![[Gebr. Aerts flag]](../images/n/nl~aerg.gif)
Last modified: 2006-07-08 by jarig bakker
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image by Jarig Bakker, 20 May 2006, artwork by Mark Sensen.
The choice of house flag is rather surprising. See this
website, the modest web presence of a freighting agency named after
the Aerts brothers, situated at Ridderkerk to the SE of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
As the name says, this company arranges transport i.e. in inland navigation,
shipment by tanker excluded. Vessels are chartered or owned (number
not given, but between 500 to 3000 metric tonnes).
The house flag is the Zeeland provincial flag
partly obscured, or defaced, by a vertical white panel near the hoist bearing
in black the name AERTS. The letters are arranged vertically. I suppose
the Aerts brothers hail from Zeeland, as Ridderkerk is in Zuid-Holland
province.
The Aerts flag can be seen on a vessel ‘MVS Fewi’ (photo) and further
down the page (drawing) here.
The choice of flag may very well express pride and local patriotism.
Jan Mertens, 17 Apr 2006
![[Alphatron flag]](../images/n/nl~alpht.gif)
image by Gerard van der Vaart, 17 Apr 2005
Gerard van der Vaart has been involved in a project for the preservation
of a tugboat in Maassluis (Zuid-Holland province).
He took several pictures of flagged tugs (mostly signalling flag), with
in the center houseflags of tugging companies.
Alphatron, a company supplying nautical instruments, one of the main
sponsors of the event - white field black "ALPHATRON" the "O" filled red.
Jarig Bakker, 17 Apr 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 29 January 2001
Houseflag of N.V. Reederij "Amsterdam", Amsterdam.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001
![[ALL flag]](../images/n/nl~allst.gif)
image by
Jarig Bakker, 8 July 2004
Source: flagchart "Vlaggen in de haven van Amsterdam" (flags in the
harbour of Amsterdam)
Ship: Jean E.
Blue with a narrow yellow hoist; on blue in top capitals "A. L. L.";
in bottom "Starintex". Starintex is a Swedish quick-delivery firm.
Jarig Bakker, 8 July 2004
Amsterdam-London Lijn "Starintex". "Starintex" N.V. which operated as
the Amsterdam-London Lijn in the late 1960s-early 1970s was a Dutch company
based in Amsterdam.
Neale Rosanoski, 12 Jan 2005
![[Amsterdamse Ballast houseflag]](../images/n/nl~abbg.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 23 Sep 2005
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World,
compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95].
Amsterdamse Ballast Bagger en Grond B.V., Amstelveen - white over blue
flag; in the center the firm's logo.
Jarig Bakker, 23 Sep 2005
![[ANSM houseflag]](../images/n/nl~ansm.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 Jan 2005
Algemeene Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam - blue flag,
white diamond, black "ANSM" in black.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 1 Jan 2005
![[ARPA Shipping]](../images/n/nl~arpa.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Oct 2003
Dov Gutterman spotted this website
of ARPA Shipping, Roosendaal, Netherlands - houseflag: White with black
(?) circle, charged with an eight-pointed star countercharged red and blue
(the image is rather dim, so I could have seen it wrong)
Jarig Bakker, 27 Oct 2003