EMDENA Chartering has been founded 1987 as a private company owned by Mr. Konrad Heikes. The company’s name and colours of the flag refers to Konrad Heikes native town Emden, where he started his shipping career.

The early years Konrad Heikes spent abroad before coming to Hamburg in 1977. The next ten years he worked as a chartering broker and line manager with a german shipowner.

When EMDENA Chartering started in 1987 the company specialized in the transportation of heavy lift and project cargoes.

Apart from the project biz EMDENA Chartering maintained relationship to exclusive clients in the bulk trades and carried more than 200.000 m tons of aggregates to the Arabian gulf.

The company enjoys reputation, flexibility an accuracy amongst ship owners, cargo owners and forwarders all over he world, who trust on long lasting relationships.