Navigazione Generale Italiana

The Rubattino -Reederei ( official title: Navigazione Generale Italiana ) was one of the Genoese Raffaele Rubattino ( 1810-1881 ) in 1835, founded shipping company in Italy.

Since 1853 Rubattino also held shares in the Genoese shipbuilding company Ansaldo STS, which was also active in railway construction. Already in 1860, the company had shipped Garibaldi train the thousands to Palermo, after Rubattinos death they merged in 1882 in Rome with (1845, founded by a Calabrian industrialist family ) Florio Society of Palermo.

Colonial Society

The company was founded by Rubattino developed after the unification of Italy to a conveyor and pioneer of the Italian colonialism.

Already in 1869 it acquired some shares in the Suez Canal, and in the same year they acquired land in the Bay of Assab, which they in 1870 or 1880 and 1882 goal for selling to the Italian Government. Similar investments in the Tunisian port of La Goulette ( 1880 Rubattino had acquired the concession for the railway line to Tunis ), however, failed due to the rapid occupation of Tunisia by France in 1881.

Even Karl May mentioned in 1882 in Christ or Mohammed, the Tunis Commitment of Rubattino shipping company.

Florio Rubattino

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1932, the shipping company of Mussolini was nationalized.

• Shipping company ( Italy)
• Former Transport Companies ( Italy)
• Established in 1835