News
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Baron Maurice Velge
Sad news as Baron Maurice Velge has passed away at the age of 84. Mr. Velge was amongst others founder/owner of P&O Container Agencies in Antwerp, also founder ...
Posted 7 Oct 2020, 11:16 by Mike Chapman
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World in a Box
We have received the following communication from Martin Orchard about a fascinating video commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of the deep-sea container trade in Australia:
Dear David ...
Posted 9 Dec 2019, 12:44 by Mike Chapman
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Flinders Bay model at the Fremantle museum
David Iredale has kindly sent through the following report and photographs covering his visit to the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle, Australia: The SS Flinders Bay Model (wrongly indicated as ...
Posted 2 Sep 2019, 00:03 by Mike Chapman
SCARA (ex-staff association) News and Notices
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Terry Bond
Dear SCARA Member, We have received news from Margaret Bond of the sad death of her husband Terry Bond who passed away 24 September 2020. During his time with OCL ...
Posted 7 Oct 2020, 06:43 by Mike Chapman
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Pat Blewman
Dear SCARA Member, Sadly we have received news from James Blewman following the death of his father Patrick (Pat) Blewman on 1 October 2020. Pat worked for P&O Containers ...
Posted 7 Oct 2020, 06:43 by Mike Chapman
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SCARA update August 2020
A garden, 2020 Reunion, SCARA Committee, SCARA Golf Day, local social events, industry news & keeping in touch... Dear SCARA member, We hope this message finds you keeping well and in ...
Posted 10 Aug 2020, 12:07 by Mike Chapman
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Dudley Robertson
Dear SCARA Member, We are very sorry to advise of the death of our dear friend and colleague Dudley Robertson. His sisters Fiona and Christine kindly sent the following message ...
Posted 13 Jul 2020, 07:54 by Mike Chapman
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Sue Cessford - Updated
Dear SCARA Member, It is with great sadness that we have to advise that Sue Cessford passed away on 5 July 2020. Sue attended nearly all of the SCARA reunions ...
Posted 19 Jul 2020, 13:13 by Mike Chapman
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Reunion Reports
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First Liverpool Reunion
The reunion did in fact take place at long last! Eighteen of us attended at the William Gladstone in Liverpool on Saturday 18 April 2015. We had apologies from a ...
Posted 30 Jul 2015, 13:10 by Mike Chapman
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OCL/P&O Birmingham Reunion 2014
The Annual Reunion for Birmingham was held on Saturday 8th November 2014 – despite the horrendous weather in the morning we had a good number of people turn up (30) and ...
Posted 6 Jan 2015, 14:28 by Mike Chapman
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2014 Tokyo Reunion
November 2014 saw a long-wished reunion in Tokyo: Geoff Bolton, OCL/P&OCL veteran of thirty years from the 1967 startup of the OCAL head office in Sydney, moved ...
Posted 29 Nov 2014, 13:42 by Mike Chapman
Where are they now?
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Julia Louppova
My name is Julia Louppova and I am a former PONL Russia team member,I joined P&O Nedlloyd Moscow in November 1998 as an Administrative Assistant. I was soon ...
Posted 31 Jan 2017, 13:40 by Mike Chapman
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Nick Frost
Many thanks to Roger Brown, Mick Gander and Adrian Malupa for identifying the actor, screenwriter and producer Nick Frost as a former colleague who worked in the Hainault office for ...
Posted 26 Oct 2015, 11:48 by Mike Chapman
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Billy Bragg
According to his biography ("Billy Bragg: Still suitable for miners" by Andrew Collins), the British singer-songwriter left school to work for Overseas Containers Limited (OCL) in London ("at the ...
Posted 30 Jan 2015, 12:19 by Mike Chapman
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