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Issue No. 16 December, 2013

TOK STEAMIES News for Staff and Friends of Steamships Trading Company

SPORTS

Swire wins STC Softball Comp

- Pg 11

HSSE

STC introduces HSSE Portal

- Pg 4

Thank you all for your contribution to 2013

As we come to the closing

of another year, the Board,

Managing Director and the

Executive Management of

the Steamships Trading

Company would like to

sincerely thank all of our

“Steamies” people for their

hard work and dedication

in the various business units of the Group in

2013.

Whatever part of the Group you are working

in, as the year draws to a close, I congratulate

you for making Steamships the great Papua

New Guinean company that it is today.

Whatever job it is that you do each day,

through your commitment and efforts you

are continuing to uphold the positive image

and record of success of ‘Steamies”.

Thank you all for your tireless effort despite

the economic challenges faced in 2013 and

we hope that despite the turbulent economic

head-winds blowing, the PNG economy will

continue to maintain its steady performance

in 2014.

On behalf of the Board and Executive Man-

agement I wish you and your loved ones a

safe, healthy and happy end of year holiday

period and our very best wishes for a suc-

cessful 2014.

Merry Christmas

&

Prosperous 2014!!!!

- Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2014 to you all from the Tok Steamies Team

Highlights of the Year 2013 has been a challenging year but despite that Steamships has continued

to operate and launch new projects within the year.

Pacific Palms Property commenced and continued with its warehouse pro-

ject in Madang, the Kitty Hawk project (warehouses) in 6-Mile, Port Mo-

resby and the Waigani Central shopping centre next to the Waigani Stop N

Shop. In Lae, the successful completion and launch of the Blaikie Apart-

ments was done in October (see full story on page 5) with the Windward

East Apartment launched early this month (see full story on page 7).

Steamships Shipping‟ Agencies services was successfully handed over to

China Navigation Company early in the year.

November saw the closure of Steamships‟ Marine Engineering Services

(MES) operation. Unfortunately over the years, despite the best efforts of

the management and staff, MES had been making significant losses. The

current economic slow down in PNG added to these losses and it was with

great regret that the MES operation was closed.

Despite that, the Steamships Coastal Shipping added another vessel to their

existing fleet bringing the total to 16.

East West Transport completed its Port Moresby warehouse racks for prod-

ucts as well as introduced a new training simulator for its Lae operations.

PROPERTY

Windward East Launched

- Pg 7

SHIPPING

Lady Morauta christens Kiwai Chief

- Pg 9

HOTELS

Ela Beach Hotel takes part in UYED

- Pg 8

The Blaikie Apartment in Lae

The christening of the Kiwai Chief

The Windward East

Apartment completed

The new racks at EWT Baruni Office

Managing Director

Geoff Cundle

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Steamships hosts annual Red Shield Appeal Golf Day

The RH Hypermart were the winners of the 2013 Steamships

Red Shield Appeal Golf day tournament, with last year‟s win-

ners Heli Solutions coming in second place while Steamships

Trading Company came in third place.

A total of 28 teams participated on the day which started out

bright and sunny but soon after the rain started to kick in but it

did not dampen the spirit of the teams who went out on the

course to raise money for a good cause.

Steamships Trading Company General Manager Logistics, Rob

Bradshaw thanked all the teams for registering for the tourna-

ment and said the funds raised would go to Salvation Army to

assist their work in saving lives and giving hope to the people

who were in much need of the assistance that Salvation Army

gave.

The Salvation Army is a Christian Church that provides health

centres, health worker training and clinics and feeds the home-

less. It also provides disaster relief in cases of Tsunamis, flood-

ing, landslides and air crashes and many more.

Steamships would like to thank the individuals and companies

who gave generously to support the RSA golf day; Craig Bur-

rows and Mike Purdy, Salvation Army, Tamzin and Derek

Hunter, Air Niugini, Brendon Coombs of Driftwood Resort,

Mila Nash, Consort, Monian Ltd, Pacific Palms Property, Holi-

day Inn, Crown Plaza, Coral Sea Hotels, Grand Papua, Laga

Industries and all the teams that participated.

