FreightWaves Flashback: Hapag-Lloyd fleets merge

The trade routes regularly served by Hapag-LIoyd extend from Europe to Canada and the Great Lakes, the East and West coasts of the USA, the U.S.-Gulf, Mexico, the West Indies, the west coast of South America, North Brazil, the Canary Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and the Far East. Altogether calls are made at 231 ports.

The new company has a staff of 11,500 of whom some 5,000 are sea-going personnel.

In Europe alone Hapag-LIoyd AG maintains 137 freight offices, with a total of over 400 worldwide. A closely interwoven network of their own travel agencies in many German cities arrange passenger bookings not only on the passenger liners Bremen and Europa as well as on the lines’ freighters, but has also proved itself in the national and international tourist business.

Hapag-LIoyd operates a fortnightly service to Miami where the line is represented by Albury & Company, agents, stevedores and terminal operators.

A dry dock owned by the line, a towage company and an insurance subsidiary, the Niedersachsen Versicherungs AG, complete the picture of activities of this new large undertaking.

After 123 years of Hapag history and 113 years of Lloyd history the first page of Hapag-LIoyd AG history will be written in 1970.

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