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![[CSPL houseflag]](../images/c/cz~cspl.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 9 Apr 2006
A flag in the national colours is shown on the website of this Czech inland shipping company, situated in Děčín: horizontally divided white over red, a five-pointed blue star in the centre. (It is certainly longer, as shown on that same page.)
A message on above site warns that due to floods there will be no traffic on the Elbe (Labe) River between Strekov and Magdeburg, Germany – sometimes there is no calm sailing on inland waters, too.
On the net, the company name ‘Československá Plavba Labská a.s’ is translated as Czechoslovak Elbe Shipping Co. There have been adversities such as insufficient water levels in summer leading to reduced transport and financial difficulties ending in bankruptcy.
The company now seems to be part of the Argo Group, a logistics conglomerate.
As an interesting aside, this snippet from this
webpage:
After WWI, Czechoslovakia was handed over a small part of the port
of Hamburg for the duration of 99 years, ensuring access to the high seas;
this plot of land was used by ČSPL from 1929 on for mooring barges, warehouses,
depots, etc.
Jan Mertens, 4 Apr 2006
![[Czech Shipping Cy]](../images/c/cz~csc.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias, 9 Feb 1999
Czech Shipping Company - A blue flag with a narrow vertical band
near the hoist in white and a white disc centered in the remaining area
with a red star within. I admit that I "improved" this flag a little, since
in the original file, the disc was an oval and the star had it's proportions
non-standard as a result. I guessed this was an error.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Feb 1999
![[Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Ltd]](../images/x/xc~cos.gif)
image by Jens Pattke, 3 Feb 2002
I found some house flags of former socialist countries in a lexicon
on navigation and sea traffic: COS - Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Ltd. Praha
Source: SCHARNOW, Ullrich: "transpress Lexikon Seefahrt"; transpress
VEB Verkag für Verkehrswesen; Berlin (East); 1988; 5.edition.
Jens Pattke, 3 Feb 2002