Christian Salvesen Ltd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian Salvesen Ltd was once a whaling company founded in 1872 at Leith near Edinburgh, Scotland. The founder of the company, Theodore Salvesen was born in Mandal, Norway. The companys whaling expeditions were using a place called Leith Harbour on the island of South Georgia in the Falkland Islands. In the years 1950-1962 the whaling ships Southern Harvester and Southern Venturer belonged to the company. These ships where floating factories, and the core in a whale expedition. Each expedition consist of a floating factory, and abouth ten whale-catchers.
One of the companys whale-catchers, Southern Actor, now lies at the whaling museum in Sandefjord, Norway, and are taken care of as a floating museum ship.
Salvesen exited the whaling industry in 1963 and reinvented itself as a major European transport and logistics company. In 2001 the company had 13,630 employees worldwide and annual sales of £830 million.
