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B&R Shipping and Trading Ltd. (ID: 2916)
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Group Overview The B&R Group of companies had its beginnings in 1919 as J.W. Tatem & Co., in the town of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, providing steamship agency and stevedoring services to the sugar trade and general cargo liner traffic in that part of the island. Today, B&R is thirteen companies and over four hundred people in a diversified marine services group doing business in the Dominican Republic, Florida and South Carolina. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shipping Agency Agencias Navieras B&R is a privately-owned independent full service agency firm providing liner and tramp agency services in all ports of the Dominican Republic. A sister company in United States, provides liner sales representation throughout the state of South Carolina and Florida and operates an off-port intermodal container terminal in Charleston. Our offices together handle a total of over 1000 vessel calls a year, either via direct port calls or via intermodal/microbridge service. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevedoring and terminal operations The group is a major partner in Naves & Terminales, S.A., the Dominican Republic's largest common-user ocean container terminal and operates an off-port intermodal container terminal in Charleston, S.C. B&R is also a founding partner in the Caucedo Container port project, a U.S.$250M Greenfield Panamax container port scheduled to be in operation by Fall of 2003. The Caucedo Container project is a joint venture between CSX World Terminals and other local interests. For more information on the Caucedo Container port, link to http://www.caucedo.com or http://www.port-technology.com/projects/caucedo/index.html Operaciones Portuarias, a wholly owned subsidiary of B&R, specialized in the handling of clinker, coal, grains, steel, lumber, fertilizer, heavy lift, RO-RO and any many other types of bulk and break-bulk cargoes. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forwarding, brokerage and freight consolidation The group has significant freight forwarding, customs brokerage, freight consolidation and distribution activities, both ocean and air. Its ocean and air forwarding activities in the Dominican Republic are handled by an affiliate operating under the name of Dominican International Forwarding, S.A. which in addition to it?s forwarding activities operates, Caribbean Postal Services (CPS), a private mail and courier service. http://www.dif.com.do http://www.cps-dom.com (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harbor and offshore towing The group is the managing partner in the joint venture towing and salvage firm Remolcadores Dominicanos, S.A. This company has a major share of the harbor work in the Dominican Republic, and also has an active coastwise towing and offshore salvage capability. The company's floating equipment consists of ten harbor and ocean tugs ranging from 3,200 HP to 1,100 HP equipped with GPS SATNAV, radar and SSB. Three of the largest tugs are equipped with towing winches. In addition the fleet includes two single-screw harbor boats of 1,000 and 1,800 h.p., respectively, and two 1,500 h.p. twin screw Kort nozzle offshore line handling vessels. For more information on Remolcadores Dominicanos please visit: www.remoldom.com (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fuel transport The group, through its Bunkers Santo Domingo, S.A. affiliate is currently active in the tank barge business carrying diesel oil and fuel oil for the electric utility industry. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cargo inspection and measurement A wholly-owned group subsidiary, Inspeciones de Carga & Equipos, S.A. specializes in the surveying of petroleum and other liquid as well as dry bulk cargos, and represents significant in-house expertise in the handling of any quantity or quality claims associated with the delivery of petroleum products. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trucking and chassis leasing The group has a wholly-owned intermodal transportation subsidiary, Transportes B&R, S.A. which is engaged in container haulage and the short-term leasing of chassis to the shipping lines handled by the group's agency and terminal firms. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marine Construction and Logistics The B&R group has gained significant expertise in project and the associated logistics marine construction projects. In 1986-87, B&R served as a local subcontractor for the FLOATECH group in the installation of an offshore oil and LP gas pipeline and conventional buoy (CBM) tanker terminal. In 1990, B&R was the prime contractor for AT&T in the shore end instalation and diving work for the first fiber optic submarine communications cable in the Dominican Republic. In 1994, the group provided all of the local engineering and logistics support services to Shaughnessy & Co. of Seattle, WA. for the transportation and installation of a Paceco container crane for SeaLand from Port Everglades Florida to Rio Haina, Dominican Republic. Also in 1994, the group was selected as the prime contractor for the installation of two large diameter seawater inlet pipelines for a 260-acre shrimp aquaculture project in Barahona, Dominican Republic. B&R is the managing partner of the startup dredging firm of Dragados del Caribe, S.A. In 1995, B&R performed the off-loading of a 185 megawatt combined-cycle floating power plant from a semi-submersible barge in Puerto Plata. In 1999 - 2000, B&R was the project logistic contrator for the construction of an off-shore conventional bouy mooring for refined oil products and liquefied petroleum gas discharge terminal in San Pedro de Macoris. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology B&R's office operations are highly automated, and the group's guiding philosophy is one of being able to interface its IT capabilities with those of any of its transportation partners. For instance, B&R's computer network is on-line 24 hours a day with several of its principals, through leased lines and a VSAT satellite dish on the roof of the building, and we have been able to successfully mix IBM mainframe, DEC and Apple hardware in our accounting, documentation, equipment control and MIS networks. The bulk of the companies? applications have been migrated from a mainframe environment to a client-server system running on an Oracle Database. As an example of B&R's leadership in this field, the group was instrumental in the formation of a highly successful container demurrage billing and collection agency in the Dominican Republic ( Despachos Portuarios, S.A.), which relies on a real-time data transmission and processing capability linking computer terminals at each of the port gates with a central office via high-speed modems, fiber optic cable, microwave relays and cellular backup. The project involved considerable software development, the requirements of which were determined in-house by B&R, and called for highly innovative engineering approaches that fully engaged the capabilities of both the local Verizon telecommunications subsidiary and the hardware supplier IBM. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Insurance & travel The group has a small, wholly-owned insurance brokerage firm, B&R Corredores de Seguros, S.A. and operates a full-service IATA travel agency, Viajes Corporativos B&R. (Back to index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oil and gas exploration The group is the local partner in Petrolera Once Once, S.A., an E&P company currently drilling wildcat wells onshore, on a 2.5 million acre concession in the Cibao Valley in the Dominican Republic. Providing steamship agency and stevedoring services to the sugar trade and general cargo liner traffic on the island. B&R Shipping and Trading Ltd.