• GCL Launches US Flag Service January 30, 2005
  
  Global Container Lines (GCL) a worldwide leader in ocean transportation is proud to announce its US flag service. The multipurpose Ro-Lo vessel “Global Patriot” is at the service of all esteemed GCL customers. The vessel is ideally suited for carriage of rolling stock, containers, project cargo, heavy lifts, break bulk, and bulk cargo. ( See details.....)
  
   

• The 500th Ship in 2004 at SCT, "Global Progress"
  
  Captain Sergiy Lavrentyuk accepted the commemorative shield from Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) manager Steve Ogden and Gulftainer commercial manager Keith Nuttall on 24th September during the call of the 700 TEU/20,000 GRT MV “Global Progress”..... ( See details.....)

• GCL looks for new challenge in West Africa
  Lloyd's List: October 15, 2004
  
  VARIETY is the spice of life. For Global Container Line, variety is life. And having used this variety to prove itself as “a master of all trades” in East Africa, GCL has now set its eyes on West Africa as the next logical step of its evolution, writes Rajesh Joshi.  .“We expect to have about 40 ships within a year, based on the goal of expanding into West African liner trades,” says GCL vice president Bijan Paksima. He adds that the company already has a significant tramp presence in West Africa, largely hauling Indian exports and aid cargoes to the region. GCL’s stress on variety partly comes from necessity. The company primarily operates multipurpose lo-ro ships, which lend themselves to creative cargo contortions that are typical in exotic East African harbours and their chaotic Indian and Pakistani counterparts. “We do not limit ourselves by being only a pure boxship, ro-ro or breakbulk operator,“ Bijan says. “Our competitive advantage is our flexibility and the ability to carry all cargoes in one ship. Hence our motto, ‘We do it all’.............. (Read the whole article)

•  A piece of the American maritime dream: GCL, one of the largest transporters of humanitarian aid, wants U.S.-flag vessel. By Chris Gillis. American Shipper: July 2003
  
  Global Container Lines wants a piece of the American maritime dream. That is, the company wants to operate its own U.S.-flag commercial ship, a job, which it believes, it’s well equipped to handle. “ It’s frustrating being a U.S-owned and based company and being still treated like an outsider when it comes to cargo preference,” said Bijan Paksima, vice president of North American services for New York based Global Container Lines. “Most U.S.-flag vessel owners are ultimately foreign-owned corporations.” GCL, and its general agent Shiptrade, arrange the movement of hundreds of thousands of tons of U.S. humanitarian cargoes a year on foreign-flag ships. Under U.S. cargo preference rules, the federal government requires that 75 percent of U.S.-financed food-aid shipments be transported on U.S.-flag ships. The Maritime Administration ensures that the food-aid agencies follow the cargo preference rules.............. (Read the whole article)
  
  
   

• GCL to ship 28,000 tons of grain to Iraq. The Journal of Commerce Online, March 26, 2003
  
  Global Container Lines has been contracted by the U.S. Agency for International Development to transport 28,000 metric tons of bulk grain for humanitarian-aid shipment to Iraq. The vessel Free Atlas will be loaded at the Archer Daniels Midland grain elevator in Galveston, Texas, on April 1, 2003. The shipment will be part of 200,000 metric tons of wheat and rice to be shipped to Iraq, with an additional 400,000 tons to be made available as needed, USAID said. The shipments will begin next week. The commodities will be provided through P.L. 480, Title II, the U.S. government's humanitarian food-aid program administered by USAID.
  
  
   
• Multipurpose Global Container Line stresses advantage of variety
  GULF SHIPPER, USA, October 14, 2002, By Janet Plume
  
  "There was an opportunity at the time because of a lack of service between the Middle East and East Africa," said Bijan Paksima, GCL vice president for North America. "There were few carriers in that sector."............... (Read the whole article)

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