A ship chandler (or ship's chandler) is a retail dealer who specialises in supplies or equipment for ships, known as ship's stores. A ship chandler is a person (or sometimes a group/agency) that totally deals in supplying required commodities for a shipping vessel and its crew. They work somewhat similar to the grocer, who supplies all the required food grains to households. A ship chandler supplies all the necessary and requisite commodities to a ship when at port.
Technical Service Providers
Technical service providers (TSPs) offer services to agricultural producers such as farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners on behalf of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). TSPs include individuals, private businesses, American Indian tribes, nonprofit organizations, and public agencies.TSPs expand the number and availability of conservation technical experts capable of offering customized, one-on-one conservation advice to agricultural producers.
Marine Service Providers
Conducting safe and efficient operations throughout a vessel’s lifetime is paramount for onboard and onshore management teams. Well-defined procedures that focus on mitigating risk are critical to achieving these objectives. Our assurance services provide ship owners and operators with innovative, up-to-date solutions to help them define and improve procedures, while better managing the myriad of risks associated with ship operations or reactivation.
Port Agencies
As per the dictionary definition, the term agent means someone who acts on behalf of another person or business organisations. When it comes to port agents and port agency that they represent, the former plays a very important role as a part of shipping services in the shipping and marine industry.Ships and the ship’s captain approach a port agency to make sure that proper mooring areas are allotted to the ship and all the pertaining documents are ready and adequately taken care of. Additionally, port agencies also mention all minor and major aspects about the charges of customs and all other government procedures required to be fulfilled by the captain of the ship.
Brokerage Service Providers
Brokerage firms are financial institutions that help you buy and sell securities.A discount brokerage firm is a brokerage firm that traditionally doesn't provide any financial consulting or planning services. An online brokerage firm is a brokerage firm that provides its services through the internet.A broker gets paid on commission for helping clients buy and sell investment tools like stocks, bonds and mutual funds. To buy and sell stocks, bonds and mutual funds, you need a broker
Chartering Service Providers
The transporting of cargo or people who have contracted to have exclusive use of a vehicle, aircraft, or vessel at a fixed rate, under one contract, for a specified itinerary; for example, a school might charter a bus to carry students to a location for a field trip. The students would have exclusive use of the bus for the time contracted.
