DORIS MARITIME SERVICES S.A. ("DORIS") is a Swiss service company to the maritime industry, established in Geneva in 1983 by Mr. Nicolas Wirth. Mr. Wirth, the General Manager, born in 1945, has a dual British and Swiss nationality. He has spent 10 years at sea in the merchant marine, acquiring considerable practical experience in all aspects of ship operation, and possesses a British First Mate's Foreign Going Ticket. He has graduated with honors from Cardiff University in 1975 with a Bsc. (hons) in Maritime Studies. In 1975 he joined Tradax / Cargill, and from 1978 to 1983 he worked at Acomarit Service Maritime S.A., Geneva, a ship management company where he was a director in charge of a fleet which at the time grew to over one million tons deadweight. Today, DORIS concentrates it's activities in ship management, currently is involving container vessels and bulk carriers under commercial and operational management, trading world wide on long term charters to first class major liner companies as above. DORIS was completing a major container hub port project with HPH (Hutchison International Port Holdings, part of the Li Ka-Shing Group). Doris now is working on another similar project to secure long term employment for container feeder vessels.