Godmother’s moral duty is to acquaint the society with the ship’s crew and to encourage the enhancement of the crew’s cultural and intellectual background through maintaining contacts with its members both in person and by correspondence. It is an esteemed maritime tradition that a ship’s Godmother is nominated only once and for the ship’s entire life.

 

Earlier in the year, LASCO took the delivery of three Korean handy-size (37,258 dwt each) double-hull ice-classed tankers built to comply with all EU marine safety requirements and international conventions. Thus, LASCO continues to accomplish the objectives set in its Strategic Plan to the Year 2015 that provides for the preserving and expansion of the Group’s tanker fleet along with the extension and concentration of LASCO’s activity exactly in the handy-size and middle-range segment of the tanker market.

 

Within the frames of LASCO Tanker Fleet Renewal Programme ten newbuildings have been ordered by the Companyat 3.Maj shipyard in Croatia and four at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Ltd. in Korea. In the course of the programme implementation in the period from 2007 to 2008 JSC Latvijas kuģniecība fleet will be expanded with five MR (middle-range) and four handy-size tanker newbuilds.

 

 

Marita Ozolina-Tumanovska

Head of Public Relations Department

Phone: 67020120, 29287169

E-mail: marita.ozolina@lscgroup.lv