Westfal-Larsen
| Westfal-Larsen & Co. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | A / S |
| founding | 1905 |
| Seat | Mountains |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | wlco.no |
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Westfal-Larsen & Co. A / S , is a Norwegian shipping company.
details
The company Westfal-Larsen, based in Bergen, was founded in 1905 by Hans Peter Westfal-Larsen as a shipping company. The first ship to be managed was the Hardanger . Westfal-Larsen developed into the largest shipping company in Bergen and the second largest in Norway.
Today's corporate divisions are shipping, real estate, trade, and technology and finance projects. The main business is the operation of chemical and product tankers by the subsidiary Westchart in Bergen and the operation of open multi-purpose bulk cargo carriers by the subsidiary Masterbulk in Singapore. Westfal-Larsen has a stake in the Star Shipping shipping company through Masterbulk .
shipping
The Lindanger product tanker , built in 2016, is one of the world's first ships to run on the environmentally friendly fuel methanol . Four of a series of seven new product tankers with methanol as an alternative fuel were built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., Ltd (HMD) for the Norwegian shipowners Westfal-Larsen and Marinvest. The dual-fuel main engines of the type B&W 6G50ME-9.3 LGIB with a nominal output of 10,320 kW at 100 rpm are driven with methanol and MGO as ignition oil. They were developed by MAN B&W and built by the engine and mechanical engineering department at Hyundai Heavy Industries.
Web links
- Parent company's website (English)
- Website of the shipping company (English)
- [1] Retrieved June 10, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Skipsrevyen December 3, 2009: "Westfal-Larsen-dynastiet god for seks milliarder" ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
