Port line

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The Port Line was a British liner shipping company that existed from 1914 to 1984.

history

The Port Line was founded in 1914 with 23 ships from the shipping companies JP Corry & Co., Wm Milburn & Co., Thos. B. Royden & Co., and Tyser & Co., to set up liner services to Australia and New Zealand. Although the shipping company Cunard Line acquired the company's shares in 1916 and also had the chimneys of the ships changed to their own color scheme after the end of the war, the Port Line remained an independent shipping company. In 1936 the Montreal, Australia & New Zealand Line (MANZ) was founded with equal shares of the C & D Line, Ellerman & Bucknall and the New Zealand Shipping Company to take over the Australian liner service of the Canadian National Line. This company was named Port Line Ltd in November 1937 and in 1957 formed Crusader Shipping Ltd in equal parts with its partners Blue Star Line , New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw Savill & Albion Line, a liner service between New Zealand , the Far East and the Pacific North America to operate. In 1966, the Port Line joined the Associated Container Transportation Ltd consortium, whereupon the MANZ-Line's fleet was gradually reduced and the service finally ended completely by 1969.

In 1968 the shipping company Cunard-Brocklebank Ltd was founded to combine the freight services of the two companies. Two years later, the activities of the Cunard Line subsidiaries (Cunard-Brocklebank, Port Line, Moss Tankers and Offshore Marine) were combined to form Cunard Cargo Shipping Services Ltd. This concentrated on general cargo shipping, which was still operated on a large scale at the time . In the early 1970s, container shipping became more and more dominant, whereupon the general cargo subsidiaries of the Cunard Line were no longer operated. In 1972 the Cunard Line was taken over by Trafalgar House . By 1978 the Port Line had merged into the Cunard Line Group, in 1982 the last two ships of the Port Line were transferred to the Brocklebank Line and by 1984 the Port Line also ceased to exist.

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