The 1950s in overview
| 1950 | Marquard & Bahls Acquires the Company Wilhelm Schliemann |
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| 1950 | First Subsidiary Founded in Karlsruhe: MABAG |
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| 1950 | The First Seagoing Vessel |
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| 1951 | Marquard & Bahls Goes Abroad |
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| 1952 | The First Merchant Trading Deal: ‘MS Kleopatra’ |
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| 1953 | For the First Time in its History, Marquard & Bahls is in the Red |
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| 1954 | The Heating Oil Amendment: Marquard & Bahls Buys the Tank Terminal on Veringkanal in the Port of Hamburg |
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| 1955 | Founding of the GEFO, Society for Oil Shipments |
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| 1956 | Construction of the Danube Tank Terminal in Deggendorf |
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| 1956 | Founding of Mabanaft Inc., New York |
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| 1958 | Marquard & Bahls Getting into the Business with Crude Oil |
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| 1959 | Mabanaft NV Founded near Rotterdam |
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