the Rickmers-Linie German buys the branch of activity tramp and chartering of the Nordana



The shipowning society Rickmers-Linie di Amburgo, that it has a fleet of beyond 130 ships specialized in the exceptional cargo transport and the segment of project the cargo, has acquired the Nordana Project & Chartering, that it is the branch of activity in the marine field tramp and of the chartering of the Danish company Nordana. This last one in its turn has changed corporate name in Weco RoRo in the within of the ridenominazione of the marine activities of the Danish group Weco under the brand Weco Shipping (former Dannebrog Rederi) that, besides Weco RoRo, it comprises the brands Stena Weco, Weco Bulk, Weco Projects and Weco Tankers among other things.

The branch of acquired activity from Rickmers-Linie has offices to Copenhagen, Bangkok, Singapore and Houston and from the next 1° July will become an independent division in the within of the group of Amburgo with the name and brand NPC.

The fleet of the NPC will be constituted by the multipurpose ships heavy lift attendant of comprised gross capacity between 8.000 and 21.000 endowed tons of means of raising of the ability until 500 tons, included the fleet of 30 units of 12.000 tpl of the Nordana and ships of Thai flag. The NPC will be managed by Lars Steen Rasmussen di Copenhagen and Torben Reinhard di Bangkok.

The shipowning company of Amburgo has explained that the acquisition of the NPC reaches after a year in the course of which the Nordana Project & Chartering own has named the Rickmers (Japan) which general agent in Japan with consequent an sensitive increment of the ports of call of the ships of the NPC in the Japanese ports, to which the nomination of the Rickmers-Linie by the Nordana is continuation last March which own representative in China.

The success of the cooperation between the two companies - it has specified Rickmers-Linie - has carried to the common idea to ulteriorly increase to the complementary effects between the activity of the transport of line and the activity tramp, that it creates new value for the customers of both the companies. "To work with the NPC in our joint venture in Japan and China - it has emphasized the managing director of Rickmers-Linie, Ulrich Ulrichs - it has demonstrated that together we operate very well, at the level of is produced that of service so as for the team spirit and the working atmosphere of our societies. We have examined the widening of our cooperation and we have found ourselves quickly in agreement, and this at the end has lead Rickmers-Linie to find the activity of the NPC".