Star Shipping was a
shipping company
A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships.
Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing ships by different kinds of cargo:
# Bulk cargo is a type of special cargo that is ...
based in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...
,
Norway
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that in 2008 operated 60–70 vessels with a total of 3 million
deadweight tonnes.
It was founded in 1961 a
joint venture
A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and economic risk, risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four rea ...
between
Grieg Group and
Masterbulk.
The main area of co-operation was in industrial transport of
forest products
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with 50
open hatch ships. It also operated 20
handysize
Handysize is a naval architecture term for smaller bulk carriers or oil tanker with deadweight of up to 50,000 tonnes, although there is no official definition in terms of exact tonnages. Handysize is also sometimes used to refer to the span of ...
and
handymax
Handymax and Supramax are naval architecture terms for the larger bulk carriers in the Handysize class. Handysize class consists of Supramax (50,000 to 60,000 DWT), Handymax (40,000 to 50,000 DWT), and Handy (<40,000 DWT). The ships are used for ...
bulk carrier
A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo — such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement — in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, eco ...
s as well as two
container ship
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermoda ...
s, and was the operator of
Squamish Terminals in
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
.
The ships were owned by the two parent companies.
The company's open hatch ships were also well-suited for carrying containers and in the early 1970s Star Shipping provided strong competition with established
container shipping lines on some routes.
In 2009 the two companies demerged the Star Shipping business with the Grieg Group keeping the business name as Grieg Star Shipping. The Canadian terminal operations also remained with Grieg. In 2017 Grieg Star formed a new joint venture pool with
Gearbulk
Gearbulk Holding Limited is an international shipping company headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. The company operates the world's largest fleet of open hatch gantry and semi-open jib craned vessels. These vessels specialise in carrying un ...
named G2 Ocean, consisting of some 130 bulk carriers.
References
External links
Griegstar official siteG2 Ocean official site
Shipping companies of Norway
Dry bulk shipping companies
Commercial management shipping companies
Port operating companies
Companies based in Bergen
Transport companies of Vestland
Transport companies established in 1961
Norwegian companies established in 1961
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