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Our mission at Goltens is to continuously
improve on our 66 year history and reputation as the world’s most
recognized, dependable and responsive provider of a wide variety of ship
repair and mechanical services. Our commitment to our customers is not just
to meet their expectation, but rather to exceed them by utilizing our global
resources to continually deliver the highest quality mechanical standards to
the international shipping community anywhere in the world. We are
continually improving our processes, best practices and services by
constantly measuring performance and progress towards targets and objectives
each aimed at ensuring our customer requirements, specifications and
expectations are exceeded at an agreed cost, on schedule wherever and
whenever required.
As a result of our tenured and proven ability to efficiently utilize our
global network of repair stations, Goltens has secured a highly respected,
worldwide market position. Nearly 1,000 employees, in 11 counties in 18
service stations around the world are focused on meeting the complex and
changing demands of our marine and land based customers. This focus has
increased our global recognition and market share in the worldwide maritime
community. We have expanded our range of services, our affiliations with
other suppliers into the marine markets, our management skills and our
geographic coverage. Our most recent business developments include opening
sales stations in Ho Chi Min City - Vietnam, Doha - Qatar and Kobe, Japan.
These stations will start as representation centers and will be developed
into full service workshops in the future. Goltens’ business development
activities in the Far East includes a consolidation of our separate Trading
and Repair businesses into a more efficient operation into an expanded 3,000 sqm workshop and trading hub, under a single roof with a scheduled opening
for Q3 2006. These are only a few examples of our global business
development initiatives which have been strategically developed and
implemented allowing Goltens to offer our specialized services to our
expanding customer base in a more efficient and responsive way.
For over 66 years, the Goltens group of companies has continually developed
while always maintaining its worldwide mission and vision. This is to be the
worlds most recognized, reliable and only independent ship repair specialist
with a world wide network; utilizing our knowledge base and reputation to
expand into related market segments, to keep our legacy in rendering service
with seriousness, quality consciousness, innovativeness and availability
“around the clock around the world.” Goltens superior trademark will
continue to serve as an excellent platform to further enhance the Company’s
standards, in meeting the complexities and exciting challenges we face in
our changing industry.
On behalf of the Goltens Group, I would like to express our sincere
gratitude to our customers, who have remained loyal to us as partners
through the years continuously displaying their trust and confidence towards
Goltens which is paramount to our success.
Lastly, I want to recognize our highly valued, skilled, loyal, trusted and
long tenured employees who are each essential to Goltens in fulfilling our
customer expectations. Our people and our competence are paramount to our
success.
Moving forward, our main strategy will be to expand our breadth of services
into more sophisticated repair and maintenance service activities and strive
towards the delivery of system solutions with added emphasis on trading and
representation of large international marine equipment OEM’s. We will also
continue to evaluate new geographic markets to expand our service network.
The worldwide marine market is strong and we remain optimistic about the
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