Briese shipping
| Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1984 |
| Seat |
Leer , Germany
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| management | Roelf Briese ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | ~ 2,200 (2009) |
| Branch | Logistics, transport |
| Website | www.briese.de |
The company Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG is a shipping company of the Briese Group in the East Frisian city of Leer . With over 130 multi-purpose , heavy lift and container ships as well as bulk carriers in the core company, most of which belong to one-ship companies of Briese Schiffahrt, the company founded in 1984 by Captain Roelf Briese is the largest shipping company in Germany's second largest shipping location. According to its own information, it is the world's leading provider in the field of project and heavy lift cargo together with its subsidiary BBC Chartering . In addition, the main focus is on the shipping of dangerous goods, military goods, bulk cargoes and containers . In the area of project shipping , an above-average number of wind energy parts are shipped. The company motto is Our Objective: Charterer's Happiness (in German: Our goal: Satisfaction of the charterer ).
history
The shipping company was founded in 1984 by Captain Roelf Briese. The first series of new buildings were planned as early as the late 1980s. The first expansions, for example into the People's Republic of China , took place in the early 1990s. Thanks to the subsidiary China Supervision, based in Tianjin, China, near the Xingang Shipyard , the certification and construction supervision of own and third-party new buildings can now be done with little effort. In the meantime (2011) there are branches in 20 countries on six continents.
fleet
The Briese Schiffahrt fleet currently (2011) consists of over 120 multi-purpose ships, container ships and bulkers. According to the company's own information, the average age of the ships due to new builds and ship sales is less than five years. The carrying capacity of the ships is between 2,500 and 37,300 t, which means that the lower and middle range is more likely to be covered in the area of container and bulk cargo than current ocean-going vessels. In the area of multi-purpose and heavy goods transport, the middle to upper area is covered. Most freighters are with tween decks (Tweendecks) and own cranes equipped (700 t) and with ice classes certified (to Swedish / Finnish 1A / E3) and thus after shipping details versatile. They also have a quality management system in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001: 2000 , which is certified by Germanischer Lloyd .
The hull color of most of the company's own ships is blue. In addition, most ships of the subsidiary at their BBC Chartering & Logistic be fraught, the visible from afar lettering BBC Chartering .
The company also manages several research vessels , namely the Alkor , the Elisabeth Mann Borgese , the Heincke , the Littorina , the Maria S. Merian , the Meteor , the Senckenberg and the Sonne .
In 2010 the heavy lift carrier BBC Polonia , which was completed in the same year, was attacked by pirates off Nigeria and the crew kidnapped. All seafarers were released after a few days.
Charter
Five container ships were built between 2004 and 2008 and are currently on time charter with various large shipping companies such as Maersk Line , CMA CGM or MSC . The new series of eight ships in the BBC Everest class , which was built between 2010 and 2012, has been chartered to BBC Chartering on a long-term basis and will be used there in the BBC Americana Line , a project heavy lift line between the Mediterranean and South America. In addition to the BBC Everest , the BBC Europe class, which was created between 2003 and 2009, is one of the heavy lift carriers . A large part of the tonnage is made up of the river ships of the BBC-Ems class , which operate worldwide. Briese has taken over some of the ships from the bankrupt Beluga Shipping , including some BBC Campana class ships . In 2010, the shipping company has two Handysize - Bulker the BBC Neptune class with a carrying capacity of 37,300 dwt in service provided.
After the bankruptcy of the Beluga shipping company , Briese took over the Beluga SkySails , which is equipped with a 320 m² towing kite. The kite 'achieves' a maximum of 2000 kW. The 132 meter long ship with almost 10,000 dwt is the first commercially used ship with this technology. Since the purchase, the ship has been chartered to BBC Chartering on a long-term basis and is called BBC SkySails .
Ships (selection)
group
Briese Schiffahrt is the head and part of the Briese Group . In addition to Briese GmbH & Co. KG , this group includes :
- Briese Shipping BV based in Scheemda, the Netherlands
- Research Shipping Department based in Leer
- Ems Offshore Service GmbH & Co.KG based in Leer ( harbor tugs and pontoons )
- Ems-Leda Shipping (founded on November 1st, 2011) with bulkers
- BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH & Co. KG as the largest subsidiary and main charterer of Briese Schiffahrt based in Leer and offices u. a. in Bremen , Saint Petersburg , Singapore and Shanghai and 21 other cities
- Briese Chartering GmbH and Co. KG as a charterer based in Leer
- Bremer Reederei E & B GmbH based in Bremen
- Peak Shipping AS based in Bergen
- EPAS GmbH & Co. KG as Emden port agent
- BERA GmbH & Co. KG as Papenburg port agent
- Briese Crew Management GmbH as crew managers
- Briese Swallow St. Petersburg and Sevastopol Ltd. as a crew agent
- Nesse repair yard in Leer as an in-house shipyard
Departments
The shipping company is divided internally into nine departments:
- Purchasing / Logistics : Purchasing technical and nautical parts; Delivery to the ships and storage of spare parts, etc.
- IT / EDP : Maintenance of ship and office communication, development of own software solutions, expansion and maintenance of the IT infrastructure
- Administration : flagging out, supplies, personnel management (country) and others
- Finance with subdivisions
- Accounting / bookkeeping : normal bookkeeping
- Controlling : Checking the profitability of the seagoing vessels and checking incoming invoices
- Ship financing : Financing of new buildings and acquisitions through loans, limited partners or other
- Chartering ( Briese Chartering ) with
- Chartering : brokerage of cargo for the individual ships, negotiation of the freight rate
- Operating : Monitoring and control of the daily ship operation
- Buying and selling : buying and selling of seagoing vessels
- Manning ( Briese Crew Management ): Personnel management (sea)
- Inspection with
- technical inspection : ensuring that the technical process runs smoothly (e.g. main engine)
- Nautical inspection : Ensuring that the nautical process runs smoothly (e.g. load securing)
- Management : management, personnel management
Funds
The company offers various investment options, including investments in so-called one-ship companies as well as in complete fleet funds. For example, the so-called Chance Fund (Sixth Briese Tonnage Tax Return Fund) was voted Fund of the Year in 2011 by a well-known website. The average return on this fund was just under 28%.
The Oltmann Group's Bargain Fund I caused a sensation when it sold two container ships from the Briese shipping company for 19 million euros each. A year earlier, the ships were bought for almost 14 million euros. According to the shipping company and the issuing house, the return for the shareholders was 79% after taxes.
Employees
In 2017, Briese Schiffahrt GmbH & Co. KG employed over 225 people on land and over 2,000 directly at sea.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Overview of the fleet ( memento of the original from October 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Briese shipping
- ↑ About Briese Schiffahrt ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Briese shipping
- ↑ a b History of the company ( Memento of the original dated November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Briese shipping
- ↑ SkySails technology ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , SkySails GmbH
- ↑ Organigram of the Briese Group ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Briese shipping
- ↑ Ems-Leda Shipping
- ↑ Departments of Briese Schiffahrt ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Briese shipping
- ↑ Ship investments in Briese Schiffahrt
- ↑ breeze opportunity funds - "Fund of the Year 2011" ( Memento of 27 May 2011 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ THB - Briese sells Wadan new buildings ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ About the BRIESE shipping company. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
