Oldendorff Centenary Book - Flipbook - Page 298
Henning Oldendorff
took over the yard
from the liquidator
in March 1990.
He restored the
shipyard’s historical
name, its traditional
house flag and
reverted to the
previous system
of hull numbering.
Henning Oldendorff took over the
yard from the liquidator in March
1990. He restored the shipyard’s
historical name, its traditional
house flag and reverted to the
previous system of hull numbering.
Acting on his initiative the shipyard
developed the ECOBOX series type
of ships for which ten orders have
since been booked and which has
met with positive response from
the industry, not least due to the
multiple variations offered by its
design. Simultaneously the yard
has streamlined and thoroughly
modernised its internal structure,
thereby enhancing productivity and
now sees its future guaranteed.
To date the shipyard has booked
major orders adding up to DM 1
billion since 1990. The history of
the shipyard was told in a
commemorative chronicle published
in September 1997 on the occasion
of that company’s 125th anniversary.
Extending its field of operations in
1991, Egon Oldendorff added a new
flagship to the fleet. Specialized bulk
carriers YEOMAN BROOK (77,548
tdw) and her sistership, YEOMAN
BURN, had been completed in
1990/91 by Daewoo Shipbuilding &
Heavy Machinery Ltd. of Okpo, South
Korea, for account of Fearnley &
Eger, and when that company went
out of business the ships were taken
over. The ships had been built
against a 20-year charter to British
minerals traders and quarry owners,
Foster Yeoman Ltd. for worldwide
carriage of bulk cargoes with a
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specific mass of up to two tonnes
per cubic meter, including ores,
coal, gypsum, salt, coke and grain.
The distinguishing feature of both
vessels is their shipboard selfdischarging equipment supplied by
Consilium Materials Handling Marine
AB. The cargo holds have W-shaped
bottoms with Nordströms basket
gates. The hydraulically operated
gates feed the material onto two
parallel hold conveyors running aft
to two cross conveyors. The cross
conveyors transport the material to
an inner conveyor which elevates it
onto the deck-mounted, hoistable
and slewable boom conveyor of 76
metres length capable of swivelling
through 180 degrees and of working
at a max. hoist of 18 degrees. In 1992
Egon Oldendorff also acquired on a
bareboat basis the ex-Fearnley &
Eger bulker YEOMAN BANK (38,977
tdw), built in 1982, mainly carrying
aggregates from Glensanda in
Scotland to the Continent. Oldendorff
transferred the ships from the
Norwegian International Ship
Register to Liberia. YEOMAN BURN
became the new Oldendorff flag
ship. She was initially sublet to
Canada Steamship Lines Ltd., one
of the pioneers of self-unloading
ships. Self-unloaders are a very
special breed. Egon Oldendorff
agreed to cooperate closely
concerning the commercial
deployment of these innovative
vessels with market leaders and
highly experienced CSL International
Inc. USA, an affiliate of Canada
Steamship Lines Inc. of Montreal.
