Bremen-Mindener Schiffahrts-AG
The Bremen-Minden shipping-AG was a shipping company , which in December 1939 from the merger of Bremer Towing company (founded in 1886) and the Minden Towing company (founded in 1893) had emerged. After the entry in the commercial register, the object of the company was the “operation of shipping on the Weser , the rivers and canals connected to it, as well as on other rivers and on the seas; also the forwarding and commission business ". Important cargo was potash , which came from the mining regions in North Hesse and Thuringia via Hann. Münden was shipped to Bremen in order to be exported from there.
The shipping company had around 10 tugs with an output of around 190 to 500 hp. A tug could pull between 2 and 5 barges, with a barge having a loading capacity of up to 700 tons. The crew of a tug consisted of the captain, a helmsman, two sailors, a machinist and three stokers.
The Bremen-Mindener Schifffahrt-AG was the main shareholder of the Weser shipyard in Minden .
The company was incorporated into Fendel-Schiffahrts-AG , Mannheim, in 1971 , which is now part of Rhenus Logistics . This no longer operates shipping on the Upper and Middle Weser.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Schifferverein Herstelle, http://www.schifferverein-herstelle.de/Geschichte/geschichte.html
- ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Höxter, http://www.hvv-hoexter.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Weserschifffahrt.pdf
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ' N , 8 ° 48' E