Nedlloyd

The Dutch shipping company Nedlloyd existed from 1970 until the end of 1996

History

The roots of the shipping company Nedlloyd go back to the Nedlloyd Lijnen NV Founded in 1963, the two shipping companies, Stoomvaart Maatschappij " Nederland " and Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd. The Nedlloyd Lijnen community service consisted of 25 ships and built on an already long-standing cooperation between the two shipping companies.

The two founding lines initially retained their independence, but were later forced by the increasing containerisation of maritime transport and the associated capital requirements for wider cooperation. With the shipping companies Koninklijke Java - China Package Vaart Lijnen ( KJCPL ) and the Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschappij (VNS ) occurred in 1969 two other Dutch partners in the community service. The following year, all four companies merged to Nederlandse Unie Scheepvaart.

In 1977, the group dedicated the new joint administration building in Rotterdam and changed the company name to Koninklijke Nedlloyd Groep. In 1981, finally, the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij Stoomboot ( KNSM ), whose subsidiary Koninklijke Hollandse Lloyd ( KHL ) and the Mammoet Transport KNSM incorporated into the Nedlloyd Group.

After 1988, cooperating with the U.S. shipping company Sealand and the British P & O was begun Nedlloyd finally participated in December 1996, the joint venture P & O Nedlloyd British-Dutch. The heavy- Mammoth was sold to the Dutch company Van Seumeren in 2000. In April 2004 Royal Nedlloyd acquired all the shares in P & O Nedlloyd and changed its name from there as Royal P & O Nedlloyd. A year later, on 13 August 2005 acquired the Danish shipping company AP Møller Mærsk, the Royal P & O Nedlloyd and integrated the formerly largest Dutch shipping companies in the following February in the Mærsk Line a.