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This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted ...
Ocean Alliance 5 Hapag-Lloyd Germany: 2,004,030 274 7.0% [Note 5] THE Alliance (until February 2025) Gemini (from March 2025) 6 Ocean Network Express (ONE) Japan: 1,809,846 232 6.3% [Note 6] THE Alliance(until February 2025) Premier Alliance (from March 2025) 7 Evergreen Marine Corporation Taiwan: 1,648,821 212 5.7% [Note 7] Ocean Alliance 8 ...
P&O (DP World, UAE) P&O Ferries; Sally Line UK (Rederi Ab Sally, Finland) Seatruck Ferries (Clipper Group, Bahamas) Swan Hellenic; Thomson Cruises; Defunct. Anchor Line; Alfred Holt and Company, "Blue Funnel Line" Blue Star Line; Bristol City Line; British India Steam Navigation Company, "British India Line" British Railways ships; Clan Line ...
An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships). [1] The Queen Mary 2 is the only ocean liner still in service to this day, serving with Cunard Line.
Ocean liners are included on this list only if they also functioned as cruise ships. (See: list of ocean liners.) As some cruise ships have operated under multiple names, all names will be listed in the Status section, along with the history of the vessel, under the vessel's current or most recent name. If a vessel is not currently operating as ...
This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage. This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time. If a given ship was superseded by another, scrapped, or lost at sea, it is then succeeded.
“It is a remarkable survivor from the most famous ocean liner of all time,” said the auction house, which believes it’s an important snapshot into the illustrious lives the upper class led ...
Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them. In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), and one with a capacity greater than ...