Delta Line

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The shipping company Delta Line from New Orleans existed from 1919 to 1985. The office flag showed the yellow Greek letter Δ (Delta) on a green background.

history

In 1919, American coffee traders founded the Mississippi Shipping Company in New Orleans to set up a direct liner service from the Mississippi Delta on the Gulf of Mexico to the East Coast of South America.

In 1946/47, the shipping company set the ship trio of the Del-Triplets (German: Del Drillinge) in service. Two years later, the shipping company had 14 ships with a volume of around 98,000 GRT. In 1962, the company adapted the name Mississippi Shipping Company to the Delta Line, which had been unofficially practiced long before.

In the course of the 1970s, the Delta Line missed the containerization of their fleet, whereupon it was sold by the parent company Holiday Inn Corporation to the largest US tugboat company Crowley Maritime in 1982 after severe financial losses . Crowley also failed because of the modernization of the Delta fleet and passed the shipping company on to the United States Lines in 1985 after further losses . This integrated the Delta fleet into its own and collapsed itself the following year.

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