Container ships

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Containerships Ltd Oy
legal form Oy
founding 1966
Seat Helsinki
Branch shipping
Website www.containershipsgroup.com

The Finnish shipping company Containerships Ltd Oy operates European container liner services.

history

Containerships was founded in 1966 by the British / Bermudian container leasing company Sea Containers Ltd., which had been founded only a year earlier . and the Finnish stevedoring entrepreneur Veli Nordström. From 1967, Containerships started using the first ship, the Osternburg , built in Germany in 1966/67 with a capacity of 38 TEU. The shipping company initially dealt with services to and from Helsinki , mainly to Teesport and Rotterdam . In the 1990s and 2000 the company expanded its liner services, initially in the Baltic Sea area , for example around the ports of call in St. Petersburg and Klaipėda , later in northern Europe and in the 2000s as far as the Mediterranean Sea - e.g. B. Mersin - from. In the Baltic Sea area, the number of ports of call has increased to include Riga , Lübeck and Pori in the last ten years . In addition, the Lithuanian shipping company Kursiu Linija was taken over in 2007 and Contaz Lines in Turkey in 2009 .

Until 2006, Containerships Ltd Oy was run as a 100% subsidiary of Container Finance Ltd Oy . In September 2006 the Icelandic shipping company Eimskip acquired 65% of Containerships from Container Finance Ltd OY and the company was continued as a joint venture called Containerships Group based in Helsinki. In 2009 Eimskip was restructured, with Container Finance Ltd Oy buying back the 65% stake in Containerships.

Containerships is represented in 23 countries and employs around 560 workers in 21 European offices. The annual turnover in 2011 was around 240,000 TEU. Containerships currently operates its own container terminals in Helsinki, Kotka, Ghent and St. Petersburg, as well as 13 mostly chartered ships with capacities from 800 to 1000 TEU. Today, the shipping company owns more than 14,000 containers of its own , and in addition to refrigerated and other special containers , the company operated a high proportion of pallet-wide, oversized and oversized containers early on. The company also has a fleet of its own trucks.

In June 2018 the takeover by the French container shipping company CMA CGM was announced. Since April 1, 2019, the Containerships brand has been used by the Hamburg-based shipping company MacAndrews , which is also part of CMA CGM.

Ships used by container ships (selection)

Containerships ships
Building name Shipyard /
construction number
IMO number delivery Client Later names and whereabouts
Easter castle Heinrich Brand Shipyard, Oldenburg / - 6701515 November 1966 Partenreederei Osternburg Set in motion for container ships, Amor in 1971 , Heron in 1980 , Heron I in 1981 , on June 10, 1985 at position 54.32 ° N; 011.50 ° E stranded, later lifted and scrapped at KO Schmidt in Lübeck from October 1985.
Janne Wehr JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 742 7361635 June 1974 Oskar Wehr, Hamburg 1980 Roxane Kersten , 1981 Janne Wehr , 1985 Containerships I , 1987 Janne Wehr , 1995 Thames Star , 2001 Anja , 2011 Roland Nikola , 2011, Arda K , 2014 Deniz , 2017 demolition in Aliaga.
Kate JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 977 8603547 December 1986 Helmut Funck, Wischhafen Launched as Containerships II for Containerships, Käte in 1990 , Tanja in 1996 , Sea Explorer in 2014, Sea Explop in 2014 , so on.
Carina JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 1001 8908545 April 1990 Shipping company Hans Peter Wegener, Jork Started as Containerships III for Containerships, Carina in 1999 , Corina in 2013 , so on.
Spica JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 1072 9083043 March 1994 Shipping company Hans Peter Wegener, Jork Started as Containerships IV for Containerships, Melfi Italia in 2003 , Spica in 2004 , so on.
Vega JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 1132 9141118 May 1996 Shipping company Hans Peter Wegener, Jork Set in motion as Containerships V for Containerships, Wega in motion in 2009 .
Atria JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 1179 9188518 October 1999 Shipping company Hans Peter Wegener, Jork Set in motion as Containerships VI for Containerships, so in motion.
Containerships VII JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 1147 9250098 October 2002 Containerships, Helsinki Set in motion for container ships, so in motion.
Mira JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 1250 9336244 January 2006 Shipping company Hans Peter Wegener, Jork As Containerships VIII for Containerships set in motion, so in motion.
Linda JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 1230 9354325 February 2007 Langh Ship, Piikkio 2007 for container ships in charter, so in progress.
Aila JJ Sietas shipyard, Neuenfelde / 1231 9354337 March 2007 Langh Ship, Piikkio 2007 for container ships in charter, so in progress.
Lloyd's Register

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Svendsen, Jan Tiedemann: The Weekly Containershipping-Newsletter , October 2006.
  2. JM Capital Limited advised Container Finance Ltd Oy, a Finnish family holding company, on the buy-back of Containerships shares from Islandic Eimskip at JM Capital ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.j-mcapital.co.uk
  3. Sector catalog Maritime Economy, WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen, 2012, p. 50/51.
  4. CMA CGM takes over container shipments. June 20, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  5. Österreichische Verkehrszeitung, CMA CGM bundles the Containerships and MacAndrews brands, January 21, 2019 , accessed on July 8, 2020
  6. MacAndrews, MacAndrews becomes Containerships, April 2, 2019 , accessed July 8, 2020
  7. ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London, various years