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image by Jarig Bakker, 30 August 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World
[lgr95]
Tokyo - swallowtail of 5 equally wide horizontal stripes
of white and red.
Jarig Bakker, 30 August 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 16 September 2005
Source: Brown�s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World, 1995 [lgr95]
Tokyo - is that a bridge on top? Or a dry-dock?
Jarig Bakker, 16 September 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 February 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World
[lgr95]
Tokyo - white flag, the firm's logo.
Jarig Bakker, 1 February 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 December 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World [lgr95]
Hiroshima - green flag; in center green cross outlined
white.
Jarig Bakker, 19 December 2005
image contributed by Jan Mertens, 7 May 2007
Proclaiming "The Logo of K Sails Across the World�s Seas", Japanese shipping company Kumiai Senpaku Co., Ltd shows the initialled house flag on the homepage (English version): or rather, it appears among the various images. On a yellow field is placed a stylized initial �K� doubling as "a sturdy stalk of wheat" , all red.
The company seat is Tokyo and the year of foundation, 1972. Lightly edited quote from the �Profile� section:
Secured by the charter from Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. under a long term commitment from the National Federation of AgriculturaI Co-operative Associations, we [had] the 26,000 ton ship, the first series of the Hourai Maru, [built] in December of the same year and started an overseas shipping business. Kumiai Senpaku has since then [acquired] livestock grain carriers, large material carriers for iron steel, LPG carriers and oil tankers in rapid succession (�) resulting in an expanding fleet of vessels.
In 1995, we incorporated Kumiai Navigation (Pte) Ltd in Singapore (�) in anticipation of the rising tides of globalization for the new century to come, Kumiai Senpaku now owns a total of 20 or more oceangoing vessels in Japan and Singapore, holding the position of the number one independent shipowner in Japan (�).
The �Group Fleet� section lists ships
under the two names, Kumiai Senpaku and Kumiai Navigation, the second of which is
also presented :
Jan Mertens, 7 May 2007
Company flag
image by Eugene Ipavec, 9 October 2007
Incorrect depiction in Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours
image by Phil Nelson
Source: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
[ste63]
The flag for this company, which dates from 1949, is white with two
narrow horizontal red bands and a thick vertical red band.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 March 2003
From the �Company History�: founded 1937 in Kobe; 1949, legally obliged to split off Kyoei Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha; 1951, starts overseas tanker transportation; 1960, expansion into coastal shipping; 1963, joins NYK Group; 1965, moves head office to Tokyo; 1985, takes over personnel of Daikyo Tanker KK; continued expansion thanks to building state-of-the-art tankers.
Almost all ships are registered in Panama or Liberia, and have double hulls;
some are owned, others managed. Among the ships is one LPG tanker.
Jan Mertens, 8 October 2007