Agencias Universales SA (AGUNSA)

Agencias Universales S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides agency and logistics services worldwide. It offers shipping agency services, such as Magellan strait and channels transit assistance, and back-office services, as well as general shipping, port, and protecting agency services; and air representation services, such as sales and management services, passenger and ramp services, and solutions for flight operations. The company also provides services for airports and ports; and cruise terminal services comprising immigration services and customs control, baggage handling equipment, communications center, parking for vehicles and tourist buses, on-site restaurant options for passengers and crew, transfer of passengers to and from the ship via shuttle bus, and event center services. In addition, it offers warehousing and distribution, ground transportation, international, mining and retail industry, and raw materials logistics services, as well as logistics services for other industries; and launch/pilot boat services at the ports and terminals for transporting passengers, crew, pilots, authorities, and other users, as well as the transfer of material goods and performing specific tasks related to the vessel. Further, the company provides tugboat services consisting of mooring and unmooring to berths, maritime terminals, and bouys; maintenance of maritime terminals; coastal and high seas towage; towing operations and international towage services; assistance to vessel in distress; and salvage, shipwreck removal, hydrocarbon spill control, and remediation of environmental liabilities. Additionally, it offers container depot services; container services, including sales and leasing, container shuttle, container repurposing and transportation, and modular services; and bunkering services. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile. Agencias Universales S.A. operates as a subsidiary of Grupo Empresas Navieras S.A.