Haniel shipping company

The Haniel Reederei GmbH in Duisburg-Ruhrort was the first cargo shipping company on the Rhine and was probably already in 1802 by Franz Haniel founded. It belonged to the Franz Haniel & Cie. Founded in 1756 in Ruhrort .

history

Franz Haniel

Paddle steam tug Franz Haniel V, built in 1890

The first iron barges on the Rhine drove under the green-white-black Haniel flag. Like the first German paddle steam tug , the Ruhr , they were built at the in-house Jacobi, Haniel and Huyssen shipyard in Ruhrort, which later became the Gutehoffnungshütte shipyard . As early as 1855, the shipping company was operating four paddle steam tugs and 70 barges . In 1856 Haniel published regulations for boaters on the Rhine. Around 1875, the old steam tugs were replaced by more modern ships with an output of up to 1000 hp.

In 1917 Haniel took over the United Frankfurt Shipping Companies and the number of ships grew to 107 barges with a total of 128,516 tons of deadweight and 24 steam tugs with a total output of 22,465 hp. The main cargo was coal, which came from its own mines. From 1918 Haniel also transported ore from Rotterdam to the Ruhr area. At the same time, an extensive new building program was launched. The first motor tug on the Rhine, the Franz Haniel XXVIII , already had 1000 hp in 1922. In 1923, Haniel took over the Johann Knipscheer shipping company from Ruhrort . In 1929 the paddle steam tug Franz Haniel I was converted to diesel engines with twice 500 hp. In 1935 the first Rhine-Sea ships were built for traffic between Duisburg and the Baltic Sea countries, these were the Ruhrort , Duisburg , Homberg and Oberhausen ships . The motor cargo ships Haniel Express 110-114 were built between 1938 and 1940 . Three of the four Kümos had to be delivered to the Soviet Union as spoils of war in 1945. The Ruhrort was sunk in the Baltic Sea by the effects of the war.

After 1945

After the Second World War , eight 67 m barges and several 80 m barges were equipped with diesel engines between 600 and 1200 hp and operated under the names Haniel Kurier 30 to Haniel Kurier 41. Four Rhine-Sea ships were carried at the Rheinwerft in Walsum built with the same name as the pre-war ships and were subordinated to the Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei , a subsidiary of the Haniel shipping company. In 1953, the shipping company Malm Handel & Transport Maatschappij NV , based in Rotterdam, was founded as a subsidiary , which was merged with the Nederlandse Stoombootrederij Akkermans in 1965 . From 1957 eight towed motor goods ships, Haniel Kurier 50-57 , with up to 1450 hp were built. These ships were known as semi-trailers. In the 1960s, Haniel was one of the largest inland shipping companies in Central Europe with a fleet of 108 ships. At the end of the 1960s, the semi-trailers were converted into push motor ships. In 1966 the first Haniel push boat , the Franz Haniel XI with 1920 hp, went into service. Around 1985 the fleet consisted of eight push boats, six of them with up to 5250 hp, 60 push barges and five motor cargo ships. The largest ships, Haniel Kurier 60, 61 and 62 , each had a load capacity of 3000 tons and an engine output of 2720 hp. These ships were used as coupling formations with up to three barges.

sale

In 1999, the shipping company Haniel took over the fleet of the former Krupp inland shipping, four mainline push boats, Herkules III, IV, VI and VII , a port push boat and 33 barges. This year the majority of the shares in the shipping company went to Imperial Logistics International GmbH, a subsidiary of Imperial Holding Ltd. from South Africa over. Imperial has owned the entire Haniel fleet since 2003 and now operates as the Imperial Reederei Group. The push boats were renamed Hercules X, XII, XV and XVI , the barges were renamed Imperial plus number . Only the push boat Haniel XIV kept its name and is now the guest ship of the Imperial shipping company.

Ship list

All ships of the shipping company Haniel are listed here that have been owned by the shipping company or its subsidiaries since the company was founded. The list does not claim to be complete.

Paddle steam tug 18
Screw steam tug 19
Motor tractor 15
Barges 237 in 144 years
Inland freight vessels 51
Inland tankers 15
Push boats 14 + four of the Krupp inland shipping
Push barges 103 + 33 of the Krupp inland shipping
Rhine-Sea Ships 4
Bunker boats 6 and a coaling ship in Essenberg

Shipping company flag

The shipping company flag is horizontally striped in green, white and black. From 1840 the steam tugboats had a cock as a figurehead under the bowsprit .

literature

Walter Michels: Unforgettable steamship trips on the Rhine and Danube. Historical documentation in words and pictures, with an individual listing of the entire steam-powered Rhine fleet in 1935, situation sketches, historical shipping company flags and images of all steamboat types on the Rhine, Lake Constance and Danube. Hestra-Verlag in commission, Darmstadt 1967.
Werner Böcking: Ships on the Rhine in three millennia. The history of the Rhine journey. August Steiger, Moers 1979, ISBN 3-921564-14-X .
Werner Böcking: From steam to diesel. The Rhine tugboat trade in transition. Boss, Kleve 1992, ISBN 3-89413-204-3 .