Harm's salvage

Harms Salvage, Transport and Heavylift GmbH & Co. KG
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1851
Seat	Brunsbuettel
Branch	Shipping company

Harms Bergung, Transport and Heavylift GmbH & Co. KG was a shipping company that was previously based in Hamburg. The company specialized in offshore supply , salvage and towing operations. After the business basis ceased to exist, the company initially traded as Taucher Beckedorf Verwaltungs GmbH , but did not operate any business. It was liquidated in 2018.

history

The company goes back to the diving company Beckedorf founded in 1851 . Ulrich Harms took part in the business from 1951 and founded his own company in 1962 under the company name Harms Bergung . After establishing branches in the Netherlands and Argentina , the English salvage company Risdon Beazley Ltd was bought in 1969 and the Beckedorf company was completely taken over. In 1970 Harms was involved in the salvage of the Great Britain, constructed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , from the Falkland Islands and its transfer to Great Britain. Since 1972 Harms Bergung has belonged to the Dutch Smit-Tak group, but continued to operate under the original name. In 1997 the name was changed to SMIT International .

In 2001 Captain Klaus Dieter Mayer and Michael Albrecht acquired the company and continued to run it under the name Harms Bergung . Mayer and Albrecht were sentenced to several years imprisonment in February 2012 for breach of trust in connection with the financing of three Harms smugglers. The court saw it as proven that they had accepted higher construction prices from the shipyard, the Mützelfeldtwerft in Cuxhaven, for the construction of the tugs Taurus , Janus and Ursus , which were then charged to the respective ship fund, which was the owner of the ships. Part of this money went to Mayer and Albrecht, another part to a manager from Ferrostaal , the parent company of the Mützelfeldwerft. With the illegally acquired funds, Mayer and Albrecht once again participated in the ship fund concerned. The judgment was overturned by the Federal Court of Justice at the beginning of July 2013 for formal reasons. The case was referred back to the Augsburg Regional Court for a new hearing. In July 2014 Michael Albrecht and Klaus-Dieter Mayer were sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which were suspended on probation.

Tim Albrecht and Michael Albrecht managed the shipping company from 2014 until it was dissolved. At that time around 325 people were employed, 25 of them in administration in Hamburg and around 300 at sea.

On November 6, 2014, ALP Maritime Services announced that they had entered into a sales agreement with the owners (one-ship companies) of the six large Harms tugs. Harms appealed against this on November 11, 2014. Regardless of this, ALP began taking over the ships in the first quarter of 2015. With the loss of the tugs, Harms' business foundation ceased.

In 2014 Harms Bergung GmbH was renamed Taucher Beckedorf Verwaltung GmbH in the commercial register . Business has been idle since the loss of the tug fleet. The liquidation of the company was announced on August 24, 2018.

Former fleet

To carry out offshore, towing, transport and recovery services, Harms managed a modern fleet of combined anchor-pulling , long-range and recovery tugs . The ships were all built at the Mützelfeldtwerft, had an ice class , were equipped for maritime fire fighting and, with the exception of Centaurus and Pegasus , could position themselves dynamically . The Uranus and Orcus were the tugs with the highest bollard pull of German shipping companies. The tugs were not owned by Harms, but each belonged to a one-ship company.

On July 22, 2015, ALP Forward (ex- Ursus ) was the last ship to be transferred to the management of ALP Maritime Services.

Surname	IMO	Construction year	measurement	Bollard pull	power	image
Orcus	9398541	2010	3732 GT	298 tbp (2923 kN)	18,000 kW
Uranus	9398539	2009	3732 GT	298 tbp (2923 kN)	18,000 kW
Janus	9367504	2007	2789 GT	219 tbp (2150 kN)	14,000 kW
Ursus	9367516	2008	2789 GT	218 tbp (2140 kN)	14,000 kW
Taurus	9344978	2007	1767 GT	192 tbp (1880 kN)	14,000 kW
Magnus	9344966	2006	1767 GT	192 tbp (1880 kN)	14,000 kW
Pegasus	9433743	2009	1261 GT	100 tbp (980 kN)	5,940 kW
Centaurus	9433755	2009	1262 GT	100 tbp (980 kN)	5,940 kW

Web links

Commons : Harms Salvage  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ "The Great Iron Ship," BBC 1970
2. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
3. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ thb.info ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
6. ↑ Our management. Harms salvage, accessed January 29, 2015 . 
7. ↑ alpmaritime.com ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ harms-bergung.de
9. ↑ maritimejournal.com
10. ^ Annual financial statements of Taucher Beckedorf Verwaltung GmbH (formerly: Harms Bergung GmbH) as of December 31, 2014, published on bundesanzeiger.de
11. ^ Company announcement of Taucher Beckedorf Verwaltung GmbH on liquidation, published on bundesanzeiger.de
12. ↑ vesselregister.dnvgl.com