Cyprus Shipping News is delighted to announce BSM Hellas as the Charity Sponsor and ELPIDA as Charity Foundation of the 1st CSN Greece Maritime Supply Chain and Vessels Performance Forum, Athens, 14 March “Navigating the Complexities of Maritime Supply Chain and Vessels’ Performance Management”.
BSM Hellas
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) is an integrated maritime solutions provider and one of the world’s top-ranking ship managers in the gas, tanker, offshore, container, bulk and cruise sectors.
BSM manages a fleet of 430 vessels in full management and additionally 220 in crew management. The company operates a network of 11 ship management centres, 28 crew service and five wholly-owned maritime training centres in more than 30 locations with 20,000 seafarers and 3,000 shore-based employees across the globe.
BSM traces its roots back to 1883 with the founding of Schulte & Bruns by Johann Hermann Schulte and his friend and partner, Christoph Bruns, in Papenburg, Germany. Subsequent generations of the Schulte family bought out partners’ interests to form what is known today as the wholly family-owned Schulte Group.
As a family owned company, BSM is able to operate independently from the constraints of the equity markets and places the highest priority on long term relationships with its customers. Personal responsibility is at the core of BSM’s operational excellence – and defines its customer centricity, full transparency within the company and with customers, and excellent Loss, Prevention, Safety and Quality standards. BSM’s entrepreneurial spirit is the basis for steady innovation.
BSM is dedicated to supporting its customers’ businesses and mindfully takes care of their assets. As a member of the Schulte Group, this commitment has been the key to its success for more than 140 years. It allows BSM to offer customers peace of mind – and competitive advantages through maximum vessel availability, safety, reliability and efficiency.
ELPIDA
The “ELPIDA – Association of Friends of Children with cancer” was founded in 1990 by a group of motivated women, with Mrs. Marianna V. Vardinoyannis as the President of the Board of the Association. Its aim is to stand by and support in every possible way children with cancer and their families. Always guided by love, care and responsibility to fellow human beings and aiming to fight childhood cancer, through any possible means, “ELPIDA”, since its foundation until today, has implemented multifaceted scientific and social projects, which literally changed the landscape of childhood cancer in Greece. “ELPIDA” Association, from the time of its establishment, has struggled to improve childhood cancer statistics in our country with research programs, personalized treatments and psychological support of the children and shall continue to do so by constantly setting and attaining new goals dictated by new needs in the field of childhood cancer. With the undivided support of the entire society, this important project continues dynamically and innovatively.
