Ronald Widdows, group president and CEO of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), and Jon Hemingway, CEO of Carrix and SSA Marine, will receive 2010 Connie Awards at the 50th annual event on Thursday.
The awards, presented by the Containerization and Intermodal Institute at a dinner marking the group’s 50th anniversary, will be accompanied by the awarding of $71,500 in scholarships. Some seats are still available for the dinner at the Renaissance Hotel in Long Beach. It’s estimated 300 people are expected to attend.
Widdows and Hemingway are both being recognized for “significant influence on containerization in world trade and transportation, as well as for innovative spirit in their careers and at their respective companies and for positive influence on the industries they serve.”
The group has been presenting the Connie Award since 1972. Past recipients include: to James McKenna, Malcom McLean, Thomas B. Crowley Sr., Bruce Seaton, Robert McEllrath, Chuck Raymond, Anthony A. Scioscia, Captain S. Y. Kuo and Douglas Tilden.
Widdows has been in the maritime industry for more than 40 years. Hemingway is a lawyer who joined the family stevedoring business in 1985. “The success of last year’s Connie awards on the West Coast was overwhelming and so far this year we have doubled the support and attendance,” Allen Clifford, CII president and executive vice president of Mediterranean Shipping Company, said in a statement.
The non-profit CII promotes industry awareness, preserves the history of intermodalism and engages scholarly interest in the field by.
The dinner is $225 per ticket. Tickets and sponsorships are available. For more information call (800) 231-8244 or e-mail [email protected] by Wednesday.
Among its holdings, NOL owns the giant shipper, APL. NOL last month reported a net profit of $100 million for the second quarter of 2010, up from a net loss of $146 million in the second quarter of 2009.
SSA Marine and its affiliates operate more cargo terminals than any other company in the world. Seattle-based Carrix is the parent company of SSA Marine.