Leif Höegh
Leif Höegh & Co ASA (LHC) is a Norwegian shipping group .
details
The shipping company was founded in 1927 by Leif Høegh. The company started out as a tanker shipping company, a division that made up a major part of the shipping company for decades. Twelve years later, Leif Höegh & Co. was already operating a fleet of 13 ships. The shipping company later entered the liner shipping sector with the Java Pacific Line . From 1948 (until 1990) a West African service was added. In the 1960s, the shipping company expanded its tanker shipping by building tank bulk carriers . This type of special shipping was to play a major role at Leif Höegh for decades. In the bulk shipping sector, some ships have been fitted with hanging decks for the additional transport of cars. Further developments led, among other things, to ships that were specialized in the transport of forest products. In addition, Höegh formed the Höegh-Ugland Auto Liners (HUAL) joint venture with the Ugland shipping company in 1970. The shipping company is one of the pioneers of RoRo shipping and car transport by sea. In March 2000, Höegh acquired Ugland's shares in the joint venture HUAL, one of the largest providers in its segment, and from 2005 continued to run the shipping company as Höegh Autoliners . In 1973 Höegh received the world's first LNG tanker with Moss tanks.
Today the shipping group is structured with Leif Höegh & Co Limited as the parent company and various subsidiaries . Höegh Autoliners operates a fleet of ships for the worldwide transport of motor vehicles (cars and trucks), Höegh LNG several gas tankers . Other areas are, for example, crew management, financial services or the real estate area. Less than 100 people are employed on land and around 900 seafarers in the fleet.
literature
- Michael Crowdy: Leif Höegh & Co. A / S Oslo, The firm and the fleet 1928–1968 . World Ship Society, London 1968.
Web links
- Website of the shipping company (English)