Talk:Safmarine

Leaving Antwerp

I know that following the full integration of Safmarine with Maersk well over a 100 jobs are to be axed in Antwerp. What I don't know is whether any operational presence will be maintained in Antwerp. If there is to be no further presence in Antwerp, the first section of the current article needs to be revised. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 16:35, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Incompleteness

The article is woefully incomplete. There is no discussion of the sort of trade Safmarine handled, when the transition to containers was made, the older house style of the company, (if I remember rightly the older house flag consisted of three horizontal bands, with orange at the top, white in the middle and orange at bottom and the flag of the Republic of South Africa in the centre of the white band), or the company's use of chartered ships. Furthermore the history of the shareholding structure is so concise that it leaves a gap of 50 years entirely open to speculation. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 16:50, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

• • Memory does not serve me well. I think I am mistaken about the former Safmarine house flag. Apologies all round Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 17:35, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Sailors selling their services

The second sentence in the second paragraph must mean something other than the obvious, one can only wonder what? Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 16:52, 4 December 2011 (UTC)