Senator Lines
The Senator Lines GmbH until 1994 Senator Linie GmbH & Co. KG, was a 1987-2009 existing shipping company based in Bremen.
Business
The main business of shipping company Senator Lines was the line container shipping. The company operated charters, crew and technical ship management and planning of einzucharternden new ships, on their vessels but never ordered the shipping company.
The company was founded in 1987 as a subsidiary of Bremer Vulkan and started from April 1987 a "Round -the-world service," with 14 daily departures. After the German reunification, a collaboration with the East German shipping line DSR resigned in January 1990 instead of first, from the accession of the South Korean shipping company with Cho Yang Line emerged the Tricon consortium in June 1990. The existing container line services of the three lines were merged and coordinated. Cooperation between DSR and Senator culminated in 1994 in a merger of the two companies under the name of DSR- Senator Lines Holding GmbH, in which the German Seereederei Holding and the Bremer Vulkan each held 50 percent of the shares. In the same year the French Compagnie Maritime d' AFFRETEMENT (CMA ) and the Belgian CAST Container Line and the Tricon consortium joined. Three years later, there was DSR- Senator in financial difficulties, prompting the South Korean shipping company Hanjin Shipping 1997, the majority of shares (80 % ) took the Senator line ( another 10% were respectively of Bremer Investment Company 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, a change of name to the name of Senator Lines was decided.
As of 2004, the company has focused increasingly on services between Europe and Asia. On the relation Northern Europe - Asia you entertained five services with 49 ships, their slot capacities ranged 4500-9500 TEU in 2007. Between the Mediterranean and Asia were 36 ships in the 2200-5500 TEU in driving. In addition, eight ships with a slot capacity 950-1500 TEU on the route between the Mediterranean and Montreal in Canada were employed, six vessels with an average of 2600 TEU were deployed between Europe and the ports of the South American east coast and another four vessels with an average of 1600 TEU drove on the route between northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
During the shipping crisis from 2008, Senator Lines to end of February 2009 the business, which last 171 employees in Bremen were not adopted by the parent company Hanjin.