THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, March 18, 1996 TAG: 9603160470
SECTION: BUSINESS WEEKLY PAGE: 13 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Cover Story
SOURCE: BUSINESS WEEKLY
LENGTH: Short : 46 lines
Cees van de Mortel oversees more than just Elizabeth River Terminals.
The 33-year-old native of the Netherlands also oversees a terminal in Brunswick, Ga., that Van Ommeren N.V. leases from the Georgia Ports Authority. That terminal, known as Marine Port Terminals Inc., handles general cargo such as paper and lumber in addition to dry-bulk commodities.
Van Ommeren, a Dutch shipping company, employs about 4,300 people in 25 countries and has annual sales of nearly $1.5 billion. It owns 31 port terminals in Europe, Asia and the Americas, most of which handle liquid-bulk products such as gasoline.
It's the third largest independent tank storage company in the world. It's a partner in IMTT-Chesapeake, a tank farm and liquid-bulk terminal across the river from Elizabeth River Terminals.
Van Ommeren also operates a fleet of 30 ocean-going tankers and dry-bulk ships. A partnership including Van Ommeren recently ordered five double-hulled product tankers from Newport News Shipbuilding.
Its fleet of 110 smaller inland tankers serve Europe's Rhine River. It also provides a variety of other transport services including freight forwarding, warehousing and stevedoring.
Before coming here in 1993, Van de Mortel worked for Van Ommeren in Singapore in freight forwarding. - CHRISTOPHER DINSMORE MEMO: [For a related story, see page 12 of BUSINESS WEEKLY for this date.]
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MOTOYA NAKAMURA
The Virginian-Pilot
The terminal will handle just about any bulk product, providing it
isn't too dusty or explosive or poisonous, says Cees can de Mortel,
president and chief executive.
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