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PONL Heritage - Celebrating the past, staying in touch in the future...
Tom SmithWe've received the very sad news that former P&O Containers and P&O Nedlloyd sea staff colleague Tom Smith has passed away. Tom's twin brother William has ...
Posted 26 Nov 2020, 12:41 by Mike Chapman
Baron Maurice VelgeSad 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
World in a BoxWe 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
Michael Coffey O.A.MDear SCARA Member, Very sadly we have been notified of the death of Michael Coffey who was one of our Australian members. His family have kindly sent the following obituary ...
Posted by Mike Chapman
Ann GuireyDear SCARA Member, Very sadly we have received news from Ann Guirey's husband Gerry of her death on Thursday 14 January 2021. Gerry writes, "I am very sad to ...
Posted 20 Jan 2021, 11:23 by Mike Chapman
Joyce WhiteDear SCARA Member, Joyce White's daughter Debbie has advised us that Joyce sadly died on 30 December 2020. Joyce worked for OCL/P&O Containers/PONL in London from ...
Posted 20 Jan 2021, 10:15 by Mike Chapman
Adrian Tucker - Some recollectionsFollowing the sad announcement about Adrian Tucker’s passing, we had the following note from Geoff Robbins: 'Tom' and I go back to the very beginnings of OCL in the ...
Posted 14 Jan 2021, 12:06 by Mike Chapman
Adrian TuckerDear SCARA Member, Very sadly we have received news from his daughter Andrea that Adrian Tucker died on Thursday 7 January. Adrian would have been well known to many of ...
Posted 14 Jan 2021, 04:44 by Mike Chapman
First Liverpool ReunionThe 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
OCL/P&O Birmingham Reunion 2014The 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
2014 Tokyo ReunionNovember 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
Julia LouppovaMy 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
Nick FrostMany 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
Billy BraggAccording 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
