MacAndrews (shipping company)
| MacAndrews | |
|---|---|
| legal form | since 2018 GmbH , previously Limited |
| founding | 1770 |
| resolution | 2019 |
| Reason for dissolution | fusion |
| Seat | since 2018 Hamburg , previously London |
| Number of employees | 595 |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | www.macandrews.com |
MacAndrews was the world's oldest shipping company still in existence until 2019 and a logistics company active in European multimodal container transport . It was founded in 1770 and was based in London until 2018 . She has been part of the CMA CGM since 2002 . On January 1, 2018, MacAndrews was merged with the Oldenburg-Portugiesischen Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR), which also belongs to CMA CGM , and the headquarters were relocated to Hamburg . In 2019 the company name and logo were deleted.
history
The shipping company has its roots in Scotland. Since 1770 she has been shipping on European coasts from London and Liverpool . Since 1857 Robert MacAndrew & Co. owned the company, which also served the Royal Mail . In the same year they used the shipping company's first steamship, the Acor with 315 GRT . In 1917 the company was renamed MacAndrews & Co. by its successors . In 1923 she took over Glynn Line Ltd. in Liverpool with their two ships. In 1938 the liner service was extended to the Canary Islands and a combined passenger / freight service to Gibraltar and southern Spanish ports was added. In 1935 the shipping company was taken over by the United Baltic Corporation ; the seat was moved from Liverpool to London. All ships of the shipping company had a deadweight of 1200 to a maximum of 3800 tons.
During World War II , nine ships were taken over by the Royal Navy ; a total of ten were lost through acts of war. In 1947 the express service to Gibraltar and Barcelona was resumed, and in 1967 a ferry service between Southampton and Bilbao was established. 1979 the last RoRo ship , the Goya (3779 tons) was sold; the liner services were completely taken over by chartered ships.
Integration in CMA CGM
MacAndrews operated multimodal container services between the United Kingdom , Ireland , the Netherlands , Belgium , Spain , the Canary Islands, Portugal , Scandinavia , Poland , the Baltic States and Russia . Outside London, it had five offices in Europe. The annual transport performance was around 300,000 TEU with 32 ships and 700 trucks at last. The liner services overlapped z. In part with those of the OPDR , with which MacAndrews cooperated as part of the CMA-CGM group and merged at the beginning of 2018. The merged company initially kept the name MacAndrews and was based in Hamburg. Since April 1, 2019, MacAndrews and the Finnish shipping company Containerships , which is also part of the CMA CGM Group, have been operating together under the Containerships brand. The offices were merged.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Schiff & Hafen, MacAndrews and OPDR merge, December 15, 2017 , accessed on July 8, 2020
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Europe's oldest shipping company moves to Hamburg . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on December 2, 2017]).
- ^ Ro-ro ship Goya
- ↑ Österreichische Verkehrszeitung, CMA CGM bundles the Containerships and MacAndrews brands, January 21, 2019 , accessed on July 8, 2020
- Jump up ↑ MAcAndrews, MacAndrews becomes Containerships, April 2, 2019 , accessed July 8, 2020