Oldendorff Carriers
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | February 1921 |
| Seat | Lübeck |
| management | Henning Oldendorff (Chairman) Peter Twiss (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 4000 |
| sales | about 5 billion US dollars |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | www.oldendorff.com |
| Status: 2019 | |
The Lübeck shipping company Oldendorff Carriers GmbH & Co. KG is the largest German bulk shipping company . It operates around 500 of its own and chartered ships with a carrying capacity of around 40 million tons.
Companies
The Oldendorff fleet calls at around 14,000 ports in 125 countries every year and transports around 300 million tonnes of bulk cargo and general cargo. The shipping company occupies a leading position worldwide, especially when it comes to steel cargoes. Together with CSL International, Oldendorff operates a pool of self-unloading bulk carriers. The company is also active in the agriculture, aviation and real estate sectors.
The shipping company Oldendorff Carriers is a 100 percent subsidiary of the family holding Egon Oldendorff. The headquarters in Lübeck has been the top floor of the Radisson Blu Senator Hotel since 1999. Around 210 employees work at the company headquarters with the nickname "The Dorff", more than 100 employees work in 15 offices in London, Stamford (United States), Singapore, Mumbai, Melbourne, Shanghai, Tokyo, Vancouver, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Guyana, Trinidad, Hong Kong, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Well over 2000 seafarers are employed in the fleet.
history
On February 19, 1921, 21-year-old Egon Oldendorff joined a small Hamburg shipping company as a partner, where he had been trained for nine months. The shipping company was renamed Lilienfeld & Oldendorff and taken over by Oldendorff at the end of the year. The shipping company's first ship was the 870-ton steamer Planet, built in Rostock in 1881 . When the Second World War broke out, the shipping company owned 13 steamers. After the end of the war, the shipping company had two ships, the Gisela Oldendorff and the Nordmark .
In the years of reconstruction, the fleet grew rapidly, with the years 1950 to 1953 turning into marked boom years due to the Korean War . The operation of bulk carriers has its roots in the Baltic Sea trade in forest products and over the years has become the most important mainstay of the Lübeck shipping company. In 1964 one of the founder's sons, Klaus E. Oldendorff, left his father's company and founded the Nord shipping company in Hamburg . In 1980, 23-year-old Henning Oldendorff took over the position of CEO from his 80-year-old father. Three years later, on May 9, 1984, the company founder died and Henning Oldendorff became the majority owner of the company. In 1989 the shipping company opened its first office in Asia and in 1995 Henning Oldendorff founded a separate shipping company called Concept Carriers, which merged with the main company to form Oldendorff Carriers in January 2001.
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: 75 years . The Ships of Egon Oldendorff. Ed .: Egon Oldendorff. Publishing house Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oldendorff: Key Figures , accessed on March 18, 2020
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 4 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 43" E