NYK Line enters Austrian market with own name
New NYK Line office in Vienna headed by Gertrud Taylor to market container liner services in Austria from August 1, 2013
The Japanese shipping group NYK Line is to open an office in Vienna on August 1, 2013. The new location is to succeed the Schenker shipping agency in Vienna, and will be in charge of sales of liner services and coordination of sales and export bookings for containers, the enterprise informs in a press release. More tasks as well as roro shipments are handled by the NYK office in Hamburg.
"Our goal is to increase and expand the presence of NYK in the Austrian market. We are looking forward to support our customers from the new office and control our sales and booking of activities from here," says Klaus-Peter Barth, Managing Director of NYK Line (Germany) GmbH. The NYK team in Vienna is headed by Gertrud Taylor. She has many years of experience in the shipping industry with MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company Austria and Maersk Line.
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) is one of the world’s leading transport and logistics companies. At the end of March 2013, the group had 846 ocean-going vessels as well as their own cargo planes, cargo trains and fleet. The NYK fleet consists of 389 bulk carriers, 126 container ships, 120 roro ships, 82 tankers, 51 woodchip carriers, 28 LNG ships, 18 heavy cargo/conventional ships, three cruise ships and 29 other ships. The NYK Group achieved turnover of approximately USD 23 billion in 2012 and employs approximately 55,000 people worldwide. Headquarters are in Tokyo, with regional headquarters in London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney and Sao Paulo.
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