Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei
| Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1882 |
| resolution | 2018 |
| Reason for dissolution | fusion |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| management | Till Ole Barrelet |
| Number of employees | > 250 employees |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | www.opdr.com |
The Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei GmbH (OPDR) was a shipping company based in Hamburg that had existed since 1882 . It has been part of the French shipping company CMA CGM since 2014 .
history
founding
The OPDR emerged from the partner shipping company D. Oldenburg . This was founded in 1880 by August Schultze , the director of the Harbers, Schultze & Co. glassworks in Drielake / Oldenburg , and his representative in Portugal, Hermann Burmester, in order to ensure better glass bottle transport to Portugal. The first ship of this shipping company was the approximately 650 tonne steamer Oldenburg , with which the liner service from Brake to Portugal started . In the course of a desired expansion of the business, the party owners decided on October 28, 1882 to found the Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei public limited company . At the second meeting of the Board of Directors, it was decided to order the young company's second ship, the steamer Portugal . From 1883, in addition to Brake and Porto , Hamburg and Lisbon were also called. In 1885, Bilbao , Vigo and other ports in northern Spain were added. Ten years later, the first connection to Morocco began and in 1901 southern and eastern Spanish ports were also included in the timetable. In 1895 the company Franz Haniel & Cie. to the shareholder. This participation lasted over 100 years. In 1888 the OPDR owned five steamers of its own, in 1900 there were thirteen ships. At the Henry Koch AG shipyard in Lübeck, the OPDR ordered 33 units by 1927 (the shipyard went bankrupt in 1934). The majority of the ships took a limited number of passengers in addition to their cargo . One of the steamers built by Koch was the North Sea , which went missing in October 1910 on a trip from Scotland to Husum . In the same year, liner shipping to the Canary Islands and Madeira was opened in cooperation with fruit importers from Hamburg. This connection increased the import of fruit to Germany considerably. At the same time, the shipping company's headquarters were relocated from Oldenburg to Hamburg before the First World War .
The world wars
At the beginning of the First World War, the shipping fleet had grown to 27 ships, all of which were lost in the course of the war or had to be handed over to England and France afterwards. Even during the war, neutral Spain took over six OPDR ships to compensate for the tonnage that had been lost in the unrestricted submarine war that Germany had waged since 1917.
As early as 1919 a new beginning was started with the steamer Strauss and in 1920 it was possible to buy back two former OPDR ships. In 1921/22 the first new buildings were added, with which the fruit transport from the Canary Islands , Madeira and Spanish Morocco was resumed. It was not until 1927 that Morocco was also partially approached again, as it was under French rule.
When the Second World War began in September 1939 , the fleet under the OPDR flag had grown again to nineteen ships, all of which, as in the previous war, were lost without exception. The largest ship in the fleet, the turbine ship Santa Cruz , was transferred to the Navy in September 1939 and used as an auxiliary cruiser Thor . The Gran Canaria , a sister ship of the Santa Cruz , had already been bought by the Navy in 1938 and used as a submarine tender . Three ships that were in neutral Spain when the war broke out were taken over by the Spanish merchant navy in 1942. Three other ships were requisitioned by the Navy in preparation for Operation Sea Lion .
New beginning
In 1948 a new beginning began with three motor barges and a coaster with a deadweight of 470 tons. Immediately after the Petersberg Agreement was concluded , the Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei ordered six motor ships with a deadweight of 2,400 and 4,700 tons, respectively, with which the liner service to Portugal, Spain and Morocco was re-established in 1950. In 1951 the Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei became a limited partnership . In the same year the fruit service was resumed by the Canaries. In 1953, the shipping company's route network was complete again and on October 28, 1957, the shipping company again had 22 ships with a load capacity of 96,000 tons.
Introduction of regular container traffic
After the last new conventional cargo ship was put into service in 1967, the shipping company took over the three container ships Hellenic Dawn, Hellenic Island and Hellenic Cape from the bankrupt Hellenic Lines built in 1981/82 in 1984 and put them into service as Lisboa , Tanger and Cádiz . In 1993 a subsidiary, OPDR Canarias, was founded with its seat in Madrid and with the participation of several Spanish investors. This took up the liner service from the Canaries to Seville with the Canarias Express . A new generation of container ships has been introduced since 2002.
today
The OPDR, which belonged to the Hamburg Schulte Group from 1996 to 2014 , is still active in its traditional trading area and charters five 700 TEU container ships ( OPDR Cadiz , Las Palmas , OPDR Lisboa , OPDR Tanger and OPDR Tenerife ) with 7360 GT and a lifting capacity of 8394 tons. In addition, there are the two Con / Ro ships OPDR Andalucia and OPDR Canarias with 11,197 GT and 7282 tonnes deadweight on the route between Cadiz and Seville and the Canary Islands . In addition, the container ships Alida, Andrea, Mistral, Pantonio and JRS Capella are on the way for the OPDR.
The Schulte Group sold the OPDR to the French liner shipping company CMA CGM in November 2015 . With the acquisition in conjunction with its subsidiary MacAndrews , which operates regular services from Liverpool, Bristol, Thamesport, Dublin and Rotterdam to Spain, the company wanted to consolidate its regional network on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa. At the end of 2017, CMA CGM announced that it would merge OPDR with MacAndrews and relocate their headquarters to Hamburg. Since the merger with Containerships in 2019, the group has only operated under this brand name.
The company was a member of the ShortSeaShipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center as well as the Association of German Shipowners (VDR), the Association of Hamburg Ship Brokers and Ship Agents (VHSS) and the Asociación de Navieros Españoles (ANAVE).
Web links
- OPDR website (English)
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
literature
- Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei Kusen, Heitmann & Cie. KG, Oldenburg / Hamburg, since 1882 , in: Gert Uwe Detlefsen: Deutsche Reederei , Vol. 29, Bad Segeberg 2007, pp. 6–155
- Bock, Bruno (Ed.), 1882 - The year the OPDR was founded . Die Seekiste, Verlag Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 1957, pp. 942/943
- Without author: 75 years of OPDR. 1882–1957 , Hamburg 1957.
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei , Cuxhaven 1991.
- Hans-Jürgen Witthöft: The Oldenburg-Portuguese steamship shipping company in the Second World War. A diary , Hamburg 1992.
- Günter Schaldach: Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei, Oldenburg i. Size 1880–1882 , in: The Belgian shiplover . Bimonthly organ of the Belgian Nautical Research Association, vol. 1973, pp. 49-67
- Karl Hoyer: History of the Oldenburg-Portuguese steamship shipping company 1882–1932 , Hamburg / Oldenburg undated (approx. 1932)
- Christoph Papsch: Briefly recharge, please . In: Deutsche Seeschifffahrt , issue 6/2013, pp. 16-25, Association of German Shipowners, Hamburg 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Pietsch: The Lübeck Shipping from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era , Lübeck 1982, p. 29, ISBN 3-9800517-1-4
- ↑ Juan Carlos Díaz Lorenzo: Tazacorte: Un puerto entre dos siglos. Gobierno de Canarias 2003, p. 164 ff.
- ↑ CMA CGM buys Hamburg shipping company OPDR , VerkehrsRundschau.de, November 26, 2014.
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Europe's oldest shipping company moves to Hamburg . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on December 2, 2017]).
- ↑ Memberships ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '43.3 " N , 9 ° 59' 7.8" E