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Danish Shipping Companies (N)

28:37, image by Željko Heimer and and António Martins-Tuválkin
Danish merchant ensign

Marius Nielsen & Søn
Nielsen Chartering A/S
Nordana Line

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Marius Nielsen & Søn

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

The flag is red with white border and white centred inscription "MN".
Source: on Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

Nielsen Chartering A/S

image by Jarig Bakker, 29 Nov 2005

The company was based in Svendborg. The flag was white flag bordered blue; in bottom two wavy stripes; a lot of rectangles, all blue.
Source:Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 29 Nov 2005

I found that Neale Rosanoski indicates in his album 3 waves for Nielsen´s house flag with the following note: "Brown shows the design as taking most of the flag field and funnel band and shows only two wavy lines in base. (Brown 1995 No. 676 notes). History: ?-1985-1992-?" Josef Nüsse shows on his website a flag with 3 waves like Nielsen Chartering. Echoship would be the continuation of Nielsen Chartering.
Dominique Cureau, 1 March 2009

Nordana Line

image by Jorge Candeias, 4 December 2005

Quoting from the 'Profile' section of the Nordana website:
"The name Nordana Line is taken from its NORwegian and DANish background. The service started in 1957 as a joint venture between Norwegian Fearnley & Eger and Danish DFDS. Later on F & E decided to withdraw and the service continued under Danish management, but the name remains as strong as ever. Initially the service was based on carryings from Mediterranean to Caribbean, Central America and Mexico, and the vessels returned to Mediterranean via USA/Scandinavia. With the upswing of oil and gas exploration in North Africa, a direct service from USA to Mediterranean was implemented in 1961, and the calls at Scandinavian ports were suspended. In 1969 four conventional sister vessels with 85 tons heavy-lift capacity were introduced in the service to accommodate the increasing demand for larger and heavier pieces of cargo to North Africa. (...) Nordana Line has since expanded the geographic scope, improved the frequencies and widened its services to become one of the premier Multipurpose RoRo liner carriers. Today Nordana Line is recognised as a specialty carrier..."

The head office is located in Rungsted Kyst. The Nordana website shows a tiny flag on a dark blue background - perhaps the swallowtail is really placed on a blue field?
Jan Mertens, 3 Dec 2005

Jan Mertens could be right: the corporate newsletter of Dannebrog Lines shows the logos of both Dannebrog and Weco lines (both parts of Nordana). The Dannebrog logo is a swallowtailed Dannebrog on a blue rectangle, and the Weco logo is a rectangular Dannebrog on a blue rectangle. I guess a Danish company called Dannebrog had to use some adaptation of the national flag as their logo.
Dean McGee, 3 Dec 2005

At Nordana website is a promo, in three languages, here, and as often happens in promos, one of the first shots is of the flag. Indeed, it is a split-flag Dannebrog on a blue field. Not much later is a shot of a beige(?) funnel, with a narrow blue top and a wide blue band with the same split-flag on it, in relief.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 19 May 2010

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