Shipping industry veteran Heinrich Schulte passes away

Heinrich Schulte, the long-standing chairman of the Schulte Group, has passed away, aged 90. Heinrich Schulte was born in Hamburg, but with family roots in Papenburg and Emden. He joined his father’s shipping company, Bernhard Schulte, in 1963. He expanded the company into a diversified global maritime group. In addition to the shipowning business, which …