Contship Containerlines

Contship Container Lines was a container shipping company, which until 2005 in the lanes India / Pakistan, Levante, Australia / New Zealand, South America and Asia, mainly operating from 1969 to and from Europe.

The company was founded when the container revolution began, and grew steadily with the growth of this market.

History

In 1968, Dr. Angelo Ravano Contship SA in Switzerland. The first trip of the Company was made ​​by the Sea Maid of Fos to Casablanca in October 1969.

In 1970 an agency was opened in Milan and included the terminal operation in La Spezia. In the first year about 8000 ISO container units (TEU ) were handled. In the following years, the seed grew rapidly and a European network with subsidiaries in Spain and the Netherlands was built in the years 1973 and 1974. The relocation of the agency in Milan to Genoa in 1974 was accompanied by the extension of the service offer to the eastern Mediterranean ports. 1976 Ellerman City Liners was appointed Contship agency in Portugal.

1977 two important steps with the formation of a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the recording of the first direct container service between Europe and India have been made. This move reflected the ambition to become a significant player on major routes. The dice for a pioneering effort in the container shipping had fallen, as Contship first shipping line container in Bombay (now Mumbai) capsized. More experience in working partnerships they won in 1979 by the founding of the Gulf Contship Line as a common service with Ellerman City Liners - a new service that connected Europe with the Middle East.

In the second decade, the development of society accelerated. By shifting its headquarters from Switzerland to Felixstowe and Ipswich Contship became an integral part of Britain's shipping companies. In the early 1980s Contship stretched out and expanded his interests. In Spain it won the Agency for Trans Freight Lines. In the UK, it participated in the construction of Arrow Freight, a freight forwarding company. In the meantime, a parent company was founded in Curacao. All these were steps to improve the international presence and reputation of the company.

The Eagle Container Line, which connected Northern Europe and the Mediterranean to Australia, began in 1982 as a non- conference service and gave the customer offering a competitively priced and reliable service as well. With new agency companies in France and Italy, the beginning of Euroasia container line and the introduction of 1,000 - TEU vessels in the Eagle service, 1985 was a busy year. In terms of becoming a global organization was particularly meaningful, as here, the Ocean Star Container Line, a westwärtiger round- the-world service was added in 1986. The following year the Medipas service that operated between the Mediterranean and India / Pakistan was included. 1987 Contship Container Lines brand was founded. They gradually took over the management control over Contships - container shipping services, agency and intermodal activities. At the end of the second decade of the Ocean Star service has been extended to a Far East - Australia connection and to northern European ports. With the acquisition of Costa Container Line and they began a Med-US-Ost/Golf-Küsten-Dienst.

In the 1990s, the pace quickened even more with new ships for the Eagle service, a revision of the Costa - operation and recording of container terminal operations in Salerno. 1991 was the year with fundamental changes for the Indian subcontinent service by connecting CMB transport by means of an agreement to develop a joint service. Such agreements have always played an important role in the Contship activities. In 1993, just as an agreement with P & O, a restructuring of the Eagle service and an improvement of the Ocean -Star service by the addition of larger tonnage with it. More tonnage improvements in Contship - Euroasia service were made and the Gulf - line was changed to Contship - Levant Line in association with four partners in 1994. With the inclusion of the container terminal operation in Savona and Gioia Tauro in 1995, with the restructuring of Euroasia / Mediterranean -Asia service and taking a Mittelmeer-US-Golf/Mexiko-Dienstes the service offering has been further improved.

In 1996, the Levant service was modified and the Mittelmeer-US/Mexiko-Dienst been improved. The company also took over the Pro Line and brought Contship Container Lines characterized in the business between North Europe and South America. A new era began in 1997, when Contship Container Lines was acquired by CP Ships, which Contship one of the few nautical lines, which took over CP at a profitable level. The Ocean Star service has been provided with new tonnage and Contship entered into partnership with the CMA - CGM Group and Marfret in the year 1998. 1999 was a year of folding of existing activities and the construction of a platform for further growth. There have been significant cost savings and improved profitability and opened up new, additional shipping areas including the U.S. west coast to the Mediterranean. In the same year Contship launched its website and painted when the first container shipping company, its web address on the hull of his ship as a mobile advertising.

