BBC chartering

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BBC Chartering GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1997
Seat Leer , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Roelf Briese,
Ulrich Ulrichs ( CEO ),
Tobias Tanzer ( CFO )
Number of employees ~ 400 (2015)
Branch Seafaring, logistics, transport
Website www.bbc-chartering.com

The company BBC Chartering GmbH is a shipping company of Briese group in the East Frisian town of Leer . With over 160 multi-purpose , heavy lift and container ships as well as bulk carriers that the company charter, BBC Chartering is the largest chartering company on the Ems. BBC Chartering is one of the world market leaders (in terms of tonnage not in terms of lifting capacity) in the heavy lift and project shipping sector. In addition, the main focus is currently on the shipping of bulk and new bulk cargo, steel goods and freight for the energy industry, for example components for wind turbines. Other freight regulations are dangerous goods and containers. Military goods are also shipped in the project shipping sector.

The company motto is Anchored by excellence (in German: Anchored by top performance).

history

The shipping company was founded in 1997 in Bremen . In 1999 the company moved to Leer, in the same year the first South American branch was founded in Buenos Aires . In the following years the company expanded in Europe , Asia and America .

In October 2003 the incident occurred around the multi-purpose freighter BBC China , which was sunk off South Africa (see below).

In 2004 Asia Project Chartering was launched, the largest alliance of BBC Chartering to date. The first liner services were launched a year later .

In 2008 an office was set up in the USA and regular connections to the Persian Gulf were established, an office in Japan followed in 2010 and a new division was added to the shipping company, the BBC Bulk Division. At the same time there was a merger with Teras Cargo Transport to form Teras BBC Chartering LLC.

With the takeover of several ships that were previously looked after by Beluga Shipping , the fleet increased noticeably just one year later and further offices were opened in Asia and other countries.

By the end of 2013, a third of the BBC Chartering fleet will have a lifting capacity of 500 t and more and is thus finally established in the heavy lift industry.

In 2015, the apac service ( any port, any cargo ) started the first global project, which brought BBC even further to the top of the global market. By 2016, BBC Chartering managed more than 180 multi-purpose and heavy lift carriers, making it the world's largest fleet of such ships.

The development of liner services has continued over the years, so that BBC Chartering is now a member of several alliances, including CaytransBBC and TerrasBBC . In addition, the company now offers 18 different liner services, which are managed by 26 branches spread across five continents.

Liner services

As a traditional tram company, the company also offers various semi-liner services in addition to tramp shipping , in which around 2/3 of the ships are employed. However, some services are stored with an actual schedule and officially marketed as liner services; they are controlled by so-called line managers. Many lines lead from industrialized countries to emerging and developing countries. Because in the latter, the demand for large finished products, such as generators, turbines, machines or power plant parts, which BBC Chartering mainly transports, is extremely high. Most of the routes are served monthly.

apac service

Due to its size, the fleet reflects all the main routes in the world. This prompted the shipping company to introduce the apac service, which enables flexible transport of all kinds of goods by guaranteeing a transport option for all freight to any destination. The apac service ("any port, any cargo", German: "Any port, any cargo") is not a classic liner service, but a hybrid of trampoline and liner shipping. The concept is that the cargo to be shipped is taken on board by a ship in the fleet that is heading for the area to which the cargo is to be brought anyway. Fast delivery can thus be guaranteed, but it is not possible to inform the customer in advance of a specific ship that will transport his cargo. The apac service offers with flexible departure times a solution for every transport problem and ensures better utilization of capacity, which makes this Verfrachtungsmethode environmentally friendly because the number is reduced to ships on the same route in this way.

charge

BBC Chartering is load-oriented and can be roughly divided into three areas, each of which is interlinked. Tramp and liner shipping with the apac service intersection forms the top priority . The sub-window is the area that is organized by so-called Contracts of Affreightment (German: Freight contracts). The third subgroup are the special projects, which include all modes of transport that cannot be defined by the other two areas.

