Arned Cela Agencies

ARNED-CELA AGENCIES was founded in 1992 under the name Cela Shipping, as a private owned company by Eric Vrolijk and Chris Langeslag. Both of them gained at that moment already a very outstanding reputation throughout the maritime industry and joined their forces in the port of Antwerp. Soon it was clear this would be a successtory as a steady growth in the number of agencies became visible over the years.

In 1998, Eric Vrolijk took over the shares of the company after Chris Langeslag decided to retire in that same year. With Eric Vrolijk as the only ‘captain’ in control over the company, business made a steady progress resulting in a expansion of the business where he changed the company from a 100% so called tanker-agency, into a company which not only was handling tankers, but also started to serve dry-bulk vessels, container-vessels, roro vessels and heavy-lift carriers.