Mirupasi Lawyers

Kenmok and Spic n Span Marsh Limited

RH Hypermart walked away with a golf set each and 26” LCD TV

Helping to develop future leaders of the country

Steamships Shipping General Manager, Susana Germino presenting the keys

of the minivan to The Voice Executive Director, Serena Sumanop.

Christmas is a time of giving and Steamships Shipping last

week presented the car keys of a minivan to the organisa-

tion, The Voice Inc.

Steamships Shipping General Manager, Susana Germino in

presenting the keys to The Voice Inc Executive Director,

Serena Sumanop said she was grateful to be able to assist

organizations that were supporting the young people of the

country through their work.

Ms Germino said the youths of today are the leaders of to-

morrow and the programs that The Voice was carrying out

were very encouraging.

The Voice Inc is a youth development organisation run by

youths for youths.

Through training, mentoring, and guidance they encourage

young Papua New Guineans to look within themselves to

discover their unique personalities and also create avenues

for young people to get involved in their communities

through advocating on issues and implementing small pro-

jects.

Ms Sumanop said the gesture by Steamships Shipping is

tremendous and will go a long way in assisting them in

their community projects which they have going on within

the city.

She said there is so much hope that lies within the young

people and if given the opportunity they have amazing

dreams and can rise up to be solution providers.

The minivan was purchased from Ela Motors at a cost of

K40,000 with security systems and other features fitted to

the vehicle.

The Voice is supported by the University of Papua New

Guinea.

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BE A BREAST FRIEND - MAKING A DIFFERENCE

RAISING AWARENESS ON BREAST CANCER AND OTHER TYPES OF CANCER

Staff from both the Head Office, CSD, Shipping and Port Services that attended the weeklong Cancer Awareness Week with Dr Taitara (centre in pink).

Below Left: Janet Yaki, founder of PNG Stoma Association speaking to staff Below Centre: Mrs Janet Yaki

Below Right: Laga Industries Fore Bai, diagnosed with Breast Cancer talking to the staff about her experience.

A weeklong Cancer Awareness program

was organised for the staff at the Steam-

ships Head Office with staff from other

divisions within Downtown Port Moresby

attending.

The daily awareness program was run dur-

ing the staff lunch hour so staff make time

available to attend.

The topics for the week were Breast Can-

cer, Cervical Cancer, Prostrate Cancer,

Cancer of the Bowel and Cancer Preven-

tion Food and Lifestyle.

The Cancer Prevention Food and Lifestyle

talk coincided with the health breakfast

which was made up of fruits. The topic was

delivered by Pacific Adventist University

Senior Health Science Lecturer, Ruth

Galang.

N e i l

Papenfus

from Port

Services also was a guest speaker and

spoke of how cancer affects not only the

person living with it but also the family

members.

From the weeklong awareness program,

staff have shown interest in starting a

group to help spread the awareness of

cancer to the schools and the communi-

ties in which they live in.

Going forward, staff from the Depart-

ment of Health who are active in cancer

awareness program will be coming in to

teach interested staff on how to do

awareness so that staff can go out to their

communities and carry out awareness

programs.

Organised by Mona Lisa-Giheno, Illan

Sevua and Wanita Wakus, the idea was to

get staff to understand that cancer is a

lifestyle disease and is preventable unless

it was hereditary.

Guest speakers were Dr Mathias Sapuri

and Dr Hennelly Taitara. People living

with cancer who came to share their testi-

monies were Janet Yaki, an ostomate and

founder of PNG Stoma Association and

Laga Industries Fore Bai who was re-

cently diagnosed with Breast Cancer.