Project and heavy lift cargo make up a large part of the cargo. However, a not inconsiderable part of the total cargo volume also consists of bulk or container cargo. Internally, the company is divided into different business or cargo areas:

  • Project Division - the heart of the company, mainly heavy cargo in worldwide transport
  • Liner Services - various line trips
  • Oil and Gas - Cargoes for the oil and gas industry, such as piping systems, primarily from the Middle East, Siberia and North America
  • Green energy - charges for renewable energy, mostly wind energy , journeys from Europe to over 50 countries worldwide, according to own information the largest transporter of wind energy plants worldwide
  • Heavy Industry - transport of cranes, excavators etc. in the worldwide journey
  • Mining Industry - transport of trucks , excavators etc. in the worldwide journey
  • Vehicles and Yachts - transport of vehicles and yachts of all kinds
  • Bulk Cargo - transport of bulk goods with bulkers and multi-purpose freighters

fleet

maximum combined lifting capacity of the fleet (December 2012) in absolute terms

The fleet of BBC Chartering is currently (2017) over about 170 multi-purpose vessels , heavy lift vessels , container ships and bulk carriers from 3,500 to 37,000  dwt . The crane capacity is currently up to 800 t, in the case of the Palabora up to 900 t. BBC Chartering is not the owner of its own ships, they charter the ships. Management, manning, technical and nautical inspections and other aspects are handled by other companies. As the charterer, BBC is responsible for the commercial management of the ships - its job is to find the right cargo on the right terms for the right ship.

The fleet consists largely of ships from the parent company Briese Schiffahrt , but some ships from other companies, such as B. chartered the shipping company W. Bockstiegel .

The chartered fleet has an average age of 8.5 years (as of 2017). More than 100 ships were built in the 2000s, 60 of them in 2007–2009. Another 70 ships were built in the 2010s, 66 of them in the years 2010–2012. The fleet is characterized above all by its high level of flexibility: Most ships are equipped with cranes and are therefore not dependent on the corresponding superstructure . In addition, many of the ships are classified with high ice classes and are therefore able to navigate waters where ice formation occurs, even in winter. B. the Baltic Sea .

Since 2010, several multi-purpose heavy-lift carriers from the BBC Everest class have been chartered on a long-term basis (cranes with 700 t lifting capacity), and new heavy-lift carriers from the BBC Amber class (cranes with 800 t lifting capacity).

Ship classes and ships (selection)

Source:

Surname Ship type Construction year Load capacity length width Draft flag number Crane capacity
BBC Amber Class Heavy lift carrier 2011-2013 14,360  dwt 153.44 m 23.20 m 9.10 m Antigua & Barbuda 14 ships 2 × 400 t + 1 × 80 t
BBC Neptune class Bulkers 2010-2010 37,300 dwt 189.99 m 28.50 m 10.40 m Liberia 2 ships 4 × 30 t
BBC empty class Multipurpose ship 1998-2000 20,000  dwt 153.22 m 23.60 m 9.73 m Liberia 4 ships 2 × 60 t
Norderoog class Container Ship 2004-2008 16,921  dwt 161.35 m 25.00 m 9.90 m Antigua & Barbuda , Gibraltar 6 ships 2 × 45 t
BBC Everest class Heavy lift carrier 2011–2012 9,300  dwt 125.79 m 22.00 m 7.60 m Germany , Antigua & Barbuda 9 ships 2 × 350 t
BBC Ems class Multipurpose heavy lift carrier 2006–2012 17,500  dwt 143.14 m 22.80 m 9.70 m Germany , Antigua & Barbuda 15 ships 3 × 80 t / 2 × 250 t + 1 × 80 t
BBC Bergen Class Multipurpose ship 2011–2012 8,000  dwt 128.45 m 16.50 m 7.00 m Antigua & Barbuda 8 ships 2 × 80 t
BBC Europe class Multipurpose heavy lift carrier 2003-2009 7,700  dwt 119.80 m 20.20 m 7.60 m Antigua & Barbuda , Germany , USA 9 ships 2 × 250 t
BBC Campana class Multipurpose heavy lift carrier 2004-2011 12,780  dwt 138.50 m 21.00 m 8.00 m Gibraltar , Antigua & Barbuda , Cyprus , Liberia 31 ships 2 × 120 t / 2 × 150 t / 2 × 180 t
BBC winter class Multipurpose heavy lift carrier 2011–2012 19,800  dwt 166.25 m 22.90 m 9.80 m Liberia 2 ships 2 × 400 t + 1 × 120 t
BBC Rhine class Multipurpose ship 2008 17,300  dwt 142.81 m 21.50 m 9.69 m Liberia 2 ships 3 × 60 t
HR recognition class Multipurpose heavy lift carrier 2005 10,500  dwt 134.65 m 21.50 m 7.95 m Liberia 2 ships 2 × 250 t
BBC England class Multipurpose ship 2003-2004 10,250  dwt 136.74 m 28.25 m 7.33 m Antigua & Barbuda 3 ships 2 × 80 t
BBC Kimberly Class Multipurpose heavy lift carrier 2009 10,000  dwt 139.00 m 20.00 m 7.70 m Antigua & Barbuda 2 ships 2 × 250 t
BBC K class Multipurpose RoRo heavy lift carrier 1998-2000 7,200  dwt 126.51 m 20.30 m 6.65 m Liberia 4 ships 2 × 100 t / 2 × 150 t
BBC Atlantic class Multipurpose ship 2005-2011 6,150  dwt 115.50 m 16.50 m 5.70 m Antigua & Barbuda , Gibraltar 11 ships 2 × 60 t

