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70-585: In 1991 Dirk Moldenhauer , the captain of the last German Atlantic Line ship in service, acquired the rights to the Hamburg/German Atlantic Line logo and established Hanseatic Tours which used the same livery and ship names as the German Atlantic Line. In 1997 Hapag-Lloyd acquired Hanseatic Tours, and their operations were merged to those of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises . The last Hanseatic Tours vessel, MS Hanseatic retained

140-692: A US –owned cruise line headquartered in Seattle , Washington , United States. In the summer of 2011, Rotterdam did two transatlantic crossings, the first traditional transatlantic runs made by the line in more than 40 years. Beginning in September 2012, Rotterdam was based year-round out of Rotterdam , sailing to Europe, the Caribbean, as well as Asia, before returning to more varied itineraries and home ports by 2016. Amsterdam makes annual "Grand Voyages" lasting more than 60 days, including

210-658: A 50 percent stake in Rail Terminal Wilhelmshaven (RTW). In August 2023, it was announced Hapag-Lloyd had acquired SM SAAM's terminal business and related logistics services in the Americas . On 12 January 2023, Hapag-Lloyd acquired a 49% minority stake in Spinelli Group, an Italian terminal and transport operator. Around three months later, on 19 April 2023, Hapag-Lloyd also acquired a 40% stake in J M Baxi Ports & Logistics Limited (JMBPL),

280-577: A grand circle of the Pacific Ocean each fall and a World Voyage sailing around the world, usually ranging from January to April/May. The line currently operates four different classes of ship: the R class, the Vista class , the Signature class , and the newest and largest Pinnacle class. All HAL ships have a dark blue hull with white superstructure, with the company's logo featured prominently on

350-439: A market share of 2.7 percent. As a result of the merger, Hapag-Lloyd strengthened its position as the world's fifth-largest container transporter in terms of vessel capacity, ahead of Taiwan's Evergreen Line . As a result of the merger, the former shareholders of UASC would become the largest shareholder in the new entity, whilst Hapag-Lloyd would absorb all operations and assets of UASC. Historically United Arab Shipping Company

420-583: A mine in the Baltic, and a week later was badly damaged in an air raid. After the war, HAL took part in transporting a great wave of immigrants from the Netherlands to Canada and elsewhere. Its Rotterdam – Hoboken route continued to serve Southampton, but by 1948 the port of Boulogne was still not in a condition to resume handling large ocean liners. Instead, from February 1948 Nieuw Amsterdam started calling at Le Havre as well as Southampton. At first she

490-634: A proclamation seizing under angary 89 Dutch merchant ships in US ports. They included the HAL liner Rijndam , which was converted into a US troopship, and eight HAL cargo ships. One of these, Oosterdijk , was sunk in a collision while being used by the United States Navy . The United States Shipping Board returned Rijndam and the surviving cargo ships to HAL in the course of 1919. In 1921–22 HAL introduced its first steam turbine passenger liners:

560-547: A ship. Hamburg Atlantic Line acquired their first ship in January 1958 when they purchased the 1930-built RMS Empress of Scotland from Canadian Pacific Steamships . After substantial rebuilding, the ship re-emerged as the first TS Hanseatic in June 1958, and was placed in service connecting Cuxhaven , Germany to New York , United States via Le Havre ( France ), Southampton ( United Kingdom ) and Cobh ( Ireland ). During

630-462: A status later changed to confiscation when the US entered the war in 1917. Likewise, its Hoboken base was confiscated and turned over to the US Navy, which used it as a transshipping point for the duration of the war. As with HAPAG, those NDL ships surviving the war were eventually confiscated as reparation, leaving the company to start over from scratch. US operations were resumed in 1922, when NDL

700-659: A terminal and inland transport service provider in India. Also in 2023, Hapag-Lloyd and the Brazilian shipping and waterway logistics company Norsul set up a new joint venture called “Norcoast”. Based on a 50-50 partnership, Norcoast started offering container cabotage and feeder services in Brazilian ports in the first quarter of 2024. On 21 August 2005, TUI AG agreed to acquire the Canadian business CP Ships Limited for € 1.7 billion ( US $ 2.0 billion) in cash. The deal, which

