Johann Kahrs shipping company
The Johann Kahrs shipping company began in 1886 when Johann Kahrs bought a mizzenewer . Today the shipping company has merged with two other shipping companies to form Este Shipmanagement .
history
Zodiacus was the name of the first ship, a mizzenewer measured at 76 GRT, which was built by GH Bröhan in Buxtehude in 1855 and bought by Johann Kahrs in 1886.
His son, the small boatman Heinrich Kahrs, began in 1891 with the Ewer Hertha , built in 1883 , which he exchanged for the Ewer Maria in 1898 .
His son Johann Kahrs, in turn, went into business for himself as a skipper in 1925 when he bought the Galiot Sleipner (87.5 GRT). In 1926, he had a 50 hp engine installed at the Wandmaker shipyard in Harburg. In 1930 the Sleipner was sold and he acquired the schooner yacht Miranda (137 GRT), which he renamed Sleipner II . He wanted to take over his first new construction, the Sleipner (217 GRT), in 1940, but it was claimed by the Navy , was handed over in 1941, extended in 1951 and sold in 1958.
The son Johann Kahrs, the fourth generation, had acquired his boatman's license and with his father bought the coaster Nora (226 GRT) in 1953 , which was renamed Sleipner II (2). It was replaced in 1956 by the new Sleipner II (497 GRT) from the Stader shipyard and three years later by the modified replica Sleipner I (424 GRT) also from the Stader shipyard. Jan Kahrs was the name of the new building from the Stader Schiffswerft, measured at 499 GRT, which was taken over in 1963 and received number 10 in the ship list. As number 11 came in 1969 by the Sietas the Baltic Concord (499 GRT, 2,430 dwt), which in 1970 Elke Kahrs has been renamed. In 1970 Johann Kahrs died and his son Johann Kahrs took over the shipping company.
In 1971 the significantly larger new Stade (999 GRT, 1,245 tdw) was delivered by the De Waal shipyard in Zaltbommel to the correspondent shipper Johann Kahrs - the ship was already in the English Channel off Cherbourg on August 5, 1972 after a collision with the Colombian freighter Ciudad de Manizales lost and eleven of the 13 crew members perished. The Weser dike , delivered in 1967 by the Lühring shipyard , was taken over by the family shipping company as Uwe Kahrs in 1974 and the new building Jan Kahrs (2) built by the Norderwerft followed in January 1977. The container ship Sleipner (3) (1,599 GRT, equipped with loading cranes ) 3,854 tdw) was delivered in 1984 by the Sietas shipyard to the MS Sleipner Johann Kahrs KG shipping company. In autumn 1988 the Jan Kahrs (3) followed, which was used in the long-term charter for the Irish shipping company Bell Lines . Ship No. 19, the Uwe Kahrs with 4,000 GT and 5,865 tdw, was delivered in May 1997 from the Elbe shipyard in Boizenburg . The EWB 500 container feeder could load 523 TEU .
In 2007 Este Shipmanagement was founded as a merger of three shipping companies, J. Kahrs Bereederung, Bernd Becker Shipmanagement and HH Shipping with a joint office in Jork. Este Shipmanagement has a total of 14 ships in 2017: The five container feeder ships Samskip Courier , Samskip Express , Sleipner , Skirner and Slidur , each with 9,300 dwt and 803 TEU, are part of the Kahrs fleet. They were put into operation between 2005 and 2007 by J. Kahrs Schiffahrt GmbH & Co. KG.
literature
- German shipping companies Volume 3: Johann Kahrs, Hamburg; Publisher Gert Uwe Detlefsen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fliegende Holländer , In: Der Spiegel , No. 53, December 25, 1972, p. 35.