International Operations Manager, Captain Marcelo Santini, brings with him 35+ years maritime experience from South America including valuable oil and gas expertise.Pacific Towing – the Marine Services division of Steamships Limited – has added an International Operations Manager to its team. Captain Marcelo Santini will help ‘PacTow’ take advantage of in...

Jeremy Norton has been appointed the chief operating officer for the Capital Insurance Group (CIG) of companies.According to group chairman Michael Koisen, Norton had a strong background and expertise with more than 20 years in the industry and has extensive knowledge in both life and general insurance overseas and locally. Previously, Norton had worked a...

Mohammed Azlan Shah has replaced Jamie Graham as the new chief executive officer of New Britain Palm Oil Ltd group. (NBPOL)Appointed by the parent company Sime Darby Plantation (SDP) to oversee operations in the Solomon Island and PNG, Shah has more than 33 years in the industry and has started out as a plantation executive and general manager for Aceh &a...

ExxonMobil has named Peter Larden, current president of ExxonMobil Canada Limited, to serve as managing director of ExxonMobil Papua New Guinea (PNG) Limited. Current managing director Andrew Barry will serve in a new position as vice president of Global LNG Marketing for ExxonMobil in Singapore, with responsibility for LNG marketing activities around the...

PNG based NKW GROUP of companies has assisted remote schools in Hela Province of PNG by transporting 14,000 plus library books and teachers reading materials from Brisbane to Port Moresby. The books were donated to Hela Rural Development Foundation (HRDF) by Brisbane based NGO-Project Yumi, who assists remote schools and aid posts in PNG. NKW is one of PN...

Gold BCR (GBCR): Building an empire of enduring wealth based on innovative blockchain technologies with junior mining companies. In this new era, modern science and innovation technologies are changing rapidly every day. Innovative new disruptive technologies ideas in mining are now meeting together with blockchain. These new disruptive technologies such ...

With Papua New Guinea’s leading provider, Nasfund, smallholder growers who provide Oil Palm to New Britain Palm now have the chance to save for retirement.In accordance with the Fund’s Eda Supa product, an initial 700 smallholders have now signed up for these superannuation contributions under the arrangement - which was facilitated by NBPOL.To celebrate ...

Following a stringent process, the Tari Piwa Poultry Farm has achieved the leading global accreditation for food safety and quality, as accredited by the Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP. This is a global certification for quality and safety, including for storage, slaughter, processing and the sales and marketing of poultry products....

Left to right; Chairman Charles Vee, Julienne Leka-Maliaki; Doris Gedare Julienne Leka-Maliaki and Doris Gedare join Nasfund board, the former to the Board of Trustees National Superannuation Fund Limited while the latter as Board Secretary. Leka-Mallaki replaces former director Hulala Tokome as an Independent Director. Leka-Mallaki has over 26 years of e...

On November 5, ANZ opened its new corporate centre in Goroka. Managing director, Mark Baker, said the new centre services its institutional and corporate clients in Eastern Highlands Province, putting special emphasis on the coffee export industry of the PNG. He also highlighted how Goroka has been at the height of the coffee export industry for decades, ...

Steamships Limited has a history of supporting the fight against family and sexual violence (FSV) through its pioneer sponsorship of the Coalition for Change, an Advocacy Group that in 2013, successfully lobbied for the introduction of legislation to address FSV. This was a breakthrough, as for a long time FSV was seen as a ‘personal issue’ that needed to...

Pacific Towing (PacTow) has nearly 40 years’ salvage experience in not only its home country of Papua New Guinea but in the waterways of many countries in Oceania and South East Asia. Whether working in partnership with international operators, or individually, PacTow has considerable open ocean, coastal and also river and estuary salvage expertise and ca...

Father of four and midwife at Susu Mamas Clinic in Lae, Simon Amos, is proud to be providing maternal and child care to mothers and babies in PNG's second-largest city.After working as a nursing officer for 10 years, Simon was inspired by a tragic personal experience to pursue midwifery studies and support better health outcomes.“My niece went into labour...

A strategic partnership aims to provide affordable medical access to members of Papua New Guinea’s leading superannuation provider, Nasfund.Through the PIH-Nasfund Healthcare Partnership, active nasfund contributors, and their beneficiaries can take advantage of discounts at the PIH Clinics in NCD, as well as the Lae International Hospital in Morobe provi...

In the last quarter of 2019, PNG Air provided the Aviation Industry with a crucial Media Release: the company received approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).EASA has the pivotal role of carrying out certifications, regulations and standardisations while also performing investigations and monitoring. It also works on an international sca...

At James Cook University Brisbane, we try to instil a real community spirit into our students, embracing cultures from all over the globe and celebrating diversity. A recurring theme with our international students is the desire to inspire others from their home country. One student who has taken this to new levels is Michelle Numambo Joseph who has turne...