Claim: Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping was established by Czechoslovakia, a European sovereign state that existed until 1993, and had fourteen ships in its fleet from 1959 to 1963.
Evidence: Československá námořní plavba was a state shipping agent company established in 1959 in Czechoslovakia and closed in 1992. Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (/ˌtʃɛkoʊsloʊˈvækiə, -kə-, -slə-, -ˈvɑː-/; Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.