770-588: A troop ship. The Dutch government-in-exile requisitioned Westernland , berthed at Falmouth, Cornwall . She became an accommodation ship for the Royal Netherlands Navy , and was later sold to the UK Admiralty . By October 1940 Nieuw Amsterdam had also become an Allied troop ship. She sailed half a million miles and carried 400,000 military personnel. Nearly 200 people were killed in wartime sinkings of HAL ships. The biggest loss of life

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840-517: A year on repositioning trips between Europe and America. The new TS Hamburg was delivered to German Atlantic Line on 20 March 1969, entering service on 28 March 1969 with a cruise from Hamburg to South America . She was the first major German-built, German-flagged passenger ship to enter service since 1938. By this time the company was collaborating with Holland America Line , who acted as German Atlantic's agents in North America . Around

910-470: Is an American-owned cruise line , a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc headquartered in Seattle , Washington , United States. Holland America Line was founded in Rotterdam , Netherlands, and from 1873 to 1989, it operated as a Dutch shipping line, a passenger line, a cargo line and a cruise line operating primarily between the Netherlands and North America. As part of the company's legacy, it

980-572: The Imperator , followed by its twin Vaterland . A third twin, Bismarck , was under construction at the outbreak of World War I and was completed after the war for White Star Line as the Majestic . These were the first liners to exceed 50,000 gross register tons and 900 feet (274 m) in length. During World War I , the majority of Hapag's fleet of 175 ships were wiped out, and most of

1050-804: The Baltic , where the Luftwaffe used her for target practice until she sank in April 1942. German forces scuttled Dinteldijk as a blockship in 1944. By 27 May, Germany had occupied the whole of the Netherlands. By 7 June, the Dutch government-in-exile and the UK government had formed a British-Netherlands shipping committee in London, and NASM announced that it would charter to the UK government all of its transatlantic ships except Nieuw Amsterdam . Pennland became

1120-571: The Caribbean . In 1920 van der Giessen & Zonen in Krimpen aan den IJssel launched Burgerdijk , which was HAL's first steam turbine cargo ship. She was the first of eight 6,850  GRT sister ships, all with a name beginning with "B", built between 1920 and 1922. In 1922 and 1923 Scheepsbouw-Maatschappij 'Nieuwe Waterweg' in Scheidam launched a pair of larger turbine cargo ships for HAL,

1190-530: The Hanseatic made only eight round crossings, spending the rest of the year cruising. Already in 1962 Axel Bitsch Christensen had begun planning for a new ship to replace the Hanseatic . He had trouble securing a loan to fund the new building, but was not discouraged and drew up an unusual plan for gathering funds. A new company, German Atlantic Line, was established; shares of the new company were offered to past Hamburg Atlantic passengers, and enough funds for

1260-729: The Maasdam and Veendam transferring to one company in August 2020, while the Amsterdam and Rotterdam moved to another company in fall 2020. One pair went to a new cruise brand and the other to an existing brand. Most cruise lines suspended their sailings because of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. As of January 6, 2021, all Holland America sailings were cancelled to at least April 30, 2021, according to an industry news item. That report listed no specific sailings for Holland America prior to

1330-631: The 10,200  GRT Delftdijk and Damsterdijk . These were cargo liners , with berths for 50 first class passengers. By 1930 HAL was operating routes between Rotterdam and the British Columbia Coast via London , Panama Canal and West Coast of the United States . By 1937 HAL worked these routes jointly with Royal Mail Lines . This was mainly a refrigerated cargo service, but the ships carried some passengers. Damsterdijk , Delftdijk , Dinteldijk and Drechtdijk shared

1400-560: The 15,000  GRT Volendam and Veendam . By 1925 the Rotterdam – Hoboken route included calls at Southampton and Halifax , Nova Scotia on westbound crossings only, and Plymouth , Devon on eastbound crossings only, as well as serving Boulogne in both directions. The third Statendam , built to replace Justicia , was also a turbine steamship, but building her took eight years. H&W laid her down in 1921 and launched her in 1924, but then stopped work because HAL lacked