The program was an eye opener to a lot of

staff and most of them gained understand-

ing of the different cancers and the causes

that triggers the disease which is killing a

lot of Papua New Guineans.

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HSSE Policy Reviewed

HSSE NEWS

The Company HSSE Policy was reviewed by the

Sustainability Committee and has been approved by

the STC Board and is called the Steamships Trading

Company Sustainable Development Policy.

This will soon be distributed throughout the organi-

zations. All STC Divisions will be expected to

adopt or adapt and align their HSSE and Sustainabil-

ity Policies to that of Corporate.

STC H&S System Procedures have been developed

and are live on the HSSE Portal. Divisions will be

using these procedures as source of best practice to

adopt/adapt their Division specific HSSE Procedures

to ensure alignment with corporate requirements. As

identified, relevant procedures / updates will be iden-

tified and uploaded onto the portal.

HSSE audits (internal & external) have been con-

ducted as per schedule and the audit action item ad-

dressing is done by the respective divisions with

overall tracking and monitoring managed by STC

corporate HSSE, and reviewed at the monthly H&S

committee. Divisions are aware of the requirement to

effectively close out audit action items to reduce

H&S risk exposures. The frequency of audits has

been reviewed by the H&S Committee and with the

final 2014 audit schedule sent to the respective divi-

sions in December 2013.

The Group is seeing improvement in accident/

incident, hazard and near miss reporting with the

heightened awareness at the divisional level, but

quality reporting issues remain and has been high-

lighted and addressed in meetings, with additional

training and awareness.

Some good progress in HSSE capacity at the divi-

sional level, however opportunities still exist to up

skill gap areas.

The HSSE Scorecard has been reviewed by the STC

Sustainability Committee and will be sent out for

implementation in mid December 2014.

The HSSE Portal is now live with training of users completed. Usage rate

has been slow but beginning to see improvement. One on one refresher

training with users is scheduled for mid November to further identify and

address user issues.

Risk assessments including job safety analysis is work in progress at the

divisions. Risk assessment templates together with the guidelines have

been distributed to the divisions and are currently in the implementation

stage. Risk assessment guideline is also on the HSSE portal for easy access.

STC Group introduces HSSE portal

The STC Group as established an H&S Committee which comprises of the

Managing Director, the General Manager Corporate Affairs, the Group

HSSE Manager and two HSSE divisional mangers. This group meets each

month to deliberate on HSSE matters and to provide advice and direction on

H&S issues for the Group. Two meetings have been held so far with the

third meeting scheduled end of December 2013. The STC Sustainability

Committee was also formed in 2013 with two meetings held so far. This

committee comprises of the Managing Director, the General Manager Cor-

porate Affairs, The Finance Director, a representative from John Swire and

Sons and the Group HSSE Manager. This committee meets each quarter

and deliberates and provides advice and direction on Sustainability issues

and matters. Both H&S and the Sustainability Committee were formed

with the intention to have a bottom up top down approach to managing

H&S and Sustainability matters/issues.

HSSE Committees have been established at respective divisions with meet-

ings conducted. Divisions have been asked to forward copies of meeting

minutes to corporate to help fine tune agenda items and the meeting format

to ensure alignment. GMs are required to attend and chair at least 10/12 of

these monthly meetings going forward. A central HSSE Mgrs meeting is

conducted at respective divisions each month followed by a walk through

inspection of the facility. This meeting provides an avenue for divisions to

present their corresponding month‟s H&S performance and is a useful fo-

rum to share ideas and best practices and to ensure alignment in H&S.

Plans are in place to roll out a poster competition involving employees‟

children. Details are being worked on and will be sent out once finalized.

The Poster competition will be ongoing and will be held every six months.

Guidelines together with the poster competition rules will be sent out in

January 2014.

