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Danish Shipping Companies (B)

28:37, image by Željko Heimer and and António Martins-Tuválkin
Danish merchant ensign

Baltship
Basse & Co.
Bech Rederierne
Blaesbjerg Marine
P. Bork Shipping A/S
Bornholmstrafikken A/S

Dampskibsselskabet paa Bornholm af 1866

C. Breinholt A/S

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Baltship

image located by Jan Mertens, 1 Dec 2009

Baltship, a Danish based freight forwarding company, maintains a website (in English) at http://www.baltship.dk. Founded in 1997 and based at Aarhus, this company has subsidiaries at København, Riga (Latvia), and - as Graziosi-Baltship, partly owned - at Sydney (Australia), plus supplementary offices elsewhere. Baltship specialises in international freighting, maritime chartering (containers or bulk), project handling, and other logistic activities.
The blue company logo is placed on a white flag, seen here (actually the charges look almost black):http://www.baltship.dk/index.php?id=7. We see the globe in Mollweide projection above the firm´s name; in the flag, there is a thick horizontal stripe between the two.
Jan Mertens, 1 Dec 2009

Basse & Co.

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

Basse & Co. Prior to WW2 shown as T. Basse, afterwards as Basse & Co. and finally A.H Basse being liquidated in 1978. The "H" probably relates to D/S Hetland A/S under which they seem to have originally operated. The flag is red with a red initial "H" on a white lozenge.
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Bech Rederierne

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 Feb 2006

The company was based in Horsens. It was a white flag with blue disk having a white stripe, with blue inscription"BECH".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 Feb 2006

Blaesbjerg Marine

image by Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

The company was based in Aarhus. It was a white flag with a blue cursive "b" letter divided by a blue horizontal line.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

Must be inspired by the "Plimsoll line"
Ole Andersen, 15 Sep 2002

P. Bork Shipping A/S

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

The company was based in København (?). The flag was horizontally divided of white and blue, at top hoist is a black initial "P", at bottom hoist a white initial "B"
Source: Stewart and Styring"s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963, image 881
Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

Bornholmstrafikken A/S

image by Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

The company was based in Aarhus. Red flag with two parallel diagonal white dashes near the fly. Bornholm is the easternmost Danish island.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

The dashes allude to the shape of the island: a parallelogram
Ole Andersen, 15 Sep 2002

Dampskibsselskabet paa Bornholm af 1866

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2025

The company was established on 4 February 1866 as "Dampskibsselskabet paa Bornholm af 1866", but commonly called "66" by the people of Bornholm. The seat had been Rønne, the capital of the island. On 3 November 1866 the first steamship was delivered in Rønne. The line was acquired by the Danish state on 1 June 1973 and renamed to øBornholmstrafikkenø on 15 June 1973.
The flag was according to Netnoord a white square flag with red bordure. On the white field was a yellow post horn surmounted by a yellow crown. According to
Sources:Netnoord (in Dutch) and US Navy 1961, p.3-17/row 2/column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2025

C. Breinholt A/S

image by Ivan Sache, 27 Nov 2003

The company was based in Esbjerg. The company was founded in 1904 by Captain Christen Breinholt. The flag is red with a thin white border and a white "B" in the middle.
Source: company website
Ivan Sache, 27 Nov 2003

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