KESS (shipping company)
| "K" -Line European Sea Highway Services GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | July 1, 2003 |
| Seat | Hamburg (legal seat), Bremen (company seat ) |
| management | Nobuyuki Yokoyama, Takamasa Soejima |
| Number of employees | 31 (2018) |
| sales | 101 million euros (2018) |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | http://www.kess.kline.de/ |
| As of March 31, 2018 | |
"K" -Line European Sea Highway Services GmbH (external appearance or abbreviation: KESS ) is a German shipping company with legal seat in Hamburg and company headquarters in Bremen . KESS is a subsidiary of the Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen KK (“K” Line).
history
The company was founded in 2003 and operates a fleet of 11 car carrier ships for the sea transport of motor vehicles in Western and Northern Europe. KESS has specialized in feeder and distribution traffic, known as Short Sea Shipping , between the large car terminals in Bremerhaven and Zeebrugge and various smaller car terminals in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. It transports around 800,000 vehicles per year.
The roots of KESS lie in a joint venture founded in 1991 between the KESS parent company “K” Line and the Bremen-based automotive logistics company and shipping company Egon H. Harms .
environment
The Elbe Highway , a 148 m long car transporter from KESS that can transport up to 1,600 cars, was the first ship of the shipping company to be equipped with an exhaust gas washer (so-called scrubber) in 2015 in order to be prepared for future stricter exhaust gas regulations in the North and Baltic Seas .
Incidents
On April 17, 2016, the Elbe Highway collided with the canal lock in Brunsbüttel .
fleet
| Ship name | length | Max. Capacity (vehicles) | Construction year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elbe Highway | 148 m | 1600 | 2005 |
| Thames Highway | 148 m | 1600 | 2005 |
| Danube Highway | 148 m | 1600 | 2006 |
| Its highway | 148 m | 1600 | 2007 |
| Ems Highway | 100 m | 850 | 1999 |
| Isar Highway | 100 m | 850 | 2000 |
| Main Highway | 100 m | 850 | 1998 |
| Neckar Highway | 100 m | 850 | 1999 |
| Scheldt Highway | 100 m | 750 | 1993 |
| Weser Highway | 100 m | 750 | 1994 |
| Malacca Highway | 139 m | 1250 | 2001 |
(As of January 2020)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Balance sheet as of March 31, 2018 , bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on January 22, 2020.
- ↑ The Company , kess.kline.de, accessed on 22 January 2020th
- ↑ a b c Christian Eckardt: Car transporter now on the move with an exhaust gas washer , Weser Kurier, April 17, 2015, accessed on January 22, 2020.
- ↑ The Fleet , kess.kline.de, accessed on January 22, 2020.