Schulte Group
The Schulte Group is a Hamburg shipping group.
history
The company emerged from the shipping company Schulte & Bruns . Bernhard Schulte left the aforementioned company and founded his own shipping company in Hamburg on October 1, 1955 . At the beginning he concentrated on short-term contracts and was able to build up his fleet quickly in the wake of the Suez crisis . Between 1957 and 1967, 13 newbuildings were taken over, half of which were owned by the shipping company and the other half were acquired in partnership with companies.
In 1963 Heinrich Schulte joined the company with 14 ships at the time and Thomas Schulte followed in 1967, who set up a shipping company's own chartering department. In 1968 the shipping company took over its first gas tanker , and in 1971 the flagging of ships to Liberia began . In 1972, Bernhard Schulte contributed a quarter to the establishment of the Hanseatic Shipping Company in Limassol and was one of the first shipping companies with foreign ship management. The company founder Bernhard Schulte died in 1975. From 1981 onwards, due to the shipping crisis of the 1980s, the number of ships decreased from 30 owned and around 100 managed ships to 22 own ships in 1987. After about twenty years, Thomas Schulte left the company to set up his own shipping company . From 1988 the shipping company concentrated on the area of full container ships and built up other ship management companies abroad. In 1996, the company entered the liner shipping business with the acquisition of the long-established Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR) and was also involved in tanker shipping with the purchase of five used product tankers. In 2004 crude oil tankers and bulk carriers were added.
In 2008 the company structure was merged. The Schulte Group now comprised the Bernhard Schulte shipping company as the owner and shipowner of its own ships, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement as a ship management company, OPDR as an independent liner shipping company and BS Treuhand as a trust company.
In 2011 the Schulte Group moved into a new shipping company building in Hamburg on Vorsetzen .
In November 2014 it was decided that the OPDR would be sold to the French shipping group CMA CGM .
With the construction of two ships for the maintenance of offshore wind farms and the establishment of the subsidiary Bernhard Schulte Offshore GmbH, the Schulte Group entered the offshore segment in 2015.
End of 2016 founded Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) and Babcock International , a 50/50 joint venture under the name of Babcock Schulte Energy (BSE) to liquefied natural gas - bunker vessels to operate. Their first ship, the Kairos , entered service in October 2018.
In March 2019 it was announced that the Schulte Group is withdrawing from the Venezuela business - which, according to its own information, has existed since 2003. So far, the BSM has operated 13 tankers of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA through its Cypriot branch . Since the sanctions imposed by Venezuela resulted in arrears of 15 million euros, the ships were arrested by creditors in foreign ports.
On June 13, 2019, the BSM- managed tanker Kokuka Courageous was attacked about 25 kilometers off the coast of Iran in the Gulf of Oman during the tensions in the Gulf of Oman .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ OPDR to become part of the CMA CGM Group. Press release. OPDR, December 1, 2014, accessed September 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Bernhard Schulte and Babcock form Babcock Schulte Energy to drive LNG projects , accessed on February 6, 2019
- ↑ Babcock Schulte Energy delivers world's largest LNG Bunker Supply Vessel 'MV KAIROS' , press release of November 2, 2018, accessed on February 6, 2019
- ↑ BSM Venezuela , bs-shipmanagement.com (accessed March 15, 2019)
- ↑ Heiner Schmidt: Hamburg shipowner no longer operates tankers for Venezuela , Hamburger Abendblatt, March 15, 2019.
- ↑ Attack on oil tankers significantly increases prices , Handelsblatt, June 13, 2019.
- ↑ Gulf of Oman tanker 'attacks': Crews rescued amid rising tensions , BBC News, June 13, 2019.