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Boluda (Shipping company, Spain)

House flag of Boluda - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 8 April 2009

House flag of Boluda
Former house flags of Boluda
Naviera Fos
Naviera Pinillos

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House flag of Boluda

The house flag of Boluda (photos, Macarena B, March 2008) is a red pennant with a dark blue cross and a white canton bearing a red "B" within a double red ring. The flag is hoisted at bow, which is unusual, but as there is no other flag flying from the usual places it is presumably their way of displaying the house flag .
This new logo and flag appeared on the company website in February 2008.

Neale Rosanoski, 24 January 2009

Former house flags of Boluda

Former house flags of Boluda - Images by Eugene Ipavec, 8 April 2009

The company website once showed the house flag of Boluda, either rectangular or triangular (photo, VB Algericos, company annual report 2006), as white with a blue St. George's cross, and in the center the company logo.

Dov Gutterman & Jarig Bakker, 4 November 2003

Two other former house flags of Boluda - Images by Eugene Ipavec, 8 April 2009

A photo in the company's magazine show a group of standing flags inside an office, but being draped little detail can be made out. One in front appears to be white bearing the logo of a flapping flag surmounting a ring. The other front flag seems to red with a blue cross and a white canton bearing a charge which at first glance appears to be the old logo less the ring but the cross arm issuant from the red frame panel is coming from the corner and not midway.

Neale Rosanoski, 24 January 2009

Naviera Fos

Former house flag of Naviera Fos - Image by Jarig Bakker, 4 November 2003

Naviera Fos, now a subsidiary of Boluda, formerly used a blue triangular flag with a red decentered cross; in the center of the cross a white disk charged with a blue "F".

Dov Gutterman & Jarig Bakker, 4 November 2003

Naviera Pinillos

House flag of Naviera Pinillos - Image by Miles Li, 2 June 2016

Naviera Pinillos might be Spain's oldest shipping company. The company was founded in 1840 by Miguel Martínez de Pinillos y Sáenz de Velasco, who had emigrated from La Rioja to Cádiz, where he acquired the brick Castilla and the frigate Apolo. In 1883, his son, Antonio Martínez de Pinillos e Izquierdo, modernized the company's fleet and acquired the steamship Lamperts from Pyman, Bull & Co., soon renamed to Apolo; the ship was lost in 1895 in the Atlantic Ocean. With other shareholders, he founded Pinillos, Sáenz y Compañía, renamed to Pinillos, Izquierdo y Compañía in 1895 after a change in the shareholders.
With its new steamers, the company extended its scheduled lines to Porto Rico, Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico; the line serving Brazil and River Plate was inaugurated in 1908.

All the company's ships were sold in 1921 to Compañía Transoceánica de Navegación. Two years later, Miguel Martínez de Pinillos y Sáenz, nephew of the founder, established Lineas Pinillos, and, in 1940, Compania Maritima Frutera to import fruit from the Canary Islands to continental Spain. After Miguel's death in 1954, his daughter and successor, Carmen, renamed the company to Naviera Pinillos.
Pinillos absorbed Naviera Lagos in 1988 and was acquired by Group Boluda in 1997, maintaining shipping between the Canary Islands and continental Spain as its core activity.
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The house flag of Naviera Pinillos is white with a red cross.

José Manuel Erbez & Ivan Sache, 27 July 2022