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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (u)

ULG
Union Partreederei (Scipio & Co.)
Unter-Elbe Fähr Betrieb (no image)
Unterweser Reederei
SBU (Schleppbetrieb Unterweser)

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ULG

image by Eugene Ipavec, 14 May 2006

ULG or Umschlag- und Lagerhausgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (Cargo Transfer and Warehouse Co.) at Wolfsburg - better known for its Volkswagen factory - was founded in 1994, Braunschweig (Brunswick) being the registered seat. In fact the founding firms are well-known: Rhenus (logistics) and Raiffeisen (financial), the latter taking over all the shares in 1998 but demerging from ULG in 2004.
The company is not only active at Wolfsburg but also at Fallersleben, a nearby inland harbour operated by ULG.

As the name says, ULG is active in cargo transfer and warehousing (wheat and other foodstuffs are important items; further stone, ore, fertilizer, etc.) plus related activities. In addition, there is waterway and coastal freighting over a rather wide area coverning the North of Germany and adjoining areas (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Poland).

The house flag is divided per ascending diagonal with a white field uppermost and a blue one underneath, and counterchanged serifed initials ‘ULG’ over all.
Jan Mertens, 2 May 2006

Union Partreederei (Scipio & Co.)

image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2005

Union Partreederei (Scipio & Co.), Bremen - red flag, white diamond, black serifed "U".
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

Unter-Elbe Fähr Betrieb

Cycling towards the Danish-German border, I saw a ship on the Kiel canal belonging to the shipping company Unter-Elbe Fähr Betrieb. The house flag was: divided per saltire, white over blue, U over E before F over B in black. I reported this one last year, but this time I spoke with the captain of one of the ferries, who confirmed that they do indeed have this flag in cloth.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001

Unterweser Reederei

image by Jorge Candeias

Unterweser Reederei GmbH, AG - I saw a photo of the German ship Weser. Painted on the board was a [divided saltirewise] blue-red flag with white letters URAG. Source: German magazine Guten Tag, 1989.
Victor Lomantsov, 8 Feb 2001

This must be a West German ship. Interesting to see a West German company using 'typical' East German colors.
Volker Moerbitz Keith, 8 Feb 2001

Unterweser Reederei GmbH. The company not only predates the GDR, thus having more "right" to the colours, but it has also outlasted it as it still exists though going by the image on the company site the blue and red colour shades are different. It originated in 1890 as Schleppschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Unterweser, changing to Unterweser Reederei A.G. in 1923 and to Unterweser-Reederei GmbH in 1963. The original flag was the same format but with the white letters "SGUW" in place of the current "URAG".
Neale Rosanoski, 9 Oct 2004

SBU (Schleppbetrieb Unterweser)

image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 Aug 2008

SBU or Schleppbetrieb Unterweser mbH & Co. KG (i.e. Towage Co. Unterweser) at Bremen:
Flag: horizontally divided RWR (1:2:1) bearing black company intials – no serifs or dots – in the centre. Incidentally these were the former national colours.
I have found no photo showing this flag in use. Therefore this whopping view of the funnel (rather 1:3:1).
‘Unterweser’ is defined as the River Weser’s range between Bremen and the North Sea. On SBU I have found out almost nothing: Seatowage lists four tugs (no idea if they are still operated; the firm is led by Ms Erika Schulz; and that is all.
Jan Mertens, 12 Aug 2008