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Shipping containers at the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey, US A container-goods train on the West Coast Main Line near Nuneaton, England Double-stack Union Pacific container train crossing the desert at Shawmut, Arizona An ocean containership close to Cuxhaven, Germany A container ship being loaded by a portainer crane in Copenhagen Harbor, Denmark.
Hapag and NDL continued to compete until they established a joint-venture container line. The "Hapag-Lloyd Container Line", founded in 1967 and operating from 1968 onward, was established to share the huge investments related to the containerisation of the fleets. The two companies finally merged on 1 September 1970, under the name Hapag-Lloyd. [4]
1970-1987 Type C6-S-1w container ship, IMO 5278913, converted from C4-S-1a cargo ship Pioneer Mill, originally Show Me Mariner, 1954 SS American Altair: 1982-1987 Partial container ship, IMO 6421347, originally C4-S-60a Mormacaltair, 1964 SS American Apollo: 1970-1988 Type C7-S-68e container ship, IMO 7025269 SS American Aquarius: 1971-1988
By the end of 1974, Reynolds had put more than $1 billion into Sea-Land, building huge terminals in New Jersey and Hong Kong and adding to its fleet of container ships. [citation needed] Sea-Land's biggest expense was fuel, so in 1970, RJR bought the American Independent Oil Co., better known as Aminoil, for $56 million. RJR put millions into ...
In March 1999, CSX separated Sea-Land into three entities: an international shipping company, a domestic shipping company, and a terminal operator. [2] [9] In December 1999, Maersk acquired the international container shipping business. [2] [10] [11] In 2000, Maersk Line changed its commercial name globally to Maersk SeaLand. [2]
The Mississippi Shipping Company also known as Delta Line, was a passenger and cargo steamship company founded in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1961, the company officially changed its name to Delta Line. The Mississippi Shipping Company serviced ports in the Gulf of Mexico and along the east coast of South America.
A mix of modern standard containers and old Conex boxes used for training purposes, Fort Carson, 2013 The CONEX box, a portmanteau of "Container, express", is a type of cargo container that was developed during the Korean War and was used to transport and store supplies during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Container and roll-on/roll-off: 1970 [16] November 1984-Scrapped 1984 Darwin Trader: Container and bulk carrier: 1970: 1998-Still in service Echuca: Container: 1971: July 1976: Sold to Wan Hai Steamship Co: Still in service Allunga: Container and roll-on/roll-off: 1971: 1986-Scrapped 1986 Mount Newman: Bulk carrier: 1973 (chartered) 1981 ...