1470-568: The 36,287  GRT Nieuw Amsterdam , was launched in 1937 and entered service in 1938. In 1939 HAL bought the former Red Star liners Westernland and Pennland , a pair of 16,000  GRT sister ships that Nazi Germany had forced the Jewish shipping magnate Arnold Bernstein to forfeit. In the Second World War , HAL lost five passenger ships and eight cargo ships: a total of more than 140,000  GRT . Three were while

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1540-471: The 8,350  GRT Gaasterdijk and Grootendijk . However, HAL sold both ships in 1931. In 1921 and 1922 H&W launched the 9,350  GRT Dinteldijk and Drechtdijk , which were HAL's first motor ships . They were refrigerated cargo ships, and they also had berths for 18 or 19 first class passengers. In 1929 and 1930 Wilton's in Schiedam launched two more motor ships for refrigerated cargo,

1610-521: The 8,800  GRT Maasdam , Edam , Leerdam and Spaarndam . They served a route between Rotterdam and Tampico in Mexico. On westbound voyages, their ports of call were Antwerp , Boulogne , Bilbao , Santander , Gijón , A Coruña , Vigo , Havana and Vera Cruz . On eastbound voyages, they called at Vera Cruz, New Orleans , Havana, A Coruña and Santander. In 1922 H&W launched two larger passenger liners for HAL's Rotterdam – Hoboken route:

1680-732: The Atlantic, and achieved protection at Murmansk in 1939, before eventually making a dash for Bremerhaven, where she was ultimately destroyed by a fire in 1941. Passenger service resumed in 1954 with the Gripsholm formerly belonging to the Swedish American Line (the ship was renamed to MS  Berlin only the following year). Later two other second-hand ships, SS  Bremen (formerly Pasteur ) and MS  Europa (formerly Swedish American Line's Kungsholm ), were purchased. NDL attained several speed records over

1750-564: The French shipping line Compagnie Générale Maritime . HAL ceased operating as a Dutch line in 1989, when Carnival bought it for 1.2 billion guilders (€530 million). The proceeds were put into an investment company (HAL Investments), the majority of which is owned by the van der Vorm family. HAL ships sold, scrapped or lost before Carnival took over. In 1989, the Holland America Line was bought by Carnival Corp , thus becoming

1820-408: The German Atlantic Line. The former Shalom , that had been renamed TS Hanseatic , set on a crossing from Hamburg to New York on 16 December 1967 with invited guests on board. After the initial crossing she began making cruises out of New York. In 1968 the German Atlantic Line decided to abandon transatlantic service, concentrating solely on cruising. The Hanseatic did still cross the Atlantic twice

1890-516: The HAL ships Noorderdijk and Zaandijk . After the First World War began, Dutch capitalists bought HAPAG and NDL's shares in HAL. In December 1917, the same Dutch interests paid $ 3.5 million for half of IMM's shares in HAL. This amounted to about $ 800 per share, which was far more than IMM had paid for them in 1902. In 1916, IMM had received a dividend of 50 percent on its HAL shareholding. In March 1918 President Woodrow Wilson issued

1960-658: The Hanseatic Tours livery in Hapag-Lloyd service until 2011. Hamburg Atlantic Line was the brainchild of Axel Bitsch Christensen , a Dane who had been living in Hamburg since 1952, who wanted to establish a new company to offer liner service from West Germany to New York . Christensen convinced his friend Vernicos Eugenides , the chairman of Home Lines , to invest 6 million DM in the new company, making it possible for Christensen to raise enough loan to purchase

2030-449: The Hapag-Lloyd stakeholders. After this event, Hamburg Süd remained a private, independent company until December 2016, when the container transport division of Danish logistics and energy company Maersk , announced it would purchase Hamburg Süd. In 2014, Hapag-Lloyd took over the container business of Chile's Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores SA ( CSAV ), with the latter becoming a major shareholder of Hapag-Lloyd. This made Hapag-Lloyd

2100-571: The IATA code HF and became a directly owned subsidiary of Preussag AG (now renamed as TUI Group ) in 1999. Some emblematic group's vessels are: On 29 September 2014, the container ship Colombo Express was involved in a collision with the container ship Maersk Tanjong , and sustained a 20-metre (65 ft) dent to its left side and caused delays to traffic through the Suez Canal . Holland America Line Holland America Line N.V. (HAL)

