Intercontinental Waterways

Shipping and Corporate Purpose

Intercontinental Waterways GmbH was entered in the Basel commercial register on 20 May 2008; its UID is CHE-114.308.893. Its corporate purpose included operating a shipping company with its own and third-party passenger vessels, as well as leasing, chartering, ship trading and related services. The Swiss company directory classifies the business under passenger and freight transport on inland waterways and lists share capital of 20,000 Swiss francs. In a statement filed by Vantage Travel on 21 July 2023, the Basel company is described as a “Riverboat management company” and listed as an entity in which the debtor had an interest; the period is stated as “2008 to date.”

The register history records various changes to the shareholder’s interest and management. On 27 March 2012, FleetPro River Ltd was registered with a CHF 20,000 share in place of the previous shareholder, Jan Reint Hoving Smit. The same notice recorded Robert Heijlands as managing director with sole signatory authority. Heijlands left that position on 6 February 2015. On 11 August 2016, River Advice AG replaced FleetPro River Ltd as the shareholder of the CHF 20,000 share.

Liquidation

On 21 March 2024 at 14:30, the Civil Court of Basel-Stadt opened bankruptcy proceedings against the GmbH and dissolved it. In the commercial register notice of 3 April 2024, it was listed as Intercontinental Waterways GmbH in liquidation. The Swiss commercial register entry bears the number CH-270.4.015.415-3; Vantage’s 2023 statement gives Nauenstrasse 63A, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basel as the address at that time.

Basel lies at the tri-border area of Switzerland, France and Germany, on the Rhine. The city’s Rhine port and passenger terminals are located on the river. Basel is a starting point and port of call for river cruises, with itineraries extending from there to Amsterdam. Short excursions also connect the Rhine port with the Augst power station, the Rheinsaline saltworks and Rheinfelden. The corridor runs along the Upper and Middle Rhine into the Dutch waterways. The Rhine connects these sections; tributaries such as the Neckar and the Moselle open up river-cruise regions of their own.