36 October 2015 - Business View Caribbean
Maritime & Transport Services Limited
Serving the shipping industry in jamaica and beyond
Maritime & Transport Services Limited (MTS) was in-
corporated in 1966, by Hilton Clarke and his sister,
Daphne. According to Kim, Hilton’s son, who is the
company’s managing director, they had been work-
ing for many years at a stevedoring operation called
A.E. Parnell & Co. Founded in 1946, Parnell’s compa-
ny was one of the largest stevedoring businesses in
Kingston, loading and unloading ships of all sizes, with
various types of cargo, coming from, and going to, sea-
ports all around the world. “When Mr. Parnell passed
away, they bought the company and ran it, continuing
the stevedoring aspect of the business,” says Clarke.
“But they both thought it would be good to expand and
diversify, so they opened Maritime & Transport as a
shipping agency.”
In the international transport chain, a shipping agency
is the designated company held responsible for han-
dling shipments and cargo, as well as the general in-
terests of the shipping company, or principal, convey-
