PONL Heritage - Celebrating the past, staying in touch in the future...
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PONL Heritage exists to preserve the history of P&O Nedlloyd and helps former employees around the world to stay in touch.
John Hooper (29 Jul)
Ken Macdiarmid (24 Jul)
Liverpool/North West reunion report (27 Jun)
SCARA 2025 Essex reunion report (22 May)
PONL Heritage
PONL Heritage
Former company sea staff will be gathering in Hull in August for the 15th OCL Bay Boats reunion
More sad news, this time about the passing of Tony Morriss in New Zealand. Tony will be known to many worldwide from his involvement with systems implementations, including DRS and FOCUS.
Former sea staff and their partners gather for the 15th OCL Bay Boats Reunion in Hull
Lots of familiar faces at the Birmingham 2024 reunion, some attending for the first time.
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
SCARA
The sad news continues as we have been informed of the passing of Sue Sellens who was in UK Sales Services and Group Commercial in London
We've learned of the sad passing of Graham Knibbs who worked in Finance in London and overseas
Yet more sad news... Alex Aaron, formerly Barking Imports has passed away
The sad news continues, this time about the loss of John Hooper, ex-Leeds and ANZ sales, Beagle House
Sad news about the passing of Ken Macdiarmid (Containerbases, Jeddah and Mumbai)
SCARA-organised gathering in Liverpool on 26/06/2025 - Liverpool/North West reunion report
SCARA Essex reunion report, covering the event held on 21/05/2025 at Stanford-le-Hope
Report on the SCARA Southampton reunion held on 24/04/2025
Report on the 2025 SCARA Golf Day held at Brentwood in Essex on 13 May
Sad news received about the passing of Brian Jeffery who will be known to many from his days in Far East Trade, London
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!
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Click on the link below to see the vidoes and other items that are currently available.
Where are they now?
Where are they now?
Latest: John Filbey, Colin de Souza, Bill McLaughlin, Liz Farnell, Carsten Vollmer, & René Jacobs
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 & other events
Reunions & other events
The PONL Heritage website can help promote local reunions and gatherings in our Events section, and after they've taken place we can help share your report and photographs in our Reunion Reports area. Please contact ponlheritage@gmail.com if you think we can help.
PONLHeritage Flickr group
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
The PONL Fleet
Immediately before the A.P. Moller-Maersk takeover the P&O Nedlloyd fleet consisted of more than 170 vessels.
Useful links
Useful links
Links to various websites for information about our heritage, PONL-related social media, pension funds, retail, etc.
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