Woodward-Clyde Consultants was an engineering and environmental consulting firm providing maritime, oceanographic, coastal, and geotechnical engineering services. Acquired by URS Corporation in 1997 (later AECOM); historical maritime datasets remain archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
WorkBoat Magazine is a maritime industry publication based in Portland, Maine, providing news, analysis, and resources on shipbuilding, marine technology, dredging, offshore energy, and related sectors.
The Working Waterfront Association (WWA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the working waterfronts of New York City and surrounding areas.
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Workships Contractors BV is a Rotterdam-based company specializing in maritime contracting services including offshore support, ship repair, and maintenance.
The World Container Index (WCI) is a global freight index jointly developed by Drewry and Cleartrade Exchange, providing weekly container shipping route prices to help manage freight risk.
W.E.G. provides the most effective and environmentally safe cleaners, degreasers, and oil spill dispersants ever offered to the maritime and petroleum industry. Nature Safe™ products quickly and easily cut through hydrocarbon soils, petroleum and derivatives, fats, oils and greases.
World Marine Associates Inc is a Houston-based company specializing in marine services and solutions, providing quality services to the maritime industry.
Wrist Ship Supply is the world’s leading ship and offshore supplier, operating a global network with 35 locations covering over 750 ports, providing provisions, stores, spare parts logistics, and marine supply services.
The World Shipping Council is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing more than forty liner shipping companies serving America's international trade. Council members include the largest container lines in the world as well as smaller niche carriers, and carriers providing roll-on/roll-off and heavy-lift services. In addition to ocean transportation, they provide a wide range of intermodal and logistics services to American importers and exporters.
The Council's goal is to provide a coordinated voice for the liner shipping industry in its work with policymakers and other industry groups interested in international transportation issues, including: maritime security, regulatory policy, tax issues, safety, the environment, harbor dredging and upgrading the infrastructure needed to handle America's booming trade.
Partners in America's Trade
The liner shipping industry is a vital, contributing partner in America's foreign trade and economic growth. Over the past ten years, U.S. international trade in goods has doubled and rapid growth is expected in the next decade as well. Last year, U.S. oceanborne trade amounted to more than $700 billion. Liner shipping, with its network of vessels, containers, port terminals and information systems, handled two-thirds of that trade and did so smoothly, efficiently and at rates lower than those fifteen years ago. These low rates enhance the competitiveness of U.S. products in world markets and bring a variety of quality goods to our homes at low cost. Your VCR was carried from Hong Kong for about one dollar; ocean shipping services from Asia added about 40 cents to the price of the sneakers you're wearing; and it cost three cents to put that bottle of German beer in your refrigerator.
The liner shipping industry is a constant innovator- linking American businesses directly and efficiently with their customers around the world on a door-to-door basis. The industry is also an essential investor in the transportation system that carries the United States' international commerce. Liner carriers have invested over $150 billion in transportation assets currently in service worldwide and, if trade projections are accurate, they will need to invest billions of dollars more in ships and equipment to service trade growth over the next ten years.
With confidence in how public policy will affect our industry, members of the World Shipping Council can build on this partnership in serving America's trade and keeping the country's economy strong and growing.
Ocean Chartering SA, established in 1999, continues the dry cargo chartering activities of JGK Chartering since 1976, led by a team with over thirty years of shipping industry experience.
Worley Safety and Risk Management provides safety and risk management services in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, specializing in ISPS CODE compliance.
Wright Systems & Project Management provides management, business, and engineering services for commercial, government, and private maritime projects and vessels in the Southeastern United States and offshore areas.
Wright Maritime Group provides yacht construction management, owner representation, refit management, and operational management services for large private yachts and superyachts.
Wrist Middle East is a leading global ship and offshore supplier offering provisions, stores, spare parts, and logistics services across 35 locations and 750+ ports worldwide.
Wrist USA (Houston), Inc. is a full service ship chandler specializing in technical supply and services for the maritime and offshore industries, operating globally with a network covering 750+ ports.