Northern Stevedoring Services has come on board as naming rights partner for Convoy for the Cure 2025.
The annual fund-raising effort supports The Cure Starts Now which raises funds for childhood cancer research.
The particular cancer is called DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) which is an aggressive type that forms in the brainstem.
2025 is the second time the Convoy has had a naming rights sponsor. NSS is hoping to pass its 2024 donation and fund raising total of $25,000.
It was a great display of corporate leadership, CEO of The Cure Starts Now Eleni Millios-Hullick said.
“We are really proud to have an organisation like NSS onboard. All of our partnerships are special. This one in particular.
“NSS is a big business taking up a big space in the maritime, trucking and logistics industry in regional Queensland.
“When we form partnerships with organisations like NSS, it’s something that we are super proud of. They understand it and they’re genuinely committed to supporting research treatments and trials into childhood brain cancer.
“When organisations like NSS put their money into the community they lead the way in more ways than one.”
NSS would raise further donations with staff, partners and owners in an effort to earn the right to lead the convoy, NSS General Manager Mark George said.
“NSS is committed to their staff, their owners and to giving back to the community, which is why this partnership is important to us.
“This is a perfect fit with NSS given this is one of the largest trucking convoys in the southern hemisphere and something that the whole community is really proud of.”
Organisers expect more than 200 trucks around 150 motorcycles will make up the convoy which will be led through the city by a police escort to end up at Ross River Dam.
Northern Stevedoring Services has its headquarters in Townsville and operations in Mackay and Gladstone and is the largest stevedoring company in regional Queensland facilitating trade from copper cathode export to discharging US defence assets for exercise Talisman Sabre in Shoalwater Bay, among many others.