Ivarans Rederi AS was a merchant steamship company founded in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 by Ivar Anton Christensen in 1902.

The flag was red with a white "C" in the middle, for the founder's family name: Christensen

Christensen (surname)

Christensen , is a Danish patronymic surname, literally meaning son of Christen, a sideform of Christian. The spelling variant Kristensen has identical pronunciation. Christensen is the sixth most common name in Denmark, shared by about 2% of the population...

 (a picture of this flag can be viewed at FOTW).

Stockard Steamship Corporation

Stockard was the Ivaran's major agent for many years.
Ivaran had an involvement with Stockard resulted from WWII as they operated a tramping service between the East Coast of USA and South America which was previously managed by fellow Norwegian company S. Holter-Sorensen. Talbot-Booth in Merchant Ships 1944 shows the vessels "Ivaran" and "Lise" in the name of Ivaran Lines which fits with the name based New York given by Wedge 1951. Subsequently Ivaran appear to have re-established in Oslo under their own name.

CP Ships

Ivaran Lines was bought by CP Ships

CP Ships

CP Ships was a large Canadian container shipping company, prior to being taken over by Hapag Lloyd in late 2005. CP Ships had its head office in the City of Westminster in London and later in the City Place Gatwick development on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex.The...

 in May 1998, being unprofitable at that time. The last Ivaran's chairman was Eirik Holter-Sorensen. CP

CP Ships

CP Ships was a large Canadian container shipping company, prior to being taken over by Hapag Lloyd in late 2005. CP Ships had its head office in the City of Westminster in London and later in the City Place Gatwick development on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex.The...

's Ivaran brand name was replaced by the Lykes Lines brand in 2000. By 2001 CP Ships

CP Ships

CP Ships was a large Canadian container shipping company, prior to being taken over by Hapag Lloyd in late 2005. CP Ships had its head office in the City of Westminster in London and later in the City Place Gatwick development on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex.The...

 was the seventh largest carrier in the world.

When acquired by CP Ships

CP Ships

CP Ships was a large Canadian container shipping company, prior to being taken over by Hapag Lloyd in late 2005. CP Ships had its head office in the City of Westminster in London and later in the City Place Gatwick development on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex.The...

, Ivaran Lines was operating the following services:

• U.S. East Coast to East Coast South America (with Columbus Line and Alianca)
• U.S. Gulf Coast to East Coast South America (with Grupo Libra and TMM)
• U.S. Gulf Coast to Central America and the Caribbean.

CP Ships

CP Ships

CP Ships was a large Canadian container shipping company, prior to being taken over by Hapag Lloyd in late 2005. CP Ships had its head office in the City of Westminster in London and later in the City Place Gatwick development on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex.The...

 was bought out in late 2005 by TUI AG

TUI AG

TUI AG is a German multinational travel and tourism company headquartered in Hanover. Until 2001 it was an industrial and transportation company named Preussag AG, which in the mid-1990s decided to reinvent itself as a tourism, shipping, and logistics company...

 and merged in mid 2006 in the Hapag-Lloyd

Hapag-Lloyd

Hapag-Lloyd is a German transportation company comprising a cargo container shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd AG, which in turn owns other subsidiaries such as Hapag-Lloyd Ships and a cruise line, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises which is now integrated into TUI AG, Hanover...

 organization.

International identifiers

SCAC Code

Standard Carrier Alpha Codes

The Standard Carrier Alpha Code is a unique code used to identify transportation companies. It is typically two to four alphabetic letters long...

: IVAU

BIC Code (Container prefixes): IVLU

Vessels

In the final 1980s and 1990s the fleet was composed of multi-purpose container ships, which had names taken from the Channel Islands, in Southern California, USA:

• Salvador
• Santa Fe
• San Diego
• San Clemente
• San Lorenzo
• San Miguel
• San Nicolas
• San Pedro

They were also operating a combined container-passenger ship, the Americana.

In 1998, Ivaran Lines had a fleet of 13 container ships with a capacity between 563 and 1742 TEU.

External links

• Maritime Timetable images (Collection of old company brochures)