AEC highly skilled Chartering team, the diversified trading and the flexible high quality fleet sometimes brings some interesting cargoes.
‘This time it was Cocoa Beans in bags’ say Naresh Khandelwal from the AEC operations team and continues ‘We are always ready to handle what is needed and we have the experience and the fleet to provide first class service for special cargoes as well.’
Cocoa Beans stowed in the box holds of the AEC vessel.
The nice design of the Japanese MV AEC Ability II resulted in the perfect stowage of Wood Pulp in Sete, France.
‘This is where these ships differentiates themselves. It is really a minimum of dunnage that is required to load a vessel that is so perfect for the cargo’ says Jesper Lollesgaard, Chartering Manager, London.
Stevedores loading Wood Pulp with ‘spreader’.
AEC has completed yet another successful dry docking. This time it was great fleet vessel MV AEC Belief’s turn.
AEC strive on quality performance with quality vessels, so when it is time for the dry docking of the fleet vessels the entire team put great efforts into getting the best ship out on the water again.
When AEC load grains every inch of space is utilized.
The charter vessel MV Arklow Spray, a 34,905 dwat Bulk Carrier built 2013, was loaded with a full bulk wheat cargo.
Agriculture & Energy Carriers are featured in the next Inside Marine Magazine, with an overview of the company’s activities and an exclusive interview with CEO Lars-Peter Madsen.
The AEC ‘crew’ has decades of experience with the supply of wheat for the Brazilian wheat mills. This week AEC sponsored the wheat conference ABRITRIGO held in Campinas, Brazil alongside names like ADM, Cargill, CHS and many more.
Despite the recent downturn in Brazil, there is now more optimism and hope that things can only get better for the country. However, it is not only a wish as key figures indeed shows an improvement from the lows.
For the country’s agribusiness, this year has seen a bumber soyabean crop with Brazil sitting as the world’s leading soya bean exporter.
The total value of Brazil’s agribusiness has increased steadily over two decades.
However, wheat is mainly imported so the interest at Abitrigo is merely focused on the Brazil internal recovery and the population’s buying power when it comes to bread, cookies and pasta.
The positive drop in the country’s inflation rate is something that is bringing some optimism back.
Normally the AEC inspections are on the ships but this month AEC’s CEO got the opportunity of making a fly-over MV AEC Ability II just after she had loaded a steel cargo in Brazil.
The vessel is technically managed by Messrs Seaquest, Geneva
AEC takes the largest vessel to date to serve their close clients.
‘We continue to deliver and prove our ability to provide our customers whith what they need’ says Jesper Lollesgaard, Chartering Manager in AEC, London and continues ‘AEC ‘crew’ has all the knowledge, experience and drive needed to do any trade in world in any size, but we tend to focus on our core areas and that can sometimes have a large variety in size’.
The Kamarmax chartered for short period is the MV Xin Hua 82.269 mt dwat Built 2012 7/7 holds/hatches and 3,429,930 cbf grain capacity.
The demand for coal is increasing again and AEC are there to provide their clients with the maritime services needed at any time.
AEC discharged a full cargo of coal in Pecem, Brazil this month.
The holds does not look like anything in size when they are full of cargo.
However, a 76,500 dwt Panamax vessel’s holds are indeed enormous when only the last bit of cargo is left…
Jose Cavalieri – Operations
AEC loaded MV Justice (MV 27,9000dwt) with a full cargo of steel slabs from Pecem, Brazil to Europe. The well maintained Japanese built vessel, beautifully accommodated the cargo assisted by her double hull / open-hatch / box-shaped design.
AEC pursue extensive in-house knowledge and experience when it comes to performance of steel cargoes and also has a fleet of same and access to the world fleet of double hulled / semi-box-shaped / open hatch vessels. The combination enable AEC to provide first class, top efficient steel service to it’s steel clients.
Anderson Luiz da Silva
Chartering Manager – South America