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Japan-based (
Japan Mail Shipping Line) or
NYK Line, is one of the largest
shipping companies in the world. It is a core
Mitsubishi company.
History
1870-1900
The company traces its history back to the
Tsukumo Shokai Shipping company founded by the
Tosa clan in
1870. In
1875, as
Mitsubishi Shokai, it inaugurated Japan's first
passenger liner service, with a route from
Yokohama to
Shanghai. The company merged with
Kyodo Unyu Kaisha (founded
1882) in
1885, and adopted its present name.
The merged company had a fleet of 58
steamships and expanded its operations rapidly, first to other ports of the East and then worldwide, with liner service to
London inaugurated in
1899.
1900-1937
NYK became a
state monopoly. The majority of Japanese merchant ships, tankers and liners sailed with it, before and during the
Pacific war. Regular services linked
Kobe and
Yokohama with
South America,
Batavia,
Melbourne,
Cape Town; and frequent cruises to
San Francisco and
Seattle. Other routes connected local Chinese
cabotage vessels on the Chinese coasts and upper
Yangtze.
Ocean routes went east from Japan to
Vancouver (Canada) or
Seattle(USA). Another way was to stop in Hawaii, and continue to
San Francisco and the
Panama Canal. The next commercial routes were south from Japan, across the
East China Sea. These went to South East Asia, the China coasts, and towards India and the Indian Ocean, to Europe or
Batavia (
Dutch Indies), or
Australia and
New Zealand. The fastest sevices took ten days from Yokohama to Seattle, and one month to Europe.
Local sea routes connected 78 home seaports (38 open to foreign trade). Yokohama, Kobe and Osaka had the greatest importance for trading with Japan. These ports had the third, fourth and eighth place in net tonnage registered in the world. Coal passed from
Moji to Osaka and Yokohama.
Karafuto timber represented a third part of local trade.
Soy bean products from
Dairen and
Ryojun arrived at Yokohama. The
sugar cane of the
South Pacific Mandate and
Formosa, cotton, salt and minerals represented other important parts of these transport transactions. The current funnel livery was introduced in
1929.
The company also ran services connecting metropolitan Japan to its exterior provinces (
Chosen,
Karafuto,
Kwantung,
Formosa and
South Mandate) of the Empire. During the war the NYK Line operated a military transport service for Japanese Army and Navy troops. Many vessels were sunk by the
Allied navies, and installations and ports were attacked from the air. Its surviving vessels and equipment were confiscated by the Allied authorities, as
reparations, or taken by recently liberated Asian states, during 1945-46.
1945-present
World War II resulted in the destruction of much of the fleet, but by the mid-
1950s NYK ships were again seen around the world.
As the demand for passenger ships dwindled in the
1960s, NYK expanded its cargo operation, running Japan's first
container ship Hakone Maru on a route to
California in
1968 and soon establishing container ship routes to many other ports. NYK became a partner in
Nippon Cargo Airlines in
1978, and in
1985, added
United States container train service in cooperation with
Southern Pacific.
NYK revived its passenger ship business in
1989 with
cruise ships operated by its newly-formed subsidiary
Crystal Cruises. It is the
tenth largest container transportation and shipping company in the world.
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