWS
Kanoo Shipping Wins ‘Ship Agent of the Year’ at Seatrade Maritime Awards
Oct 31, 2018 3:32 PM
Kanoo Shipping UAE & Oman Country Manager John Drinkwater, Kanoo Shipping Executive General Manager Jonathan Bygrave, Kanoo Shipping Head of Commercial Nikolai Norman and Kanoo Shipping Regional Hub Coordination Manager Mahasara Iddawela
Kanoo Shipping, a fully owned business
division of Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo Group, won a major shipping award by Seatrade
Maritime Awards at an event held in Atlantis the Palm, Dubai on Sunday (October
28).
The ‘Ship Agent of the Year’ Award was
accepted by Kanoo Shipping Executive General Manager Jonathan Bygrave and the
event was attended by executives from Kanoo Shipping including Kanoo Shipping Head
of Commercial Nikolai Norman and members of the management team.
Almost 1,000 industry professionals attended
the Seatrade Maritime Awards 2018, the most influential award scheme for the
Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Africa. The awards attract a powerful
cluster of maritime influencers, leaders and personalities.
Fawzi Ahmed Kanoo, Acting Group CEO of the YBA
Kanoo Group commented on the occasion by saying: “This is a testament to the teamwork
and enthusiasm that we practice every day, the expertise and care that we show
our global client base, as well as working with an excellent team and dedicated
shareholder involvement.”
Jonathan Bygrave, EGM of Kanoo Shipping said, “This
is a worthy recognition of our continuous effort to provide technological IT
solutions to the Ships Agency Industry and to seamlessly build on feedback from
our clients, that we are celebrating this milestone with today.
“We have demonstrated that we are willing to
invest in quality to keep our standards at the highest level possible in view
of not only IT innovation, but compliance, corporate responsibility and
understanding customers’ needs and their day to day challenges.”
He congratulated the Kanoo Shipping team and
said, “The win showed great confidence in Kanoo Shipping’s trajectory and
expansion into new markets like Africa. To be recognised as the Ship Agent of
the Year by Seatrade and the industry as whole is highly motivating.
Kanoo Shipping is a leading Ship Agent service provider in the Middle
East and Africa, handling close to 19,000 port and cargo calls in 2017, with an
expected 20,000 port calls by end of 2018. Kanoo Shipping’s geographic region consists of offices
in Middle East, Indian subcontinent and South Africa.