Aug. Bolten Wm. Miller's successor
Aug. Bolten Wm. Miller's Successor (GmbH & Co.) KG is a shipping company based in Hamburg , which is operated in the seventh generation.
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The company goes back to William Miller, who was born in Perth, Scotland in 1767. Miller immigrated to Hamburg in 1797 and became a Hamburg citizen in 1801. His successor was August Bolten in 1841 , who made a name for himself in setting up various shipping lines. In 1847 he was one of the co-founders of the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft and, in 1871, one of the founding members of the Hamburg South American Steamship Company .
In the years after the First World War, the Bolten shipping company pulled Swedish shipowners under the then cheap German flag. Almost the entire Bolten fleet was lost during the Second World War. Reconstruction began in 1951 with the first post-war new building, August Bolten , which continued through the 1950s and 1960s. In the course of this, Bolten and other partners built the TT-Line between Germany and Sweden at the beginning of the 1960s . At the end of the 1960s, Bolten was one of the few German shipping companies still active in container shipping. In the following decade, Bolten became involved in the operation of car transporters .
Today the shipping company operates several bulk , multi-purpose and feeder ships . In addition, the company also works in the management of foreign ships.
literature
- Otto J. Seiler: Aug. Bolten - Wm. Miller's successor - 200 years of shipping in Hamburg . Mittler, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 381-320759-5 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 42.6 " N , 9 ° 59 ′ 21.4" E