Identificatie
Soort entiteit
Instelling
Geauthoriseerde naam
Japan Mail Steamship Company
Parallelle vormen van de naam
- Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Gestandaardiseerde naamvorm(en) volgens andere regels.
Aandere naamsvormen
Identificatiecode voor organisaties
Beschrijving
Bestaansperiode
1870 - present
Geschiedenis
One of the oldest and largest shipping companies in the world. By the 1920s the company was operating regular passenger and cargo ship services linking Japan and Vancouver and Seattle, Southeast Asia, the Indies, and Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Now known widely as NYK. After losing all but one of its vessels in WWII, NYK re-emerged and now operates worldwide.