Ister shipping company

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The Ister Reederei Gesellschaft mbH was a shipping company based in Bremen . The shipping company was a joint venture of Austrian VÖEST with the German key Reederei D. Oltmann & Co. founded. On the one hand, this served to provide the nationalized steel company with proof of the suitability of sheet steel, produced with the Linz-Donawitz process , which was recently launched on the market , for shipbuilding. On the other hand, there were reasons for savings in order to lower the own freight costs of the extensive overseas raw material purchases.

history

The foundation stone for the Ister shipping company was laid by a contract dated February 20, 1956 between the VÖEST Frankfurt office and the key shipping company D. Oltmann. In addition to the commercial details, it was also determined that the key shipping company would take over the management of the planned ocean-going fleet.

After the construction of ocean-going ships began in 1957 at VÖEST, the first ship, the Linzertor, was launched on December 15, 1958, and Germanischer Lloyd granted its approval during the construction phase. On March 2, 1959, the ship was officially handed over to the shipping company as part of a test drive. In addition to the rooms for the crew, cabins for other passengers were also provided on the Linzertor : as part of a social program, employees of the Linz steelworks were to be enabled to take recreational trips on the ship.

After the success of the first ship, the Wienertor, the second ocean-going ship of the Ister shipping company , was put into service on January 24, 1961 . Its launch took place on November 15, 1960, godmother was Maria Pittermann, wife of Bruno Pittermann ( SPÖ ), then Vice Chancellor of the Raab IV government . On this ship, too, cabins were provided for VÖEST employees.

The shipping company suffered a setback on January 20, 1966, when its third ship - the Kremsertor  - sank in the English Channel . A fourth ship - the Buntentor  - was commissioned to replace it and was launched in 1967.

Ownership

When the company was founded, VÖEST held a 65% stake in the shipping company, with the remaining 35% divided between the shareholders of the key shipping company. At the end of the 1970s, however, VÖEST withdrew, and in 1987 the Ister Reederei became a subsidiary of the Schlüssel Reederei.

Sea flag

The ships sailed under the Austrian sea flag according to §§ 1 and 2 Paragraph 2 lit. c i. V. m. Paragraph 3 of the Maritime Flag Act. This had to be created, especially in connection with the planned offshore activities of VÖEST, which is specifically referred to in the government bill of May 31, 1957:

“The significant shifts in the direction of Austrian foreign trade that have occurred since 1945, which have brought about an unexpectedly large increase in overseas business and thus an increased need for shipping space, fundamentally changed this situation. Significant amounts are spent each year in foreign currency to pay for sea freight. For the transport of American coal and overseas ores, VEST alone has to charter around 50 ships a year, which operate between the American coal bases and the European ports of destination of Bremen, Hamburg and Trieste. It is therefore the idea to equip them with their own factory fleet and in this way to make them independent from the international shipping market, all the less absurd, as similar tendencies can be observed in German and Italian steelworks and the experiences they already had in the pre-war period have made, can be described as quite excellent. These facts alone show that one should not simply dismiss efforts to launch an Austrian ocean-going shipping as a fantasy. "

- Government bill for the Maritime Flag Act, May 31, 1957.

At the end of the 1970s, when VÖEST withdrew, the ships from Austria were flagged out and handed over to the German shipping company.

Operated ships

  • 1959: Linzertor (load capacity: 11,280 t)
  • 1961: Wienertor (load capacity: 16,250 t)
  • 1962: Kremsertor (load capacity: 18,100 t; sunk in 1966)
  • 1967: Buntentor (load capacity: 38,260 t; replacement for Kremsertor )

literature

  • Helmuth Gröbl: VÖEST deep sea shipping. Published by the Stahl History Club, Linz 2012.
  • A. Lührs, O. Kohlmann: MS “Linzertor”. Built by the Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges. for the shipping company Ister GmbH, Bremen. In: Schiff & Hafen - trade journal for shipping, shipbuilding & offshore technology , 1959, pp. 421–430.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The history of the Linz-Donawitz process. A development that is changing the world. voestalpine AG (Ed.), Linz 11/2012, p. 27, Chapter 5 The international steel industry - LD steel for ocean-going ships. ( Full text online , (PDF) on the voestalpine website, accessed on July 15, 2020.)
  2. ↑ a b c 1956-1962: VÖEST until the beginning of the grouping. In: Group / History. Voestalpine AG website , accessed on July 15, 2020 without a date.
  3. ↑ a b The shipyards reported ...: " Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft / [...] / 572 MS 'Linzertor', 14200 tdw, f. Istor-Reederei (KR: Schlüssel Reederei D. Oltmann) Bremen. / Stack. 13. 12. 58 ". In: Kehrwieder. Hamburg, Volume 3, No. 1, 01/1959, p. 16. ( Full text online (PDF; p. 18), in: Electronic publications of the SUB Hamburg, accessed on July 15, 2020.)
  4. ↑ See ship's bell. In: Website of the Austrian Dorotheum , March 29, 2017, accessed on July 15, 2020 ("Ship's bell of the Ister-Reederei Bremen, in memory of the launch of the motor ship 'WIENERTOR' by Vice Chancellor Maria Pittermann on November 15, 1960, ... ").
  5. ↑ 1960 to 1969 - A short excerpt from the chronicle. voestalpine history club.
  6. ↑ A look back into the wake. (PDF) Company history in tabular form. In: website of the key shipping company, undated, accessed on July 15, 2020.
  7. ↑ Federal Act of July 17, 1957 on the right to fly the flag of the Republic of Austria at sea ( Maritime Flag Act ), Federal Law Gazette No. 187/1957 in the version of Federal Law Gazette No. 133/1960 .
  8. ↑ a b Government draft for a federal law on the right to fly the flag of the Republic of Austria at sea (Maritime Flag Law) of May 31, 1957, 242 of the supplements to the stenographic minutes of the National Council VIII GP. , P. 1 and: Explanatory Notes, p. 7, accessed on July 15, 2020.
  9. ↑ Stenographic minutes of April 19, 2012 of the 153rd session of the National Council, XXIV. GP, rapporteur MP Dietmar Keck (SPÖ), p. 103 : “… Since 1918 Austria in and of itself no longer has ocean shipping, since we no longer have access had to a port. We had our own shipping company in Austria from the late 1950s to the 1970s. That was the Ister shipping company with four ships: the 'Wienertor', the 'Linzertor', the 'Kremsertor' and the 'Buntentor', which operated until the end of the 1970s. Then these ships were also flagged out and the shipping company assigned. ”Regarding: Government proposal: Federal law with which the Maritime Law and the Federal Law on Compliance with the International Ship Surveying Convention of 1969 are amended. In: Maritime Law, Federal Law to Fulfill the International Ship Surveying Convention of 1969; Change (1730 dB) , April 2012, website of the Austrian Parliament.