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image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2012
Josef Nuesse shows the flag of Admiral Lines P.T., a Jakarta-based company, as
white with a red border and the blue letters "AL" in the middle.
http://www.flagpole.de/reedereiflaggen/welt/asien-i/
Ivan Sache,
4 May 2012
Per flydiagonal blue over white; in top hoist white "A", in bottom fly blue "P".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 2 November 2005
image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 June 2009
PT Bahana Utama Line or BUL, member of the Dwima Group, is an Indonesian
shipping company based at Jakarta. Website (in English), sporting a drawing of
the house flag: http://bahana-line.com/.
Founded in 1972, the initial concern was exportation of timber by ship. Further
developments concerned agencies, chartering and brokerage. Current long-term
contracts include transporting fertilizer, cooperation with Wan Hai and Yang
Ming in the field of container handling, and diversification towards road
transportation, forwarding, and warehousing. We also learn that, in spite of
slackening business, BUL hopes to become a cargo operator needing a larger fleet
and to establish itself as an important multimodal logistics company. Meanwhile
an overview of important agencies and branches is offered here:
http://bahana-line.com/content/view/19/39/. Besides chartered vessels BUL
operates thirteen ships, eight of which transport timber; also carried are
fertilizer and containers (each two ships), and chemicals (one). For an
impressive number of branch offices and subsidiaries, see the site’s left menu.
The flag is a red field bearing large white initials “BUL” without serifs. I
suspect the initials are placed on a straight line (i.e. not staggered) and the
funnel, as shown on Shipspotting, seems to bear this out:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=895296
Jan
Mertens, 29 June 2009
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 November 2010
State-owned Bahtera Adhiguna, an Indonesian maritime company established at
Jakarta, presents itself:
http://www.bahteradhiguna.co.id/
“In 1961, the government of (...)
Indonesia nationalized the Dutch Company named NV Nederlandsch-Indische
Steenkolen Handel-Maatschappij (NV. NISHM), and established a new company PN
Menunda Kapal Tundabara whose core business was coal shipping and towing
services, and in 1966 [this name] was changed into PN Bahtera Adhiguna.
In 1971, based on the Government’s Regulation, PN Bahtera Adhiguna was
reorganisized into PT Bahtera Adhiguna (Persero). Since incorporated, the
business activities are bulk and general cargo carrier, log carrier, shipping
agency, sea forwarding (...), cargo loading-unloading, ship repair and docking
(ship maintenance), and other services related to sea transportation and
agencies.
In 1985, the company established a subsidiary company with
special services of cargo loading-unloading activities, named PT Adhiguna Putera.”
The company states that it owns two barges, two tugboats, and four cargo
vessels one of which is self-unloading. Shown as a drawing on the website, the
house flag contains the national colours and is diagonally divided: red (hoist,
fly) and white (top, bottom). No photo was found. The funnel shows the same
design:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo-330998-Adhiguna+Rayamarga
Jan Mertens, 26 October 2009
Indobaruna Bulk Transport, Jakarta - blue flag, white diamond, red "IBT".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2006
image by Eugene Ipavec, January 2010
Yellow field, company initials "ASL" placed together to for the
silhouette of a ship: "A" and "L"
green, "S" yellow (brown holding lines at top and bottom). Moreover the "A" is
pierced white (why not yellow?). Not counting the holding lines, which could (or
should, I could say) be green, this then is apparently a three-coloured flag
whereas the initials together resemble an approaching ship.
PT Agus Suta Line
(ASL Group) are established at Samarinda, East Kalimantan (Borneo).
Jan Mertens,
4 January 2010
Quoting from the company website
(edited):
"PT. Agus Suta Line is an Indonesian registered shipping company
(...) established by Mr. H. Suta Wijaya & Mr. Agus Sudimen in 1988. PT. Agus
Suta Line owns & operates accommodation (crane-equipped) barges, tug boats,
anchor handling tugs, landing craft, and hopper barge. Also we have a docking
yard for ship repairing. (...) PT. Agus Suta Line's main activity (is)
chartering vessels to oil & gas companies."
Unfortunately many sections
(left menu) do not offer much information. On the other hand it is interesting
to see how detailed the barge descriptions ('Our vessels') are, real workhorses
with living space for personnel.
Jan Mertens, 5 January 2010
The hole of the 'A' is coloured white, to give the impression of a reflection
off the round bow of the ship. All the shapes are outlined; it's just that
between the yellow S and the yellow background the outline is more noticeable. A
real flag probably won't have its outlined sketched in in dark brown, though, so
what colour a real flag might have for the outline remains unanswered.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 July 2010
Spanish-style RBR; in center white cluttering of letters (serifed APL?).
