Hapag-Lloyd Lanka continues success in customer excellence
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Kirk Baldsing, Assistant General Manager (Europe and Mediterranean Sector) receiving the Best Customer Service Provider award from K. D. S. Ruwanchandra, Secretary to the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Sri Lanka (centre).
Hapag-Lloyd Lanka, a subsidiary of Aitken Spence PLC and the local representation for Hapag-Lloyd-AG- Hamburg, won two Customer Service Awards for the Europe Trade and Mediterranean Trade at the recently held awards ceremony by the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (UK) – Sri Lanka Branch.
The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) (UK) founded in 1911 and received the ‘Royal Charter’ in the year 1920; is fundamentally dedicated to promoting professionalism in the international maritime industry. Its worldwide acceptance affirms the ‘Institute’ as the only professional body that sets the highest standards of professional service to the shipping industry world over, Aitken Spence said in a media release.
The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) Sri Lanka Branch commenced in awarding ‘Customer Service Awards’ at their Annual ICS Awards Ceremony in the year 1997 under the leadership of Dr. Parakrama Dissanayake, the former chairman of the ICS Sri Lanka Branch, who later on became the first non-Britisher to be elected as the International President of the Institute, in the year 2017-2019.
Receiving these two awards and also winning the “Market Segment” award at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Sri Lanka (CILT) awards ceremony for the same year, underscores the success of the strategic initiatives taken by the Management of Hapag-Lloyd Lanka online with the Hapag-Lloyd AG medium term strategy.
In addition to these awards, Lalith Witanachchi the Vice President of Hapag-Lloyd Lanka was recognised by the ICS (UK) Sri Lanka Branch for his service as a lecturer for ICS (UK) qualifying examinations throughout the last 20 years. Dr. Geeth Kumarasinghe, General Manager of Hapag-Lloyd Lanka (Pvt) Ltd also received the World Prize with the prestigious ARMAC award presented by the ICS (UK) to commemorate his exceptional performance at the ICS (UK) qualifying examination 2023.
“Receiving the Best Customer Service Provider award for the Europe Sector for four consecutive years and for the Mediterranean Sector for three consecutive years confirms the success of our strategic initiatives to define implement and monitored sustainable Key Performance Indicators which are derived from our differentiation strategies,” said, Hapag-Lloyd Lanka Vice President Mr. Witanachchi.
Hapag-Lloyd-AG is one of the world’s leading container shipping lines based in Hamburg, Germany, and is ranked the 5th Largest Liner Shipping company in the world, operating one of the largest shipping container fleet and recognised as one of the top five mainline operators at the recently held Colombo Port Awards Ceremony.
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