Cornships Management and Agency Inc. was a Turkish
shipping company
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Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing ships by different kinds of cargo:
# Bulk cargo is a type of special cargo that ...
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[Cornships 2007, ''Home''.] The company managed and provided agency services for the fleet owned and controlled by
Corn Marine Ltd. of
Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...
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The company specialized in
dry bulk cargo
Bulk cargo is commodity cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities.
Description
Bulk cargo refers to material in either liquid or granular, particulate form, as a mass of relatively small solids, such as petroleum/ crude oil ...
.
Cornships was divided into four departments: operations, technical, crewing, and commercial & agency department.
[Cornships 2007, ''Personnel''.]
History
Cornships Management was a privately held
corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and ...
founded by Akin Falay and Charles Gamon.
They founded the company after Falay dissolved his partnership with Semih Sohtorik in Semih Sohtorik Management and Agency (SSMA).
Falay, born in 1943, was a graduate of the Law School of the
University of Istanbul
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, motto = tr, Tarihten Geleceğe Bilim Köprüsü
, mottoeng = Science Bridge from Past to the Future
, established = 1453 1846 1933
...
. He previously worked for Istanbul's Koctuc Line and in New York for eight years as the Thule Ship Agency.
[SSMA, ''SSMA History''.] He joined SSMA in 1977.
Charles Gamon commenced shipping in 1979 and founded Cornavin Shipping
with Falay and Semih Sohtorik in 1982.
Fleet
Cornships' fleet initially consisted of three vessels, and grew to fourteen.
[Cornavin Shipping Ltd, ''Ship Positions''.] The ships, categorized as
minibulker
A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo — such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement — in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, econom ...
s, ranged from and .
All the ships were built in the 1980s.
[Cornships 2007, ''Fleet''.] The cargo holds were shaped to admit
intermodal container
An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, is a large standardized shipping container, designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – from sh ...
s (shipping containers), and featured large open hatchcovers, as well as tween-decks that could hinge and fold up.
The ships also all featured cargo cranes with a 50
metric ton
The tonne ( or ; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI. It is also referred to as a metric ton to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton ( United State ...
capacity.
The ships were given names beginning with the word ''Corn'', for example ''Corn Rose'' and ''Corn Diva''.
The fleet was broken down into two classes, the ''Corn Lilly'' class and the slightly smaller ''Corn Brook'' class.
The former consisted of five ships, built between 1986 and 1988.
These had a capacity of , a
gross tonnage
Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage. Neither gross tonnage nor gross register tonnage should be confused with measures of mass or weig ...
of 5,974 tons, and a
length overall of .
The smaller ''Corn Brook'' class consisted of two ships, both built in 1984.
They had a capacity of , a
gross tonnage
Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage. Neither gross tonnage nor gross register tonnage should be confused with measures of mass or weig ...
of 4,983 tons, and a
length overall of .
The Cornships fleet has worked in the worldwide arena, but specialized in the Europe, Mediterranean, Black Sea and West African markets.
The company dealt in cargoes such as pipes, projects, bulk-bagged cocoa, steel, bagged and general cargoes.
All the ships owned by Corn Marine Ltd Malta have now been sold.
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*{{cite web, url=http://www.cornavin.co.uk, title=Cornavin Shipping Ltd — Main Site, accessdate=2008-04-23, website=www.cornavin.co.uk
External links
Map of central office
Shipping companies of Turkey