![[Insulinde houseflag]](../images/n/nl~itm.gif)
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image by Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005
Insulinde Tankstoomboot Maatschappij, Amsterdam - blue flag bordered
red; white diamond with a black palmtree and black "OFI". Insulinde was
an alternative name for the Dutch East Indies.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005
![[IMT houseflag]](../images/n/nl~imt.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 15 May 2006
IMT or Internationaal Motor Transportbedrijf (International Motorized Transport Co.) BV is a Dutch inland navigation firm established at Krimpen aan den IJssel, immediately to the East of Rotterdam.
Company website, English
version available:
Some facts: founded in 1949, IMT is internationally active, as the
name says, being a cooperative effort of private barge owners whose vessels
– as we have seen in the case of other firms – range between 500 and 2500
metric tonnes.
Transporting bulk goods at first (steel, timber, metals…), IMT barges
now also handle containers, agricultural bulk goods, etc. According
to above site, the company is active on an almost continental scale and
quite able to track shipments over that area.
If I interpret its somewhat arty rendition aright, the house flag as
shown on the site is blue with a white cross throughout and bears, in the
centre, a white oval containing blue initials ‘IMT’. At the top of
the webpage, a barge with a very tiny – but recognizable – IMT flag appears
(image is refreshed regularly)…
Jan Mertens, 15 May 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, 30 January 2001
Houseflag of N.V. Internationale Kustvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001
![[Interrijn houseflag]](../images/n/nl~intry.jpg)
image sent by Jan Mertens, 14 Sep 2006
This homepage is merely a placeholder
for Interrijn BV, a Dutch inland navigation company at Zwijndrecht: but
at least it shows the logo. This is a parallelogram in a colour scheme
resembling the national flag, only here the white middle stripe is reduced
to a wave and the upper red one divided into vertical sections gradually
diminishing towards the right.
See the logo transformed into a real flag on this Vlootschouw
page (vessel ‘Mejana’).
As to the firm, I found that it transports construction site waste
products, for example, and that it is probably related to 'Interrijn Harms
Ro-Ro' known for automobile shipments from Germany (Ford) to other countries.
Hopefully the website will be up in the near future as it ought to
yield more than the above.
Jan Mertens, 14 Sep 2006
![[Invotra houseflag]](../images/n/nl~invtr.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 5 Jan 2010
A source for today’s house flag (and more to come) is: Arne Zuidhoek:
‘Vrachtschepen van de wilde vaart’ (basically ‘Tramps’), De Alk, Alkmaar,
1999, 160 p., b/w ill. including house flags. ISBN 90 6013 0782.
A short chapter is dedicated to Rotterdam based ‘Invoer- en Transportonderneming
INVOTRA NV’ (i.e. Import and Transportation Co. Invotra, Ltd) pp. 116-120.
As you can see, the short name incorporates parts of the long one.
Founded in 1952 by brothers A.C. and M. Neleman, Invotra operated a
fleet of small coasters transporting mainly coal and building materials.
The firm also acted as agent, shipbroker, and forwarder, including inland.
Ships’ names ended in "–singel" which, especially at Rotterdam, indicates
a boulevard. At the end of 1962 Invotra was wound up; the fleet was taken
over by P.A. van Es & Co.
The house flag may be seen on the nineteen-fifties chart found on this
page (third of seventh row): (shown b/w on p. 116 of Zuidhoek’s book).
Green field with an
inverted white chevron bearing company name “INVOTRA” in black letters
without serifs; between the chevron’s arms appears a yellow sunburst of
seven rays.
Jan Mertens, 28 Dec 2009
![[ITC houseflag]](../images/n/nl~itc1.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 17 Jun 2009
Currently owned by Tschudi Shipping (NO), the Dutch towage company ITC
('International Transport Contractors') is established at Heemstede to
the W. of Amsterdam. Website
(in English): Founded in 1973 to serve Tschudi & Eitzen’s interests
as operators, ITC became part of the demerged Tschudi group in 2003 and
specialized in ocean salvage and towage of large vessels, oil rigs or dry
docks, etc. Currently the firm owns ten ocean-going tugs working
together following the “two towing tugs” concept, and stresses “its commitment
to the non conventional marine industry”.
Fleet list
showing vessels bearing sturdy names (plus four more under management):
The ‘Activitities’ pages (see left menu) offer much interesting data on
what ITC actually does, and how.
On a number of photos a blue house flag may be made out but first I
would like to present what must have been its predecessor, seen – as a
drawing – here
(lower left of page): Horizontally divided white above orange, black company
logo (stylized and joined initials ‘itc’ with a large stylized globe dotting
the i) in the upper hoist; fimbriated white where it would have touched
the orange stripe.
The real item (reduced pic), somewhat crumpled: found on Marktplaats
(Dutch auction site) as no. 206026407 (accessed 5 Nov 2008), put up by
“johan”living at Anna Paulowna. He adds, interestingly, that this
was the house flag - old model - of ITC when established at Haarlem, used
in the ‘seventies and ‘eighties; the item itself has never been flown.
Jan Mertens, 3 Jun 2009
![[ITC variant houseflag]](../images/n/nl~itc2.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 17 Jun 2009
The blue house flag mentioned above may be seen here
flying on the tug ‘Mistral’: Blue field, the ITC letters & globe logo
in white taking up much of the flag (left aligned though) and an orange
stripe traversing the lower part of the flag. On the tug ‘Meltemi’
the stripe seems to touch the flag’s vertical edges.
Jan Mertens, 15 May 2006
![[IT Lemmer houseflag]](../images/n/nl~itl.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
Jan Mertens reported this link
with mainly Dutch houseflags. IT Lemmer (Tankvaart) - red flag, white slanting
horizontal stripe, charged with red "IT".
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
