page_title: Hapag-Lloyd
section_title: North German Lloyd
hierarchical_section_title: Hapag-Lloyd / History / North German Lloyd
caption_attribution_description: English: The Norddeutscher Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II, which at the time of its maiden voyage from Bremerhaven to New York in april of 1903 was one of the largest express steamers in the world (20,000 tons gross; 620 crew; accommodation for 1,887 passengers; speed over 23 knots). In the year 1904 the ship won the “Blue Riband” for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic ocean. Deutsch: Die Kaiser Wilhelm II des Norddeutschen Lloyd, die zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Jungfernfahrt von Bremerhaven nach New York im April 1903 eines der größten und schnellsten Passagiershiffe der Welt war. 1904 gewann sie das „Blaue Band“ für die schnellste Atlantik-Überquerung.
context_page_description: Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company. It is currently the world's fifth largest container carrier in terms of vessel capacity.
  The company was formed in 1970 by the merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg-American Line, which dated from 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd or North German Lloyd, which was formed in 1857.
  Since its formation, Hapag-Lloyd has been sold to many organizations and has also undergone numerous mergers with other companies. For instance, Hapag-Lloyd was completely acquired by, and became a subsidiary of TUI AG in 1998. This major event was followed by TUI selling a majority stake of Hapag-Lloyd to various private investors in Hamburg in 2009 and again in 2012. Other important events in the company's history include Hapag-Lloyd's acquisition of CP Ships in 2005 as well as Hapag-Lloyd's merger with the container business of CSAV in 2014, and United Arab Shipping Company in 2017.
  Currently, the company's shares are owned by several public and private investors, with the largest stake controlled by Kühne Holding AG, followed by CSAV.
context_section_description: Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) was formed in 1857 in the City-State of Bremen, offering passenger and cargo transportation between Bremen and New York, with an emphasis on emigration to the United States. Service started in June 1858 with the Bremen, the first of four steamships, and the company established its American base at Hoboken, New Jersey. NDL eventually built a large fleet of ships that carried many thousands of emigrants westwards, with around 218,000 passengers transported across the Atlantic in 1913 alone.
  The outbreak of World War I resulted in the internment of 32 vessels in US ports, a status later changed to confiscation when the US entered the war in 1917. Likewise, its Hoboken base was confiscated, and turned over to the US Navy, which used it as a transshipping point for the duration. As with HAPAG, those NDL ships surviving the war eventually were confiscated as reparation, leaving the company to start over from scratch.
  US-Operations were resumed in 1922, when NDL was able to purchase its former base from the United States Alien Property Administrator. NDL launched a new Bremen and Europa in 1929–30.
  During World War II, NDL repeated its World War I experience, with some parts of its fleet again being interned at the outbreak of the war, while a number of vessels remained under NDL control. One such exception was the Bremen, which raced across the Atlantic, and achieved protection at Murmansk in 1939, before eventually making a dash for Bremerhaven, where she was ultimately destroyed by a fire in 1941.
  Passenger service resumed in 1954 with the Gripsholm formerly belonging to the Swedish American Line (the ship was renamed to MS Berlin only the following year). Later two other second-hand ships, SS Bremen (formerly Pasteur) and MS Europa (formerly Swedish American Line's Kungsholm), were purchased.
  NDL attained several speed records over the years. Notable among them was the record for the run between Southampton and New York of eight days in 1881, which was set by the Elbe; and the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing set by the new Bremen in 1929 (see Blue Riband).
caption: The NDL liner Kaiser Wilhelm II, which made its maiden voyage in 1903
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