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Danish Shipping Companies (W)

image by Jorge Candeias, 4 Dec 2005

Nordana Line
Dannebrog Line
C.K. Hansen
Weco Line

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Nordana Line

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

Dannebrog Line

image by Jorge Candeias, 4 December 2005

The corporate newsletter of Dannebrog Lines: http://w3t.org/?c=dannebrog. shows the logos of both Dannebrog and Weco lines (both parts of Nordana Line). The Dannebrog logo is a swallowtailed 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 December 2005

C.K. Hansen

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000 based on Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

C.K. Hansen ("Dannnebrog" S.S. Co.), based in København: the split Dannebrog on a blue background, but without interrupting the swallowtail by a short right piece ending the white cross. (Probably a mistake in detail.)
Jan Mertens, 11 Dec 2003

A ship-broking firm, they were managing owners of A/S D/S Dannebrog, which they formed in 1883. A reorganisation in 1967 saw them split and in 1970 the shipping company changed its name to Dannebrog Rederi A/S, under which it still operates using this flag.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Jan Mertens is quite right about the squaring of the cross point of the Dannebrog. All sources, apart from Stewart, so show it.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 Sep 2004

Weco Line

image by Jorge Candeias, 4 Dec 2005

The corporate newsletter of Dannebrog Lines shows the logos of both Dannebrog and Weco Lines (both parts of Nordana Line). The Weco logo is a Dannebrog on a blue rectangle.
Dean McGee, 3 Dec 2005

Weco Line new Flag

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 July 2025

This variant is longer and golden (or dark yellow) rectangle is surrounding the Dannebrog split flag.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 July 2025

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