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more than 80 year-long history, there were several periods
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Andersen family’s strong ties to Phønix that the company
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went to extreme lengths to keep the company running, even
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company, thereby suggesting that similar conditions could
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Summary
The shipping company Phønix was established in 1911 in
Esbjerg to transport freight between Esbjerg and Hamburg
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and members of the Andersen family, Captain Hans Nielsen
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In the following years, the company operated the service
successfully until interrupted by the First World War, during
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the company returned to transporting goods form Esbjerg
to Hamburg, continuing until the Second World War, during
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sailing under time charters and freight contracts in the
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strategy, gradually expanding to world-wide service as the
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In 1969 a majority of Phønix’s board considered shipping
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Andersen and Hans Nielsen Phønix Andersen, son and
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Having trouble making time charter pay, these new
owners began combining time charters with freight
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