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Shipping Companies (Denmark)

Aalborg Portland A/S
Acties, Dampk, Atalanta (M.Nissen)
Adolph Andersens
A.E. Sørensen
A.N Petersen A/S
A.P. Møller (Maersk Line)
Armada Shipping A/S
A/S Det Dansk-Franske D/S
Baltship
Basse & Co.
Bech Rederierne
Blaesbjerg Marine
Bornholmstrafikken A/S
P. Brown, Jr. (Det Helsingorske Dampskibsselskab)
Bugserbolaget Goliath

Aalborg Portland A/S (Aalborg)

image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website

Blue flag with a white disc charged with a triangle made of alternating blue and white lines.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002

This logo is probably best known from Aalborg Portland's main product: cement, as it is printed on the paper bags that the cement is sold in.
Ole Andersen, 15 September 2002

image by Jarig Bakker, 21 October 2005
Source: Loughran (1995)

A/S Aalborg Portland Cement Fabrik, Aalborg - white a blue cement bag-label.
Jarig Bakker, 21 October 2005

Acties, Dampk, Atalanta (M.Nissen), Copenhagen

image by Jarig Bakker

A red flag, white cross, aver all stylized blue "A". Same type of "A" was used by the Danish Asiatic Company after 1802.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 19 December 2004

Adolph Andersens

image by Ivan Sache, 29 November 2003

Adolph Andersens (Randers, Denmark) - quarter per saltire white-red with A on each white quarter.
http://www.adolph-andersen.dk/

Dov Gutterman, 26 October 2003

The company was founded in Randers in 1851 by Adolph Andersen Sr., who took over and renamed the "Chr. Hennings" company, which had been founded in 1802. The flag is divided per saltire white-red-red-white with a blue A in the white quarters.

Ivan Sache, 29 November 2003

A.E. Sørensen

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

A.N Petersen A/S

image by Ivan Sache, 2 November 2003

A.N Petersen A/S (Holte, Denmark) - diagonal red-white-blue
http://www.anpetersen.dk/

Dov Gutterman, 26 October 2003

The company was founded in 1920 by Captain A.N. Petersen, who died in 1941.
Ivan Sache, 2 November 2003

A.P. Møller (Maersk Line)

image by Jorge Candeias, 1 June 2005

based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

A.P. Møller, Copenhagen: blue pennant with white seven-pointed star near the hoist. Also known as Maersk. The Maersk livery colour, sky blue, is well-known.
Jan Mertens, 11 December 2003

A.P. Möller (Maersk Line). The blue is a light shade and the star points are long and narrow. The company website www.apmoller.com in 2000 gives the background of the logo as "History of the logo: The following narrative is found in the book about A.P. Møller "With Constant Care..", by Ove Hornby: "When Captain P.M. Møller took command of his first steamer the S.S. "Laura" in 1886, her black funnel was ringed with a blue band with a white seven-pointed star on each side. While accompanying her husband on a voyage years earlier, his wife Anna Møller had suffered a serious illness, which left a lasting impression on the deeply religious captain, who felt himself to be responsible. In a letter to his wife in October 1886, he explained the background for the company's new emblem: "The little star on the funnel is a reminder of the evening I prayed for you so dejectedly and anxiously, asking for the sign that I might see in the grey, overcast sky, a reminder that the Lord hears our prayers"..
According to Loughran (1979) a flag with reversed colours was used by certain vessels under Liberian registry. See also Dampskibselsskabet af 1912 a/s.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004

A.P. Møller acquired part interest of Safmarine, including the houseflag and name for the ex-South African part of their shipping.
Andre Burgers, 15 November 2004

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 February 2007

I have observed that the containers of Maersk-Sealand, which is the container division of the Maersk multinational (although Danish-based) transport and logistics conglomerate, have the basic design of this emblem expanded to a rectangular shape. This emblem can either be found on the rear doors of the containers or sometimes along the sides. I do not know if Maersk-Sealand operates its own vessels separately from the rest of the Maersk fleet, but if they do their ships may possibly be distinguished by this flag in place of the emblem shown.
Ron Lahav, 2 June 2005

When asked "Why a seven pointed star?", an employee answered "Because we work seven days a week".
Hugh Watkins, 7 March 2007

Armada Shipping A/S (Fredensborg)

image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website

White flag with a big curvilinear green triangle including a small white triangle.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002

A/S Det Dansk-Franske D/S

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

image by Michael Wilson

A/S Dansk-Franke D/S. The white band should bear "D-F" with the "D" and the dash being blue and the "F" red. The company was formed in 1902 and declared bankrupt in 1979. According to Talbot-Booth up until 1938 it was operated by A.N. Petersen (and he shows it under this name), being joined in 1938 by E. Hahn-Petersen. Post WW2 only the latter is shown by Lloyds as being the operator and some flag sources also show this name with Lloyds deleting the reference at the beginning of the 1970s. Flag sources prior to WW2 show a different version with the red canton being normal style with sources varying as to whether the white cross fesse point was centred or placed nearer the hoist in Scandinavian style.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004

Baltship

image located by Jan Mertens, 1 December 2009

Baltship, a Danish based freight forwarding company, maintains a website (in English) at http://www.baltship.dk. Founded in 1997 and based at Aarhus, this company has subsidiaries at Copenhagen, Riga (Latvia), and - as Graziosi-Baltship, partly owned - at Sydney (Australia), plus supplementary offices elsewhere. Baltship specializes in international freighting, maritime chartering (containers or bulk), project handling, and other logistic activities.

The dark blue company logo is placed on a white flag, seen here (actually the charges look almost black): http://www.baltship.dk/index.php?id=7. We see the globe in Mollweide projection above the firm’s name; in the flag, there is a thick horizontal stripe between the two.
Jan Mertens, 1 December 2009

Basse & Co.

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

Basse & Co. Prior to WW2 shown as T. Basse, afterwards as Basse & Co. and finally A.H Basse being liquidated in 1978. The "H" probably relates to D/S Hetland A/S under which they seem to have originally operated.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004

Bech Rederierne

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006

Bech Rederierne, Horsens - white flag, blue disk, white stripe, blue "BECH".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006

Blaesbjerg Marine (Aarhus)

image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website

White flag with a blue cursive b letter divided by a blue horizontal line.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002

Must be inspired by the 'Plimsoll line'
Ole Andersen, 15 September 2002

Bornholmstrafikken A/S (Aarhus)

image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website

Red flag with two parallel diagonal white dashes near the fly. Bornholm is the easternmost Danish island.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002

The dashes allude to the shape of the island: a parallelogram
Ole Andersen, 15 September 2002

P. Brown, Jr. (Det Helsingorske Dampskibsselskab)

image by Jarig Bakker

P. Brown, Jr., Copenhagen - square white flag bordered red; blue 5-pointed star.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 20 January 2005

P Brown Jr. This seems to be another case of sources showing a livery in the name of the operators instead of the actual company. In this case, as shown by Lloyds 1904 and 1912, the correct company is Det Helsingorske Dampskibsselskab.

Bugserbolaget Goliath

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006

Bugserbolaget Goliath, Aalborg; red flag, white fly-diagonal; on white black "GOLIATH".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006