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![[Aramis Shipping Agency]](../images/p/pl~aram.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 Dec 2006
Aramis Shipping Agency Ltd (ASA) is situated in Gdynia, Poland,
and presents itself here.
ASA was founded in 1995 and is active as liner agent, forwarder, and
tanker servicing company. Cargoes may be oil, coal, bananas, etc.
plus China Shipping containers destined for the home market.
The flagoid on the homepage is dark blue with yellow initials ASA (no
serifs), but a clearer drawing is found here.
Some day this flagoid will hopefully turn out to represent a real item
– a table flag at least, or a life size flag flying on the company building?
Jan Mertens, 1 December 2006
![[Gdansk Shipyard]](../images/p/pl~gds.jpg)
image by James Dignan
I was looking at the book "Chronicle of the twentieth century" the other
day (Penguin books, 1990), and on the page for August 1980 there is a photograph
of a meeting of the Polish trade union Solidarity. The photo shows two
flags, one the Polish national flag, and the other a flag which appears
to be horizontally striped white, light blue, and white (sort of like the
reverse of the Argentinian flag) – the white stripes may be narrower than
the blue. I haven't found anything relevant in the fotw-ws Polish pages ...
anyone any idea what it might be?
An image is attached, though needs to be taken with a grain of salt,
since the flag is partly furled in the photo, obscuring the half nearer
the hoist. It appears to be a fairly long flag, though, possibly 2:1.
James Dignan, 4 May 2010
Most likely a shipyard's flag.
Mariusz Borkowski, 4 May 2010
Mr. Borkowski is right.
It was the flag of the then Lenin Shipyard (later Gdansk Shipyard)
in the heady days of 1980, the beginning of the end of communism.
There two more photographs of this flag made by the British photojurnalist,
Chris Niedenthal.
The first was made on August 15, 1980, the second day of the strike
in the shipyard.
The second picture shows the flag flanking Lech Walesa when he declares
the strike over on August 31, 1980.
<http://fototapeta.art.pl/2010/cnd.php>
Pictures are about 1/3 down the page.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 4 May 2010
![[Polshipping houseflag]](../images/p/pl~polsh.gif)
by Jorge Candeias, after image from this
site, reported by Dov Gutterman, 24 February 1999
Polshipping Co. Ltd (Gdynia, Poland) – dark blue over dark red
with a white lozenge fimbriated black shifted to the hoist charged with
a black "P". It's a freight company.
Jorge Candeias, 10 March 1999
![[Polska Żegluga Baltycka]](../images/p/pl~pzb.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
Polska Żegluga Baltycka (Polish Baltic Steamship Co.), Kolobrzeg.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95].
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2006
![[Polska Zegluga Morska flag]](../images/p/pl~pzm.gif)
by Jens Pattke
I found some house flags of former socialist countries in a lexicon
on navigation and sea traffic. PZM- Polska Żegluga Morska Szczecin
– Polish Steamship Company, with passenger services.
Source: Scharnow, Ullrich: "transpress Lexikon Seefahrt"; transpress
VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen; Berlin (East); 1988; 5th edition
Jens Pattke, 3 February 2002
![[Polska Żegluga Morska (other version)]](../images/p/pl~pzm0.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
Polska Żegluga Morska (Polish Steamlines), Szczecin.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95].
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2006
![[Polskie Linie Oceaniczne flag]](../images/p/pl~plo.gif)
by Jens Pattke
I found some house flags of former socialist countries in a lexicon
on navigation and sea traffic. PLO – Polski Linie Oceaniczne Gdansk
– Polish Ocean Lines, specialized in cruises.
Source: Scharnow, Ullrich: "transpress Lexikon Seefahrt"; transpress
VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen; Berlin (East); 1988; 5th edition
Jens Pattke, 3 February 2002
![[Żegluga Bydgoska]](../images/p/pl~zeby.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 23 May 2008
Owned since 2003 by Odratrans – Poland's largest inland shipping company – Żegluga Bydgoska (Bydgoszcz Shipping) is a household name – I encountered its flag long before having any notion of which firm it represented.
A French brochure 'La voie navigable. Une voie d'avenir' (i.e. Waterway. A way to the future) published by the 'Office National de la Navigation' (i.e. National [French] Shipping Agency' in 1977), oblong, 28 unnumbered pages plus map and lists of operators, shows on p. [18] a white flag with red horizontal edges and a large red – rather svelte – initial 'Z'. Caption (translated): "Unloading bottles coming from Poland at Givet port". The flag flies from a bow mast on vessel 'BM-5243'.
This is clearly the initial we see as part of a logo carrousel (much
fatter though) on this Odratrans
page.
Thanks to Google Translate I am able to summarize the relevant text:
founded as 'Bromberger Schleppschiffahrt' (which would nowadays mean 'Towage
Shipping of Bydgoszcz') in 1891 becoming 'Midland ["central"? jm] Lloyd'
registered in 1925. Reorganized during and after WWII, autonomous
in 1954, operating on the Vistula.
Stock company since 1995. Transports have always included bulk goods and special shipments; now also renting and leasing activities (port infrastructure), dredging, river exploitation (mining), and warehousing. Now mainly active in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands; in Poland, on the Lower Vistula River and in the region of Szczecin.
Link
to 'fat Z' logo; Link to a 'Binnenvaart'
page dedicated to vessel 'BM 5166' (picture of 'fat Z' house flag,
as a drawing). Attached is a picture of the 'svelte Z' flag version (no
clear photos of either version borne on vessels seen yet): < pl~zeby.jpg>
. Source: German eBay offer no. 6635648321 (end 16 June 2006)
put up by "hadarman". Dimensions given as 82 cm x 150 cm, supposedly
made of polyester.
Perhaps the initial was changed in 1995, when the firm acquired its
current legal form, or in 2003 when Odratrans took over?
Jan Mertens, 14 May 2008
![[Żegluga Polska Spolka Akcyjna]](../images/p/pl~zpsa.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
Żegluga Polska Spolka Akcyjna (Polish Shipping Co.), Szczecin
– WRW triband, with on top and bottom of red stripe thin white and red
stripes; in the center the firm's crest.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95].
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2006