Management committed to HSSE

A sample of the Sustainability Scorecard

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PROPERTY NEWS

The Red Cross Blood Bank team was invited to the Pacific

Palm Property office recently to collect blood from willing staff

members. The response was very good from the Repair &

Maintenance team with support from the STC Head Office led

by Illan, and Jerry Fareho and Henry Ronomu from Steamships

Shipping. The timing was perfect as there was an appeal by the

Blood Bank in the daily print media that day requesting for

blood due to blood shortage at the Port Moresby General Hospi-

tal. The Blood Bank‟s team leader said his team appreciated

the fact that the staff were sacrificing their time to donate blood

that will save lives.

The Steamships Group is considering making it an annual event

for all its business units around the country.

PPP organises Blood Donation

Pacific Palms opens Blaikie Apartment in Lae

The Blaikie Apartments was officially launched on 10th October

in Lae.

Situated conveniently in the heart of Lae City on Sixth Street

tenants have the luxury of having access to the main super mar-

kets, gym facilities, sports and recreational centres, hotels,

banks, churches and schools. Blaikie has all the requirements

necessary and boasts a wonderful unique modern look.

Being the first of its design in Lae, Pacific Palms Property have

certainly caused many heads to turn and lifted the standard of

designing properties in Lae.

Present for the opening was Steamships Trading Company

Managing Director Geoff Cundle, Finance Director Sean Pel-

ling,

Steamships Managing Director, Geoff Cundle cutting the ribbon to launch the Blaikie

Apartment assisted by Pacific Palm Property General Manager, Andrew Potter Left: The pool area at the Blaikie Apartment. Top Right: The lounge area of the

apartment Bottom Right: The dining and kitchen area.

PPP General Manager Andrew Potter, PPP National Property

Manager Noel Richards, PPP Finance & Admin Manager Chris-

tine Kerepa and PPP Operations Manager Caroline Cooper with

guests made up of the heads of the business community in Lae.

The apartment was officially launched with the cutting of the

ribbon and a tour of the apartment by the guests.

Eight of the 12 units have been secured by the Australian Federal

Police, three have been secured by Steamships business units

with several queries being put forward for the last vacant unit.

Pacific Palms Property is proud to have successfully completed

this project for the year and is looking forward to 2014 to open

the SVS supermarket which is currently under construction.

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PROPERTY NEWS

Pacific Palms Property recently hosted a contractors function to

thank the service providers of the company for their support and

services this year.

The occasion is held annually and helps maintain the working

relationship between PPP and its contractors.

The occasion also allows the PPP staff to meet its service pro-

viders outside of the normal hustle and bustle of work life and

gives both parties the opportunity to discuss freely about work

as well as things of common interest.

During the function PPP promotional merchandises were pre-

sented to the contractors.

Some of the contractors that attended the function was MJ Elec-

trical, SPAC, City Plumbing, Benibom, Pro-Clean, Origin En-

ery, PNG Power, Brian Bell and others.

The catering for that evening was provided by Gateway Hotel.

PPP hosts contractor’s Night PPP staff undergo Team Development Training

Pacific Palms Property this year

appointed Caroline Suckling Coo-

per as the Operations Manager to

assist with the company’s opera-

tions.

Caroline loves challenges and en-

courages fairness, equal rights for

both men and women and believes

in empowering people.

She enjoys working with all the Pacific Palms Property staff

saying they are all professionals with great work habits.

Caroline aims to provide leadership, expertise coaching and

direction to the team to ensure all strategic and operational

initiatives are successfully implemented within the company

so that it brings success to the business.

More PPP new staff appointment stories on page 12

Operations Manager appointed for PPP

Caroline Suckling Cooper

Becoming committed to the company‟s vision and understand-

ing how one‟s behaviour impacts the behaviour of others and the

operation of the company was the objective of the training at-

tended by staff from Pacific Palms Property.

The modules covered were managing vs leading, relationship

management (DiSC Style), managing oneself and sales training.

The various topics taught helped the staff to find new and effec-

tive techniques for dealing with various people and develop

clear agreements about how team members should conduct

themselves when dealing with others so as to benefit the com-

pany.

