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' Japan Mail Ship Company '), also known as NYK Line, is a Japanese shipping company. The company headquarters are located in Chiyoda, Tokyo , Japan . It operates a fleet of over 800 ships, which includes container ships , tankers , bulk and woodchip carriers, roll-on/roll-off car carriers, reefer vessels, LNG carriers , and cruise ships.
NYK Vega was built in 2006 by Hyundai Heavy Industries, when it was one of the largest and most modern container carriers of the world shipping, at 338.2 m (1,110 ft) long, 44 m (144 ft) wide and a fully loaded draft of 14.5 m (48 ft). The deadweight tonnage of NYK Vega is about 94,000 metric tons and the gross tonnage of the ship is 97,825 ...
NYK Virgo has a Burmeister & Wain single screw 12 cylinder engine, with a top speed of 24 knots. It was built in Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries in port number 1717 during 2007. It is operated by NYK Shipmanagement Pte Ltd. The power this ship has is 64,033 kilowatts and it weighs about 97,825 tons.
This sub-category lists all ocean liners which sailed for the Japan-based NYK Line (日本郵船株式会社, Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha), also known as Nippon Yusen. This is a category listing, which serves as an index of existing Wikipedia articles about the ships of the NYK Line.
The ship's registered owner is Galaxy Maritime Ltd., a company registered in the Isle of Man, and its flag state is the Bahamas; at the time of its seizure, the ship was chartered by the Japanese shipping company Nippon Yūsen K.K., [4] [5] which is also known as NYK Line. [6]
ONE was founded in 2016 as a joint venture between Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), and K Line. [4] The company was formed as part of a larger process of consolidation that was occurring in the container shipping industry at that time, affected by poor profits and surplus capacity. [5]
The project was assisted by the Container Shipping Information Service. The tracking project was launched on 8 September 2008. [1] The BBC project tracked a standard 40-foot-long (12.19 m) shipping container as it was transported by its owner, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) shipping line using intermodal freight transport with various
In 1927-28, the NYK Line placed an order for eight ocean liners to reinforce the Japan–Seattle route (3 × Hikawa Maru class), Japan–San Francisco route (3 × Asama Maru class), and Japan–London route (2 × Terukuni Maru class). The Hikawa Maru class were named the Hikawa Maru, Hiye Maru (later Hie Maru) and Heian Maru.