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Dutch Houseflags of Shipping Companies [i]

Insulinde
Internationaal Motor Transportbedrijf
Internationale Kustvaart Maatschappij
IT Lemmer

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Insulinde

image by Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005

Insulinde Tankstoomboot Maatschappij, Amsterdam - blue flag bordered red; white diamond with a black palmtree and black "OFI". Insulinde was an alternative name for the Dutch East Indies.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005

Internationaal Motor Transportbedrijf

image by Eugene Ipavec, 15 May 2006

IMT or Internationaal Motor Transportbedrijf (International Motorized Transport Co.) BV is a Dutch inland navigation firm established at Krimpen aan den IJssel, immediately to the East of Rotterdam.

Company website, English version available:
Some facts: founded in 1949, IMT is internationally active, as the name says, being a cooperative effort of private barge owners whose vessels – as we have seen in the case of other firms – range between 500 and 2500 metric tonnes.
Transporting bulk goods at first (steel, timber, metals…), IMT barges now also handle containers, agricultural bulk goods, etc. According to above site, the company is active on an almost continental scale and quite able to track shipments over that area.

If I interpret its somewhat arty rendition aright, the house flag as shown on the site is blue with a white cross throughout and bears, in the centre, a white oval containing blue initials ‘IMT’. At the top of the webpage, a barge with a very tiny – but recognizable – IMT flag appears (image is refreshed regularly)…
Jan Mertens, 15 May 2006

Internationale Kustvaart Maatschappij

image by Jarig Bakker, 30 January 2001

Houseflag of N.V. Internationale Kustvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001

IT Lemmer

image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005

Jan Mertens reported this link with mainly Dutch houseflags. IT Lemmer (Tankvaart) - red flag, white slanting horizontal stripe, charged with red "IT".
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005