GAC expands to East Europe with UMA partnership

GAC expands to East Europe with UMA partnership The GAC Shipping global agency network has expanded to Eastern Europe through an alliance agreement with Ukrainian Maritime Agency Ltd. (UMA), which specializes in providing ship agency services to all types of dry bulk carriers, tankers and other tramp vessels.
   GAC has worked with UMA for nine years and said the agreement allows it to meet the demand for port and ship agency services in diverse sectors such as coal, steel, oil and gas. The GAC-UMA collaboration covers all Ukrainian ports across the Black Sea, Azov Sea and River Ukrainian.
   'UMA has been acting as our sub-agent at the oil terminals in Odessa and Yuzhny ports in the Black Sea region,' said Lars Heisselberg, GAC Group vice president, shipping services. 'Now our closer ties will enable us to jointly look after the interests of our clients by combining the strengths of UMA's local knowledge with GAC's business principles, marketing resources and global network.'