Seatrain Lines
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| legal form | Incorporated |
| founding | 1929 |
| resolution | 1981 |
| Seat | new York |
| Branch | shipping |
The Seatrain Lines, Inc. was a US -American shipping company , which existed from 1929 to 1981 and including a transatlantic container line service operation.
history
The shipping company, which was founded in New York, opened a railway trajectory service between New York and Havana , Cuba, with two ferry boats in 1929 . The two ships initially used, Seatrain and Seatrain New Orleans , and later Seatrain New York and Seatrain Havana , were each able to carry around 100 loaded railway wagons. Due to political tensions in the early 1960s, the liner service to Cuba had to be discontinued. Instead, Seatrain Lines opened a line service to Puerto Rico , which failed due to the inadequate Puerto Rican rail system. Inspired by the growing success of Malcom McLean 's Sea-Land Corporation , Seatrain Lines also switched its Puerto Rico service to container ships . The shipping company became known, among other things, for the construction of the Euroliner container ship , the first liner cargo ship with a gas turbine drive.
bankruptcy
Seatrain Lines tried unsuccessfully in shipbuilding in the 1960s. For 8.5 million US dollars , it was taken over by Transeastern Associates in 1965. Over the following years, larger sums of money were repeatedly brought into the company without its situation ever improving substantially. Eventually the company had to file for bankruptcy in 1981.
Ships
- Seatrain
- Seatrain New Orleans
- Seatrain New York
- Seatrain Havana
- Seatrain Savannah
- Seatrain New Jersey
- Seatrain Texas
- Seatrain Georgia
- Seatrain Louisiana
- Euroliner
- Eurofreighter
- Asialiner
- Asiafreighter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book review of a book about the SeaTrain shipyard ( memento of the original from December 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- Brian J. Cudahy, Box boats: How container ships changed the world , New York: Fordham University Press, 2006, pp. 73f. - ISBN 0823225682