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Oy Victor Ek Ab | moves shipping forwarding logistics News 20.09.2005 The appointment of new MD Read more 06.05.2005 Victor Ek has been appointed agents for CSAV Read more 07.04.2005 Victor Ek - 120 years in business Read more Victor Ek Ltd. a Finnish family company which was founded in 1885. The company specialises in moving, shipping and forwarding services. Victor Ek Ltd. and Fennoscandia Chartering Ltd. belong to Victor Ek Group The company has an ISO standard qualified certificate. Oy Victor Ek Ab 2002-2005. All rights reserved. Victor Ek Ltd. Lautatarhankatu 6, FI-00580 Helsinki, FINLAND | P.O.Box 30, FI-00581 Helsinki, FINLAND | Tel. +358 9 12511 News News Mr. Eero Holma has been appointed as Managing Director as from 15.9.2005. 2002-2004 Victor Ek Ltd. . News News Victor Ek Ltd. has been appointed agents for CSAV and Norasia in Finland, Estonia and Latvia as of 1.5.2005. 2002-2004 Victor Ek Ltd. . News News Victor Ek Ltd. celebrates its 120th Anniversary on 25.4.2005. 2002-2004 Victor Ek Ltd. . Victor Ek Ltd. | Moving, shipping, forwarding and fine art logistics Victor Ek’s vanload during the 1920s. Victor Ek > history Victor Ek 1885-2005 Oy Victor Ek Ab celebrated a respectable 120 years in business on 25 April 2005. The activities of the company have been based from the very start on reliable forwarding and transport services as well as agency operations. Over the years, the company’s business has developed to include forwarding and transport services, storage, packing facilities, removals, air freight and other freightage services, ship clearance, line representation, passenger traffic and travel agent services, rent-a-car operations and fuel deliveries. Victor Ek has grown into a modern, efficient and reliable professional enterprise. These days, the company’s business fields are comprised of shipping services, line representation, removals, fine art logistics and freight forwarding. On the pages following, we tell you a little about our history! >> Mr Victor Ek, Commercial Counsellor >> The period of Victor Ek: 1885-1922 >> 1922 – World War II >> With strength and stamina into the 2000s 2002-2005 Victor Ek Ltd. . Feedback Feedback By using this form you can contact directly Victor Ek Ltd. I contact you about: Choose Removals Shipping Forwarding Website Other More information: Name Company Address Postal Code City Country E-mail Phone Please contact me: by e-mail by phone 2002-2005 Victor Ek Ltd. . Victor Ek Ltd. | Moving, shipping, forwarding and fine art logistics >> Mr Victor Ek, Commercial Counsellor >> The period of Victor Ek: 1885-1922 >> 1922 – World War II >> With strength and stamina into the 2000s home > history > Mr Victor Ek, Commercial Counsellor Mr Victor Ek, Commercial Counsellor Victor Ek was born 21 October 1858. He was the son of Espoo native Victor Ek Senior, the proprietor of the central hostelry, and his wife Carolina Gustava (née Hagert). Victor Ek came from modest circumstances, so he was obliged to interrupt his studies at the Swedish state grammar school from the fourth class onwards. He started his future without any appreciable support on the foundation of four years of schooling. Due to the aid, however, of a distant relative, apothecary Knut Kjell, Victor was given the possibility to study abroad: the apothecary noticed that the youth had special talents and skills as well as honest pluck and stamina. Victor studied in Lubeck—at the time a significant German maritime city—at Praktische Handelsinstitut (1879-1880). Victor Ek is seated in this photograph to the left of the column. Following the end of his studies, Victor Ek worked in Lubeck at, for instance, the Piehl&Fehling agency as well as at shipping companies such as Flensburg Stettiner Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft and Rudolf Christian Gribel. The ships belonging to the last two maintained traffic between Stettin and Helsinki. Already while in Lubeck, the young Victor Ek entertained the idea of starting his own enterprise in the shipping field upon his return to his homeland. On Victor’s Day in the Swedish calendar in March 1890, the 31-year-old married actress Anna Gertrud Adolfina Waldenström, daughter of the mayor of Karlstad in Sweden. Two daughters ensued from the marriage, Mary (married name Procopé) and Gertrud (married name Cedercreutz). The