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DORIS MARITIME SERVICES S.A. ("DORIS") is a Swiss service company to the maritime industry, established in Geneva in 1983 by Mr. Nicolas Wirth.
Mr. Wirth has a wide experience in all aspects of ships' technical and commercial management is heading a team of highly experienced and dedicated professionals providing management and financing services in the following fields :
Today, Doris has some spare ship management capacity. DORIS has successfully conducted the following main activities :
DORIS was completing a major container hub port project with HPH (Hutchison International Port Holdings, part of the Li Ka-Shing Group). Doris now is working on another similar project to secure long term employment for container feeder vessels. With the experience in this field from 1983 onwards, with an excellent contact to the market and the users (major liner companies), together with an excellent technical/operational staff, DORIS is well suited to market and operate in this segment, taking advantage of the experience, and the close contacts in the trade. DORIS employs in Geneva a highly skilled staff in the fields of chartering, operations, crewing, technical management, insurance and project development. It is fully ISO 9000, ISPS and ISM certified. DORIS, Naess Ship Management & Pearl Grace share their resources to provide global service coverage, a crew roster of over 800 sea going staff and make use of up to date electronic tools / software. Our references:
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Mr. Wirth, the General Manager, born in 1945, has a dual British and Swiss nationality. He has spent 10 years at sea in the merchant marine, acquiring considerable practical experience in all aspects of ship operation, and possesses a British First Mate's Foreign Going Ticket. He has graduated with honors from Cardiff University in 1975 with a Bsc. (hons) in Maritime Studies. In 1975 he joined Tradax / Cargill, and from 1978 to 1983 he worked at Acomarit Service Maritime S.A., Geneva, a ship management company where he was a director in charge of a fleet which at the time grew to over one million tons deadweight.
The activities of DORIS have been in container leasing, containerised transport, liner operations and ship owning. DORIS is now concentrating on ship management activities. The company is, since 1987 onwards, managing and operating a shipping company owning small container vessels, all chartered to 1st class liner companies (like Mitsui OSK, M.S.C., Sea Consortium (BXCL), SeaLand). Simultaneously, the company is managing larger bulk carriers, container ships and RoRo vessels.
Today, DORIS concentrates it's activities in ship management, currently is involving container vessels and bulk carriers under commercial and operational management, trading world wide on long term charters to first class major liner companies as above.