HamburgAmerica
Hamburg-America Line, officially Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), was a German shipping company founded in 1847 in Hamburg to establish regular steamship service between Germany and North America. It quickly expanded its network to South America, Africa, and the Far East, becoming the largest and most influential German liner in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The company operated a series of prominent transatlantic passenger liners and carried large numbers of European
The two world wars brought severe disruption: much of HAPAG’s fleet was damaged, interned, or seized, and
Today, Hapag-Lloyd AG is a leading global container shipping company, continuing the historical legacy of the