The Mathias and Hugo Rhine shipping departments merged in 1934 as Vereinigte Stinnes Rheinreederein. Confiscated assets returned to German ownership in 1961 under a newly formed Hugo Stinnes A.G.; VEBA acquired 95 per cent in 1965 and the rest in 1992. The company became Stinnes A.G. in 1979. Fendel, including Rhenus, was taken over in 1969. Rhine operations were pooled in Fendel-Stinnes in 1971; merger with WTAG’s shipping division created Stinnes Reederei in 1976. Raab Karcher joined in 1995, followed in 1996 by integration of inland shipping into Rhenus’s RS PartnerShip.
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