Cornships Management and Agency

Cornships Management was a privately held corporation founded by Akin Falay and Charles Gamon. They founded the company after Falay dissolved his partnership with Semih Sohtorik in Semih Sohtorik Management and Agency (SSMA). Falay, born in 1943, was a graduate of the Law School of the University of Istanbul. He formerly worked for Istanbul's Koctuc Line and in New York for eight years as the Thule Ship Agency.SSMA, SSMA History. He joined SSMA in 1977. Charles Gamon commenced shipping in 1979 and founded Cornavin Shipping{{cite web |url=http://www.cornavin.co.uk/ |title=Home |website=cornavin.co.uk}} with Falay and Semih Sohtorik in 1982.

Cornships' fleet initially consisted of three vessels, and grew to fourteen.Cornavin Shipping Ltd, Ship Positions. The ships, categorized as minibulkers, ranged from {{DWT|8,038|metric|disp=long}} and {{DWT|9,653}}. All the ships were built in the 1980s.Cornships 2007, Fleet. The cargo holds were shaped to admit intermodal containers (shipping containers), and featured large open hatch covers, as well as tween-decks that could hinge and fold up. The ships also all featured cargo cranes with a 50 metric ton capacity. The ships were given names beginning with the word Corn, for example Corn Rose and Corn Diva.

The fleet was broken down into two classes, the Corn Lilly class and the slightly smaller Corn Brook class. The former consisted of five ships, built between 1986 and 1988. These had a capacity of {{DWT|9,653}}, a gross tonnage of 5,974 tons, and a length overall of {{convert|113|m|ft}}.

The smaller Corn Brook class consisted of two ships, both built in 1984. They had a capacity of {{DWT|8,038}}, a gross tonnage of 4,983 tons, and a length overall of {{convert|106.29|m|ft}}.

The Cornships fleet has worked in the worldwide arena, but specialized in the Europe, Mediterranean, Black Sea and West African markets. The company dealt in cargoes such as pipes, projects, bulk-bagged cocoa, steel, bagged and general cargoes.

All the ships owned by Corn Marine Ltd, Malta have now been sold.

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.cornships.com/index.htm |title=Home |accessdate=2008-04-21 |author=Cornships |author-link= |date=2007-05-27 |publisher=Cornships Management and Agency Inc. |pages= |archiveurl= }}
• {{cite web|url=http://abone.turk.net/SSMA/hst.htm |title=Semih Sohtorik Management and Agency History |accessdate=2008-04-23 |author=Semih Sohtorik Management and Agency (SSMA) |work=SSMA Website |publisher=SSMA |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040826130034/http://abone.turk.net/SSMA/hst.htm |archivedate=August 26, 2004 |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.cornships.com/fleet.htm |title=Fleet |accessdate=2008-04-23 |author=Cornships Management and Agency Inc. |author-link= |date= |year= |publisher=Cornships Management and Agency Inc. |pages= |archiveurl= }}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.cornships.com/personnel.htm |title=Personnel |accessdate=2008-04-23 |author=Cornships Management and Agency Inc. |author-link= |date= |year= |publisher=Cornships Management and Agency Inc. |pages= |archiveurl= }}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.cornavin.co.uk|title=Cornavin Shipping Ltd — Main Site|accessdate=2008-04-23|website=www.cornavin.co.uk}}

• [http://www.multimap.com/maps/?&t=l&map=41.037,28.9859|15|4&loc=TR:41.037:28.9859:15 Map of central office]
• [http://havenkade.nl/cargoships/corn_brook.htm Photo of the Corn Brook]

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