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# Reederei Zürich AG (Switzerland)

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Last modified: 2026-08-21 by martin karner
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image by Jarig Bakker

- About the Flag
- Z in Yellow Diamond

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- Swiss Maritime Companies
- Switzerland

## About the Flag

Blue-white-blue, with the white stripe apparently thinner than the other stripes (3:2:3 ? 2:1:2 ?).
Jarig Bakker, 4 November 2003

Reederei Zürich A.G. Jarig's flag of blue with a white horizontal band narrower than the two resulting blue ones presumably comes from the company's website where it shows as a moving logo. Another flag has been associated with this company, which was formed in 1995 as J & W Shipping A.G. and changed name in 1998, being blue with a yellow diamond bearing a black crossed "Z". The website swiss-ships.ch shows a slightly different version from the table flag, but there is a possibility that this flag belonged to an earlier company of the same name which operated as a ship owner from 1952 until 1970. Its role thereafter is unclear and it appears to have ended up as part of the Rhenus Group with its name lasting until 1996 when it became Rederei Basel A.G. before being finally wound up in 2000. The swiss-ships website associates the flag with a funnel of blue with a white band bearing the red letters "RZ" which does belong to the later still operating company. But the normal association between funnel and flag would appear to be closer to Jarig's image than the version with the "Z".
Neale Rosanoski, 2 August 2010

♦ photo (funnel) source

♦ History of Reederei Zürich AG Zürich (new company | swiss-ships.ch, 2024)

## Z in Yellow Diamond (old company)

image by Eugene Ipavec, 10 August 2010

Based on flagpole.de (picture).
Neale Rosanoski, 2 August 2010

The Z flag was the flag of the forerunner of the present shipping company, the Reederei Zürich AG. Beside the name, the current company has nothing in common with the old Reederei Zürich (founded 1.6.1954), but after the deletion of the old company from the commercial registry it simply took over the now free name (Former name until 23.12.1997: J. & W. Shipping AG Zürich).
Martin Karner

♦ photos (1948): GMS Bodensee, funnel marking source

♦ History of Reederei Zürich AG Basel (Migros) (old company | swiss-ships.ch, 2011)