Pacific Mail Steamship Company

FreightWaves Classics/Fallen Flags: American President Lines still lives under new ownership (Part 1)

Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s SS Tennessee. (Image: California State Library)

Overview

APL, which was formerly called American President Lines Ltd., is a Singapore-based container shipping company. It is a subsidiary of French shipping company CMA CGM and operates an all-containership fleet, which includes more than 150 vessels.

Near the end of the Great Depression, the U.S. government took control of the financially strapped Dollar Steamship Co. The government transferred the company’s assets to the newly formed American President Lines in 1938. Singapore-based shipping...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classicsfallen-flags-american-president-lines-still-lives-under-new-ownership-part-1

FreightWaves Classics: Fallen Flags – Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company

An illustration of an O&O ship. (Image: Stanford University)

Founded in late 1874, the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company (also known as the O&O) was created for a simple purpose – to compete with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. 

Pacific Mail had signed an agreement with a number of railroads in 1869 following the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Under the terms of the agreements, after its ships landed at San Francisco, its passengers from Asia would be placed on the transcontinental railway lines to travel from the West Coast to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-fallen-flags-occidental-and-oriental-steamship-company

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