PONL Heritage - Celebrating the past, staying in touch in the future...
PONL Heritage exists to preserve the history of P&O Nedlloyd and helps former employees around the world to stay in touch.
WATN? - Colin de Souza (4 Sep)
Frank Pomroy (9 Aug)
Captain Ken #37 - Doctor on Board (06 Aug)
Brian Craven (05 Aug)
PONL Heritage
We have yet more sad news to pass on following the passing of Frank Pomroy who was in the OCL Finance team in London
Further sad news, this time about Brian Craven from the Liverpool office in the UK
The sad news continues, this time about the passing of Alfred Lo, former Managing Director For P&O Nedlloyd Hong Kong
Sad news about the passing of a former colleague, Ian Thompson who worked in various operations and logistics roles in Barking, Hainault and Beagle House
167 friends and former colleagues gather in Hamburg for the PONL Germany 2024 reunion.
Former 'P&ONllers' meet up in San Donato for their PONL Italy April 2024 Reunion.
Captain Ken #39 - Piracy on the High Seas - Recollections of piracy incidents in the Far East
Captain Ken #38 - Meetings with a Prince - Captain Ken Owen recalls some occasions when he met HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh
Captain Ken #37 - Doctor on Board - Ken Owen recalls some of the medical cases that he was involved with during his time at sea.
A Life in Shipping: Part 1 - Christian Kuepers account of his time with Hapag-Lloyd, his involvement with the early days for the Trio and then AECS, and his return to freight forwarding before joining the Cobra Tonnage Centre.
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SCARA
Another sad loss... Captain Ken Owen, the author of the 'Captain Ken' articles, passed away on 31 October
The SCARA 2024 Annual Reunion Lunch in London on Tuesday 12 November is barely a week away! The latest list of attendees is now available (we are almost on 100!) and we also have a travel update. Whether you are a SCARA member or not, there is still time to book your place to meet former friends and colleagues, share stories of the good times and raise a glass to those no longer with us
Sad news about the passing of Bernie Heard, our former colleague from the Hainault Sales team and a founder member of SCARA
We are very sorry to have to announce that Anton Ratnayake, formerly P&O Nedlloyd's CIO, has passed away (the details for the memorial service are now included in this announcement)
Dave Warner from the Southampton office has sadly passed away. Another colleague who will be much missed
More sad news, this time about the passing of Norman Allan who worked on DRS and FOCUS in Beagle House
SCARA is an association for former staff members of P&O Nedlloyd and its predecessor companies. For information on how to join, please go to SCARA Membership.
We need YOUR content contributions!
Is there an event taking place that you think your former colleagues might want to attend? Is there a story linked to PONL that you would like to share? If there is anything that you think would be of interest if published here then please drop us a line using ponlheritage@gmail.com - Many thanks!
SHOP!
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Where are they now?
Latest: Colin de Souza, Bill McLaughlin, Liz Farnell, Carsten Vollmer, René Jacobs & Martin Lloyd
It would be great to get an update from as many former colleagues around the world as we can. Please visit the Where are they now? area of the site and consider sending in your own entry - Thank you!
Reunions
Have you recently held a reunion? If so then we would really like to be able to share that news in the Reunions section of this website. To see the reports filed in the past please go to the Reunion Reports page. You can then send in your own report to ponlheritage@gmail.com.
PONLHeritage Flickr group
250+ P&O Nedlloyd-related photographs on PONLHeritage's own Flickr group... Browse the collection and share your own images of reunions, ships, containers, offices, ports, etc.
The PONL Fleet
Immediately before the A.P. Moller-Maersk takeover the P&O Nedlloyd fleet consisted of more than 170 vessels.
Useful links
Links to various websites for information about our heritage, PONL-related social media, pension funds, retail, etc.