Oil trading & transport company

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The history of the shipping company Ölhandel- & Transportgesellschaft is short, it begins in 1938 and ends in 1960.

In 1938 the Germania motor tanker (9,850 GRT, 14,800 tdw, 4,100 hp) was delivered to the Groß-Gerau oil factory in Bremen by the Deutsche Werft . This tanker was transporting whale suitable and German from the Unitas whaling mbH was bereedert . The Groß-Gerau oil factory was renamed the Oil Trading & Transport Company in 1949.

In 1953 the shipping company received the new buildings Tema Palm (tanker, 6,255 GRT, 9,400 tdw, 2,750 hp) and Sapele Palm (freighter with 235,000 cbft cargo oil tanks, 3,980 GRT, 8,500 tdw, 2,850 hp) from AG Weser , Seebeck plant in Bremerhaven . They were financed with the help of reconstruction funds. They were steam ships , they were propelled by triple expansion engines.

These ships, with a palm tree on the chimney stamp, were transferred to the Palm Line , London in 1960 , and that is how the history of this shipping company, which had a close relationship with the Unilever Group, ended.

literature

  • H. Adamietz: tides of shipping. Publisher H. Saade, Bremen 1984.