Fendel shipping company

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The Fendel shipping company was founded in Mannheim in 1875 by Josef Conrad Fendel . Fendel is considered to be one of the pioneers in Rhine tanker shipping. In 1887 he was the first to have tanks for transporting petroleum built into one of his ships.

history

The Mannheim specialty Joseph Conrad Fendel was already transporting oil in barrels with his four ships. In 1887 he signed a contract with the Mannheim mineral oil entrepreneur Philipp Poth for the annual delivery of 50,000 barrels of oil from the Rhine estuary ports to Mannheim. Since the journeys from Rotterdam to Mannheim with oil as general cargo took too long, Fendel had loose tanks with a volume of 4800 barrels installed in his Carolina barge . The average travel time from Mannheim to Rotterdam and back was 20 days. So Fendel was able to fulfill the contract. The consumption of mineral oil continued to rise, and so from 1890 onwards Fendel had the first pure inland tankers built in Germany. These were namely Magdalena , Josef , Josefine and Friedrich . Each ship had a carrying capacity of around 1,100 tons. The hold was divided into individual tanks by a longitudinal bulkhead and several transverse bulkheads .

Since the business volume exceeded that of a particular company, the company became the Fendel Brothers shipping company in 1894 . In 1899 the Rheinschiffahrt AG, formerly Fendel (RAG) was founded, which at that time already owned seven steam tugs and 23 barges . In 1912, the merger of RAG and Badische AG für Rheinschiffahrt und Seetransport (BAG) resulted in Rhenus Transport AG , based in Frankfurt am Main and Mannheim. In addition, there was a majority stake in the Belgian shipping company Lloyd Rhenan , Antwerp , which owned 34 freight steamers. In the same year, the Frankfurt forwarding company William Egan & Cie . bought up. By merging various shipping companies, a Baden and a Prussian group were formed. The Baden part consisted of the RAG, the BAG and the Bavarian Transport Company Ludwigshafen . The Prussian group consisted of the Rhein- und Seeschiffahrtsgesellschaft Cologne , the Mannheimer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft (MLG) and the Mannheimer Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, founded in 1842 . In 1929 both groups were merged. Before the Second World War , the fleet consisted of around 500 ships, including 283 barges, 26 steam freighters, 137 motor freight and tankers and 56 motor and steam tugs. In 1943 the two corporate groups were merged to form Fendel Schiffahrt AG Mannheim .

After 1945

After the end of the war the fleet was rebuilt. By 1960 the stock had grown to around 300 ships, 150 barges, thirteen motor tugs, 25 motor tugs, so-called semi-trailers, 83 freight ships, 20 tankers and 20 Lahn ships. In 1970, Fendel took over Klöckner Reederei GmbH Duisburg with 16 freight ships and shares in the Jaegers shipping company . In 1971 the shipping company Fendel Schiffahrt AG, the United Stinnes Rhine shipping companies and the Bremen-Mindener Schiffahrts-AG merged to form Fendel Stinnes Schiffahrt AG.

literature

  • The development of inland tanker shipping . In: Ingo Heidbrink : Deutsche Binnentankschiffahrt - 1887–1994 , Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2000, Writings of the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum , Volume 51, ISBN 3-934613-09-8 , pp. 23–24.
  • Shipping company Fendel, pioneer on the Rhine and Moselle . In: Helmut Betz: Historisches vom Strom Band. XXIV - Shipping on the Moselle and Saar - From Römerschiff to Koppelverband , Verlag Th. Mann, Gelsenkirchen 2006, ISBN 3-7862-0152-8 , pp. 27-30.
  • Fendel is a well-known name in shipping . In: Gerd Schuth: Schleppdampfer auf dem Mittelrhein , Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-336-5 , pp. 37-46. ( Google Books )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ingo Heidbrink: German inland tanker shipping - 1887–1994 . In: Uwe Schnall (Hrsg.): Writings of the German Maritime Museum . tape 51 . Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-934613-09-8 , pp. 23 .
  2. ^ Ingo Heidbrink: German inland tanker shipping - 1887-1994 . In: Uwe Schnall (Hrsg.): Writings of the German Maritime Museum . tape 51 . Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-934613-09-8 , pp. 23-24 .
  3. ^ Ingo Heidbrink: German inland tanker shipping - 1887-1994 . In: Uwe Schnall (Hrsg.): Writings of the German Maritime Museum . tape 51 . Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-934613-09-8 , pp. 24 .