Hapag-Lloyd AG

Japanese: ハパーク･ロイド[会社]（英語表記）Hapag‐Lloyd AG

Germany's largest liner shipping company. It was established in 1970 by the merger of the country's two largest liner shipping companies, the Hamburg American Mail Shipping Company (abbreviated as Haparc) and the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Before the merger, Haparc (founded in 1847) and North German Lloyd (founded in 1857) both had long histories and prospered by transporting immigrants from Europe to America. Until World War I, they competed with British shipping companies for dominance in liner shipping routes around the world. They were subsequently destroyed in two world wars, but were able to recover and develop thanks to their progressive management strategies and effective government shipping policies based on their long-standing traditions, and became known as the two largest liner shipping companies representing German shipping.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

ドイツ最大の定期船会社。同国の二大定期船会社ハンブルク･アメリカ郵便船会社(略称ハパーク)と北ドイツ･ロイド汽船会社が1970年に合併して創設された。合併前のハパーク(1847年創立)と北ドイツ･ロイド(1857年創立)はともに歴史が古く，ヨーロッパからアメリカへの移民輸送で栄え，第1次世界大戦までは世界の定期航路でイギリス船社と覇権を争っていた。その後2度の大戦で壊滅にしたが，古くからの伝統を基盤に進取的な経営戦略と効果的な政府の海運政策を得て復興発展し，ドイツ海運を代表する二大定期船会社としてその名を知られた。

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