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A brief history of RAO - Rudolf A. Oetker KG. Through all the years RAO was engaged in long- and short-term chartering of bulk carriers, reefer vessels and motor tankers.
* Rolling over the rectangles presents the relevant events. Just click on a particular rectangle to view more detailed information.
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1951 |
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Rudolf A. Oetker established RAO, the Motor Tanker Ravensberg being the companys first vessel
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The tween-deckers “Babitonga” and “Belgrano” are delivered by Flender-Yard, Lübeck
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The motor-tankers “Richard Kaselowsky” and “Rudolf Oetker” are delivered by Deutsche Werft, Hamburg,
take-over of Florida-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft and its vessel “Gustav
Pistor” as well as purchase of Reederei Union, Kiel and its 3 vessels
which were renamed to “Blumenau”, “Belmonte” and
“Bonanaza”
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Delivery of the combined general cargo/reefer vessels “Cap Blanco” and “Cap Frio” by Flender-Yard, Lübeck
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Delivery of combined general cargo/reefer vessels “Cap Roca” and “Cap Verde” by Flender-Yard, Lübeck
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Delivery of motor-tanker “Caroline Oetker” by Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, which was the biggest vessel of the German merchant marine at that time and purchase of the Sweden built Motor tanker “Johan Carel Oetker” (I)
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Delivery of Motor-vessel “Cap Domingo”
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Expansion of refrigerated ship capacities with 18 knot, 230.000 cubft
vessels, delivery of Reefers “Cap Corrientes”, “Alexander
von Humboldt”, “Cap Valiente”, “Harald Horn”
and “Caroline Horn”
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1959 |
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Purchase of general cargo vessel “Hildegard”
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1963 |
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Purchase of Motor Tanker “Johan Carel Oetker”
(II), delivery of reefers “Polarlicht” and “Polarstern”
from Blohm&Voss/Deutsche Werft, Hamburg
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Delivery of Motor Tanker “ST.NIKOLAI” and take
over of 11 Reefer vessels from Reederei Heinrich C. Horn, Hamburg
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Delivery of Motor Tankers “St.Petri” and “St.Michaelis”
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Delivery of Reefer vessel “Polar Ecuador” (Polar Country Class) from Blohm&Voss, Hamburg
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Delivery of Bulk and Car Carrier “Belgrano”
from Howaldtswerke, Kiel with a long-term VW-commitment and 5 Reefer
vessels of the Polar Country Class from Blohm&Voss, Hamburg
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1969 |
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Delivery of Motor Tankers “St. Katharinen” and “St. Jacobi” from HDW Yard, Kiel
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Long term charter of 6 SD-14 tweendeck-carriers ex Sunderland shipyard named with the prefix SANTA
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1972 |
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Purchase of several Bulk carriers through foreign subsidiaries many of which named with the prefix SANTA. Purchase of three French built Motor tankers which were renamed “St. Marcos”, “St.Vincent” and “St. Raphael”.
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1974 |
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Delivery of Motor tanker “St. Clemens” from AG Weser Yard, Bremerhaven
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Delivery of Reefer vessels “Polar Costa Rica” and “Polar Honduras” from Flender Yard, Lübeck.
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1980 |
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Delivery of Motor Tankers “St. Michaelis”(II), “St.Nikolai”(II) and “St. Petri”(II) from AG Weser Yard, Bremen, vessels were sold in 1991 and consecutively chartered back until 2001
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Delivery of Motor Tankers “St. Michaelis”(II), “St.Nikolai”(II) and “St. Petri”(II) from AG Weser Yard, Bremen, vessels were sold in 1991 and consecutively chartered back until 2001
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Newbuilding of 38.000 dwt bulk-carriers “Bahia” and “Olinda” from Emaq-yard, Rio de Janeiro, which were solde
to East German Deutfracht and chartered several times as “Maxhütte”
and “Staßfurth” later on . Purchase of East German built
“Santa Rita” and “Santa Rosa”.
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1986 |
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1994 |
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Purchase of 6 Poland built Reefer Vessels which were
re-named as “Polar”-Country class. These vessels were sold
to German KGs in 1998/99
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Purchase of 6 Poland built Reefer Vessels which were
re-named as “Polar”-Country class. These vessels were sold
to German KGs in 1998/99
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Purchase of the Bulgarian built handymax-bulkers “SantaRita” and “Santa Rosa”
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Purchase of the Panamax-bulker “Belgrano” which was sold to P.Döhle in 2000
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Purchase of the Japan built Reefer vessel “Polarstern”
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2000 |
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2006 |
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Delivery of the modern double-hull Productcarriers "St. Johannis" and "St. Marien" from the STX Shipbuilding yard (Korea) in our long-term Timecharter. These two vessels belong to a series of four sister vessels with a capacity of 51.000 dwt each.
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