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 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT  

 

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 future.