Bertram Rickmers

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Bertram Rickmer Clasen Rickmers (* 1952 in Bremerhaven ) is a German manager and shipowner .

Life

Rickmers is the eldest son of Bertram RJ Rickmers (1917–1971) and his wife Christa Rickmers (1927–2003). The entrepreneur and politician Erck Rickmers is his brother. Rickmers spent part of his school days in the Luisenlund boarding school on the Schlei and after graduating from high school he went to sea on the Peter Rickmers for some time . He then spent around a year in China and then studied law for a few semesters, switched to economics and graduated with a diploma in Freiburg in 1980.

After several stays abroad at various shipping companies , he came to the Bremerhaven Rickmers shipyard , which was managed by his uncle Claus Rickmers. Here he worked for some time as a sales manager and became self-employed on a commission basis with an exclusive sales right for Rickmersschiffe valid for foreign countries. The exclusive right to sell was valid for one year and he moved to Hamburg in 1984 with Marine und Contracting GmbH (MCC Marine Consulting & Contracting), which he founded in 1982.

Since ships were difficult to sell at this time, he helped the shipowners raise capital and accompanied them with the construction of new buildings. That was one of the reasons that B. Rickmers GmbH & Cie. KG and to order a new building (building no. 401 of the 49-L type) from the Rickmers shipyard, and he also secured the rights to the construction plans.

B. Rickmers GmbH & Cie. KG

This first ship of the shipping company, the Patricia Rickmers (14,200 tdw), belonged to the type 49-L, a very successful type of ship, of which two more were built by the shipyard before it closed its doors forever. With the takeover of the small tankers Jan (3,280 tdw) and Oliver (4,400 tdw) from Bremen-based DS Tankschifffahrt GmbH & Cie. From 1986 the shipping company expanded. In 1987 he acquired the roll-on / roll-off freighter Berulan (4,250 tdw) from a foreclosure auction . The roll-on / roll-off freighter (3,500 tdw), renamed Mai Rickmers , was taken over in 1989 and the freighter Sphie Rickmers (7,250 tdw) in 1990. As a shipowner, he made further tanker acquisitions in 1991 and acquired five coastal tankers from the Dutch shipping company Nedlloyd Bulkchem NV.

In 1991 the container ship RC Rickmers of the type B-170 was built on the Stocnia Szczecinska , which, after slightly changed plans, corresponded to the ship type 49-L of the Rickmers shipyard. With the exclusive mediation of Bertram Rickmers, this type of ship was then launched almost 40 times in Stettin for German shipowners. After that, Bertram Rickmers almost exclusively ordered container ships and chartered them to international liner shipping companies. At the beginning of 2017, the Bertram-Rickmers Group, as one of the very large charter shipping companies, owned or managed more than 100 container ships and around 30 bulk or special ships.

On November 15, 2016, the subsidiary Rickmers Maritime Trust , based in Singapore, reported insolvency. On June 1, 2017, the bankruptcy petition for self-administration followed at the Hamburg District Court . In September 2017, a consortium led by the Bremen entrepreneur Kurt Zech (Bremer Reederei Zeaborn ) took over global ship management, the core business of the widely ramified Rickmers Group.

The Asian Steamship Company

Rickmers founded The Asian Spirit Company back in October 2015, which initially invested in used container ships. In 2016, the company ordered eight newbuildings from the Chinese shipyard Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding. The container ships with a capacity of around 1160 TEU are to be delivered from April 2019.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rickmers - a life for shipping. In: ndr.de. As of June 2, 2017, accessed June 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Bertram Rickmers established second holding company in 2015 , Daily Briefing, Lloyd's List, November 6, 2017 (PDF, 5.9 MB). Retrieved March 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rickmers, Bertram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rickmers, Bertram Rickmer Clasen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven