Senator Lines
| Senator Lines | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1987 |
| resolution | 2009 |
| Reason for dissolution | Business abandonment |
| Seat | Bremen |
| Branch | Shipping company |
The Senator Lines GmbH , to 1994, Senator Linie GmbH & Co. KG , was from 1987 to 2009 existing shipping companies based in Bremen .
Companies
The main business area of the shipping company Senator Lines was the liner container shipping. The company operated chartering, crew and technical ship management and the planning of new ships to be chartered, but the shipping company never had its own ships.
The company was founded in 1987 as a subsidiary of Bremer Vulkan and began in April 1987 with a "Round-the-World Service" with 14-daily departures. After German reunification, from January 1990 there was initially a collaboration with the East German liner shipping company DSR , from which the TRICON consortium emerged in June 1990 when the South Korean shipping company Cho Yang Line joined. The existing container line services of the three shipping companies were merged and coordinated. The cooperation between DSR and Senator resulted in a merger of the two companies under the name DSR-Senator Lines Holding GmbH in 1994 , in which Deutsche Seereederei Holding and Bremer Vulkan each held 50 percent of the company shares. In the same year, the French Compagnie Maritime d'Affretement (CMA) and the Belgian CAST Container Line joined the TRICON consortium. Three years later, DSR-Senator found itself in financial difficulties, whereupon the South Korean shipping company Hanjin Shipping took over the majority (80%) of the Senator Line in 1997 (another 10% was held by the Bremer Investitionsgesellschaft BiG and the Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz ). The TRICON “Round the World Service” concept was abandoned after the takeover and replaced by Pendulum services. In 2000 it was decided to change its name to Senator Lines.
From 2004 the company focused more on services between Europe and Asia. In 2007, five services with 49 ships were operated on the Northern Europe – Asia route, with slot capacities ranging from 4500 to 9500 TEU . Between the Mediterranean and Asia, 36 ships of between 2200 and 5500 TEU were in service. In addition, eight ships with slot capacities of 950 to 1500 TEU were employed on the route between the Mediterranean Sea and Montreal in Canada, six ships with an average of 2600 TEU were used between Europe and the ports of the South American east coast and another four ships with an average of 1600 TEU were on the Route between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
In the course of the shipping crisis from 2008 , Senator Lines ceased business operations at the end of February 2009; the last 171 employees in Bremen were not taken over by the parent company Hanjin.
literature
- Senator Lines , brochure of the Senator Lines shipping company, July 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ jsm: shipping company Senator Lines, an operating. In: Nordwest-Zeitung , February 4, 2009
- ↑ Klaus Wolschner: Senator Lines is being liquidated - From the Bremer Seefahrer-Traum in: taz, the daily newspaper , February 6, 2009