Ivaran Lines
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Ivarans Rederi AS was a merchant steamship company founded in Norway by Mr. Ivar Anton Christensen in 1902.
The flag was red with a white "C" in the middle, for the founder's family name: Christensen (a picture of this flag can be viewed at FOTW).
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[edit] History
[edit] Stockard Steamship Corporation
Stockard was the Ivaran's major agent for many years. Ivaran had an involvement with Stockard resulted from WWII as they operated a tramping service between the East Coast of USA and South America which was previously managed by fellow Norwegian company S. Holter-Sorensen. Talbot-Booth in Merchant Ships 1944 shows the vessels "Ivaran" and "Lise" in the name of Ivaran Lines which fits with the name based New York given by Wedge 1951. Subsequently Ivaran appear to have re-established in Oslo under their own name.
[edit] CP Ships
Ivaran Lines was bought by CP Ships in May 1998, being unprofitable at that time. The last Ivaran's chairman was Eirik Holter-Sorensen. CP's Ivaran brand name was replaced by the Lykes Lines brand in 2000. By 2001 CP Ships was the seventh largest carrier in the world.
When acquired by CP Ships, Ivaran Lines was operating the following services:
- U.S. East Coast to East Coast South America (with Columbus Line and Alianca)
- U.S. Gulf Coast to East Coast South America (with Grupo Libra and TMM)
- U.S. Gulf Coast to Central America and the Caribbean.
CP Ships was bought out in late 2005 by TUI AG and merged in mid 2006 in the Hapag-Lloyd organization.
[edit] International identifiers
SCAC Code: IVAU
BIC Code (Container prefixes): IVLU
[edit] Vessels
In the final 1980s and 1990s the fleet was composed of multi-purpose container ships, which had names taken from the Channel Islands, in Southern California, USA:
- Salvador
- Santa Fe
- San Diego
- San Clemente
- San Lorenzo
- San Miguel
- San Nicolas
- San Pedro
They were also operating a combined container-passenger ship, the Americana.
In 1998, Ivaran Lines had a fleet of 13 container ships with a capacity between 563 and 1742 TEU.
[edit] References
- EDGAR® Online: CP Ships Limited - Revised 2003 Annual Information Form, 07. September 2004
- Locistics Management, 01. May 1998
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Maritime Timetable images (Collection of old company brochures)
