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Australian National Line was formed on 1 October 1956 as the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission with the passing of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act. [1] The organisation took about forty ships previously operated by the Australian Shipping Board , which had been formed in 1946 by the Australian Federal Government .
At establishment, the fleet counted 240 container vessels, including 31 container ships with a capacity of around 14,000 TEU or higher, of which 6 have 20,000 TEU capacity. As a result of the merger, it also inherited container ship orders from its predecessors, with one ultra-large 20,000 TEU vessel and twelve 14,000 TEU vessels due to be ...
SCT Logistics was founded in 1974 as Specialised Container Transport. [1] [2] In the mid-1990s, National Rail decided to discontinue the use of refrigerated vans, louvred vans, and boxcars on its trains. At the same time, Australia's rail network was being opened up to enable private operators the use of publicly owned railway track.
In October 2009, Textainer acquired 31,000 containers (53,000 TEU) of Amphibious Container Leasing Ltd, (Amficon), mostly speciality containers. [6] In May 2011, the firm acquired about 171,000 TEU of containers and related lease rights and working capital ($174 million) that it has been managing for Buss Global since 2006.
Ever Uranus at Port of Los Angeles. Evergreen calls on 240 ports worldwide in about 80 countries, and is the sixth largest company in the shipping industry. Its principal trading routes are East Asia to North America, Central America and the Caribbean; East Asia to the Mediterranean and northern Europe; Europe to the east coast of North America; East Asia to Australia; East Asia to eastern and ...
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]
NR16 hauling The Overland at North Shore, November 2008. In February 2002, National Rail's freight operations and rollingstock, jointly owned by the Federal, New South Wales and Victorian Governments, were combined with FreightCorp, owned by the New South Wales Government, [1] and sold to a joint venture between Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings, trading as Pacific National.
Eagle Container Line linking North Europe and the Mediterranean with Australia commenced in 1982 as a non-conference service. With new agency companies in France and Italy, the start of the Eurasia Container Line and the introduction of 1000 TEU vessels into the Eagle service, 1985 was a busy year. 1986 saw the formation of Ocean Star Container ...