2170-555: The Mediterranean, Indian Sub-continent, Far East , West Africa and the Americas. Its network covered over 220 ports, offering containerized and conventional cargo shipping by a fleet of 58 owned and chartered vessels. On 29 June 2016, UASC's six shareholding states voted unanimously to approve the proposed merger. The deal gave a relative valuation of the two businesses at 72 percent for Hapag-Lloyd and 28 percent for UASC. At

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2240-540: The Netherlands were still neutral. Mines sank Binnendijk and Spaarndam in October and November 1939, and U-48 sank Burgerdijk in February 1940. On 10 May Germany invaded the Netherlands . A number of HAL ships were burnt out in the battle for Rotterdam, including the liner Statendam and cargo ships Boschdijk and Dinteldijk . Statendam was scrapped three months later. German forces towed Boschdijk to

2310-622: The UK government requisitioned the new ship in H&;W's shipyard and had her completed as the troopship Justicia . A U-boat sank her in 1918, and HAL accepted the UK government's offer of 60,000 tons of steel as compensation. In the First World War the Netherlands were neutral , but numerous Dutch merchant ships were sunk. HAL lost five cargo ships, totalling more than 30,000  GRT . In 1915 two German mines sank Eemdijk , and in 1916 U-53 stopped and sank Blommersdijk . On 22 February 1917 U-21 sank an entire Dutch convoy, including

2380-482: The United States. Service started in June 1858 with the Bremen , the first of four steamships, and the company established its American base at Hoboken, New Jersey . NDL eventually built a large fleet of ships that carried many thousands of emigrants westwards, with around 218,000 passengers transported across the Atlantic in 1913 alone. The outbreak of World War I resulted in the internment of 32 vessels in US ports,

2450-496: The company that had ordered her went bankrupt before she was completed, and the ship had been laid up until chartered to Hanseatic Tours. The fourth Hanseatic entered service on 27 March 1993 when she set on a cruise from Hamburg to Sevilla . Hanseatic Tours continued operations with one ship until 1997, when the company was purchased by Hapag-Lloyd , with Dirk Moldenhauer becoming one of the chiefs of Hapag-Lloyds cruise operations. Even after entering service with Hapag-Lloyd Cruises,

2520-521: The company's debts were estimated at 50-70 million DM, so when Home Lines lost their SS Homeric and expressed interest in buying the Hanseatic as a replacement, German Atlantic had no choice but to sell the ship or face bankruptcy. On 25 September 1973 the Hanseatic was sold and renamed SS Doric . On the same date the Hamburg was in turn renamed Hanseatic , but at the same time plans were being drawn to sell her to Hapag-Lloyd. Negotiations about

2590-468: The container liner business of German carrier Deutsche Afrika-Linien (DAL) , another Africa specialist, operating with liner services between Europe, South Africa and the Indian Ocean. Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten was a former cruise ship subsidiary of Hapag-Lloyd AG. In 2008, TUI AG integrated Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten. It was renamed Hapag-Lloyd Cruises in 2016. In 2020, Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten

2660-662: The early 20th century. Harland & Wolff in Belfast launched the third Rotterdam (1897) . She was the first HAL ship built by H&W. H&W next launched Statendam  (1898) : the first HAL ship of that name, and the first HAL ship of more than 10,000  GRT . In 1899 Blohm+Voss in Hamburg launched Potsdam , which was 550 feet (170 m) long and 12,606  GRT . H&W built two sister ships for Potsdam : Rijndam (1901) and Noordam  (1902) . In 1902 William Pirrie , Chairman of H&W, negotiated to buy 51 percent of HAL's share capital. Pirrie

2730-754: The end of that year. Industry speculation predicted a sale price of approximately US$ 5.9 billion. In October 2019, Hapag-Lloyd acquired a 10 percent stake in Container Terminal 3 (TC3) of the Tangier Med 2 port in Morocco. In April 2022, Hapag-Lloyd acquired a participation in JadeWeserPort Wilhelmshaven, taking ownership of a 30 percent stake in Container Terminal Wilhellmshaven (CTW) and

