Safety company opens in Panama
Henrik Uhd Christensen, Viking CEO: "an obvious choice for our strategy"
Marine safety equipment provider Viking Life-Saving Equipment has announced that it is adding a Latin American sales and service facility located at Colon, Panama to its network as from 1 November 2011.
Viking says that the move to establish a presence in Panama is another step towards fulfilling its goal of expanding its network. The Colon facility is the latest in a line of global locations equipped to represent Viking’s product line, including onboard services for lifeboats and marine fire equipment. The company says that the new location makes available global service solutions such as the Viking Shipowner Agreement, as well as the range of safety equipment, available to maritime operators in another important geographic location.
Henrik Uhd Christensen, CEO of Viking, speaking about the new facilities in Colon said: “It’s part of Viking's focused commitment to serve our customers as volume and traffic grows with the expansion of the canal in 2014. The addition of operations in Panama will allow us to service key shipowner customers arriving to port in Panama or transiting the Canal.”
The new 14,000ft2 facility is situated in Panama’s Colon Free Zone (CFZ), said to be the second-largest free zone, at the Atlantic gateway to the Panama Canal. “We chose the CFZ for our new facility because it is a vibrant hub serving an increasingly globalised economy,” said Christensen. “It’s an obvious choice for our strategy of being where our customers need us.”
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