Jubilee: 120 years of Canada-shipping with Hapag-Lloyd

North-German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd is the biggest carrier in traffic with Canada in 2012
 
This summer Hapag-Lloyd celebrates the 120-years anniversary of its first liner service to Canada. When shipping business with Canada became increasingly economically interesting by the end of the 19th century, Hapag took over the smaller Hamburg-based damper shipping company Hansa and continued operating their Canada-services launched in 1883 with the name Hansa-Linie. In 1892 the damper "Cremon" was put out to sea under Hapag’s flag to Montreal for the first time. Compared to today’s standards the 2,132 gross registered tonnes-vessel would appear quite small.
 
About one decade before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, Hapag started calling Canada by the longest rotations their vessels had ever completed: from Hamburg to Cape Horn, up America’s West Coast, to Canada’s Pudget Sound. The round trip via 80 ports in total took up to 15 weeks at that time. After World War I+II the two German shipping companies Hapag and North German Lloyd, which were merged in 1972 to Hapag-Lloyd AG, returned only in 1954 to the Canada route. With the triumph of the containers Hapag-Lloyd started calling Halifax in 1972 with its fully container service operated between Europe and the US East Coast.
 
In October 2005 Hapag-Lloyd took over CP Ships – part of Canada’s history. The following integration of the Canadian traditional shipping company took somewhat more than a year. Thus a global player was formed, which operated 136 vessels, was ranked among the top 5 container liners worldwide and advanced to Canada’s biggest container carrier.
 
Canada has been counting among the most important destinations of Hapag-Lloyd for 120 years. As for Halifax and Vancouver the shipping company is the biggest partner; for Montreal the second-biggest partner. What began 120 years ago is today presented as a comprehensive network of eleven Hapag-Lloyd services from Canada to Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.

Quelle: LogEastics

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