Joachim von der Heydt’s shipping career began with an apprenticeship in Hamburg in 1960 with Axel Dahlstroem, a leading liner agency house representing the South American, US and West African trades.
On completing his shipping certificate, he subsequently obtained a posting to Spain’s Modesto Pineiro y Cia in Santander, where he became fluent in Spanish, thus opening his next career path back in Germany with the Richard Wolff Agency, which represented Peruvian and Cuban state-owned lines calling in Hamburg.