2800-466: The following month, but the company needed another ship to operate until the new ship would be completed. Hamburg Atlantic Line was without a ship from the loss of the first Hanseatic until November 1967, when the three-year-old SS Shalom was purchased from the Israel -based ZIM Lines . By this time the decision was made to abandon the name Hamburg Atlantic Line, and the company began to be marketed as

2870-608: The fourth Hanseatic retained her name and Hanseatic Tours livery. Hapag-Lloyd Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company , the 5th biggest in the world. It was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd . The company was formed on 1 September 1970, by the merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) , founded in 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd (known in English as North German Lloyd), which

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2940-504: The fourth-largest container-shipping company in the world at the time. In April 2016, Hapag-Lloyd announced it was in merger talks with the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC). The merger was agreed upon later in 2016, and the integration between the two companies was completed in 2017. At the time of the merger, UASC was reported to be the world's 10th largest liner shipping company, with a fleet of 56 ships and

3010-484: The functional smoke stacks. Holland America also owns the following: On October 26, 2012, it was announced that a memorandum of agreement had been signed with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for the construction of a 2,660-passenger ship for Holland America Line scheduled for delivery in spring 2016. Koningsdam , which became a new class of ship for the line (The Pinnacle Class), and the first new Holland America ship since Nieuw Amsterdam , delivered in 2010. Also noted

3080-607: The funds to pay for her to be completed. In 1927 the Dutch government gave HAL a loan to get the ship towed to the Netherlands and completed at Wilton's Dok- en Werf Maatschappij in Schiedam . She was completed in 1929, on the eve of the Great Depression , but proved economical to run. She was HAL's flagship on the transatlantic run for most of the 1930s. Statendam also gave annual winter cruises from New York, usually to

3150-469: The history of the company include Hapag-Lloyd's acquisition of CP Ships in 2005 as well as Hapag-Lloyd's merger with the container business of CSAV in 2014, and United Arab Shipping Company in 2017. The H amburg- A merikanische P acketfahrt- A ktien- G esellschaft for shipping across the Atlantic Ocean was founded in Hamburg. In 1912, Hapag built the first of their "Big Three" ocean liners;

3220-470: The last captain of the third Hanseatic – purchased the rights to the logo used by Hamburg/German Atlantic Line, as well as the right to use the name "Hanseatic", and founded a new expedition cruise operator Hanseatic Tours. Initially the new company made an agreement to charter the MS Renaissance Five , at the time still under construction, from Renaissance Cruises . Before delivery the ship

3290-516: The late 1960s, the golden era of transatlantic passenger ships had been ended by the introduction of transatlantic jet air travel. HAL ended transatlantic service in the early 1970s. In 1973, it sold its cargo shipping division, which continued to operate freight liner services with cargo ships, a Lighter aboard ship ('LASH' ship, MV Bilderdyk ) and then container ships under the trade name Incotrans, with headquarters in Rotterdam, with some of its North American services operated in partnership with

3360-462: The new ships were gathered using this method. However, before an order could be placed for the new ship, the Hanseatic caught fire on 6 September 1966 while in New York harbour. There were no casualties, but after the hulk of the ship was towed back to Germany, she was deemed too expensive to repair and was sent to scrappers. An order for the new TS Hamburg was placed with Deutsche Werft during

3430-587: The route with RML's refrigerated cargo ships Lochmonar , Lochkatrine and Lochgoil . As well as London, they were scheduled to call at various other ports in Britain, the Caribbean, California, Oregon , Washington and British Columbia, terminating at Vancouver . On westbound voyages Damsterdijk , Delftdijk and Lochmonar also served Guayaquil in Ecuador , whereas Dinteldijk , Drechtdijk , Lochkatrine and Lochgoil served Bermuda . A new HAL flagship,

