The Japan-based Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaishai, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (日本郵船), or NYK Line, is one of the largest shipping companies in the world. It is one of the Mitsubishi core companies.
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.
Before the Pacific War
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.
theirs used the Japanese Oceanic Routes why one directed from japan to East,across the Pacific Ocean or for North Pacific area to Vancouver(Canada) o Seattle(USA).or the more current route
with scale in Hawaii and destiny in San Francisco and Panama Canal.the next commercial route are from Japan to South,across East Chinese Sea and South East Asia,surrond Chinese coasts in direction to India and Indian Ocean to Europe or Batavia(Dutch Indies) or Australia and New Zealand.
the most rapid transport sevices delayed ones ten days between Yokohama and Seattle and one month in arriving to Europe.
the local vessel services enlazed the all 78 local seaports,(of theirs ones 38 stay open to foreing commerce),but Yokohama,Kobe and Osaka poses great importance how Doors of Commerce in Japan.these ports poses the third,fourth and eigthth post in net tonnage registered in the world.the coal why pass from Moji to Osaka and Yokohama,the Karafuto Woods represent the third parts of local movement,the Soy Bean Products from Dairen and Ryojun why arriving to Yokohama
the Sugar Cane of South Mandate and Formosa,the Cotton,Salt and Minerals represent other important part of these transport transactions.
these company poses too transport services to enlazed the metropolitan japan to exterior provinces(Chosen,Karafuto,Kwantung,Formosa and South Mandate) in regular and special connections.but during war these company served how military transport service for sended all Japanese Army and Navy troops,for their suffered much of your vessels are sunken for allied
navies,and your instalations and ports are objetc of air attacks for allied airforces in Japan and exterior japanese provinces.your surviving vessels and equipments are confiscated for allied autorities before at war how reparations of war or confiscated for recent liberated
asian states during 1945-46.
After 1945
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 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.
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