Port
Line (Est.
1914)
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Port Line
was formed in 1914 with 23 ships
contributed by J.P. Corry & Co., Wm Milburn & Co., Thos. B.
Royden
& Co., and Tyser & Co. to operate services to In
Nov.1937 the official name of the company became
Port Line Ltd and in 1957 the company became a fourth equal partner
with Blue
Star Line, New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw Savill & Albion
Line in
Crusader Shipping Ltd to trade between In 1968
Cunard-Brocklebank Ltd was created to pool the cargo services of the
two
companies. In 1970 the activities of Cunard Line's subsidiary companies
(Cunard-Brocklebank, Port Line, Moss Tankers and Offshore Marine) were
coordinated by the formation of Cunard Cargo Shipping Services Ltd. At
this
time there was still a need for cargo shipping and this company
focussed on
this trade. By the early 1970s container shipping was taking over the
cargo
business and gradually Cunard Line's cargo subsidiaries were
discontinued. In 1972, the
parent company, Cunard Line was taken over by Trafalgar House
Investments Ltd. By 1978
Port Line had become an integral part of the
Cunard Line Group and in 1982 the last two Port Line ships were
transferred to the Brocklebank
Line. Thus Port Line was no more and ceased to exist. Thus Port
Line was another fine British shipping company that disappeared as a
result of the container revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
It was the end of an era as traditional shipping gave way to
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