Overseas Containers Limited: History of the Company, Board and Executive Committee Minutes.
Contains files on the history of OCL; a series of board minutes between August 1965 and December 1982; a series of Executive Committee Minutes between March 1967 and June 1973; a series of OCL UK Agencies minutes between August 1971 and May 1987; OCL UK Agencies accounts, 1990-1998; OCL Europe board minutes, December 1972 to December 1984; OCL Pacific board minutes between January 1974 to October 1988; OC (Holdings) L Ltd board, executive committee, executive director minutes between February 1971 and April 1990; P&O containers Ltd (board papers and exec minutes); CSCS (Crusader Swire Containers Service) minutes ADD DATES
Administrative / biographical background
OCL was formed in 1965 by four British companies: British and Commonwealth Shipping, Furness Withy, P&O and Ocean Steamship Company. Between 1969 and 1970 OCL took delivery of its first ships, a fleet of six vessels of 27,000 gross register tons (GRT) and twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) capacity for the UK/Europe to Australia route. The consortia initial operated from offices in Bevis Marks, London, then moved to custom built offices nearby at the end of Commercial Road. The ENCOUNTER BAY undertook her maiden voyage in 1969 and OCL overcame initial heavy losses to become centre stage in the world’s leading container lines. The first trade route was the Australia/UK one followed later by the Far East/UK route. By 1892, OCL was Europe’s largest container through transport operator, running a fleet of 20 containerships and over 60,000 container units; serving over 50 major ports, and in 1980 transported more than a quarter of a million container loads of import and export cargo on a route network linking locations throughout four continents. On 1 January 1987 the name OCL ceased to exist, the operation becoming known as P&O Containers Ltd (P&OCL). In 1996 P&O Containers merged with Nedlloyd to form P&O Nedlloyd. August 2005 saw the completion of a buyout of P&O Nedlloyd by the A P Moller Maersk Group and in February 2006 the name Maersk Line was adopted for the combined fleets.
Administrative / biographical background
OCL was formed in 1965 by four British companies: British and Commonwealth Shipping, Furness Withy, P&O and Ocean Steamship Company. Between 1969 and 1970 OCL took delivery of its first ships, a fleet of six vessels of 27,000 gross register tons (GRT) and twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) capacity for the UK/Europe to Australia route. The consortia initial operated from offices in Bevis Marks, London, then moved to custom built offices nearby at the end of Commercial Road. The ENCOUNTER BAY undertook her maiden voyage in 1969 and OCL overcame initial heavy losses to become centre stage in the world’s leading container lines. The first trade route was the Australia/UK one followed later by the Far East/UK route. By 1892, OCL was Europe’s largest container through transport operator, running a fleet of 20 containerships and over 60,000 container units; serving over 50 major ports, and in 1980 transported more than a quarter of a million container loads of import and export cargo on a route network linking locations throughout four continents. On 1 January 1987 the name OCL ceased to exist, the operation becoming known as P&O Containers Ltd (P&OCL). In 1996 P&O Containers merged with Nedlloyd to form P&O Nedlloyd. August 2005 saw the completion of a buyout of P&O Nedlloyd by the A P Moller Maersk Group and in February 2006 the name Maersk Line was adopted for the combined fleets.
Record Details
| Item reference: | PON/1 |
|---|---|
| Level: | SUB-COLLECTION |
| Date made: | 1965-2006; circa 1965 - circa 1965 - 1982 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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