3500-725: The sale of the third Hanseatic continued with Hapag-Lloyd, as well as a potential buyer from Japan , while debts continued to accumulate. On 1 December 1973 German Atlantic Line was forced to cease operations completely. The Hanseatic was laid up and eventually sold to the Black Sea Shipping Company of the Soviet Union (via an American intermediary) in 1974, becoming their TS Maxim Gorkiy . The Maxim Gorkiy spent most of her subsequent career under charter to various West German (and after German reunification , German) tour operators. In 1991 Dirk Moldenhauer –

3570-564: The surviving ships (including the "Big Three") had to be turned over to the winning side as war reparations. After the war's end, Hapag rebuilt its fleet with much smaller ships than before the war, but their fleet was again mostly wiped out during World War II , and the surviving ships turned over to Allied powers. Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) was formed in 1857 in the City-State of Bremen , offering passenger and cargo transportation between Bremen and New York, with an emphasis on emigration to

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3640-621: The time of the Hamburg ' s delivery German Atlantic was faced with bad times financially. 75% of their income was made in US dollars , but during the late 60s and early 70s the Deutsche Mark gained value heavily compared to the Dollar. At the same time both crew expenses and fuel prices rose dramatically. Due to the raising expenses the company was forced to seek out a joint venture with Hapag-Lloyd , but nothing came of this. By September 1973

3710-416: The time of the merger, UASC was 51 percent owned by Qatar and 35 percent owned by Saudi Arabia government, with the remainder held by other Arab states. In March 2021, Hapag-Lloyd announced the acquisition of Nile Dutch Investments B.V., a leading container service provider to and from West Africa. The transaction was effectively closed on 8 July 2021. On 1 June 2022, Hapag-Lloyd closed the acquisition of

3780-434: The winter season she was also used for cruising out of New York to the Caribbean . Coinciding with Hamburg Atlantic beginning transatlantic service, Home Lines ceased transatlantic service so that the two companies in which Vernicos Eugenides had large investments would not compete with each other. After a good year in the transatlantic service in 1959, passenger numbers begun to drop due to competition from air traffic. By 1965

3850-477: The years. Notable among them was the record for the run between Southampton and New York of eight days in 1881, which was set by the Elbe ; and the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing set by the new Bremen in 1929 (see Blue Riband ). Hapag and NDL continued to compete until they established a joint-venture container line. The "Hapag-Lloyd Container Line", founded in 1967 and operating from 1968 onward,

3920-493: Was 600 feet (180 m) long and 16,967  GRT . The fourth Rotterdam  (1908) was 650 feet (200 m) long and 24,149  GRT . In 1895 HAL offered its first cruise . Its second cruise, from New York to Palestine , was offered in 1910. In July 1914 H&W launched a new Statendam that was 740 feet (230 m) and 32,120  GRT . However, a month later, the First World War started, and in 1915

3990-502: Was able to purchase its former base from the United States Alien Property Administrator. NDL launched a new Bremen and Europa in 1929–30. During World War II, NDL repeated its World War I experience, with some parts of its fleet again being interned at the outbreak of the war, while a number of vessels remained under NDL control. One such exception was the Bremen , which raced across

4060-541: Was acting on behalf of J. P. Morgan 's International Mercantile Marine Company (IMM), which already owned HAL's Belgian competitor Red Star Line . Pirrie did not disclose the fact that IMM had formed a cartel with Albert Ballin 's Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), and wanted to buy HAL to control passenger and cargo rates across the North Atlantic. HAL continued to order ever larger ships from H&W. Nieuw Amsterdam  (1905)

4130-425: Was approved by the boards of both CP Ships, TUI, and the shareholders, was a success, and made the combined fleet the fifth-largest by capacity in the worldwide container shipping market. In late 2012, Hapag-Lloyd announced it was considering the possibility of a merger with its smaller compatriot Hamburg Süd . The merger plans were scotched when Hamburg Süd's shareholders and owners did not reach an agreement with

4200-579: Was between Rotterdam and New York . Its "New York" terminal was in fact in Hoboken, New Jersey , on the opposite side of the Hudson River from New York City. By 1892, HAL ships sailing between Rotterdam and Hoboken were scheduled to call en route at Boulogne in France . In its first 25 years, the company carried 400,000 people from Europe to the Americas. Other North American ports were added during