The participants during the training session

The participants and their certificates after the training

Couple of the contractors with Noel Richards and Gabriel Paragum of PPP

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PROPERTY NEWS

The Windward East Apartment was launched with a Champaign

toast, ribbon cutting and fireworks.

The event organised by Pacific Palms Property was attended by

the heads of the various business houses in Port Moresby.

Managing Director Geoff Cundle in launching the Apartment

thanked David Cox, his predecessor and Darren Young for com-

ing up with the Windward East apartment which is now an

iconic structure along the Ela Beach Drive.

The 16 storey building stands tall next to the original Windward

apartment which also belongs to Pacific Palms Property.

The 40 apartment unit has a 2 two bedroom unit and two three

bedroom units on each level.

In 2013, Pacific Palms Property launched two of its projects, the

Blaikie Apartments in Lae and two weeks ago the Windward

East Apartments.

There are a number of projects for Pacific Palms Property that

will be completed in 2014. They are the Harbourside Project, 6-

Mile warehouses, SVS supermarket in Lae and warehouses in

the Madang province.

Windward East Apartment completed & launched

The Windward II in Pictures

The kitchen area The living room area of the two bedroom unit

Living room area in the three bedroom unit

Steamships Managing Director, Geoff Cundle making the official address

before launching the Apartment

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HOTEL NEWS

Ela Beach Hotel takes part in Urban Youth Development Program

Urban Youth Employment Project 2 Batch Graduates for 2013 Seven of the Youths from Ela Beach Hotel with the Hotel Manager Stuart

Johnstone and Head House Keeper- Dinora Naime

Some of the gruduates with the Head House Keeper- Dinora Naime

house-keeping, front office, banquets, ad-

ministration & maintenance.

Three of the youths that were attached

have been offered full time employment by

the Ela Beach Hotel. The three are Lahui

Robert, Keke Maria and James Yamis.

The other seven students left and did not

complete their training due to various fam-

ily reasons.

Ela Beach Hotel manager, Stuart Johns-

tone said it was a pleasure having to work

with these youths as it brought challenges

for every one.

He said it was disappointing to see that

there were so many disadvantaged youths

between the ages of 15 and 29 that neither

The management of Ela Beach Hotel on

November 26 witnessed the second gradua-

tion of the Urban Youth Employment Pro-

ject (UYEP).

Ten of the 67 youths that graduated from

the UYEP had been attached with the Ela

Beach Hotel.

The UYEP is a Human Development initia-

tive of the Government of Papua New

Guinea funded by the World Bank under a

loan agreement and implemented by the

National Capital District Commission as

the implementing agency.

The youths were engaged in various areas

undergoing on the job training for a period

of five months.

The youngsters were put in various roles in

work or study and have limited social

and economic opportunities.

Mr Johnstone said the management and

staff were pleased to have taken onboard

the 10 youths and hoped that they have

learned a lot during their time with Ela

Beach and will use their training experi-

ence to go out and look for jobs opportu-

nities.

Mr Johnstone said he was proud to be

part of the UYEP and pleased that Ela

Beach Hotel was able to provide these

young men and women through the

UYEP an opportunity to gain experience

and most of all empower them to good

citizens within the communities in

which they live in.

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SHIPPING

Kiwai Chief christened by Lady Morauta

The Marine Engineering Services (MES) section of Steamships

Shipping closed its operation in November.

Steamships Trading Company, Managing Director Geoff Cundle

said MES had been an important business unit of the company

for many years providing ship repair services to its customers.

Unfortunately, the current economic slowdown in the country

added to the losses and it had to be closed down.

All 66 staff were paid their full entitlements under the „Maritime

Awards‟ and efforts were made to assist them in finding alterna-

tive employment.

Marine Engineering Services

closes its operations

Stevedoring workers in the country now have a new agreement

which contains improvement in the working condition both at

the docks as well as in the administration.