period of Victor Ek: 1885-1922 >> 2002-2005 Victor Ek Ltd. . Victor Ek Ltd. | Moving, shipping, forwarding and fine art logistics >> Mr Victor Ek, Commercial Counsellor >> The period of Victor Ek: 1885-1922 >> 1922 – World War II >> With strength and stamina into the 2000s home > history > The period of Victor Ek: 1885-1922 The period of Victor Ek: 1885-1922 Establishment of Victor Ek, 25 April 1885: Notice in the Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper: " I hereby beg to make announcement that I have established, under the company name Victor Ek, a freight forwarding and agency business, for which I seek your distinguished favour. By reference to the recommendations duly noted below, I remain, Yours faithfully, Victor Ek". Having established his business on 25 April 1885, Finland’s business life was undergoing a time of rapid growth. The turn of the century meant impetus towards the industrialization of the country. The sawmill industry grew the fastest, and at the outset of the 1900s export of timber made up over half of Finland’s total export. At the same time, the wood processing industry also developed dynamically. Both export and import for Finland tripled from the beginning of the 1880s to World War I (1914). A strong period of expansion was going on in the country, and many of the large companies which still function today were founded during that time. At first, the functions of the enterprise were based on the representation of shipping companies, import and export freight forwarding and fuel deliveries. Victor Ek initiated his business operations in the traffic from Stettin with ships named Saturn and Stolp. After this, he widened his activities to include domestic traffic as well, with the ships named Thor and Thyra. Significant years: 1887 Move to property designed by C.L. Engel at 6 Länsiranta Street. 1888 Branch office established in Hanko. 1894 Victor Ek appointed Vice-Consul of Brazil. 1896 Victor Ek awarded title of Commercial Counsellor. 1898 Victor Ek appointed Vice-Consul of the United States of America. During the same year, the first steamship was acquired from Genova in Italy, the m/s Sicilia . 1901 Victor Ek establishes Höyrylaivaosakeyhtiö Nord, a steamship company. 1902 Victor Ek founds a towing and rescue company together with Gustav Paulig and Friedrich Hermann Paersch. In June 1902, Krim is acquired from the Porin Konepaja workshop. 1909 Victor Ek becomes the managing director of Suomen Höyrylaivaosakeyhtiö (the Steamship Company of Finland). 1910 Victor Ek moves the art of renowned painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela from Africa to Finland. 1912 Establishment of Helsingin Pörssiklubi (Helsinki Exchange Club) with Max Fazer and Julius Tallberg. >> Helsingin Pörssiklubi 1914-1918 World War I. The arrangement of through-traffic to Russia was important to the business operations of the company. Freight forwarding underwent a substantial period of growth during World War I. The enterprise was engaged in a lot of work expediting military supplies to Russia, which were conveyed to the ports of North Finland and further transported by rail. 1914-1915 Branch offices in Turku, Vaasa, Kemi and Tornio. 1917 Finland’s independence. 1919 The Prohibition. 1922 Victor Ek passes away. Hjalmar Procopé, Master of Laws, is appointed new Managing Director. The business continues to concentrate on fuel transport, freight forwarding and ship agency operations. Shipping companies represented by Victor Ek : Stettin-Helsinki Flensburg Stettiner Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft Rudolf Christian Gribel Copenhagen-Hanko Det Forenede Dampskibsselskabet Hamburg-Helsinki Ernst Russ H.M. Gehrckens USA-Finland Ruotsin Amerikan Linja (Swedish American Line) Transatlantic Wilh. Wilhelmsen Other representation Bore Steamship Company, Turku 1897-1927 Turun läänin Rannikkohöyrylaiva Osakeyhtiö 1914-1930 (Turku Province Coastal Steamship Ltd), Vyborg-Vaasa <> 2002-2005 Victor Ek Ltd. . Victor Ek Ltd. | Moving, shipping, forwarding and fine art logistics >> Mr Victor Ek, Commercial Counsellor >> The period of Victor Ek: 1885-1922 >> 1922 – World War II >> With strength and stamina into the 2000s home > history > 1922 – World War II 1922 – World War II Important years in the history of the company: 1923 Consul J.W. Cadenius becomes Managing Director. 