CSAV
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CSAV is a Chile
an shipping company that is currently the largest company of its type in Latin America and is one of the oldest shipping companies, having being founded in 1872
CSAV began with only coastal services being offered but had a rapid expansion from the west coast of South America to the Panama Canal when this was opened to regular traffic and soon its business expanded furher to offer shipping to the rest of the world.
CSAV then extended the scope of its business to the United States, followed by Europe, the Far East and Japan, South-East Asia/Pacific Islands and the east coast of South America. The company today offers services for general and bulk cargo, fresh and frozen products and vehicles, using its own and chartered ships, and establishing permanent links between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America and the rest of the world.
The growth in trade between the different regions of the world has been essential to the current and future development of all countries and other economic benefits. CSAV has therefore seized the opportunities generated by global sea trade, adapting its services to customer requirements and establishing new routes and services, managing to unite Latin America with the world’s most important ports conveniently and efficiently.
CSAV operates in the five continents, offering line services for which it is able to provide permanent traffic to certain ports, fixed itineraries and ships designed for carrying large numbers of containers and a wide variety of conventional cargo. The company therefore has especially designed vessels for frozen cargo, vehicles, bulk cargo and forestry products. Intermodal services, which combine different means of transport, have been introduced by the company, as well as complementary services like port storage and services, etc. This door-to-door service, to any destination, is normally provided together with the CSAV subsidiaries: Sudamericana Agencias Aéreas y Marítimas S.A. SAAM, as a cargo shipping agency and container terminal in Santiago.
The company’s philosophy is principally to attain a superior level of service quality for its customers, by offering timely and efficient measures for helping them improve their foreign trade operations by making available to them all its installations, technology and services, and ensuring them of reliable carriage of their products to and from the principal areas of the world.
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an shipping company that is currently the largest company of its type in Latin America and is one of the oldest shipping companies, having being founded in 1872
History
CSAV, one of the oldest shipping companies in the world, was founded in 1872. The company’s business initially consisted exclusively of coastal shipping services but these were rapidly extended along the whole west coast of South America to the Panama Canal before this was opened to regular traffic.CSAV then extended the scope of its business to the United States, followed by Europe, the Far East and Japan, South-East Asia/Pacific Islands and the east coast of South America. The company today offers services for general and bulk cargo, fresh and frozen products and vehicles, using its own and chartered ships, and establishing permanent links between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America and the rest of the world.
The growth in trade between the different regions of the world has been essential to the current and future development of all countries and other economic benefits. CSAV has therefore seized the opportunities generated by global sea trade, adapting its services to customer requirements and establishing new routes and services, managing to unite Latin America with the world’s most important ports conveniently and efficiently.
CSAV operates in the five continents, offering line services for which it is able to provide permanent traffic to certain ports, fixed itineraries and ships designed for carrying large numbers of containers and a wide variety of conventional cargo. The company therefore has especially designed vessels for frozen cargo, vehicles, bulk cargo and forestry products. Intermodal services, which combine different means of transport, have been introduced by the company, as well as complementary services like port storage and services, etc. This door-to-door service, to any destination, is normally provided together with the CSAV subsidiaries: Sudamericana Agencias Aéreas y Marítimas S.A. SAAM, as a cargo shipping agency and container terminal in Santiago.
The company’s philosophy is principally to attain a superior level of service quality for its customers, by offering timely and efficient measures for helping them improve their foreign trade operations by making available to them all its installations, technology and services, and ensuring them of reliable carriage of their products to and from the principal areas of the world.