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  2. Safmarine - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Union-Castle Line - Wikipedia

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    Glenart Castle as a First World War hospital ship. She was built in 1900 as Galician. The Union Line was founded in 1853 as the Southampton Steam Shipping Company to transport coal from South Wales to Southampton. It was renamed the Union Steam Collier Company and then the Union Steamship Company. In 1857, renamed the Union Line, it won a ...

  4. RMS Windsor Castle (1959) - Wikipedia

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    RMS. Windsor Castle. (1959) RMS Windsor Castle was a passenger and cargo liner operated by the Union-Castle Line on its Cape Mail service between Britain and South Africa. Completed in 1960, she was the line’s largest Royal Mail Ship on that route. Windsor Castle was notable for the high standard, if conservative, design of her public rooms ...

  5. American President Lines - Wikipedia

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    5,000 (2017) Parent. CMA CGM. Website. apl.com. A 40 ft APL container. American President Lines, LLC (APL, formerly American President Lines Ltd.), is an American container shipping company that is a subsidiary of French shipping company CMA CGM. It operates an all-container ship fleet, including nine U.S. flagged container vessels.

  6. List of Victory ships - Wikipedia

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    Sold to Safmarine in 1947 and named Constantia. Renamed South African Vanguard in 1961. Renamed S A Vanguard in 1966. Sold to Fairwind Maritime Corp. in 1969 and named Isabena. Sank on 4 July 1972 in heavy weather off Karachi. [10] [11] 640 SS Winchester Victory: VC2-S-AP2 18 January 1945: 6 March 1945: 30 March 1945: 641

  7. RMS Transvaal Castle - Wikipedia

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    RMS. Transvaal Castle. SS Festivale docked in Barbados on 26 February 1987. Scrapped at Alang, India in 2003. [4] RMS Transvaal Castle was a British ocean liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank for the Union-Castle Line for their mail service between Southampton and Durban. In 1966 she was sold to the South Africa-based Safmarine and ...

  8. Maersk Line - Wikipedia

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    Maersk Line. 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]

  9. Havre-Union Line - Wikipedia

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    The Havre Union transatlantic packet line was organized in the 1830s from the merger of the Havre Old Line and the Havre Whitlock Line. While the two lines remained independent business entities, they coordinated their sailing schedule and acted as a single line. In the shipping industry, the term packet ship was used to describe a vessel that ...