About Envoy
Envoy is a large international container shipping company headquarterd in Glendoorn, Varavel. Envoy, originally named Dufort Shipping Lines was founded in 1931 by Manuel Dufort. Mr. Dufort had already made a name for himself in the railway shipping industry due to his involvement with Varavelan military efforts in the western provinces of Waldental and Appingdaal in the late 1910s and early 1920s. By 1931, Mr. Dufort considered the possibilities of going into the liner trade business due to the growing need for faster and more reliable sea shipping options. He could forsee that liner trade was quickly becoming the way of the future for sea-shipping and he capitalized on the opportunity. By 1950, Dufort Shipping Lines were transporting 63.6% of containers in and out of Varavel. The company absorbed its biggest competition, Southrey Shipping in 1957 and became Southey-Dufort Shipping lines. The company continued to thrive over the next few decades cementing its reputation as the primary commercial name in Varavelan global trade. Following Mr. Dufort's death in 1974, Gabriel Dufort, took control of the company and continued to acquire smaller competitors throughout the 1980s. In 1993, VaraCorp, Varavel's largest holding company purchased 51% of Southrey-Dufort Shipping Lines shares from the Dufort family for approximately 500,000,000 NSD. The company was then renamed Envoy after the sale and has remained so ever since. The company operates 70 vessels, between owned and chartered. The fleet includes 65 container ships and 5 bunker barges.
Applications
Here you can access Envoy's applications. Use the below forms for assistance. Well written correspondence with the information from the form included are welcomed. There are two applications. The first is a port application. Envoy is always looking to grow its number of port calls and expand its footprint across the globe. If your country is interested in having Envoy cargo ships in your ports, please complete the below form with all attached information. The second application is to become a Flag State for a Tradava container ship (or a few). Your nation must have a port application filed in order to become a Flag State for a ship. You may fill out the required information below and select no more than 5 container ships from the list below. (OOC: If a Flag State CTE, that ship will become available on the list to be claimed by another country).
Port Application Form (Nations are welcome to submit more than 1 port application, but no more than 4)
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[b]Name of Port:[/b]
[b]Location of Port:[/b] (specifically, city/province)
[b]Yearly TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) Volume: [/b] (This is how many shipping containers your port takes in in a year)
[b]Brief About Info:[/b] (A sentence or two summing up your port and its significance)
[b]Equipment:[/b] (Look at the picture menu below for guidance if needed)
[b]Hustler Trucks:[/b]
[b]Ship-to-Shore Cranes:[/b]
[b]Straddle Carriers:[/b]
[b]Rubber Tire Gantry Cranes:[/b]
[b]Rail Mounted Gantry Cranes:[/b]
[b]Reach Stackers:[/b]
[b]Rail Car Movers:[/b]
[b]Empty Container Handlers:[/b]
Where We Currently Sail:
Port Equipment Menu: (for reference in listing your port's equipment)
Flag State Application (A Nation must be filing at least 1 port application in order to file a Flag State Application)
Definition: A flag state is a country where a company registers its commercial and merchant ships. The name for the term flag state comes from ships registering with a specific nation and then flying that flag to represent their registration with that country.
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[b]Name of country:[/b]
[b]Name of Ships:[/b] (Select no more than 5 container ships from the list below to sail under your nation's flag)
Envoy Container Ship Fleet
OOC Information/Rules
1. Everything in this thread should be IC unless it is necessary. Telegrams are encouraged for any OOC discussion on anything. If you have any questions, TGs are the way to go but I will not discourage honest questions here - IC or OOC if they are necessary.
2. Applications are to be filled out with the needed information. No one-line requests please.
3. No trolling or uncalled for OOC posting.
4. Port applications should remain as realistic as possible. Keep this in mind: The three largest ports in the world have a yearly TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) volume of 1.) 43.5 million, 2.) 36.6 million 3.) 28.72 million. The largest port in Europe has a TEU of 14.35 million while the largest in the U.S. is 9.2 million TEU. Feel free to take a look at my factbook here: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=var ... id=1726757 as another tool.
5. As the creator of this thread, I reserve the right to deny an application for any reason at all.
6. Be patient. I will respond to applications as quickly as I can, but also work a very demanding job and won't be glued to this thread all day.
