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Mediterranean Shipping Company was founded in Naples in 1970 as a private company by seafaring captain Gianluigi Aponte when he bought his first ship, Patricia, followed by Rafaela, with which Aponte began a shipping line operating between the Mediterranean and Somalia. The line subsequently expanded through the purchase of second-hand cargo ships.
MV, the abbreviation for megavolt, or 1,000,000 volts, a measure of electrical potential; Mendelevium, a chemical element with former symbol Mv; mV, millivolt: 1/1,000 of a volt, a measure of electrical potential; mv (mass × velocity), momentum in physics; Mv, viscosity average molar mass, a method to quantify molar mass distribution in chemistry
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (Japanese: 株式会社商船三井, romanized: Kabushiki-gaisha Shōsen Mitsui; abbreviated MOL) is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. [1] It is one of the largest shipping companies in the world.
The company was founded in 1972 as a shipping line, but has historical links through its merger with the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company (1872–1995), which dates back to the Qing Dynasty. Yang Ming currently operates 101 container ships up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) and 17 bulk carriers .
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]
MV 2GO Maligaya Cargo ship of 2GO Freight, part of the 2GO Group Logo under the "2GO" brand. The first precursor company to 2GO Group Inc. began on May 26, 1949 under the corporate name William Lines, Inc. [9] William Lines later merged with Gothong Lines and Universal Aboitiz Inc to form the William, Gothong and Aboitiz Inc. (WG&A).
Australian National Line was formed on 1 October 1956 as the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission with the passing of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act. [1] The organisation took about forty ships previously operated by the Australian Shipping Board, which had been formed in 1946 by the Australian federal government. [2]