New steam company
The Neue Dampfer Compagnie was a shipping company founded in Stettin in 1855/1856 , which was registered in 1862.
The shipping company's shipping area mainly extended to lines between the Baltic Sea ports of Königsberg , Lübeck , Stettin, Danzig , Reval , St. Petersburg as well as Stockholm and the canal port of London . Irregular journeys were made between the ports of the Baltic Sea , the North Sea and the Mediterranean . It was operated exclusively cargo shipping .
From August 1913 the company's shares were traded on the Szczecin Stock Exchange. In 1923 the name was changed to Stettiner Dampfer-Compagnie. The liner services were largely retained. The German Orient Line with regular lines in the Orient was a subsidiary of the company. With the HAPAG and the Roland-line was driven in a pool Community from the 1924th
At the beginning of the First World War , the shipping company owned 22 steamships with a total of 25,071 gross tons . Of these, seven ships were lost during the war and four had to be surrendered to Russia under the Versailles Peace Treaty . Two of the ships were returned from Russia. By 1923 the fleet had grown to 38 freight steamers through new builds and acquisitions. The economic crisis and competition from the railroad led to the liquidation of the shipping company in 1930.