4270-517: Was directly involved in the transport of many hundreds of thousands of emigrants from the Netherlands to North America. Holland America has been a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation since 1989. Holland America Line was founded in 1873, as the Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Dutch-American Steamship Company), in short Holland-Amerika Lijn , a shipping and passenger line. It

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4340-450: Was established to share the huge investments related to the containerisation of the fleets. The two companies finally merged on 1 September 1970, under the name Hapag-Lloyd. Hapag-Lloyd was acquired in 1998 by Preussag AG (since 2002 named TUI AG ( Hanover )), a tourism conglomerate, and became its fully-owned subsidiary in 2002. In August 2008, TUI announced an intention to sell its entire stake in Hapag-Lloyd shipping activities before

4410-441: Was formed in 1857. Since its formation, Hapag-Lloyd has seen changes among its shareholders and has also undergone a number of mergers with other companies. For instance, Hapag-Lloyd was completely acquired by, and became a subsidiary of TUI AG ( Hanover ) in 1998. This transition was followed by TUI selling a majority stake of Hapag-Lloyd to private investors in Hamburg in 2009 and further sales in 2012. Other important events in

4480-417: Was headquartered in Rotterdam, in the building which is now the Hotel New York . The company was formed as a result of the reorganization of an earlier company, Plate, Reuchlin & Co. The company's first ship was the original Rotterdam  (1872) , which sailed its 15-day maiden voyage from the Netherlands to New York City on October 15, 1872. Cargo service to New York started in 1909. HAL's main route

4550-515: Was in November 1942, when U-174 sank the cargo-passenger ship Zaandam . 135 of her passengers and crew were killed. 39 people were killed in January 1941, when a mine sank the cargo ship Beemsterdijk . In October 1940 U-38 sank Bilderdijk . In 1941 U-564 sank the cargo-passenger liner Maasdam , and an air attack in German invasion of Greece sank the troopship Pennland . In September 1942, U-34 sank Breedijk . In 1940 German forces requisitioned Drechtdijk . In 1945 she hit

4620-421: Was jointly established in July 1976 by the six shareholding governments of the Arab states of the Gulf ( Bahrain , Iraq , Kuwait , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and UAE ). Originally based in Kuwait, its corporate headquarters then moved to Dubai during the Iraqi conflict, and only some departments were moved back after the war. The UASC fleet operated more than 45 services, connecting the Middle East to Europe ,

4690-404: Was renamed MS Hanseatic Renaissance and entered service in Hanseatic Tours colours in May 1991. The Hanseatic Renaissance remained in Hanseatic service until 1992, when she was returned to her owners. On 23 March 1993 Hanseatic Tours chartered the 1991-built MS Society Adventurer and renamed her MS Hanseatic . Although built two years previously, the ship has never seen active service as

4760-410: Was sold to TUI Cruises, a joint venture between TUI and Royal Caribbean . Only vessels formerly operated by Hapag-Lloyd AG are listed here. GT Hapag-Lloyd founded the charter airline Hapag-Lloyd Flug in 1972, buying a few Boeing 727s to fly its cruise passengers from Germany to the cruises' ports of call. The airline eventually added some regular passenger flights as well. Hapag-Lloyd Flug used

4830-531: Was that the addition of new ships would maintain passenger capacity if some of the older Carnival Corporation ships are sold. The Holland America Group of HAL and Princess Cruises have a letter of understanding to buy the White Pass and Yukon Route between Skagway, Alaska and the US-Canadian border. The purchase closed July 31, 2018. On July 15, 2020, it was announced by Holland America that Maasdam , Veendam , Rotterdam , and Amsterdam were sold to two undisclosed buyers. The ships were sold in pairs, with

4900-509: Was the only HAL ship to do so. Veendam made intermediate calls at Southampton only, and Noordam and Westerdam ran direct between Rotterdam and Hoboken. By 1959 HAL ships were calling also at Cobh , and running a service to Quebec and Montreal . By 1963 they also served Bremerhaven . A notable ship in the post-war era was the fifth Rotterdam , launched in 1959. She was one of the first North Atlantic ships equipped for two-class transatlantic crossing and one-class luxury cruising. By

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