PONLHeritage News
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Australia Day award for Mike Coffey
We have received the following great news via Geoff Bolton: "Today's Australia Day (26 Jan) Honours list includes a Medal of the Order of Australia award (OAM) 'to Michael ...
Posted 26 Jan 2015, 00:14 by Mike Chapman
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Cabers to Australia
Three weeks ago we put out a plea for information on behalf of an Australian Scottish Highland Games enthusiast (see Were you working for OCL in the early 1970s?). James ...
Posted 15 Nov 2014, 15:24 by Mike Chapman
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Were you working for OCL in the early 1970s?
If so, do you remember the special shipment of two Scottish Highland Games' cabers from the UK to Australia which was mentioned at the time in the OCL magazine?We ...
Posted 26 Oct 2014, 15:33 by Mike Chapman
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New book on Maersk Line
"Creating Global Opportunities — Maersk Line in Containerisation 1973-2013" (Cambridge) by Chris Jephson and Henning Morgen covers A.P.Moller-Maersk's start in containerisation in the early 1970s, and ...
Posted 24 May 2014, 11:09 by Mike Chapman
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G.P. Sinha
We understand that former General Manager for P&O Nedlloyd South East Asia, G.P. Sinha passed away this morning (Saturday 10 May). On the PONL Facebook page former colleague ...
Posted 10 May 2014, 11:27 by Mike Chapman
SCARA (ex-staff association) News and Notices
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2015 SCARA Golf Day
Please find below the details for the 2015 Rose Bowl Challenge which will take place at the Bentley Golf Club, Brentwood, Essex on Tuesday 19th May 2015. For booking etc ...
Posted 24 Jan 2015, 09:03 by Mike Chapman
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Rodney English
It is with much sadness that we wish to inform you of the passing of J. R. (Rodney) English. In the eyes of many he was possibly one of the ...
Posted 21 Jan 2015, 13:18 by Mike Chapman
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SCARA 2014 Annual Reunion Lunch
Who would have thought that Friday 31st October would turn out to be the warmest Halloween on record in the UK? A temperature of 23.6C was recorded in Gravesend ...
Posted 12 Jan 2015, 12:47 by Mike Chapman
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Gerry Scott
We have received the following sad news today from Eddie Wipperman: It is regret that I have to inform you that Gerry Scott passed away on Tuesday 6th January. Though ...
Posted 9 Jan 2015, 14:41 by PONL Heritage
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Harry Feasey
We have received the sad news that Harry Feasey passed away on 27 December 2014. Harry was not a SCARA member but will be know to many of you. The ...
Posted 3 Jan 2015, 14:32 by Mike Chapman
Shop!We've brought together the information about how to order ship DVDs and the OCL book, British Box Business - A History of OCL into a new area of this site.
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Reunion Reports
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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
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2014 Birmingham Reunion
The Annual OCL/P&O/P&O Nedlloyd Birmingham Reunion takes place this year on Saturday 8th November from 1pm onwards. The venue is again The Square Peg, Corporation Street ...
Posted 7 Sep 2014, 13:33 by Mike Chapman
Where are they now?
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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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Paul Soulsby
Former P&O Nedlloyd colleague Paul Soulsby has been appointed Senior Vice President Shared Services at Costa Crociere, also known as Costa Cruises., From 1992 to 1995 Paul was European ...
Posted 12 Jan 2014, 11:41 by Mike Chapman
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Bob Bransdon
I started at Joint Cargo, then to ACTA thru to P&O Containers/P&O Nedlloyd, all in the Sydney offices. I worked in State Commercial, HO DP, HO Trade ...
Posted 1 Oct 2013, 00:18 by Mike Chapman
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James Baldwin
Joined OCL in 1973 in the ICM division. Over the next twelve years worked in various management divisions in Barking and Beagle House. Left in 1985 to join Inchcape Shipping ...
Posted 28 Sep 2013, 14:32 by Mike Chapman
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Craig Bowen
"Since leaving P&ONL (it’ll be 10 years this October) I have been working at BHJ. It’s a Danish company that make food ingredients, I do the orders ...
Posted 7 Sep 2013, 00:39 by Mike Chapman
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Bill Wightman
William Wightman…known as Bill Wightman"Joined OCL in 1973 in Coatbridge, Scotland, as a Movements Controller. Stayed with the company, as it became P&OCL, P&O Containers, and ...
Posted 7 Sep 2013, 10:42 by Mike Chapman
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