News
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Tom Smith
We'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
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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
SCARA (ex-staff association) News and Notices
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Ben Buss
Dear SCARA Member, Very sadly we have been notified of the death of Ben Buss on 28 January 2021. Ben was another member of the Insurance & Claims Department where long ...
Posted 28 Mar 2021, 13:42 by Mike Chapman
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Tony Ellis
Dear SCARA Member, Sad news of the death of Tony Ellis has been received from Eddie Wipperman. Tony was not a SCARA member but would have been well known to ...
Posted 27 Mar 2021, 03:07 by Mike Chapman
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Alan Walker
Dear SCARA Member, Very sadly we have received news from Alan Walker's wife Eunice that Alan passed away on Sunday 14 March 2021. The funeral will take place on ...
Posted 26 Mar 2021, 10:12 by Mike Chapman
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Ann Guirey - Funeral details
Dear SCARA Member, Further to SCARA message of 20/01/21 advising of the sad death of Ann Guirey, please find below links for on-line viewing of the church ...
Posted 4 Feb 2021, 00:45 by Mike Chapman
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Michael Coffey O.A.M
Dear 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 27 Jan 2021, 12:58 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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