Dampskibsselskabet north
| Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A / S | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Aktieselskab |
| founding | 1871 |
| Seat | Hellerup |
| management | CEO Carsten Mortensen |
| Number of employees | 1160 |
| sales | $ 2.131 billion (2012) |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | http://www.ds-norden.com |
The shipping company Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A / S is a large Danish bulk carrier. It operates over 200 of its own bulk carriers and tankers.
Companies
The company was founded on February 11, 1871 by Mads Christian Holm and in February 1872 put the first ship, the newly built freight steamer Norden, into operation in Glasgow . In addition to building up the shipping company, Holm also founded the Helsingør Skibsværft shipyard in Helsingør in 1882 . In 1923 the shipping company put its first motor ship , the Nordbo, into operation and in 1946, the Nordlys, the last steamship, was sold. In the early 1970s, the company turned to bulk shipping and sold the last liner cargo ship in 1979 . From 1990 the shipping company also got into tanker shipping and in 1994 took over the shipping company Dampskibsselskabet Orient . The shipping company grew rapidly in the 1990s and 2000s and in 2005, together with the Cypriot shipping company Interorient Navigation Company, founded the Norient Product Pool , which jointly operates product tankers .
The company now employs 282 farm workers at its Hellerup headquarters and offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Annapolis, Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai. Around 880 seafarers are employed on the shipping company's own ships. The company's own and chartered fleet consists of 182 bulk carriers (4 × Capesize, 8 × Postpanamax, 69 × Panamax, 66 × Supramax and 35 × Handysize) and 46 tankers (18 × 27,000 to 42,000 dwt and 28 × 42,000 to 60,000 dwt)
Web links
- The shipping company's website (English)