Lloyd Royal Belge
The Belgian shipping company Lloyd Royal Belge (LRB) existed from 1915 to 1930.
history
During the First World War, Belgium received grain aid from the then neutral United States through the Commissie voor Hulp aan België , on whose board the later American President Herbert Hoover was also a member . After the British government was unable to provide any more tonnage for transports between neutral states in the spring of 1916 against the backdrop of the submarine war , the danger of a supply shortage for the population was seen in Belgium.
On June 26, 1916, the company Lloyd Royal Belge was therefore a merger of the three Belgian shipping companies Antwerpsche Zeevaart Maatschappij (AZM), Scheepvaartmaatschappij Gylsen (SMG), the SA de Commerce et de Navigation, Belgian shipping company (BR) and the London Brijs-Gijlsen Ltd (Brys & Gylsen) (BGL) was founded to address this shortcoming. The first domicile of the shipping company was the Antwerp Villa Bel Horizon. The company continued the lines of the individual founding members from Antwerp to North America, South America and the Mediterranean. On April 7, 1919, they moved into newly purchased premises in the center of Antwerp.
Due to the fall in rates as a result of the global economic crisis , the shipping company ran into financial difficulties and was taken over in 1930 by the Belgian competitor Compagnie Maritime Belge . This then led to the name Lloyd Royal.
The chimney colors of the Lloyd Royal Belge were black, with a narrow red ring over a narrow white ring.
literature
- Mommen, Andre: Belgian Economy in the Twentieth Century . Routledge, 1994, ISBN 0-415-01936-2 .