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Shipping Guides Ltd was created by Colin Pielow, a man who saw a need within the shipping industry for a single source of port and harbour information, and who had the courage to make his idea a reality with the publication of the first edition of Guide to Port Entry in 1971.
In 1972, in recognition of the special needs of the tanker industry, a specialist publication was produced:
Today Shipping Guides produces the following publications for the maritime world: Guide to Port Entry
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Colin, the original author of the Guide, was an innovator and a man of vision, but even he could not have known just how successful Guide to Port Entry was destined to become, together with the additional publications that would appear in subsequent years. The content of the first edition of Guide to Port Entry ran to less than 600 pages. Despite using a smaller font, we now find it difficult to include all our available information within almost 6,000 pages!
During the early years of the company's history, with sales steadily increasing, it was a large order from a Russian shipping line that really put Shipping Guides on its feet. This was all the encouragement Colin needed to launch the next publication in the company's portfolio: The Ships Atlas. In no time this also became renowned as one of the world's leading maritime atlases, an indispensible reference tool for many in the industry.
Guide to Tanker Ports 
With an ever-growing customer base and an ever-increasing portfolio of publications, we look forward to a future in which we are as committed as ever to providing the most comprehensive and the most accurate port and cargo terminal data to everyone in the maritime industry.