Bulk shipping: 50 years-jubilee of Fednav Hamburg

Fednav, Canadian shipping company for bulk cargo, has the world’s larges fleet of ice class-bulk ships; freighting succeeds in Russia

Fednav (Hamburg) GmbH was officially opened by the Hamburg shipping merchants Richard Ritter (deceased) and Albert W.Thies on 31 March 1965 in Hamburg as the first branch abroad of Fednav Ltd, Montreal (Canada). The first company headquarters had been at Hamburg Holzdamm next to the Hotel Atlantik. In 1974 Fednav moved to Rothenbaumchaussee and in 1994 to the city centre. Today the company has its headquarters at Katharinenstrasse.

Since its foundation Fednav Hamburg has been establishing its reputation in the Hanseatic city as a freight broker and liner agent of the Canadian shipping company, and has been focussing on freight acquisition, booking and handling of North America’s biggest owner-managed shipping company today. Fednav currently employs five persons in Hamburg and is headed by Thomas Grandt as managing director.

The parent company started shipping business 70 years ago and is today North America’s biggest bulk goods shipping company with branches around the globe. The group controlls a fleet of eighty bulk cargo vessels in 2015. Fednav has been operating a liner service on the Federal Atlantic Lakes Line (FALLLine) for many decades, offering a monthly connection from the German seaports to various ports in the Great Lakes. In Canada and America, respectively, they are calling the ports of Sorel, Hamilton, Cleveland, Detroit, Burns Harbor, and Milwaukee on a regular basis.

In terms of freighting the Canadian enterprise has been able to achieve substantial success in the Russian market in the past years in particular. Due to entirely focussing on bulk cargo business combined with the nieche market of the Great Lakes, Fednav had been able to avoid the shipping crisis in the past years.

Fednav is the only shipping enterprise dealing with the Artic for more than five decades. Along the Northwest Passage the company supplies several mines until Alaska, carrying nickel or zinc for them.

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