German inland shipping company

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German inland shipping company AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1949
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Piotr Smierzchala, Adam Knobelsdorf
Number of employees 83
sales 28.9 million euros
Branch Inland shipping
Website www.binnenreederei.de
As of December 31, 2017

The German Binnenreederei AG bereedert some 800 barges . It was created in 1957 when the German Shipping and Handling Operations Center (DSU), founded in 1949, was renamed as a state-owned operation and is now majority owned by the Polish company OT Logistics SA

history

Before the establishment of the German Shipping Union (DSU)

At the end of the Second World War , the east of Germany in particular was in a state of severe destruction. During the fighting, the inland shipping companies operating in the eastern regions of Germany made every effort to sell their ships to regions further west. They hoped to escape the fighting and also to save their ships "from the Russians". Especially in the Berlin area, the destruction was devastating, there were almost no functioning roads and railway bridges. To supply the occupied territories, the Soviet military administration primarily relied on inland shipping and issued appropriate orders. Up until the end of the war in 1945 there were still numerous shipping companies and their agencies, cooperatives and private ship owners in Berlin. Their operational fleet was confiscated by the Soviet occupying forces and sorted into the part that was to be brought to the USSR as reparations . These units were marked with a white triangle with a red star or hammer and sickle by the Soviet commissioners and were towed across the Baltic Sea into the Soviet Union. The occupying power ruled the German authorities they appointed with orders , the execution of which, as a rule, could not be discussed.

The Inland Shipping Working Group was founded in 1946 as a shipping company with the aim of carrying out all inland waterway transports in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to transfer the inland waterway vessels into state or state-owned property . In 1949 it was dissolved or renamed to Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagbetriebe (DSU) and in 1956/1957 the DSU branched out into several companies such as regional VEB inland ports , VEB Deutsche Binnenreederei (DBR), VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt and repair yard Dresden and others. October 1, 1949 is assumed to be the founding day of the German inland shipping company. On this day, the state-owned inland navigation in the Soviet occupation zone was declared.

The VEB German Binnenreederei Berlin , later only VEB Binnenreederei Berlin called, led by almost all inland transports the GDR from that time. From 1965 onwards, the first experience has been gained with towboat drive, first with the push barge type KSP 33 and the push boat of type KSS 190 Z for the canal trip and soon after, with the current push boats. This set in motion a comprehensive new build program for push boats and prams . From 1965 to 1988, a total of 139 push boats and 1331 prams were delivered.

The after German reunification undertaken privatization efforts of the THA , which owns the former monopolist the GDR was failed. The remainder of the operation and the remaining fleet were acquired by the Treuhand as Mittelständische Binnenreederei - und Spedition GmbH in early 1993 with start-up financing from the Federal Association of Self-Employed and then renamed Deutsche Binnenreederei - Binnenschifffahrt Spedition, Logistik GmbH .

2007 Takeover of Odratrans SA

In 2001 there was a reorganization and conversion from a GmbH to a stock corporation. In 2007, the majority of the shares were taken over by the Polish Odratrans SA , now OT Logistics SA . With around 800 ships or thrust units and a total load capacity of around 400,000 DTW, one of the largest inland shipping groups in Europe was created. In addition to the actual transport, storage and handling work, hydraulic engineering projects and construction measures to maintain and expand the waterways are also carried out.

The German Binnenreederei AG has become a transportation and logistics company developed, on the inland waterways of Central and Western Europe transportation of containers , dry bulk cargo , liquid cargo and special and dangerous goods carried. Among other things, around 120,000 tons of liquid freight and up to 162,000 container units ( TEU ) are transported annually .

The main shareholder of the German inland shipping company AG , with around 81 percent of the company OT Logistics SA In May 2020 handed Rhenus PartnerShip the Bundeskartellamt one has requested authorization for the acquisition of Deutsche Binnenreederei whose approval was announced on 13 July 2020th

photos

  • Canal pusher type 190 Z (KSS 23)

  • Inland port Dresden at low water in 1970

  • Canal pusher type 190 Z (KSS 23)

  • Canal pusher type 300 (KSS 24)

literature

  • Hans-Wilhelm Dünner, Horst-Christin Knoll: 50 years of the German inland shipping company . - from an East German inland shipping company to a European logistics service provider. 1st edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-7822-0757-2 .
  • Rolf Schönknecht, Armin Gewiese: Inland shipping between the Elbe and the Oder . The other German shipping area 1945–1995. Busse Seewald / DSV-Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-88412-218-1 .
  • Heidbrink, Ingo : Technological revolution or evolution? The introduction of the pushed-tow system in East and West Germany. In: International Journal of Maritime History , Vol. XX, 26 2014, No. 2, 304-321.
  • D. Strobel, Günter Dame: Shipbuilding between Elbe and Oder ; ISBN 3-7822-0565-0

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Binnenreederei  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c [1] Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2017 on Bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on August 26, 2020
  2. ↑ D. Strobel: Shipbuilding between Elbe and Oder . 1st edition. Koehler, 1993, p. 176 .
  3. ↑ Private website about inland navigation during the GDR era , accessed on January 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ Benjamin Klare: Cartel Office issues approval · Rhenus is allowed to take over the German inland shipping company. In: Daily port report from July 14, 2020, p. 1