Atle Jebsen
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Atle Jebsen was a Norwegian businessperson and ship-owner
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Jebsen was born in Bergen
in 1935 and was a great-grandson of Peter Jebsen
. He was one of the most important persons in the Norwegian shipping during the turbulent 1960s and created the Jebsen Group during the 1970s.
Atle Jebsen died in a car crash on 13 October 2009.
Ship-owner
A shipowner is the owner of a merchant vessel . In the commercial sense of the term, a shipowner is someone who equips and exploits a ship, usually for delivering cargo at a certain freight rate, either as a per freight rate or based on hire...
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Jebsen was born in Bergen
Bergen
Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....
in 1935 and was a great-grandson of Peter Jebsen
Peter Jebsen
Peter Jebsen was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.After working in the cloth industry for a relative in Hamburg, he moved to Bergen in 1843, bought a river in Arna for 200 specidaler borrowed money and started manufacturing cloth; as one of the first manufactures in the country, profits...
. He was one of the most important persons in the Norwegian shipping during the turbulent 1960s and created the Jebsen Group during the 1970s.
Atle Jebsen died in a car crash on 13 October 2009.