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.
Latest:
Bob Olsen photos - Function (6 Dec)
Captain Ken #31 - Interesting People (23 Nov)
WATN? - Martin Lloyd (26 Nov)
Birmingham 2023 Reunion report (22 Nov)
PONL Heritage
Sad news about the loss of another FMD superintendent, Ken Blackett
More sad news, this time from Australia about the passing of Graham Hunter
Sad news about Charlie Hunt, a former colleague from the P&O Containers era
Another collision at sea involving a company ship - This time it's 1988 and the Tor Bay and HMS Southampton at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf
The story of an incident in 1974 when the OCL containership Botany Bay was in collision with the Russian ship Neman off the Canary Islands.
Report and photos from the Birmingham 2023 reunion that took place on 11 November
The PONL Malaysia Reunion Dinner held in Kuala Lumpur on 13 May was a great success!
Bob Olsen photos - Function - A set of photographs taken by Bob which appear to be from a function (perhaps a retirement or leaving party?) on the 8th floor of Beagle House, London in the late 1970s/80s.
Captain Ken #31 - Interesting People - The story of Ken Owen's encounter with Dr. James McIlroy who was on the ill-fated 'Endurance' expedition with Sir Ernest Shackleton.
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SCARA
Message to members about the SCARA lunch in Southampton on 18/04/2024
The SCARA 2023 Annual Reunion Lunch report and photographs are now available to view!
Number of guests for the SCARA 2023 Annual Reunion Lunch now up to 93.
Sorry news about the passing of Colin Stratton-Brown
Announcement about the sad passing of another former colleague and SCARA member Peter Low
The sad news continues... This time of Anita (Nita) Jones' passing
More sad news, this time about Captain Ian Collister Crossing the Bar
Invitation to the SCARA 2023 Annual Reunion Lunch
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 information.
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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Where are they now?
Latest: Martin Lloyd, Dave Kelsall, & Tomas Brat.
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.