Drawing on knowledge gleaned from overseas training, practical sea experience and a superior international network, the brokers offer customers significant expertise and creative solutions for their ship, cargo and freight transportation requirements.
Each broker is independently active within local maritime associations and cargo industry groups. Working with peers, friends and colleagues within these associations, CTL brokers’ activities help shape the decisions of both regional and international shipping policies.
As General Manager, Daryl Raibl oversees the brokers' activities as well as the company's day-to-day operations. A member of the CTL team since 1980, he has worked as a broker in Norway , Hong Kong and is fully established in Vancouver .
In addition to his managerial responsibilities, Daryl provides chartering services to a varied clientele involved in time charter and voyage transactions. Drawing on his significant expertise in dry cargo as well as sale and purchase, he brings to the company specific industry knowledge about steel, grains, fertilizers, and forest products as well as the related charter parties. His specialties are box-shaped, open and semi-open type ships.
Daryl is a member of the North American branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (MCIArb) and has completed the Association of Ship Brokers and Agents course. He is Past President of the Vancouver Maritime Arbitrators Association.
Richard Helm has to his credit more than 15 years of experience as both a charterer and broker in the dry and tanker cargo trades. Prior to joining the company in 1990, he spent five years in London , England , where he traded bulk commodities. Richard now focuses on grain, grain products, woodchips, and other bulk commodities as well as ships on voyage and time charter, from handy size through to panamax.
Richard is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers and is presently Chair of the B.C. Chapter. He also serves on the Council of the Vancouver Grain Exchange.
Geoff McNeill has broad experience in the Vancouver shipping industry, having worked the last 10 years in shipbroking, ship agency and freight forwarding. Currently he applies his shipping expertise to the grain, steels and forest industries, working closely with a large network of bulk ship owners and operators.
Geoff is a graduate of the Pacific Maritime Training Campus of BCIT and is a chartered shipbroker. Since 1988, Geoff has been a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbroking .
A member of the CTL Westrans team since 1997, Martine is well-versed in both freight forwarding and cargo operations. Formerly active in the airfreight industry, where she acquired experience in freight forwarding and airline cargo operations, she now provides logistical and documentation support to CTL and its clients. Martine also works closely with Compass Marine Services, CTL's sister company. In this capacity she oversees a variety of administrative and disbursement accounting duties.
A native of Montreal , Martine is fluent in English and French.
Mike Shigley joined CTL Westrans in 1987 after nine years of experience in agency, stevedoring and shipbroking on the U.S. West Coast. Now based in Seattle, he brings valuable commercial and operational expertise to a range of forestry-related projects in North America, Chile, New Zealand, and Australia. His special areas of concentration are logs, full and part cargoes as well as wood chips and scrap cargoes on both voyage and time charter basis. Mike also provides parcel cargo chartering services for a number of mineral companies.