SEACONNECT BV

SEACONNECT BV is a shipping & ports services company established and operates in the port of Antwerp, Belgium.

Since its incorporation, in order to provide tailor made solutions for our clients, SEACONNECT has extended its European services primarily to The Middle East shipping companies and shippers.

SEACONNECT mainly acts to find suitable tonnage for charterers, cargo bookings and general agents on behalf of its clients to handle cargo operations, husbandry matters, bunkering, dry dockings, new buildings, S&P, repairs, SPRO contracts, ship supplies, brokerage etc.

Over the years, partners of SEACONNECT have built a global network of clients ranging from Shipowners, Managers, Operators, Charterers, Shippers and even Bankers, contributing more than 40 years of experience building a reputation as a trustworthy and reliable shipping and ports specialists.

It is our determination to always enhance ourselves and to render better services to all our principals. In SEACONNECT, we are always focused on building long lasting relationship with our clients.

“SEACONNECT guarantees quality services for all our principals. WE TRANSPORT YOUR FUTURE”

Dirk Ghys, Chairman

OUR SERVICE

Agency Services

Customs Clearance

Freight & Switch B/Ls

Bunkering Brokers

Cargo Operations

Gulf of Aden Insurance

Looking for a marine service provider that covers all your shipping needs? Here at SEACONNECT, we provide professional marine related services. Need to charter a vessel, your cargo bookings, port operations, a ship crewing agent for a crew change in Western Europe? Look no further, SEACONNECT chartering department, shipping agency services offer crew changes, including arranging visas and entry formalities. We also help with the manning of vessels under a crew management contract which also includes sourcing, recruitment, scheduling, deploying, training/upgrading programs and on-going management of seafarers engaged on vessels under crew management contracts. Rest assured as we will cover all the aspects as your ship crewing agent.

SEACONNECT can also act as your bunkering agent by supplying your vessel's fuel. Bunker quality is extremely critical to efficient fuel consumption and it also helps to minimise the engine’s wear and tear. As your bunkering agent in Western Europe, SEACONNECT also helps with the shipboard logistics of loading fuel and distributing it among the available bunker tanks. Our clients can have a peace of mind as all vessels bunkering in the port of Antwerp/Western Europe have the quality of all bunkers assured as well as safe and efficient delivery.

Partners being in the shipping industry for many years, SEACONNECT has established tight relations with the suppliers and port & immigration authorities around the world. With experience and excellent relations, SEACONNECT enjoys its partner’s reputation who are well introduced tremendously throughout the years and is now ready to serve you as the shipping agency in Antwerp’s highly competitive shipping industry and is one of the most dedicated shipping agents in Western Europe. With support of our institutional shareholders port agency, SEACONNECT has definitely got all your ship husbandry services covered.

Our values

Cultural integrity

We are a team of traditional professionals who approach clients with ethical values, utilising strong markets intelligence and advance technology in thoughtfulness and integrity so our clients know they can trust us with their inquiries.

Guaranteed performance

Our team of experts strive to highest level of performance guaranteed to secure best solutions to your shipping and ports services.

Independence

We’re an independent company with institutional shareholders who have access and cooperation to global network of shipping and ports companies. We remain committed to collect market intelligence and compare price from service providers to secure best party to serve your operation success.

Providing a large spectrum of services to better tailor your key position in trade

Ever growing trade and industry range of services that requires the maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets expertise, of which we’re uniquely positioned in The Western Europe based in Antwerp, Belgium to deliver bespoke commercial solutions to our clients and enable them to make smarter and better informed decisions. As the market requires increasing strides toward a more consolidated and centralised decision making, our investment towards contributing dedicated personnel with expertise to handle your enquiries, has gives us a leading position to being your operational partner for your trading, shipping and ports services.

Extending our reach to support clients globally

Our global expansion with local partners enables us to meet client needs wherever and whenever they arise. With partner offices on 4 on six continents, we welcome new ideas while preserving traditional values, and high standards of corporate governance across our business, as we use our local knowledge to provide our clients with a truly global, cross-border advice.

Our multi-cultural approach to understand clients’ requirements

Our client base spectrum ranges from South America to Europe to Middle East to South East Asia. We are available to serve commodity producers, oil majors to raw material producers and shipowners respectively. We have a clear track record of performance with many of our clients who have generations of market share, building a deep understanding of their businesses requirements and need of a solid transportation team providing the services that have helped them to prosper. We have built the recognition of being trustworthy across the industry based on our actions of being more persistent to serve our client’s enquiries faster and more economically than anyone else and use our leading technology and market intelligence to offer unique and tailored solutions.

Developing Interaction with Customers, the lead to our solutions

Attributing to a well-established dialogue with our customers, we have continued to develop and integrate the team, which provides clients with a consultative approach to finding bespoke solutions to devising and executing their trading and transportation strategies. This has included enhancing the expertise in our commercial and operations teams to allow us to better understand clients’ needs around alternative vessels. light of changing regulation.

Motivating people to gain access their full potential

We are determined to the selection and retaining the best people, through time, providing our team with the positive attitude, tools and training that empowers them to gain access to their full potential, serving our customers consciously and timely. Our employees have access to the latest industry technologies and authoritative intelligence, enabling them to interact and support our clients make smarter and better informed decisions.

Tradition and Experience leading our management standardisation.

We stand firm with preserving traditional values and experience earned from more than 40 years of active presence of our institutional shareholder in the maritime industry, a solid contribution to leadership development which has established a new approach to performance management in Broking, started building the network and interaction with our clients a dynamic behavioural framework to support our purpose-led culture.

Trust in shipping is simply controlled intelligence

Niche market-leading data and intelligence, SEACONNECT is widely trusted across its client’s network simply because it simply controls market intelligence for effective decision-making. Our team relies on the information provided from our offices in Antwerp – Belgium, Aberdeen - United Kingdom and Dubai – UAE.

FUTURE

Future is the desire and passion to our, safe and fast Transportation Excellence while Ports are the gateway of Cargo Handling: