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Mercantile Shipping Company PLC was established in 1981 as a German - Sri Lankan joint venture, listed at the Colobmo stock exchange.
It successfully combines German shipping expertise and local in-depth market knowledge.
Today MSCL is Sri Lanka`s leading ship owning company.

   
       
In 1986 MSCL became a pioneer in private maritime seafarer training in Sri Lanka by estabilishing it's own Mercantile Seamen Training Institute (MSTI) in Galle.
The company had realized at this very early stage that the key to growth and quality is well trained and experienced crew. Today the company benefits from having trained well more than 1000 seafarers by being the leading quality ship owner in the regionship owner in the region
    
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International trading companies and shippers are using MSCL for their high valued cargoes. The experience and profound knowledge gained in the infrastructural environment of the Indian Ocean made MSCL a well reputed and reliable ship owning partner for liner operators trading into regions of similar infrastructure like West Africa and the Caribbean.

    
During the past 25+ years Mercantile Shipping Company PLC developed from a ship owner performning liner services around Sri Lanka to a reliable partner in the international tramp traffic.    
 
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