Sea-Land Corporation
The Sea-Land Corporation was an American shipping company.
The Sea-Land Corporation was founded by Malcom McLean and was one of the pioneers in container shipping . From 1988 it was part of the CSX Corporation , which it sold to the Danish AP Møller-Mærsk group in 1999 . The ships operate under the common name Mærsk Line .
The shipping company operated the following ships and ship classes , among others :
- Ideal X
- Fairland
- Gateway City
- SL-18 class
- SL-7 class
- Atlantic class
- Sea-Land Champion Class
- Sea-Land D-7 class
In January 2014, Mærsk announced that it would again set up an independent shipping company under the name SeaLand, which will operate domestic American services from January 2015.
literature
- Cudahy, Brian J .: Box boats - How container ships changed the world . Fordham University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8232-2568-2 .
- Harald Focke : The first containers came to the Weser. 50 years ago, the tin boxes triggered a transport revolution in Germany . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 796 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven April 2016, p. 3–4 ( digitized version [PDF; 739 kB ; accessed on July 30, 2019]).
Web links
- “World success with the wonder box.” In: Spiegel Online: One day. July 12, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ^ Maersk Line Spins off Intra-Americas Services, Announces Dedicated Company to Serve this Growing Trade Region. ( Memento of January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) January 8, 2014, accessed on July 30, 2019.