The Stolt-Nielsen tanker business

摘要

Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, the founder of Stolt Tankers, passed away in mid-February aged 83, leaving behind the world's largest chemical tanker fleet, as well as a group of companies now employing more than 5,000 people. As a 28-year-old shipbroker working in New York City in 1959, Stolt-Nielsen decided to have a time-chartered oil tanker, the 1949-built Rimfonn, converted into a parcel tanker, which he renamed Stolt Avance. In choosing the name Avance, he connected his new liquid cargo business with the old Stolt-Nielsen family dry cargo fleet, which had been formed around the 360gt coastal steamer Avance in 1891.