The new Papua New Guinea National Stevedoring and Han-

dling Workers Industrial Agreement of 2013 overrides the 2010

Agreement.

The signing was done in October in the presence of Lawyer,

Derek Wood and other witnesses, from Port Services Limited

was Manager, Neil Papenfus and Steamships Trading Company

was the Group Human Resource Manager Monica Toisenegila.

The new agreement was signed by the PNG Maritime and

Transport Workers Union representatives and the Employers

Federation

PNG Maritime & Transport

Workers Union signs new Agreement

MV Kiwai Chief was officially Christened by Lady Roslyn

Morauta after she arrived from the Sapor Shipyard in Sibu, Ma-

laysia.

MV Kiwai Chief is built with versatility and safety in mind - with

a fully double skinned hull, bow thrusters, 30meter crane, and

high specification accommodation.

Invited guests from the Shipping industry all turned up at the

Coastal Shipping wharf recently to celebrate the christening and

the addition of the vessel to the existing fleet that Coastal Ship-

ping has.

Steamships Shipping General Manager, Susanna Germino said

the addition onto the current fleet is a sign of commitment by

Steamships Shipping which has been operating in the country

for over 90 years.

“It‟s a sign that we are committed to the industry in which we

operate in,” she said.

Despite the windy condition, Lady Roslyn in the traditional cere-

monial ship launching, broke a champagne bottle on the side of

the ship as a sign of good luck and safe travel.

There to entertain the guests were the Kiwai dancers from the

Western Province. Present also was a group from the Don Bosco

Technical School whom the clergyman blessed MV Kiwai Chief

by sprinkling holy water on the deck of the ship.

Right to left: PNG Employers Federation representative and PNG Maritime

and Transport Workers Union (PNGMTWU) Secretary Reg McAlister signing

the 2013 Agreement while lawyer Derek Wood, PNGMTWU president Alex

Rawali, Nancy Manga look on . Insert: The 30 page document

Kiwai Dancers from Western Province

Lady Roslyn launches

MV Kiwai by breaking

champagne on the side

of the boat

The Catholic Father sprinkling holy water on the ship

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SHIPPING

Steamships Shipping staff undergo weeklong Safety Training

By Alois Seneka

How many of you answer your mobile

phones when you‟re driving? Yeah, I

thought so (the audience look up with

guilty smiles). And how many of you text

while driving? How many of you take your

eye off the road just to see if your finger is

on the correct button to switch on the car

stereo?? The smile turns to small chuckles

and the audience tries to recall a time they

did those things.

We do these things every day without even

thinking of the implications it can have if

something goes wrong.

Driving safely was one of the topics that

was contained in the weeklong „Safe Voy-

age‟ Safety Seminar that was organised for

the Steamships Shipping employees.

All the staff from Joint Venture Stevedor-

ing (JVS), Steamships Coastal Shipping

and Steamships Shipping Admin were

grouped into 10 teams where each team

was named after the 10 boats of Coastal Shipping.

Each team represented a vessel and they had to bring their vessel

from Kiunga to Port Moresby by scoring points through identi-

fying safety hazards and safety initiatives at the workplace. A

team was also able to subtract points from the opposing teams if

safety hazards were identified in that team. The first team/boat

to reach Port Moresby is declared the winner.

The weeklong Safe Voyage program was organised by Steam-

ships Shipping‟s Health Safety Security & Environment (HSSE)

Manager, Jerry Fareho and commenced on October 28 and com-

pleted on November 1.

What really stood out on the last day of the program at Crown

Plaza was the second segment of a video titled „Just Drive‟. It

was about a lone character Distractions played by the narrator.

The video was about the simplest of distractions being responsi-

ble for major traffic accidents, incidents and near misses that

occur daily on roads.

