Seaboard Jamaica gets 'Top Shipping Solutions' award

Seaboard Jamaica has been awarded 'Top Shipping Solutions for Exporters, 2009' by the Jamaica Exporters' Association (JEA). The company also won the award between 2002 and 2005.

The JEA award is presented yearly to the shipping company or agent in Jamaica that provides the best service for promoting trade for Jamaican exporters. The award was presented to Seaboard during the JEA's awards banquet on June 9.

Chief executive officer of Seaboard Jamaica, Corah-Ann Robertson-Sylvester, said the company was humbled by the award. "We extend our great appreciation to all our customers who made this possible. Our customers are very valuable, hence we strive to offer consistent, personalised and effective customer service," Robertson-Sylvester said. She also extended hearty congratulations to all her customers who received awards from the JEA.

Reliable service

She said Seaboard Jamaica would continue to provide reliable shipping service so that Jamaica's exports can reach the overseas markets.

Seaboard Jamaica was incorporated in 1999, representing Seaboard Marine, a shipping line with more than 25 years' experience, and provides direct, regular shipping service from the United States to the Caribbean region, Central and South America.

Seaboard Jamaica provides the following services:

• twice weekly service from Miami;
• weekly sailings to and from Fernandina Beach and Brooklyn;
• weekly Caribbean service between Kingston and Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad, St Maarten, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Suriname and Guyana;
• weekly direct sailing between Kingston, Montego Bay and Grand Cayman;
• weekly service between Mexico, Columbia, Panama and Jamaica;

LCL exports from Kingston routed to anywhere in the world via Miami.

These services have been instrumental in delivering Jamaican products to overseas markets quickly, safely and reliably.