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 2 November 2005
Horizontally striped in blue-white-blue-white-blue, in proportions approximately 2:3:1:3:2 with the initials "BHS" along the center, over the central blue stripe and part of the white ones, in dark red.
Jorge Candeias, 23 March 1999
Red flag, blue diamond, white "BLT".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 2 November 2005
See also: GBLT Shipmanagement (UK) Ltd.
PT Djakarta Lloyd (Jakarta, Indonesia) - red-white-red with red DL -
http://www.dlloyd.co.id/container.jpg. I was wondering about the
use of the "Lloyd" and is this the reason for using the red-white-red flag?
Dov Gutterman, 15 October 2003
I think that there may be some relationship with Nedlloyd, formerly
Rotterdamsche Lloyd, which had a flag chequy red and white with a blue block in
the center. Djakarta Lloyd's flag is red-white-red with red letters DL in the
center of the white stripe (the blue color may have been removed to associate it
more with the Indonesian flag (and less with the Dutch one)). But that's only a
guess.
Jarig Bakker, 16 October 2003
image by Eugene Ipavec, 24 April 2009
PT Freight Liner Indonesia is a shipping agency with headquarters at Jakarta,
Indonesia. Website (in English):
http://www.freightlinerindo.com/default.asp. Among the company’s activities
are ship agencies, stevedoring, project handling and logistics services; also
offered are chartering and ship management. Explicitly mentioned are Freight
Liner’s ties with Ethiopian Shipping Lines and Perkapalan Dai Zhun Lines of
Malaysia. Local offices – eight in all – include Surabaya, Semarang, Medan, etc.
Shown on the website header is a gently waving flagoid (no photos found
yet): fifteen horizontal stripes blue-white etc. with large red initials “FLI”,
without serifs and fimbriated white, over all (or to put it differently,
encroaching upon all) but the uppermost and lowermost stripes. In the absence of
a photo (if only of a table flag) it is impossible to say whether the white
stripes are meant to be as wide as the blue ones: in the drawing this seems not
to be the case.
Jan Mertens, 24 April 2009
images located by Jan Mertens, 17 May 2009
‘PT Lautan Indah Makmur’ is an Indonesian maritime company established at
Batam. As explained here, this firm provides port agency services and crew
management:
http://ptlautanindahmakmur.indonetwork.net/profile/pt-lautan-indah-makmur-lim.htm.
This directory page shows a red flag(oid) bearing large white initials “LIM” (no
serifs). The company website (in English) provides more information of course
but also shows a different flag drawing – black letters “PT.LIM” (no serifs) on
a red field:
http://limshipping.co.cc/.
Presenting themselves:: “LIM SHIPPING [is] amongst the Nationals fastest
growing shipping company, with several transportation vessels mainly tug and
barges [to] support (...) Indonesia’s shipping fleet. Developing steadily to
become one of the (...) largest owners/operators of Tug and Barges as well as
offshore services vessels, to support service oil and gas business...” (One
vessel, tugboat ‘Minggu’, is listed and described.) We also learn that the firm
was founded in 2000, commencing business with one barge and a wooden tug but
profited from the government’s economic stimuli in aid of Batam Island. Further
services provided include towage, technical support, and a vessel management
information system.
The second flag(oid) version is less readable and
not so well drawn so I would not be surprised if further findings would confirm
the red-and-white version (in the national colours, too.
Jan Mertens,
17 May 2009
image located by Jan Mertens, 3 May 2009
PT Mentari Sejati Perkasa or Ocean Shipping Co. is an Indonesian shipping,
warehousing and distribution company established at Surabaya, Java. It was
founded in 1996 in the break bulk shipping business switching to containers in
2001. Since then stevedoring (2003) and logistic services (2004) were added.
Website (English version): http://www.ptmsp.com/.
Regular container service is maintained between on runs linking Jakarta,
Surabaya, Ternate, Makassar, and other places. Eight ships are owned or operated
the names of which all start with ‘Mentari’.
Shown on the site banner
(and on the trucks and containers) is a flagoid: horizontally divided light
blue-white-light blue, company initials in red ‘MSP’ in the white stripe. The
real thing I believe may be seen (with a little help from the focus function) on
this Shipspotting photo:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=406735. If the
photo really shows the house flag – dark blue stripes, there – then the flag
image on the site (and trucks and containers) is only an approximation.
Jan Mertens, 3 May 2009
P.T. Nusantara Bahari, Jakarta - verical RWR flag; in center black "B".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2006
image located by Jan Mertens, 9 June 2009
When accessing PT Pelayaran Meratus’s website (in English) we may be forgiven
for thinking that the logo which appears would be appearing on the house flag:
http://www.meratusline.com/, but what
I found is altogether more traditional – an initial on a diamond! The logo of
this Indonesian, Surabaya based shipping company consists of four red stylized,
lower case initials ‘m’ placed in a square, all of them with the top inwards.
