Dry Bulk Freight Index2,545▼ -4.6%Dirty Tanker Index7,556▼ -0.0%Capesize3,322▼ -8.5%Clean Tanker Index2,538▲ +0.0%Panamax2,356▼ -2.2%Supramax1,856▲ +0.6%Handysize1,007▲ +0.4%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,545▼ -4.6%Dirty Tanker Index7,556▼ -0.0%Capesize3,322▼ -8.5%Clean Tanker Index2,538▲ +0.0%Panamax2,356▼ -2.2%Supramax1,856▲ +0.6%Handysize1,007▲ +0.4%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,545▼ -4.6%Dirty Tanker Index7,556▼ -0.0%Capesize3,322▼ -8.5%Clean Tanker Index2,538▲ +0.0%Panamax2,356▼ -2.2%Supramax1,856▲ +0.6%Handysize1,007▲ +0.4%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,545▼ -4.6%Dirty Tanker Index7,556▼ -0.0%Capesize3,322▼ -8.5%Clean Tanker Index2,538▲ +0.0%Panamax2,356▼ -2.2%Supramax1,856▲ +0.6%Handysize1,007▲ +0.4%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,545▼ -4.6%Dirty Tanker Index7,556▼ -0.0%Capesize3,322▼ -8.5%Clean Tanker Index2,538▲ +0.0%Panamax2,356▼ -2.2%Supramax1,856▲ +0.6%Handysize1,007▲ +0.4%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,545▼ -4.6%Dirty Tanker Index7,556▼ -0.0%Capesize3,322▼ -8.5%Clean Tanker Index2,538▲ +0.0%Panamax2,356▼ -2.2%Supramax1,856▲ +0.6%Handysize1,007▲ +0.4%

Shipping Line

Organization

Union Company

🇬🇧London

Organization Profile

Details

Type

Shipping Line

Founded

1875

Headquarters

🇬🇧 London

Overview

About

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the Southern Hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer. It was incorporated by James Mills in Dunedin in 1875 with the backing of a Scottish shipbuilder, Peter Denny. Bought by shipping giant P&O around the time of World War I it was sold in 1972 to an Australasian consortium and closed at the end of the twentieth century.

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