1923 Zoological museum removal. 1930-1933 Harsh depression years. 1930 Initiation of fuel transport service (coal). 1939-1944 World War II. Victor Ek relinquishes 10 vehicles for the war effort, keeping 10 for the company. The war makes operations on the part of the enterprise very difficult. September 1, 1939: World War II began, and a few months later (November 30), the USSR attacked Finland. The Winter War ensued. The following emerges from the annual report of the Board: "Taking into consideration the prevailing difficult times, the following charitable contributions have been made: FIM 200 000 to the Finnish Red Cross FIM 500 000 to Finland’s Ministry of Defence." 1940-1941 Hanko is captured by the USSR. 1942 Hanko is re-secured by Finland. Victor Ek returns to Hanko. 1940-1944 Axel Solitander named Managing Director. <> 2002-2005 Victor Ek Ltd. . Victor Ek Ltd. | Moving, shipping, forwarding and fine art logistics >> Mr Victor Ek, Commercial Counsellor >> The period of Victor Ek: 1885-1922 >> 1922 – World War II >> With strength and stamina into the 2000s home > history > With strength and stamina into the 2000s From reconstruction with strength and stamina into the 2000s 1945 The company acquires lorries from Germany from the USA’s surplus reserve. New ship agency agreements are made with German shipping companies. 1947 The company initiates removals activity in Turku. A lorry specifically forTurku is purchased. As one of the first enterprises in Finland to do so, a forklifttruckis also obtained. 1948 Victor Ek is one of the first businesses in Finland to be granted an IATAlicence. The company starts up its own aircargo operations . 1950 Magnus Cedercreutz becomes Managing Director. 1953 The Dutch Consulate functions in association with the Hanko regional office. 1955 Victor Ek’s grandson, architect Jonas Cedecreutz, designs the company’swarehouse buildings at Katajanokka. 1955 Moving men in their uniforms. 1962 A regional office is established in Hamina. The Travek travel agency is founded the same year. 1966 Establishment of Hertz Rent-a-Car. 1969 Victor Ek involved in the establishment of the Swiss company, Eurovan SAin Zurich with 34 European companies in the removals field. Zürich Eurovanmerges Europe’s removals-related transport. 1960s Loading of timber. Neptun Carriers transports goods to Central Europe, for the most part to Hamburg. 1977 The Dima baby mammoth moving operation from Siberia to Finland. 1978 The company intensifies the efficiency of its activities and ushers in theage of ADP . 1982 Harry von Haartman appointed as Managing Director. 1985 Katajanokka warehouse converted into office building. 1987 Removals department moves to Malmi. 1995 Finland joins the European Union. 1996 Göran Cedercreutz named Managing Director. 1999 Victor Ek purchases Oy Fennoscandia Chartering Ab. 2003 Removals-related operations purchased from John Nurminen Oy. 2003 Transcontainer business unit commences under Fennoscandia Chartering. 2004 Victor Ek organizes the logistics for the 150th anniversary of Albert Edelfelt at the Ateneum. Currently in 2005 Victor Ek has established a joint enterprise (K-Line Finland Ltd) with the Japanese firm, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha. Victor Ek has made an agency agreement with CSAV/Norasia. Offices in Kotka are being established. Transito business is becoming ever more significant. In 2005, Victor Ek has strengthened its foothold particularly in freight forwarding services, transito transport, fine art logistics, moving services and as a ship agency. The company has its headquarters in Helsinki and branch offices in Hanko, Kotka, Tampere and Turku. << 1922 – World War II 2002-2005 Victor Ek Ltd. . Oy Victor Ek Ab | moves shipping forwarding logistics News 20.09.2005 The appointment of new MD Read more 06.05.2005 Victor Ek has been appointed agents for CSAV Read more 07.04.2005 Victor Ek - 120 years in business Read more Victor Ek Ltd. a Finnish family company which was founded in 1885. The company specialises in moving, shipping and forwarding services. Victor Ek Ltd. and Fennoscandia Chartering Ltd. belong to Victor Ek Group The company has an ISO standard qualified certificate. Oy Victor Ek Ab 2002-2005. All rights reserved. Victor Ek Ltd. Lautatarhankatu 6, FI-00580 Helsinki, FINLAND | P.O.Box 30, FI-00581 Helsinki, FINLAND | Tel. +358 9 12511 Oy Victor Ek Ab