Shipping company Helmut Bastian
The shipping company Helmut Bastian was founded in 1947 and had to file for bankruptcy in January 1989 .
Founding of a shipping company
Helmut Bastian was born in Kiel in 1916 and founded a shipping company in Haren (Ems) in 1947 , whose headquarters he moved to Bremen shortly afterwards . His first ship was a barge . The second, a 1924 in Wilhelmshaven manufactured barge of the Navy , the March-June 1948 at the Burmester shipyard in Bremen-Burg to Coaster Memel (120 GRT , 120 PSe) had been converted, Helmut Bastian took over on 30 October 1948 as a correspondent Reeder . This was followed by the Memel steam logger (2), which was built by Schulte & Bruns in 1922 and converted into a cargo ship in 1953 and sold to a Swedish shipowner in June 1954.
New buildings
The other ships were newbuildings from Heinrich Brand Schiffswerft , Oldenburg and Kröger-Werft , Rendsburg. In 1969 the shipping company Helmut Bastian received the Komoran Isle (671 GRT, 2000 PSe), the first container ship , others followed. In 1983 the fleet of the Bastian shipping company comprised around 80,000 dwt .
The 1980 by the shipyard Neptun Delivered in Rostock Neptune 471 multipurpose vessels Beate (6685 GT, 4000 kW) was acquired in 1987 by shipping company Helmut Bastian and on the Sietas for gas tankers olefins gas rebuilt. That was the 26th and last ship of the shipping company.
bankruptcy
Due to the bankruptcy of an American charterer, chartered Bastian ships were arrested in the USA in 1988 and could only be released for large sums. This put the shipping company in the red and had to file for bankruptcy in 1989.
Others
In March 1959, captain Lehmann-Willenbrock and the crew of the motor freighter Inga Bastian of the shipping company Helmut Bastian rescued 57 castaways from the burning Brazilian freighter Commandante Lyra off the Brazilian coast .
Sources and literature
- H. Adamietz: tides of shipping . Verlag H. Saade, Bremen 1984, ISBN 3-922642-09-8 .
- Ship & port. Issue 1, 1988.