| By the end of the 19th century Lloyd Austriaco activities had extended to four continents, namely Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. In the same time the Company had started its passenger services. |
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| 1913 - 1918 - The new century saw Lloyd Austriaco fleet increased to 62 ships totalling 236,000 GWT. With the outbreak of World War I the company's fleet suffered a dramatic and drastic decrease :33 vessels were confiscated by the Austrian Government for military purposes, transport of the Army, and to be used as hospital ships; 8 ships were captured in foreign ports by enemies, while 11 were sunk following hostile bombing. |
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| 1919 - At the end of the war, which saw the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolution and Italy among the winning nations, the Peace Treaty gave Trieste to Italy.
On January 3rd, 1919, the Company changed its name to "Lloyd Triestino".
1919-1936: The Company started with determination a huge project in order to recover from war losses. In a short time frame the fleet grew to 53 ships deployed in the resumed services to four continents. The Agency network was restored and enlarged to 125 Agencies. A strong boost was given to the renewed passengers services. In 1931 VICTORIA I, the most prestigious of its passenger vessels, was launched. It was firstly deployed in the Egyptian trade, and then in the Indian one (on the left).
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1936-1938 : following a restructuring of major national shipping companies, whose control and coordination passed under the jurisdiction of a government-owned financial company (Finmare), Lloyd Triestino fleet grew to 85 owned vessels deployed in 17 services to Asia, Africa, and Australia.
1940-1945 : the Company was going to be overwhelmed by another tragic event, the World War II. 68 ships were lost, a thousand seafarers died. At the end of the war, the Company's fleet was composed of 5 ships only.
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Nevertheless, the Company once again was able to regain strength quickly.
New buildings were ordered, traditional services and agency net resumed worldwide. In 1956, its fleet counted already 28 owned vessels.
In 1956 LT fleet was back to 31 vessels. In the 1960' services to the Far East and Australia were reorganized when two new passenger vessels, the Galileo Galilei and the Guglielmo Marconi, were put into service (right). |
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| In the 70's there was a revolution in shipping with containers taking the place of bulk transport and passenger sea lines gradually being replaced by airlines. Lloyd Triestino was a pioneer in the containerisation on the Europe to Africa, Asia and Australia trade lanes. These where the times of new strategic alliances with the main international shipping companies. Thus, in 1972 a big Shipping Lines Pool named ANZECS was founded to link Europe and Australia; a year later Lloyd Triestino entered MAFECS, a similar liner service connecting the Mediterranean to the Far East. The Company contributed to the new venture by supplying newly built full containerships, such as the 1,698 teu 'Lloydiana' to ANZECS (the first Italian full container vessel) (on the left) and 1,446 teu sisterships 'Nipponica' and 'Mediterranea' to MAFECS. |
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In 1976 two new Ro-Ro ships were launched on the West Africa service. In 1977 Lloyd Triestino participated in the newly founded SAECS service, which linked the Mediterranean to South Africa, by contributing with two 1,361 teu sisterships, 'Europa' and 'Africa'.
During the 80's LT set up various common services on other very important routes such as East Africa, West Africa and the Arabian Gulf, with total liftings increasing accordingly. |
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In 1991, Lloyd Triestino decided to start its activities as cross-trader by participating in services which were not directly linked to the Mediterranean Sea; thus, the Company was among the founders of the ASA service, connecting South East Asia with Australia on a weekly basis. In the same year the new headquarters was moved to the new modern building 'Palazzo della Marineria' (on the right).
When MAFECS's activities were terminated, in 1993, Lloyd Triestino entered into a positive and ever growing co-operation with Evergreen Marine Corporation by launching the MEDWAY service. |
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| 1998 - The co-operation with the Taiwanese shipping giant proved to be a resounding success that rapidly flourished and was instrumental in shaping the future of Lloyd Triestino. Evergreen played the leading role in the most revolutionary event in the Company's history: privatisation. In 1998 Lloyd Triestino's shares changed hands from Finmare to the Dutch Company Balsam Estate B.V. |
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1999 - Lloyd Triestino launched CEM, a direct weekly service between Europe and China. The Company had been serving China since 1900, but its previous service came to an end in 1987. The CEM service calls at three important Chinese ports - Shanghai, Ningbo and Yantian - with extremely competitive transit times and very capacious vessels.
Lloyd Triestino has continued to expand its services network by re-entering the trade lanes between the Far East and North America, serving both the US & Canadian West Coast and the US East Coast. Meanwhile the fleet is being re-tonnaged with new, faster and bigger vessels to be deployed primarily on the Europe to China and transpacific routes. |
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