Ivarans Rederi AS was a merchant steamship company founded in Norway by Ivar Anton Christensen in 1902.
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The flag was red with a white "C" in the middle, for the founder's family name: Christensen (a picture of this flag can be viewed at FOTW).
Stockard Steamship Corporation
Stockard was the Ivaran's major agent for many years. Ivaran had an involvement with Stockard resulted from World War II as they operated a tramping service between the East Coast of USA and South America which was previously managed by fellow Norwegian company S. Holter-Sorensen. E.C. Talbot-Booth in Merchant Ships 1944 shows the vessels Ivaran and Lise in the name of Ivaran Lines which fits with the name based New York given by Wedge 1951. Subsequently Ivaran appear to have re-established in Oslo under their own name.
CP Ships
Ivaran Lines was bought by CP Ships in May 1998, being unprofitable at that time. The last Ivaran's chairman was Eirik Holter-Sorensen. CP's Ivaran brand name was replaced by the Lykes Lines brand in 2000. By 2001 CP Ships was the seventh largest carrier in the world.
When acquired by CP Ships, Ivaran Lines was operating the following services:
CP Ships was bought out in late 2005 by TUI AG and merged in mid-2006 in the Hapag-Lloyd organization.
International identifiers
SCAC Code: IVAU
BIC Code (Container prefixes): IVLU
Vessels
In the final 1980s and 1990s the fleet was composed of multi-purpose container ships, which had names taken from the Channel Islands, in Southern California, USA:
They were also operating a combined container-passenger ship, the Americana.
In 1998, Ivaran Lines had a fleet of 13 container ships with a capacity between 563 and 1742 TEU.