The diamond flag appears on
indoshippinggazette.com as a drawing: red
field with white diamond (touching the flag’s edges) bearing a large red initial
‘M’, apparently without serifs – the national
colours.
This Shipspotting photo by Ivan Meshkov (22 Jun 2008) shows the
house flag conveniently near a funnel with a similar design:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=400332.
Founded in 1957 operating one rice-carrying ship on a
local run, Meratus now owns over thirty container and bulk ships. According
to the site “in 1990 after the deregulation in the inter-island shipping,
Meratus Line became the first shipping line in Indonesia to offer customers a
fully containerized inter-island service”. ‘Mitra Intertrans Forwarding’ or MIF is an owned
logistics company offering its services nationally, supplementing seaborne
transportation.
Jan Mertens, 9 June 2009
The flag of P.T. Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia (The National Indonesian
Shipping Company), in short Pelni, is quartered red and white with a white star
in the middle of the first quarter. The company is incorporated in Jakarta, the
capital city of Indonesia. The colours of the flag are evidently taken from the
national flag.
Source: Pelni website http://www.pelni.com
Ivan Sache, 10 December 2003
P.T. Perusahaan Pelayaran Nusantara (Panurjwan), Jakarta - horizontal 5 stripes
of red and white; black "PNP".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2006
Gesuri Lloyd (P.T. Perusahaan Pelayaran Samudera Gesuri Lloyd), Jakarta - White
flag, red stylized "GL".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2006
Shipping line home page: http://www.gesuri.co.id/
Perusahaan Pelayaran Samudera Indonesia, Jakarta - horizontal 5 stripes of red
and white, black "S".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2006
Karana Line (P.T. Perusahaan Pelayaran Samudera "Karana Line"), Jakarta - white
flag, blue "H".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2006
image located by Neale Rosanoski, 24 January 2006
Pacific International Lines Ltd. (Shipping Company Singapore) or Pacific
International Lines (Pte) Ltd. as it was renamed 3.6.1971 having been formed in
1967, has used the same flag format for some of its subsidiaries/joint ventures
by changing the lettering. Thus we have P.T. Pilindo Megah Selatan of Jakarta,
Indonesia "PMS".
Neale Rosanoski, 23 January 2006
Green flag, white oval, charged with red "PL" below and above a green bent.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 2 November 2005
P.T. Pupuk Sriwidjaja (PUSRI), Jakarta - blue flag, white diamond, in center the
firm's logo.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2006
image by Eugene Ipavec, 27 April 2009
Indonesian, Jakarta based shipping company Taruna Kusan Jaya is specialized in
heavy freight. Company website (in English):
http://www.taruna.co.id/:
“We own and
operate several landing crafts (LCTs). These vessels enable us to load and
transport various kinds of heavy freight, such as manufacturing machineries,
generators and construction materials, and heavy equipments, such as excavators,
cranes and articulated dump trucks, to the most remote region in Indonesia where
the regular cargo ship cannot carry nor reach.” Taruna also ships explosive
cargo, charters ships, acts as freight broker and offers stevedoring and
insurance services.
image by Eugene Ipavec, 27 April 2009
Direct link to house flag (drawing) as found on the site at
http://taruna.co.id/TKJ_new_flag_logo.JPG. Red field with white diamond
(almost touching the flag’s edges) bearing a large red initial ‘T’, serifed.
“New flag logo”: does this mean a new flag (version) or merely a new drawing?
See:
http://www.shipping-international.com/companies/taruna-kusan-jaya-shipping.html
where basically the same flag is shown but with a smaller diamond.
Jan
Mertens, 26 April 2009
Red flag, white diamond bordered blue, charged with blue "TRIKORA".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 2 November 2005
by Neale Rosanoski, 25 July 2009
Trikora Lloyd (P.T. Perusahaan Pelayaran Samudera "Trikora Lloyd").
It
appears that either Brown got this wrong or there has been a subsequent change
but
http://www.boedihardjogroup.com/shipping/trikora_lloyd.htm which gives
current details of the company's activities shows the diamond not having a blue
frame and the letters being in black. That the latter might be the case is
supported by a funnel drawing from another source who shows the panel thereon as
per this version rather that Brown. The company itself was formed in 1964,
although Lloyds quotes 1967 but this latter is probably when they became
ship-owners, an activity which they ceased with the sale of their last vessel in
2003. This probably explains why they now seem to be known as P.T. Trikora Lloyd
(Trikora Lloyd Co. Ltd.) and have dropped the "Perusahaan Pelayaran Samudera"
which equates to "Company Ocean Cruises".
Neale Rosanoski, 25 July
2009