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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (i)

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Johannes Ick

image by Jarig Bakker, 29 Aug 2005

Johannes Ick, Hamburg - per saltire red and white; on white at hoist black "J", at fly black "I".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 29 Aug 2005

Imperial Reederei Gruppe

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 June 2007

Imperial Reederei Gruppe.
a)Inland shipping ; short sea shipping companies: Imperial Schifffahrt GmbH Duisburg (probably the former Haniel Co.), Imperial Shipping GmbH Wasserbillig (Luxemburg, at the German border), Niedersächsische Verfrachtungs GmbH Hannover
b)Tanker shipping companies: Wijgula B.V. Druten, WGL Tankschiffahrt GmbH Duisburg, Navtank N.V. Antwerpen
c)Chartering companies: DeGrave GmbH Duisburg/Mannheim, Imperial DeGrave B.V. Zwijndrecht, Imperial Reederei und Spedition GmbH Duisburg, Transest S.A.S. Thionville/Corbeny, Walrhein Strom- und Kanalschifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH Duisburg, Donau Logistik GmbH Regensburg
subsidiaries: De Grave Antverpia B.V. Antwerpen/Liege, Märkische Transport GmbH Berlin, BeKa Imperial GmbH Kehl
d)Container companies: Alcotrans Containerline B.V. Zwijndrecht, Alcotrans S.A.S. Ottmarsheim/Straßburg/Weil amRhein/Valence sur Rhone, Rhein-Ruhr Terminalgesellschaft für Container- und Güterumschlag mbH Duisburg, Alcotrans Containerline GmbH Duisburg
subsidiary: Gernsheimer Güterumschlags- und Terminalbetriebsgesellschaft mbH Gernsheim
e)Industrial Logistics company: Rhein-Ruhr Bulk Terminal GmbH & Co KG, Duisburg
You can see the details better arranged in the organigram on the Company website.

Since 28 February 2002 exists Imperial Logistics International Group Duisburg, being part of Imperial Holding Ltd. (Edenvale/South Africa) with branches in France, Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg and Germany (not in Hamburg, nearest branch in Hannover).
On the above website there is a logo, similar to that one of the plates at the boards of companies ships. It is depicted as an animated flying colour. The ships of that company, I watched in Hamburg, all used the Haniel-flag and plates on port and starboard. So I have never seen a real flag of Imperial. What I can give is a reconstruction of the image on companies website.
Description: It is a white flag with two greenish blue parallelogramms at the hoist, superimposed by a blue serifed italic capital "I", which is superimposed by a white triangle or broad arrowhead pointing to the top. In the fly end is an italic inscription: "Imperial Reederei Gruppe". "Imperial" is in the 1st line, blue and has a serifed initial letter, "Reederei" is in the 2nd line and green, "Gruppe" is in the 3rd line, green and has half height comparing to the other ones. This pattern is more or less the same like that of the plates in use.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 June 2007

Here is a photo showing flag-bearing employees taking part in a sports event – the team is about to run 5 km at Mülheim. Strictly speaking this is Imperial Logistics International so no "Reederei" in sight.
Things look better on `Timaja' (photo rights belonging to "McRonalds"), photo clickable. Here is a live Imperial as well, shipping version this time.
See also this page of the Bremen inland shippers' association ("Schifferverein") showing a rendition of their "Schiffermast", including Imperial's shipping division.
Jan Mertens, 4 Jun 2007

Imperial house flag

image sent by Jan Mertens, 6 June 2007

The words ‘Imperial’ and ‘Reederei’ are visible, ‘Gruppe’ can be guessed at.
Jan Mertens, 6 Jun 2007

Imperial Logistics

image sent by Jan Mertens, 5 June 2007

Only ‘Imperial’ visible, in other words no shipping slant but it shows the pattern.
Jan Mertens, 5 Jun 2007

Interscan

image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Jens Pattke spotted the link of Interscan Schiffahrt - white with narrow red stripe on top and bottom; in the center black letters IS.
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Interscan Reederei #2

image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2005

Interscan Reederei G.m.b.H., Hamburg - Spanish-style RWR, in center black "IS".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2005

F. Ivers & Co.

image by Jorge Candeias, 1 Dec 2004

The flag is white with a cross, seemingly composed by 4 red and white stripes in the vertical arms and 5 green and white stripes in the horizontal arms, plus something yellow in the center. I'd advise you to take my GIF with a grain of salt because it might include some errors.
As I read it, the caption seems to read "F. Jvers", but since another "Jvers" was corrected as Ivers, I suppose the same thing happens here. The first letter looks a lot like a J, though, but that's possibly a font thing.
Jorge Candeias, 1 Dec 2004

The firm is F. Ivers & Co., Stettin (pre-WWII Germany). The flag with the remarkable cross can be seen here (on-line 1912 Lloyd's Flags & Funnels) as No. 206 with probably the initial 'I' in the centre of the cross which repeats the colours of the combined Swedish-Norwegian flag I bet. (Not unusual, given the location.) But...by Neptune! it's a 'herring salad' in cross form!
Jan Mertens, 2 Dec 2004