Fairplay Towage Group

The Fairplay Towage Group (registered name: Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH) is a service company for technical maritime services. The group is one of the leading towing companies in Europe. The traditional shipping company, was founded in 1905 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Fairplay Towage Group
Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH
TypeGmbH
Industrytug boats, towing vessels and other marimtime services
PredecessorFairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH
Bugsier GmbH
Founded1905 (1905)
FoundersFamily Borchardt
HeadquartersHamburg, Germany
Key people
Holger Schwesig (CEO), Philip-Alexander Harmstorf (CEO)
RevenueEuro 200 Million[1]
Websitewww.fairplay-towage.com

Fairplay offers various maritime services such as tugboat and mooring services, salvage, coastal protection and accident prevention as well as the classic shipyard work of shipbuilding, repairs and steel work as well as property management.

Structure
The Fairplay salvage tug Baltic is a standing unit in the emergeny towing vessel network of German CCME

The company is present in 29 ports in Europe. The head office is in Hamburg, with additional offices in all major European ports such as Rotterdam, Antwerp and Bremerhaven.[2] The company employs more than 1000 people all over Europe.

Fairplay took over a number of traditional towing companies, they all belong to the group today. The best known is Bugsier (Bugsier shipping and salvage company mbH & Co. KG). The two German traditional companies in the towing business Fairplay and Bugsier were in competition for decades but merged in 2017.[3] But also the Hamburg shipyard Theodor Buschmann and 50% Multraship Towage & Salvage in the Netherlands.

Subsidiaries

Fairplay consist of following companies:[4]

  • Hamburger Schiffswerft Theodor Buschmann GmbH & Co. (ship repairs and special steel construction for the offshore industry)
  • BBB Schlepp- und Hafendienst GmbH Rostock (port and shortsea towage services)
  • Borchard Schiffahrts GmbH (real estate manager).
  • Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungsgesellschaft

Fleet
ASD-vessel Fairplay III operating in the ports of Antwerp and Amsterdam

Fairplay operates 105 tugs in a variety of classes. The main number are harbour and sea-going tugboats including Schottel-ASD (azimuth stern drive) tugs, tractor tugs, single and twin screw tugs, combination tugs, sea-going tugs and pusher boats. Also the company provides a number of strong emergency tow vessels for coastal protection and emergency operations under the command of CCME.

History

The name Fairplay goes back to the first tugs of the shipping company and its predecessor Carl Tiedemann, who gave his assistance ships used in the port of Hamburg this name from 1895 because he wanted an advantage in the tough and international competitive business according to the motto "the name says it all" promised.

References
  1. "Login - THB".
  2. "Fairplay Towage Group". www.fairplay-towage.group. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  3. "Fairplay und Bugsier gehen gemeinsame Wege". Die offizielle Webseite des Hamburger Hafens (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  4. Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Fusion soll die Marktposition stabilisieren.Zusammenschluss mit Bugsier perfekt. 100 Schlepper in der Flotte. Expansion in Ostsee und Mittelmeer. In: Täglicher Hafenbericht vom 14. November 2017, S. 1+3
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