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Safmarine, short for South African Marine Corporation, and latterly South African Marine Container Lines, was a South African shipping line, established in 1946, which offered freight transport services with cargo liners and container ships. It was bought by Maersk Line in 1999, and was fully integrated into that company in 2020. It also ...
The mail ship operation was always managed from London. The Union-Castle/Safmarine joint mailship service declined heavily during the 1970s. This was due to a combination of adverse economic factors including the loss of earnings from high value cargoes, which were increasingly being carried in the more efficient, revolutionary new container ...
Following a close partnership with Safmarine for many decades, Deutsche Afrika-Linien and Safmarine decided to form a long-term alliance called the Safmarine / DAL Joint Venture (SAFDAL) in 1997 to represent their commercial interests in the Southern Africa Europe Container Service (SAECS). Since then, the business has expanded slowly, but ...
MV Safmarine Asia is a ship operated by the South African shipping company Safmarine that was unsuccessfully attacked by Somali pirates on 14 April 2009. [1] The French frigate Nivôse responded to the vessel's distress call, and in the process, found and apprehended 11 Somali pirates. [2]
Maersk Line is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of Maersk, a Danish business conglomerate.Founded in 1928, it is the world's second largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, offering regular services to 374 ports in 116 countries. [2]
Simultaneous with these factors, by tradition, B&C passenger vessels employed mostly British officers and crews (with some South African officers in the two Safmarine ships S.A. Vaal and S.A. Oranje), under terms which could not be sustained in a failing market. Finally, the serious mid-1970s hike in the cost of heavy furnace oil was the death ...
In 1988, CMB bought Hessenatie, a large general cargo and container handling company in Antwerp. [1] In July 1991 the Société Générale de Belgique, until then the main shareholder of the CMB, sold its shares to the holding Almabo and his shipping society Exmar, led by Marc Saverys. In 1995, half of CMB Transport (CMBT) was sold to Safmarine ...
Jan. 1996: The world's largest container ship, Regina Mærsk, is delivered from Odense Yard and begins the Europe – Far East liner service. At this time it holds many records: first ship more than 6,000 TEU capacity, with a length of 318.2 meters, it is the first container ship more than 300 meters; first with 42.80 m breadth and first over ...