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Welcome to Thomas Smith Group
Reliability, flexibility and unwavering customer focus.
Thomas Smith is a diversified group of service companies operating in shipping, logistics, insurance and travel.
Each company within the Group operates as a separate business unit with its own management and customer support staff, sharing resources and the team’s core values of reliability, flexibility and unwavering customer focus.
With operations in Malta, Libya and Tunisia, Thomas Smith Group is strategically positioned to provide a host of professional services within the Mediterranean basin, offering a one-stop-shop solution in a variety of industries.
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Latest News
BBC’s One Planet broadcasts from the deck of the Ebba Maersk
May 16th, 2012
In an eighteen minute broadcast entitled Sustainability on the High Seas they spoke to the master of the vessel, Captain J. Berwald, Maersk Line sustainability expert Jacob Sterling, Head of Maersk Maritime Technology, and Maersk Line CEO Søren Skou.
The programme, entitled Sustainability on the High Seas, takes a look at the efforts Maersk Line and the industry are taking to improve their environmental record. Shipping transports more than 90% of the world’s bulk cargo whilst contributing 3% to annual greenhouse gas emissions. That figure is rising as global trade increases, and some experts predict it could quadruple by 2050. So, any increases in efficiency have the ability to make a real difference.
A ‘Double’ for Thomas Smith
April 13th, 2012
Thomas Smith is proud to announce the agency appointment to handle the ‘Alexander Maersk’ on behalf of the charterers Waveland Pictures and the vessel owners Maersk Line.
The vessel has been chartered for the filming of ‘Captain Phillips’ which recounts the story of the hijacking of the ‘Maersk Alabama’ by Somali pirates in 2009 and its eventual rescue. Tom Hanks stars in the role of Captain Phillips in this film being directed by Paul Greengrass. The vessel is expected to be in Malta for 5 weeks of filming both inside port and at sea.
Due to their long track record in supporting film productions, Thomas Smith is also the logistics contractor for Waveland Pictures.