BBC China

In October 2003, two months before Libya declared that it would not manufacture weapons of mass destruction, the USA intercepted the freighter BBC China from BBC Chartering GmbH , Leer, following information from Urs Tinner . The ship BBC China is said to have had parts for the construction of gas ultracentrifuges (GUZ) worth more than 10 million euros on board and was scheduled to arrive in Libya in early October 2003. The discovery of the planned delivery was a secret service operation by the British and Americans. At the end of September 2003, they learned that a freighter from the Leer-based shipping company had loaded parts for the GUZ in Dubai and was heading for Libya. The intelligence services informed the German government and asked for help: The ship should be stopped and diverted to Italy. The federal government contacted the ship owner who, according to government agencies, had shown himself to be very willing to cooperate. After passing the Suez Canal, the ship immediately set course for the Italian port in Taranto so that the cargo could be inspected. A US warship followed the freighter. Neither the crew nor the shipping company should have known that parts for a GUZ had come on board in Dubai. In the shipping documents, the cargo was declared differently by the client, which, according to information from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, is a company from Asia. Nuclear specialists from the British and US authorities sighted the cargo and had it confiscated. According to research by the journalist Rainer Kahrs, the ship belonged to the Beluga Shipping company and was chartered to the BBC Chartering . Shortly before the trip, it had been renamed from Beluga Superstition to BBC China . A short time after the secret service operation, the ship ran onto a rock off South Africa and was sunk there.

Employees

In 2015, BBC Chartering GmbH employed around 400 people on land. Since the shipping company does not own any ships, no people are employed at sea.

See also

Web links

Commons : BBC Chartering  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Company overview , BBC Chartering
  2. ↑ Description of the fleet , BBC Chartering
  3. ↑ a b c d e History. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b apac service. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Dependencies (PDF; 6.5 MB) , BBC Chartering
  6. ↑ BBC Chartering Strengthens Its Presence in Turkey , World Maritime News, October 28, 2012
  7. ^ History , BBC Chartering
  8. ^ Liner Schedules. Accessed July 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b Cargo areas , BBC Chartering
  10. ↑ Project downloads (PDF; 1.9 MB) , BBC Chartering
  11. ↑ Line overview (PDF; 993 kB) , BBC Chartering
  12. ^ Wind energy , BBC Chartering
  13. ↑ Fleet planning , BBC Chartering
  14. ↑ Fleet list , Briese Schiffahrt
  15. ↑ Fleet list , W. Bockstiegel
  16. ↑ Fleet List , BBC Chartering.
  17. ↑ current fleet on the BBC Chartering website
  18. ↑ Naval use: German ship with nuclear equipment for Libya stopped - Spon 2004
  19. ↑ nzz.ch: USA stopped German freighter with atomic delivery for Libya , seen August 21, 2012.
  20. ↑ Rainer Kahrs: The Lord of the Ships - On the Crash of a Global Player (PDF; 1.2 MB) ARD / nordwest radio. Retrieved on November 24, 2013 (broadcast manuscript, PDF document, pp. 19–24)