Horn line
| Horn-Line GmbH & Co
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1879 |
| resolution | 2009 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| management | last (?): Kurt Bevensee, managing director |
| Branch | Shipping company |
The Horn-Linie was a German shipping company based in Hamburg . Until its complete dissolution in 2009, it was mainly active in cargo and refrigerated shipping and also offered cargo ship trips for passengers.
history
Heinrich Christian Horn , a coal merchant, founded the company in Schleswig in 1879 with the purchase of three ships and used them to trade in the North and Baltic Seas . In 1906 the freight shipping company was already one of the largest in Germany with 21 ships. After heavy losses from the First World War , a liner service to the Caribbean was opened in 1920 .
In 1933 Erich Müller-Stinnes acquired shares in the shipping company, which was in considerable difficulty, and thus helped it out of the crisis. In 1934 he and Heinz Horn , the son of the company founder, founded Westindische Schiffahrtkontor GmbH , which became shareholders in all the ships in the Horn line.
After the Second World War and the loss of almost all ships and the administration building, Müller-Stinnes acquired all of Heinz Horn's shares in August 1949 and continued to run Westindische Schiffahrtkontor GmbH as a seaport agency. In 1951 he renamed it Horn-Linie oHG.
Müller-Stinnes also became the general agent for the French shipping company CGT . In contrast, Heinz Horn founds the HC Horn shipping company in the refrigerated freight business until 1969 .
Reefer ships
The Hornfels was launched in 1951 . In 1955, the Hornbay and Horncap, the first reefer ships for the Horn Line, were delivered by Deutsche Werft . 1959 followed with the Hornkoog and 1960 with the Horndeich further new reefer ships from this shipyard in Hamburg-Finkenwerder . Other ships were the Hornbaltic , Hornbelt , Hornberg , Horndeich , Horngolf , Hornkliff , Hornkoog , Hornland , Hornmeer , Hornsee , Hornstern , Hornsund and Hornwind . Some names have been given multiple times over the years.
owner
Müller-Stinnes, who died in 1963 without heirs, sold the company in 1962 to 50% each to the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft and the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). In 1978 , HAPAG , which had been combined to form Hapag-Lloyd , sold its shares to Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM).
In the early 1990s, the American fruit and food group Del Monte Foods took over shares in the company and in 1997 the Horn line was fully integrated into Fresh Del Monte Produce in Coral Gables (Florida). The shipping company last located in City Süd (Hammerbrookstrasse 47 a) was completely liquidated in 2009. Del Monte operates under the local Network Shipping Ltd. furthermore refrigerated or reefer container ships (16 owned and 16 chartered).
Routes
The liner service included the Caribbean Service (Antwerp / Puerto Limón ). The last trip from Hamburg started on December 3, 2007. The Cameroon Express line (Hamburg / Douala ) was discontinued at the end of November 2006.
fleet
Most of the last ships did not run under German flags , but so-called flags of convenience .
| year | Surname | measurement | flag | speed | length | width |
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| 1978 | Hornsund | 12,887 GT | Monrovia / Liberia | 20 knots | 153.50 m | 23 m |
| 1980 | Segovia Carrier | 17,439 GT | Nassau / Bahamas | 21 knots | 169 m | 25.70 m |
| 1980 | Algeciras carrier | 17,439 GT | Nassau / Bahamas | 21 knots | 169 m | 25.70 m |
| 1990 | Hornbay | 12,887 GT | Monrovia / Liberia | 20 knots | 153.50 m | 23 m |
| 1991 | Horn cap | 12,887 GT | Monrovia / Liberia | 20 knots | 153.50 m | 23 m |
| 1992 | Horncliff | 12,887 GT | Monrovia / Liberia | 20 knots | 153.50 m | 23 m |
literature
- Gert U. Detlefsen, Friedrich-Wilhelm Kunze: Horn line. The chronicle of a traditional shipping company . DF-Verlag, Bad Segeberg 1990.
Web links
- Information on the history and flags of the Horn shipping companies .
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Horn line in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Ships List (English) - information on the history and ships
- ↑ Fresh Del Monte Shipping (English), accessed on January 5, 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
