Fisser & v. Doornum
| Limited partnership Fisser & v. Doornum GmbH & Co. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. |
| founding | 1879 |
| Seat |
Hamburg , Germany
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| management | Michael Fissler, Sven Heymann |
| Number of employees | 12 |
| Branch | Shipping company |
| Website | www.fissership.com |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
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The limited partnership Fisser & v. Doornum GmbH & Co. is a German shipping company based in Hamburg , which is active in maritime shipping worldwide.
history
The company was founded on October 2nd, 1879 in Emden. The founders Carl Heinrich Gerhard Fisser and Christoph Diedrich van Doornum initially built up a coal and timber trade and came into contact with the shipping business through the import of British coal and Scandinavian wood. Around 1900 Fisser took over van Doornum's share of the business. Under the leadership of the two Fisser sons Hendrik and Carl Fisser, the company entered the shipping business and in 1925 took over its first ship, the Turret steamer Konsul Carl Fisser, built by William Doxford & Sons in 1902 . In the following years, additional ships were bought and the shipping business expanded. In 1926 the first branch was opened in Bremen and in 1938 one in Hamburg, which later became today's headquarters. In addition to the company's own shipping company, ship management and chartering for other owners and a stevedoring company were added in the next few years . Of the ten ships with a carrying capacity of around 60,000 tons that the shipping company owned at the beginning of the Second World War , eight were lost in the following war years.
After the end of the Second World War, the company only worked as a forwarding agent, as it was not allowed to start its own shipping activities under the German flag until 1948/49. With the in October 1949 bought used Martha Hendrik Fisser and 1,950 newly acquired Hendrik Fisser began the post-war construction of the shipping company, the work area further expanded in the following decades. In the 1960s, the management was handed over to Frank Fisser, who set up a liner agency that represented, for example, the shipping companies OOCL , Sowkomflot , DSR , Compagnie Nationale Algérienne de Navigation , Nedlloyd and Van Ommeren . The fleet, which in 1962 had a total carrying capacity of 140,000 tons, was renewed and enlarged in the 1960s and 1970s through the sale of older ships and newer acquisitions and newbuildings. In the 1960s, Klöckner & Co took over half of the shares in Fisser & v. Doornum, which at that time handled the complete import and export of iron ore and steel for Klöckner.
In 1970 Fisser & van Doornum and the member shipping companies Aug. Bolten Wm. Miller's successor , Franz Hagen and Bernhard Schulte commissioned a series of ten small multi-purpose general cargo ships of the Porter type in the Netherlands, which Fisser & van Doornum will use via a chartering pool of the tramp shipping association Trampko was organized. In 1975 a similar construction contract followed for ten Trampko bulkers , whose freighting pool was again managed by Fisser & van Doornum. A joint spare parts management system later grew out of the joint construction contracts. The ship management by Fisser & van Doornum grew in the 1970s to around 45 ships of various types and dimensions. In the 1980s, the shipping company got into the operation of chemical tankers and bought back shares that had since been sold. After Frank Fisser's death, his sons Michael and Christian Fisser took over the management of the company. At the end of the 1990s, the shipping company ordered 16 feeder ships with around 380 TEU in China and entered the container business with its subsidiary Fastbox .
Until 1999 the shipping company was a member of the Hamburg tramp shipping company Trampko .
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2015 of the limited partnership Fisser & v. Doornum GmbH & Co. In: Bundesanzeiger , February 20, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2017.
- ↑ The shipping company gets out . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 22, 1999, accessed on May 8, 2017.