Rickmers Holding
| Rickmers Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG |
| founding | 1982 |
| Seat |
Hamburg , Germany
|
| management | Ignace Van Meenen ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 2,193 |
| sales | 587 million euros |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | www.rickmers.com |
| Status: 2015 | |
The Rickmers Holding AG is a German shipping company group, which in 1982 by Bertram Rickmers was founded.
history
In December 2015 the group consisted of a total of 95 group companies (at that time also with Rickmers Reederei , Rickmers Shipmanagement and Rickmers-Linie ); it was present in eleven countries and was represented by over 50 agencies. It employed around 2,200 people at sea and on land. The business areas Maritime Assets & Maritime Services are headed by Holger Strack.
In 2016, a merger with ER Schiffahrt was planned.
On November 15, 2016, the subsidiary Rickmers Maritime Trust , based in Singapore, reported insolvency. On June 1, 2017, the bankruptcy petition for self-administration followed at the Hamburg District Court . In February 2017, the Bremen shipping company Zeaborn bought the heavy lift company Rickmers Linie . In September 2017, Zeaborn bought Rickmers Shipmanagement, the core business of the widely ramified Rickmers Group. ER Schifffahrt was also bought by Zeaborn in 2018. In August 2018, the ship management of the companies within the Zeaborn Group was merged under the name Zeaborn Ship Management . Zeaborn Ship Management is a third party manager based in Hamburg and Singapore.
fleet
In December 2015, a total of 130 ships were administered and managed, of which 52 were wholly owned by the group and a further twelve ships were partially owned as part of a joint venture . The fleet consisted of around 90 container ships (including eight VLCS for 13,600 TEU), 13 Superflex Heavy Multi Purpose container ships with crane capacities of up to 640 t (combined), 22 bulk carriers and three car transporters .
Web links
- Main offices Rickmers Holding (2018), accessed March 19, 2018.
- Rickmers Maritime. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 19, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Martin Kopp: Bremer save shipping company Rickmers - and the jobs Hamburger Abendblatt from September 7, 2017, accessed on March 19, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management Board & Senior Management Rickmers Holding (2018), accessed March 19, 2018.
- ↑ a b Financial Reports Rickmers Holding (2018), accessed on March 19, 2018.
- ↑ Innovative and tradition-conscious Rickmers Holding (2018), accessed on March 19, 2018.
- ↑ Management Rickmers Holding (2018), accessed on March 19, 2018.
- ↑ Christoph Schlautmann: Shipowner Bertram Rickmers: Back in the rough reality. handelsblatt.com, August 31, 2016, accessed March 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Rickmers Maritime owes interest , November 15, 2016.
- ^ DGAP-Adhoc: Rickmers Holding AG: Rickmers Group sells shares in Rickmers Trust Management Pte. Ltd. , October 17, 2016.
- ↑ Martin Hock: Rickmers creditors must bleed FAZ.net from April 20, 2017, accessed on March 19, 2018.
- ^ Reederei Rickmers files for bankruptcy with NDR Nachrichten on June 1, 2017, accessed on March 19, 2018.
- ^ A b Christian Müßgens: Contractor swallows Rickmers' core business. Investors around Zech take over the ship management. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 8, 2017, p. 25.
- ↑ Vessels by type Rickmers Holding (2018), accessed on March 19, 2018.