The roads we travel on every day is certainly no different. It was

a real eye opener. Because these distractions; though small, sim-

ple or insignificant are the very acts that causes drivers to take

their eyes off the road and in cases of collateral damage, can and

will pull the line between you, your family, your job and most

unfortunately your life. So to all our drivers or those who have

vehicles and to those who happen to be behind the wheel at

some point…, be aware of these distractions.

The program, from a participant‟s point of view, was basically

to build, update and or improve our sense of awareness to our

individual surroundings and within the course of the one week,

so much was achieved. Critical fire hazards were identified, se-

curity issues were raised, poor housekeeping and many others…,

This was really beneficial both ways. Participants acquired the

necessary knowledge on various safety issues whilst also help-

ing the business identify critical issues surrounding its business

operation.

In the course of this program, participants‟ learned how to fill the

safety observation form; identify various safety issues; know the

risk hierarchy; assess risks and taking the appropriate action and

more.

The winners of the weeklong program turned out to be „Team

Goada‟. Everyone sort of anticipated that they would win be-

cause they led on the score board for the most part of the week.

Each member from team Goada was awarded a free entry ticket

to the Paradise Cinemas with allowances for a child and a meal

combo.

For all the losers, don‟t be disheartened, Steamships Shipping

General Manager, Susana Germino has announced that „Safe

Voyage‟ will be an annual event.

So gear up and get ready for 2014, for it will be bigger and better.

Till then, I‟ll see you on the next Safe Voyage

The results from the weeklong training which the staff participated in.

Top Left: Team Kiwai Chief during the training at Crown Plaza

Top Right: Teams are put to test on how fast they can to turn over a life raft

after it capsizes.

Bottom Left: Swimming race

Bottom Right: Rivals in their various team get ready to compete

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PO BOX 1 SPORTS

Swire wins STC Intra-Softball Tournament

STC Intra - Company Softball in Pictures

Swire Shipping are the 2013 STC Intra-

Softball Competition winners while the

other Logistic companies took the second,

third and fourth placing for this year‟s tour-

nament.

Swire took the title off last year‟s winners,

East West Transport (EWT) Gold after they

battled it out at the grand finals at the Bisini

Diamonds leaving EWT Gold to settle for

second position.

The third place winners were Shipping with

Consort Express Limited taking the fourth

place.

The theme of the tournament was Fighting

Breast Cancer and teams were encouraged

to turn up at the tournament in pink. While

some managed to do so others ensured their

accessories were in line with the theme.

The Best Dressed Team went to Computer

Services Division (CSD) while the best

entertaining team went to Shipping Kiwais.

Players of the tournament went to Belinda Lowon of Swire Rebels. The big hitter

competition for the male category went to Daniel Gavera while the best male out-

fielder was given to Timothy Ipoite. The best female batter went to Rhonda Pari.

Representatives from Swire Rebels receiving the winning trophy from Steamships Managing Director, Geoff

Cundle after the tournament.

Team “Pacific Palms Property”

Team “PSL”

Team “Swire Rebels”

Team “Datec”

Team “Laga”

Team “Corporate”

Consort Express battling out with Shipping Kiwais on the diamond

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FAREWELL & BIRTHS

EDITORIAL TEAM

Tok Steamies is a monthly electronic

newsletter published by the Public

Relations & Corporate Affairs Of-

fice of the Steamships Trading Com-

pany to inform its staff, friends and

stakeholders of the various activities

that STC and its staff have been

doing in their various business.

Publisher:

Steamships Trading Company

Limited (STC)

Executive Editor:

General Manager Corporate Affairs

David Toua

Editor:

Public Relations Officer

Wanita Wakus

Layout & Design:

Public Relations Officer

Wanita Wakus

Divisional Representatives:

CSH - Susan Gegeyo

Datec - Annie Kaiulo

Shipping - Susanne Sere

Property - Hahane Aroma

EWT - TBC

Laga - TBC

For editorial comments, email: toksteamies@steamships.com.pg

DISCLAIMER:

This newsletter is intended to serve

as an infor-mation resource for the

employees of the Steam-ships Group

of Companies and does not guaran-

tee the accuracy of the data & infor-

mation pre-sented, nor take any re-

sponsibility for any errors in the

process of providing this newsletter.

