Italia Marittima
The Italia Marittima (formerly Lloyd Triestino di Navigazione , dt. Trieste Lloyd ) is a shipping company with headquarters in Trieste , Italy . On March 1, 2006, the company was renamed Italia Marittima di navigazione .
history
The predecessor of Triester Lloyd was Österreichischer Lloyd (it. Lloyd Austriaco ) founded in 1833 . When Trieste became part of Italy in 1919, Lloyd Austriaco was given the name Lloyd Triestino . Until 1921, however, the company was still under state, Italian, administration. Passenger traffic was only resumed in 1921, as it was unclear until then whether the Lloyd Austriaco, or now Lloyd Triestino, would be divided up or taken over by the Allies as spoils of war. When passenger traffic was resumed in 1921, 125 agencies had already reopened in domestic and foreign cities.
By 1931, the fleet, which had shrunk significantly during the war, grew again to 43 ships with a total of 245,000 GRT - for comparison: Austrian Lloyd comprised 65 ships with around 230,000 GRT before the outbreak of war. The largest of these was the Victoria (13,062 GRT), which was launched in the same year. When the global economic crisis reached its climax in merchant shipping from 1929 to 1931, the Italian state centralized shipping and assigned specific areas of activity to each shipping company. The Marittima Italiana and the Società Italiana di Servizi Marittimi (SITMAR) were affiliated to Lloyd Triestino . Nevertheless, the largest Italian shipping companies were dissolved in 1932 to prevent mutual competition. Four new companies were founded in their place - including Lloyd Triestino. These four companies were subordinate to the state-owned Società Finanziara Marittima . The three other companies were the Italia , the Adriatica and the Tirrenia di Navigazione . From then on, Lloyd had to operate the lines to Asia, Australia and Africa - but lost connections to the Middle East and the Black Sea.
The Second World War hit Lloyd much harder than the first: Most of the ships had to be (partly again) parked as hospital ships or troop transports , and at the end of the war, in contrast to the First World War, when around half of the fleet survived the war, only remained five ships.
After the end of the war, the fleet was rebuilt. Traffic decreased dramatically during the Cold War . In the 1970s, passenger traffic was finally stopped due to increasing air traffic. Since then, Lloyd Triestino has dedicated itself exclusively to freight traffic, primarily by taking over and promoting container traffic.
In 1998, Lloyd Triestino was taken over by the Taiwanese company Evergreen Marine and continued as a subsidiary. The container ships were given names starting with the abbreviation "LT" since 1998, for example LT Cortesia .
In March 2006, Lloyd Triestino was renamed Italia Marittima ; Since then, the ships have gradually been given the prefix "Ital", for example Ital Contessa . Since May 1, 2007, the individual Evergreen companies including Italia Marittima have been appearing together on an international basis as the Evergreen Line .
literature
- Peer Schmidt-Walther: At Christmas of all times! (Freighter voyage with the LT Cortesia ). In: ders .: Freighter trips. As a passenger on board. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 2nd revised edition, Hamburg 2010, pp. 119–129, ISBN 978-3-7822-1016-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Horst Friedrich Mayer , Dieter Winkler: " Austria was in all ports - The Austro-Hungarian Merchant Navy ", Edition S, Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7046-0079-2
- ↑ From May 1, 2007 EVERGREEN LINE at italiamarittima.it (English)