General National Maritime Transport Company

The General National Maritime Transport Company ( GNMTC ) is the state-owned shipping company in Libya.

The GNMTC was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Tripoli, as well as branches in Malta and Hong Kong.

The fleet comprises mainly crude oil, LPG and chemical tankers of various sizes up to Suezmax. A given as Phoenicia commissioned in 2010 cruise ship in the Fantasia class, which was scheduled for six sharks supposedly the installation of an aquarium, was initially not completed because of the 2011 erupted Libyan civil war and the overthrow of the government of Muammar al - Gaddafi and 2012 sold for financial reasons at MSC Crociere as MSC Preziosa put it into service in March 2013.