Aliança
| Aliança Navegação e Logística | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Lda ( GmbH ) |
| founding | 1950 |
| Seat | São Paulo |
| management | Julian Thomas |
| Number of employees | around 1200 |
| sales | 1.044 billion euros (2011) |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | alianca.com |
The Aliança Navegação e Logística Ltda. , Aliança for short , is a Brazilian shipping company . It is a subsidiary of the German shipping company Hamburg Süd and is one of the ten largest Brazilian transport companies.
history
The company goes back to Grupo Fischer , today one of the world's largest orange juice companies, owned by the German immigrant Carl Fischer. Fischer was a merchant and stayed in Santos in 1928, actually on the way to Argentina. He first bought a plantation called Citricola and from 1932 built up a fruit trade. In 1950 the shipping company Empresa de Navegação Aliança SA was founded in Rio de Janeiro, which began with a fruit ship that was used in traffic between Brazil and Argentina. In the first few years the shipping company worked exclusively in coastal shipping along the east coast of South America and grew to become the largest Brazilian provider of cabotage services by the mid-1960s . From 1967 onwards, Aliança expanded its route network, initially to Europe, and then from the beginning of the 1990s to the ports of the United States. In the years from 1965 to 1991 the shipping company ordered 30 new ships, the majority of which were built in Brazil. At peak times, the shipping company operated over 50 ships.
After the takeover by the Oetker Group for 50 million euros in 1998, the company was first renamed Aliança Transportes Maritimos SA and expanded its liner shipping to include ports of call in the Gulf of Mexico, Europe, Central America, the Caribbean, Asia and Brazil. From August 1999 Aliança concentrated again on cabotage services in Brazilian container traffic. In 2000 the company was transformed into a limited liability company under Brazilian law and it was renamed Aliança Navegação e Logistica Ltda . On December 1, 2016, it was announced that Oetker would be separating from the shipping division and being sold to Maersk .
today
Today the company operates container services with a focus on the transport of refrigerated and frozen goods. The current network of routes from Aliança connects the ports of the South American Atlantic coast with all important parts of the world. Ten container ships are used for internal Brazilian traffic and a further 15 ships for international services.
Office flag
The shipping company's office flag consists of three horizontal stripes in black, white and red (from top to bottom), which are reminiscent of Fischer's German origins. The white stripe shows two yellow rings, lying next to each other and interlocking, which represent the two hemispheres connected by the shipping company. In the middle of the rings there was a black "A" until 1993, since 1993 a blue stylized "A", which stands for the shipping company name.
literature
- The Orange Dynasty in Die Zeit No. 51 of December 11, 2003 (accessed July 7, 2012)
Web links
- Website of the shipping company Aliança (Portuguese / English)
- Internet presence of Grupo Fischer (Portuguese / English)
Single receipts
- ↑ Oetker partings with shipping company orf.at, December 1, 2016, accessed December 1, 2016
- ↑ Frank Binder: Oetker cashes in with Hamburg Süd · Contract for Maersk · No information on the purchase price · The value of the fleet is estimated at 1.4 billion US dollars . In: Daily port report from December 2, 2016, pp. 1 + 3.
- ↑ The sale was completed on November 30, 2017. See: Dr. August Oetker KG - press release: Sale of shipping company Hamburg Süd to Maersk Line completed. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Flags and shipping company history at Flags of the World ( 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. (English)
