BBC Chartering

The company BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH & Co. KG is a shipping company in the breeze group in the East Frisian town of Leer. With more than 160 multi-purpose, heavy-lift and container ships and bulk carriers laden the company BBC Chartering is the largest freighting on the river Ems. BBC Chartering is a 100% subsidiary of the Briese shipping. BBC Chartering is a world market leader ( by tonnage not after lifting capacity) of heavy lift and project cargo shipping. In addition, the main focus is on the shipment of dangerous goods, military property, bulk cargo and containers. In the project navigation above average number of wind power parts are shipped. The company motto is Anchored by excellence. ( to German: Anchored by peak power )

History

The shipping company was founded in 1997 in Bremen. In 1999 the company moved to idle, the same year the first South American office in Buenos Aires was founded.

In October 2003, two months before the declaration of Libya to renounce the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. has intercepted the freighter BBC China, BBC Chartering and Logistic GmbH, Leer for clues by Urs Tinner. The ship BBC China to parts for the construction of gas ultracentrifuge (CCW ) worth more than 10 million euros have been on board and was scheduled to arrive in early October 2003 Libya. The disclosure of the scheduled delivery was a secret action of the British and Americans. This end of September 2003 had experienced, was that a freighter based in Leer shipping company loaded parts for the CCW in Dubai and set course for Libya. The intelligence agencies informed the German Federal Government, asking for help: The ship should be stopped and diverted to Italy. The federal government took from the vessel owner to contact, who had, according to government bodies shown very willing to cooperate. After passing through the Suez Canal, the ship took the same course at the Italian port of Taranto, so that the cargo could be inspected. A U.S. warship followed the freighter. Neither the crew nor the cruise line should have been aware that parts for a CCW arrived in Dubai on board. In the shipping documents was the charge of the client, in which it is according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung about a company from Asia, has been declared differently. Nuclear specialists of the British and U.S. authorities sighted the charge and let them seize. According to research by the journalist Rainer Kahrs was the ship of the shipping company Beluga Shipping, and was chartered out to the BBC Chartering. Shortly before the trip it had renamed Beluga Superstition in BBC China. Shortly after the secret action ran the ship from South Africa on a rock and was sunk there.

2004 Asia Project Chartering was launched, which to date largest alliance of BBC Chartering. A year later, the first regular services were launched. This development went over the years and on, so BBC Chartering is now a member of several alliances, including CaytransBBC and TerrasBBC. The company now offers 18 different line services that are supported by 26 branches on five continents.

Line services

The company offers in addition to the tramp, are engaged in approximately 2/3 of the ships, also various semi- line services. Many lines lead from industrial countries in emerging and developing countries. For in the latter, the demand for finished bulk products, such as generators, turbines, machinery or plant parts which BBC Chartering mainly transported, very high.

The following services are provided by the shipping line at the time (2011):

• BBC Trans-Pacific Service ( Shanghai, Masan, Kobe, Yokohama, Long Beach, Houston / Charleston )
• BBC Americana Line Far East Service ( Xingang, Shanghai, Singapore, Durban, Cape Town, Vittoria, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Buenos Aires )
• BBC Andino Express Line Far East Service ( Masan, Busan, Kobe, Yokohama, Guayaquil, Callao, Antofagasta, Valparaiso )
• BBC Asia Africa Express Line ( Xingang, Busan, Kobe, Yokohama, Shanghai, Singapore, Alexandria, Constantza, Marsa el Brega, Algiers, Arzew )
• BBC Americana Line European Service ( Pori, Hamburg, Aberdeen, Antwerp, Bilbao, Itaqui, Salvador, Vitoria, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Valparaiso, Santos)
• BBC Andino Express Line European Service ( Pori, Hamburg, Antwerp, Bilbao, Charleston, Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, Paita, Callao, Puerto Angamos, Antofagasta, Valparaiso, San Antonio )
• BBC Russian Service ( whole North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Arctic Ocean and all seeschiffstauglichen rivers of Central and Western Russia ), divided into:

• BBC Americana Line ( north and south Houston, Salvador, Vitoria, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Buenos Aires and back)
• BBC Andino Express Line ( north and south: Houston, Veracruz, Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, Callao, Puerto Angamos, Antofagasta, Valparaiso, San Antonio and back)
• BBC Gulf Line (Vera Cruz, Houston, Mobile, Muscat, Jebel Ali, Doha, Dammam, Jubail, Shuwaikh )
• CaytransBBC (variable sequence of the ports of Tampico, Houston, Mobile, Puerto Cortes, Kingston, Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Maracaibo, Guaranao, Puerto Cabello, La Guaira, Guanta, Trinidad )
• BBC South America Middle East service ( Buenos Aires, Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Vitoria, Cape Town, Durban, Richards Bay, Mumbai, Muscat, Jebel Ali, Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Jubai, Umm Qasr )

Most routes are serviced monthly.

Charge

A large part of the cargo makes project and heavy. However, a significant part of the total cargo volume makes even bulk or containerized cargo. Internally, the company is divided into different business areas, or charge:

• Project Division - heart of the company, principally heavy lift cargoes in ocean use
• Liner Services - different scheduled cruises
• Oil and Gas - charges for the oil and gas industry, such as piping systems, mainly from the Middle East, Siberia and North America
• Green energy - charges for renewable energy, mostly wind, sailing from Europe to over 50 countries worldwide, which claims the largest transporter of wind turbines worldwide
• Heavy Industry - Transportation of cranes, excavators, etc. in the global drive
• Mining Industry - Transport of trucks, excavators, etc. in the global drive
• Vehicles and Yachts - transport of vehicles and yachts of all kinds
• Bulk Cargo - Transport of bulk material with bulk carriers and multi-purpose freighters

Fleet

The fleet of BBC Chartering is currently (2011 ) consists of over 160 multi-purpose vessels, heavy lift vessels, container ships and bulk carriers 3500-37000 dwt. The crane capacity is enough currently to 800 t, short vessels with 900 tons (modified BBC Amber class) are planned. BBC Chartering is not shipowners own ships they charter the ships. Management, crewing, technical and nautical inspection and other aspects are taken over by other companies. BBC is responsible as a charterer for the commercial management of the vessels - their task is to find the right load for the right conditions for the right ship.

The fleet consists mostly of ships of the parent company Briese shipping, but there are also a number of ships from other companies, such as chartered eg the shipping company W. Bock crucible.

The chartered fleet has an average age of less than five years. In addition, it is characterized primarily by their high flexibility: Most ships are equipped with cranes and are therefore not dependent on the corresponding superstructure. In addition, many of the ships are classified with high ice class and thus to ride in a position even in winter waters where it comes to ice formation, such as the Baltic Sea.

At present (2011) are two major new projects running: First, the BBC Everest class with 9 new Mehrzweckschwergutfrachtern ( cranes with 700 tons lifting capacity), on the other hand, the BBC's Amber - class with 14 new heavy-lift ( crane with 800 tons lifting capacity ).

Ship classes and ships ( selection)

In BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH & Co. KG 2011 about 400 people are employed on land. Are at sea, as the shipping company has no ships themselves, no persons employed.