Ove Skou Rederiaktieselskab

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Ove Skou Rederiaktieselskab
legal form A / S
founding 1929
resolution 1995
Reason for dissolution sale
Seat Copenhagen
Branch shipping

Ove Skou Rederiaktieselskab , or Ove Skou for short , was a shipping company based in Copenhagen that existed from 1935 to the mid-1990s .

history

The company's founder, Ove Skou, first worked with Theophilus Hansen in the management of a number of ships in the 1920s before founding the fuel import company Hovedstaden Kulimport A / S with Hansen in 1929, which he took over. On October 31, 1935, Skou finally founded the shipping company Dampskibsselskabet Ove Skou. In 1937, the Dampskibsselskabet was founded in 1937. At the beginning of the Second World War , Ove Skou operated five ships. After the shipping company only operated older used tonnage before the war, Ove Skou enlarged its fleet in the post-war years with numerous new buildings. The two companies Dampskibsselskabet Ove Skou and Dampskibsselskabet af 1937 were merged in 1961 to form Ove Skou Rederiaktieselskab. In 1964 a new company was added with Skou Navigation A / S, which was dissolved again in October 1973. Around 1970, around 800 seafarers and around 100 people were employed on the land. When Ove Skou died in 1974, his shipping company was the third largest shipping company in Denmark after Mærsk and the EAC with a fleet of 26 ships . In 1980, the shipping company Skou Navigation Limited in Monrovia was the first part of the company not based in Denmark. Benny Skou, Ove Skou's widow, sold the entire share capital in 1985. In the following two years, further parts of the company were founded, in 1986 the shipping company Ove Skou Shipping in Singapore and in 1987 the consulting firm Skou International Services ApS. From 1990 Skou International A / S worked together with Tschudi & Eitzen in the joint venture Site-International A / S. A year later Tschudi & Eitzen Ove Skou took over and soon afterwards all shares in Site-International A / S. Site International Baltic Skou A / S's last ship was sold in 1995.

literature

  • Søren Thorsøe, Michael Crowdy: Ove Skou . World Ship Society, Kendal 1982, ISBN 0-905617-18-5 .

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