Bockstiegel shipping company
| W. Bockstiegel Reederei GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1983 |
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Emden , Germany
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| management | Captain Werner Bockstiegel ( CEO ), |
| Number of employees | ~ 50 (land), ~ 1000 (sea) |
| Branch | Logistics, transport |
| Website | www.reederei-bockstiegel.de |
W. Bockstiegel Reederei GmbH & Co. KG is a shipping company and project planning company in Emden / East Friesland .
Captain Werner Bockstiegel founded the Bockstiegel Bereederungs GmbH in Emden in 1983 for shipping business of all kinds. The focus was on projects for new ships and their commercial and technical support. The company has been working as W. Bockstiegel Reederei GmbH & Co. KG since 2000 and still looks after new ships. The main focus of the company is the operation of a fleet of around 60 cargo ships .
Corporate structure
According to its own information, Bockstiegel employs around 50 land workers in Emden and in its branch in Hamburg as well as around 1,000 seafarers on the ships. The latter are mainly employed by a crewing company.
The company works closely with EMS ConBulk Befrachtungs GmbH & Co. KG in Leer , which is responsible for the chartering and marketing of container ships , multipurpose and heavy lift carriers . Part of the fleet is employed in Zeitcharter by the company BBC Chartering & Logistics GmbH, which is also based in Leer and belongs to the Briese Group . Meerpahl & Meyer GmbH in Hamburg is responsible for the chartering of the smaller multi-purpose freighters .
The company has a branch in Hamburg and handles freight management via the company's own EMSConBulk Befrachtungs GmbH .
fleet
Bockstiegel manages a wide variety of ship classes and types:
- Bulk carrier (bulk carrier)
- Container ships
- Multi-purpose vessels
- Heavy lift carrier
Incidents
On February 28, 2012, the tandem loading of the new BBC Coral building was tested by the ship's two NMF heavy lift cranes with an 800-tonne load. The ship overtook strongly to starboard. As a result, the boom of the front crane tore off and the load hit the ship. The ship belongs to the BBC Amber class , a class of 17 heavy-lift carriers, 14 of which go to Bockstiegel.
On April 13, 2012 the freighter Atlantic Cruiser (ex BBC Italy ) of the shipping company Bockstiegel, chartered by a Ukrainian company, was stopped shortly before it reached a Syrian port. The multi-purpose freighter of the type Stocznia Gdanska 8203 is said to have taken over heavy military equipment and ammunition for the Syrian regime from an Iranian freighter in the port of Djibouti. The ship switched off its transponder on April 14 and could no longer be located. On the night of April 17-18, 2012, it called at the Turkish port of İskenderun and was investigated by the authorities there. No military equipment or weapons were found during the search by Turkish authorities, as officially confirmed (German and Turkish authorities).
On April 7, 2019 against 06: 45Uhr the collided on BBC Amber-class scoring BBC Amethyst with the lock control station Holtenauer lock of the Kiel Canal. The two people present in the control room were uninjured and the ship was able to continue its voyage from Norrköping (Sweden) to Rotterdam (Netherlands) a few hours later.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The employees ( memento of the original from January 20, 2012 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. , Shipping company Bockstiegel.
- ^ Heavy lift accident , Antipodian Mariner, March 12, 2012; see also average (notification March 10, 2012 5:06 p.m. )
- ↑ German weapons freighter no longer sends signals , Spiegel Online , April 14, 2012. Accessed April 14, 2012
- ↑ Turks board suspicious German freighter , Welt online , April 18, 2012.
- ↑ No weapons for Syria: Turkish authorities complete search of the "Atlantic Cruiser" , German Turkish News , April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Niklas Wieczorek: Freighter rammed the lock in Holtenau. In: Kiel News. April 9, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 21.7 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 56.8" E