Progemar (Shipping company, France)

Société Provençale de Gestion Maritime

Last modified: 2007-02-02 by ivan sache
Keywords: progemar | societe provencale de gestion maritime | societe provencale de remorquage | letters: spr (blue) | letter: p (blue) | letter: p (black) |
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House flag of Progemar
Left, as shown by Paul Bois (Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988)) [boi03] - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004
Right, as shown in Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World (1995) [lgr95] - Image by Jarig Bakker, 17 October 2005

• Presentation of Progemar
• House flag of Progemar
• Société Provençale de Remorquage

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Presentation of Progemar

Société Provençale de Remorquage was founded at the end of the XIXth century. It started as a competitor of Chambon, but there was enough work for two towing companies in Marseilles, although the SPR remained slightly less important than Chambon.
In 1923, the SPR contributed to the foundation of the Venture-Weir company (later incorporated to the SPR). SPR founded in Algiers Société Algéro-Provençale de Remorquage seven years later.
After the Second World War, the company modernized its tugboats. The increase in the size of the ships required even bigger and more powerful tugboats.
In 1967, the company was renamed Société Provençale de Gestion Maritime (Progemar) and absorbed several towing companies in ports of the Channel and the Atlantic Ocean, New Caledonia and la Reunion. The motherhouse was renamed Nouvelle Société Provençale de Remorquage.

Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].

Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004

House flag of Progemar

The house flag of Progemar is shown by Paul Bois (op. cit.) as white with a red border and the blue letter P in the middle, whereas Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World (op. cit.) shows it as red with a white square charged with a black P.

Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004

Société Provençale de Remorquage

House flag of SPR - Imaage by Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004

The house flag of Société Provençale de Remorquage is white with a red border and the blue letters SPR in the middle.

Source: Paul Bois, op. cit..

Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004