1. To whom it may concern,
This serves to introduce, the bearer, Mr. Edwin Johann Santana Gaarder, who worked with
us for 02(two) years in the period of 2011-2012.
I, the undersigned, the owner of Brandão Filhos Fortship Agência Marítima Ltda., one of the
largest Shipping Agencies and Stevedoring Companies in the North & Northeast of Brazil.
We operate in the the areas of Chartering, Agency & Husbandrying , Port operations &
Logistics.
Among other activities and responsibilities, Edwin was the sole boarding agent and principal
office manager, in charge of, for all documentation, practical and technical requirements of
vessels and their cargo during calls at the ports of Mucuripe and Pecém.
While handling part of our leading sales force to provide quotations for the services we
render, Edwin has played a key role in mainly being able to work out and, always, bid for the
pursued market targets that made our company gain various new contracts not only in long
term Wind Mill Projects but also negotiate e re-negotiated new and existing international and
local contracts of our core business. As part of his own career project and in despite of the
success achieved in all and every department he has led or teamed up with in the company,
he still made himself available to cooperate in recruiting and training new team members
until his pre-announced deadline to leave us at the end of his term, in December 2012.
Notwithstanding all the aforesaid, Edwin has re-invented himself, in every new challenge,
every time he was demanded for in new business opportunities which, no matter
unprecedented they were, he carried out, again, with extreme confidence and care as, for
example:
• to work-out and alternative trading flow of soy-cake from southern Brazilian producers to
export to the Ukraine,
• propose new means to enable exporting bauxite out of the Demerara river in Guyana,
• to draw up a preliminary business plan for a mining venture in the interior of the state of
Ceará.
In addition to his main chores in our firm, he was involved in a number of ongoing business
deals at the ports of Pecém and Fortaleza, including: the import of clinker, slag and cement
by Apodi (M. Dias Branco Group); the export of iron ore to China (Globest); the import of coal
from Puerto Bolíver to two new power plants in Pecém (MPX); the import of wind turbines
(Vestas, Siemens, Suzlon, etc.) to wind farms in Ceará. He also assisted us, from time to
time, with our weekly container-cargo operations in Mucuripe (CMA CGM).
Edwin is a resourceful and hard-working individual. He was able to learn the trade in a very
short period of time and create an impressive network of contacts. He is at ease in English
and Portuguese, both written and spoken.
I am glad to recommend Edwin Johann Santana Gaarder to anyone requiring the services of
an unique professional he certainly is.
Yours Faithfully
FJT de Santana
FRANCISCO JOSE
TELES DE
SANTANA:339159627
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Digitally signed by FRANCISCO JOSE TELES
DE SANTANA:33915962791
DN: c=BR, o=ICP-Brasil, ou=Secretaria da
Receita Federal do Brasil - RFB, ou=RFB e-CPF
A3, ou=(EM BRANCO), ou=AR SERASA,
cn=FRANCISCO JOSE TELES DE
SANTANA:33915962791
Date: 2015.07.18 12:16:02 -03'00'