Gerrards Rederi was established in 1956 when the two joint-stock shipping companies S/A Songdal and S/A Germa were merged.
The pool was to consist of 12 modern combined bulk and tank ships.
[3] In 1992, London-based Ugland Brothers acquired the company.,[4] and in 1994 its activities were moved from Kristiansand, Norway, to London.
[6] In 1999, Gerrards Rederi was for several months the object of intense media attention related to the Pickupcat controversy, in which Pickupcat management had given inaccurate information about the negotiations between the companies, and had thus led the stock market to believe that Gerrards Rederi had agreed to invest NOK 10 million in the maritime technology company.
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