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freight transport

American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines

Dissolved 1977

Headquarters: New York City
Founded: 1919
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

37,345

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines is

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American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines, New York, was the leading US-flag shipping company between the U.S. east coast and the Mediterranean from 1919 to 1977, offering both cargo ship and passenger ship services, until it declared bankruptcy and was acquired by Farrell Lines of New York.

Quoted from American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: freight transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: New York City
Formed in: —
Founded: 1919
Dissolved: 1977
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 40.7128, -74.0061

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 65.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1951
Newest vessel on record: 1968
Largest vessel by tonnage: 21,760
Average tonnage: 18,673
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Bath Iron Works1

Bethlehem Steel1

New York Shipbuilding Corporation1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	3
2018	—	3
2019	—	3
2020	—	3
2021	—	3
2022	—	3
2023	—	3
2024	—	3
2025	—	3
2026	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record

3 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
سی ویچ	6806444	Container ship	United States	1968	21,760	—	202.0 m	Bath Iron Works
NS Savannah	5314793	Unclassified	United States	1964	15,585	10,160	166.1 m	New York Shipbuilding Corporation
SS Constitution	5078882	Cruise ship	United States	1951	—	—	208.0 m	Bethlehem Steel

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 3 vessels attributed to it here, American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines ranks 25th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1919, American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines is 107 years old. This directory holds 60 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.