White fleet Düsseldorf

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Weisse Flotte Düsseldorf / Duisburg GmbH
legal form GmbH
Seat Dusseldorf
management Peter Marcel Küffner, Peter Küffner, Michael Küffner
Number of employees 57 (2016)
Branch Passenger shipping
Website www.w-flotte.de

The Weisse Flotte Düsseldorf is an operation of the Weisse Flotte Düsseldorf / Duisburg GmbH and operates primarily from Düsseldorf passenger shipping on the Rhine between Duisburg and Cologne .

history

After the only Düsseldorf Rhine bridge had been destroyed shortly before the end of the Second World War, the British military government decided to allow the ferry service across the Rhine between the old town and Oberkassel and obliged the public transport company Rheinbahn to set up this connection. From the mid-1950s onwards, the Rheinbahn expanded its fleet and offered regular services between the Düsseldorf harbor and Kaiserswerth with a total of seven stops as well as various excursions.

From the eighties, the overall loss-making operation was gradually thinned out. In the end, the Rheinbahn fleet could only be maintained with urban subsidies of up to 1.5 million DM per year. In 1993, Dr. Ing.Peter Küffner runs his fleet of four passenger ships and eleven riser systems . Together with his sons Peter and Michael, he modernized the company, now known as Weisse Flotte Düsseldorf, and subsequently expanded it. Since then, the Weisse Flotte Düsseldorf has not only managed without subsidies, but has also been operating profitably.

offer

The offer of the Weisse Flotte Düsseldorf consists of the regular service between Düsseldorf-Altstadt and Kaiserswerth as well as round trips and excursions, etc. a. to Cologne, Duisburg and Zons . The Weisse Flotte Düsseldorf also includes a beer garden by the casemates on the Untere Rheinwerft below the Rhine promenade and the catering ship MS Allegra, which is firmly anchored here.

The White Fleet Duisburg, which also belongs to the company and has a fleet of three ships (MS Gerhard Mercator, MS Stadt Duisburg and MS Nostalgie), primarily offers tours through the Duisburg-Ruhrort ports , some as theme tours, as well as various special trips. The company also includes the Mississippi Queen event ship , which is firmly anchored on the Danube in Nuremberg .

Fleet inventory

Ship name ENI
number 		Construction year Shipyard / location Length / breadth / draft Main drive
power 		Passengers
max. 		image
City of Düsseldorf 0403810 1970 Ruhrort shipyard 41.00 m / 7.60 m / 1.30 m 376 kW / 512 PS 250 Düsseldorf - Lower Rhine shipyard - City of Düsseldorf04003810 01 ies.jpg
Dusseldorf 04032440 1992 Meidericher shipyard 37.00 m / 7.20 m / 1.29 m 370 kW / 503 PS 250 Düsseldorf - Lower Rheinwerft - Düsseldorf04032440 01 ies.jpg
Düssel 1962 E. Berninghaus, Cologne-Deutz 34.50 m / 6.13 m / 1.15 m 256 kW / 348 PS 250 Duesseldorf 1896.JPG
Jan Wellem 02334290 2011 Ruijtenberg shipyard, Raamsdonksveer NL 36.00 m / 7.65 m / 1.40 m 224 kW / 305 PS 220 Ms jan wellem.jpg
Allegra --- 1886 Gebr. Otto, Krimpen (Holland) 45.00 m / 6.00 m 212 kW / 288 PS 200 Düsseldorf - Lower Rhine shipyard - Allegra 05 ies.jpg

Web links

Commons : Weisse Flotte Düsseldorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2016 annual financial statements in the Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ www.rheinbahn.de: 1945: Düsseldorf divided city again - Rheinbahn ferry traffic , accessed on March 4, 2014
  3. ↑ Interview with Simone and Michael Küffner in the online magazine "The Düsseldorfer", April 2018, accessed on June 7, 2018
  4. ↑ Westdeutsche Zeitung: The long way to a profitable fleet , accessed on February 23, 2014.