Ship-owner
A shipping company is a shipping company. It may be based in the Maritime and / or inland waterways.
Shipowner
A shipowner is, according to HGB owner of it for purchase by the seafaring serving vessel (see § 476 HGB). Shipowner may be a partnership, a legal person or a merchant within the meaning of the Commercial Code.
If only a single ship operated, it is called a one-ship. The majority of ship funds are organized as a single-ship, the parent of which acts as the authorized ship. In addition, this form of operation is used in the shipping partnership, in which several persons jointly operate a ship for purchase by the shipping.
If a captain at the same time also ship owners, then one speaks of a captain shipowners.
Demarcation to Partenreederei
The HGB knew until April 24, 2013 as a shipping company only the shipping partnership and the Baureederei. When Partenreederei it was a society in which more than one person, Mitreeder called, always operate a ship them jointly attributable to the acquisition by the seafaring. The Partenreederei was in § § 489-508 HGB aF regulated, HGB Baureederei in § 509. For business lines or Baureedereien incurred until April 24, 2013, the old law ( ( EGHGB ) transitional arrangements in Article 71, paragraph 1 of the Introductory Act to the German Commercial Code ) shall continue
Demarcation from the shipping line
As a liner shipping company (also shipping lines ) describes an organization that deals with the line drive. Line services, there are today, especially in the container trade, the cargo shipping and for rolling loads. The ships, which uses the shipping line, the company must not include a shipping line is not infallible and shipowners. Rather, the shipping line vessels may be chartered Charterer, ie.
The purpose of the shipping company
The shipping company is concerned primarily with the equipment, crew, entertainment and the use of their ship or their ships. These members of the ship management tasks can also be delivered to another company, called the ship manager.
In addition to the ship management, the shipping company may also deal with the chartering. This can also be done by an authorized brokers.