Founded in 1886, the company is privately owned by its managing partners and its fleet of bulk carriers has a capacity of more than 1.5 million tonnes deadweight (DWT).

The Bereederungsgesellschaft H. Vogemann company handles the operations and commercial management of the group's fleet.

[1] The company was competitive enough that by 1902, HAPAG started to pay H. Vogelmann to stay out of the North Atlantic market.

[1] Then, when the United States entered the war in 1917, Vogemann could no longer trade in the US and had to close its offices in New York, Savannah, New Orleans and Norfolk.

[1] After World War II, the company started to rebuild focusing only on chartering broker business.

[2] In later years, the company has built its fleet to 19 vessels, added new partners, and had begun to diversify into other industries.