2001, a new service between China and Europe was recorded in partnership with CMA CGM, but had this service in early March to be withdrawn due to lack of profitability in 2003, caused by an import / export imbalance, low freight rates and high fixed costs slot.

The Austral - Asia service has with the new 4112 -TEU container ships cooling Contship Aurora, Contship Australis and Borealis Contship (identical to Santa R-Class ) extended the end of 2002 with a high number of reefer container terminals. In 2003, the headquarters of Ipswich moved to the new joint headquarters of CP Ships into Gatwick. A new Contship logo was designed in 2004 as a result of a change in brand strategy, but it never achieved the recognition value of the old. In January 2006 Contship Container Lines has been replaced as the final mark by the CP Ships brand since CP only wanted to perform with a brand. This was the project "one brand - one team" advertised. End of 2005, CP Ships was acquired by TUI AG and mid-2006, integrated into the Hapag- Lloyd organization.

Contship Overland

Contship Overland was a division of Contship Container Lines, which offered intermodal freight transport. The company had offices in Felixstowe, Glasgow and Milan and worked with partners in Spain and Greece together and put railroad and truck freight solutions to where it was needed by the customer. Its main business was to intermodal container and Swapbody traffic between the UK and Italy, mostly by train through the Channel Tunnel. After about ten years in the business Contship Overland was sold to the Rotterdam -based intermodal company Geest North Sea Line with effect from 1 October 2001.

Contship Italia Group

As Contship Container Lines was acquired by CP Ships in 1997, the terminal operation remained an independent company, which was acquired majority of the German logistics group Eurokai in Italy in 1999. Today, the company operates under the name Contship Italia Group and continues to use the old Contship logo.

Awards

  • Lloyd's of London Press Liner Analysis Award for: Best schedule reliability and fastest transit time between Europe and Australia / New Zealand
  • Best schedule reliability between Europe and the Persian Gulf / Arabian Sea
  • Best schedule reliability between Europe and South Asia
  • Best schedule reliability between Europe and South America
  • Eagle service
  • East About service
  • Mediterranean service

International identifiers

SCAC Code: CCXL Operator Code: CSA BIC codes (container prefixes ): CSQU, HAMU, PLVU, CLGU, tLeu, PSBU, ruthenium phthalocyanines, Fanu ( Fantainer )

Ships

Note: the list of ships built before 1997 is incomplete. If you have any information, please help us to improve this article and add it. Thank you very much

Contship has often reused ship's name, therefore, wore different ships of the same name (see IMO number ).

Literature / Sources

  • Bureau International des Containers (container prefixes )
  • EDGAR Online: CP Ships Limited - Revised 2003 Annual Information Form, September 7, 2004
  • . Contship Container Lines Ltd: Official Website - Page inactive - now under History of CP Ships
  • Contship Container Lines Ltd:. Celebrating 30 glorious years ( printed booklet ), 1999
  • Contship Container Lines Ltd:. Liner Services Directory ( printed booklet ), 2000
  • CP Ships: Press release - CMA CGM slot charter agreement Brings CP Ships into Europe- Asia Trade, January 29, 2001
  • CP Ships: Press release - CP Ships Takes Delivery of Contship Aurora, September 9, 2002
  • CP Ships: Press release - CP Ships Restructures Australasian trade lanes, October 4, 2002
  • CP Ships: Press release - CP Ships to Withdraw from Asia -Europe slot charter, December 17, 2002
  • CP Ships: Press release - CP Ships Adopts a Single Brand 28 April 2005
  • Geest North Sea Line: Press Release - Geest Acquires Contship Overland surgery, September 20, 2001
  • Marine Link: Eagle is Landing for Contship Container Lines, September 30, 2002
  • Marine Link: Contship Container Lines Wins Third Party Endorsement, December 13, 2002
  • Shippers Today: Contship Container Lines ' mobile advertising in 1999
  • SMDG Group ( carrier code for EDIFACT messages - Contship has now been replaced by Hapag -Lloyd through the acquisition )
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