Au-thorisation should be sought

from the STC Public Relations Of-

fice before any information in the

Newsletter could be used in other

publication

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Steamships farewells Bradshaw & Mathias

Steamships is farewelling Joan Mathias who is retiring

after being personal assistant to the various managing di-

rectors of Steamships since 2004.

Joan will be greatly missed by the Steamships management

and directors who have over the years grown accustomed

to her efficiency and expertise in her role as personal assis-

tant to the MD.

Also departing is Rob Bradshaw who came in as the Gen-

eral Manager Logistics for the Steamships Group.

Rob has returned back to Singapore to take up a new post-

ing in the Swire operations.

Joan with her basket of flowers and present from the Directors of

Steamships

Mota’s bundle of Joy On 8th Of November 2013 Mota Doug,

Ela Beach Hotel‟s Guest Relations

Officer gave birth to a beautiful baby

girl weighing 3.1kg.

The Ela Beach team and management

after receiving the news visited Mota

with gifts to welcome the young lady

to motherhood and shower her baby

with gifts.

Representing the hotel was Sarah

Daniels, Front Office Manager and

Theresa Lulopo, HR Manager.

Mota is a vital staff to the team be-

cause when looking for assistance you

can always be sure to find helpful Mota

at the airport assisting our Coral Sea

Guest‟s to our Hotels.

Congratulations once again Mota on

the birth of your baby girl!

Having 12 years of Sales &

Marketing in managerial

roles, Delphine Kurangik

recently joined the company

as Property Manager.

This is her seventh month of

employment with Pacific

Palms Property and she is settling in well

with the Property Team members.

Her priority now is to maximise the occu-

pancy levels and improve on the company‟s

service delivery standard.

Delphine says “nothing is impossible to

achieve if you set your proprieties right and

work towards achieving your goals.”

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Delphine Kurangik

Originally from the Madang

Province, Sally Proctor has

lived in Lae for the past

seven years.

Sally joined Pacific Palms

Property in June and has

never looked back.

She has inherited a wealth of knowledge in

Property Management, Property Develop-

ment and developed as a young leader in her

community.

She thoroughly enjoys working with the

company and is looking forward to develop-

ing her experience in the property industry as

well as within Steamships.

New Staff Births

Rob and his

two daughters

during the

Independence

celebrations

this year

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PO BOX 1 OUT & ABOUT

Picture Board..Picture Board..Picture Board

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PO BOX 1 TOK SAVE

If you have any Notices (Toksaves) or Announcements you would like for us to place on the Tok Steamies Tok Save Kona (Notice Corner) then email it to toksteamies@steamships.com.pg and we’ll publish for free

NOTE:

Divisions who are taking part have a box allocated for staff to

donate toys.

Each division is responsible for organizing transport for pick-up

and drop-off for its staff on that day

Make a Child Smile Put a smile on the face of a Child this Christmas

The staff of the STC Group will be visiting the Tembari Child Care this weekend on Saturday so if you have any toys

from childhood or from your children which you’d like to donate then see your respective divisional reps.

Shipping - Susanne Sere/Vicky Taviri

EWT - Evie Maboi

Laga (Lae) - Saliam English

STC H/O - Wanita Wakus

CSD - Vapu Kota / Florence Mekea

Datec (Pom) - Annie Kaiulo/Sema Ratu

Pacific Palms - Evodia Sambre/Hahane Aroma

CSH (Pom) - Raylene Bukon/ Elaine Anjo

CORAL SEA HOTELS SPECIALS!!!

Coral Sea Hotel’s Festive Season specials is on for you to take advantage of during this period.