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water transport

Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij

Dissolved 1966

Headquarters: Amsterdam
Founded: 1888
Employees: —

Official website

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

14,150

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij is

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Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM, Dutch for Royal Packet Navigation Company), was a Dutch shipping line in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. It traded from 1888 to 1966. It was the dominant inter-island shipping line in the Dutch East Indies in the last half-century of the colonial era.

Quoted from Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin

Who founded it

Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij was founded in 1888 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Royal Rotterdam Lloyd

former Dutch shipping company

Photo: AnonymousUnknown author · CC BY 4.0 · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Netherlands
Headquarters: Amsterdam
Formed in: —
Founded: 1888
Dissolved: 1966
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 52.3667, 4.8833

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 88.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1938
Newest vessel on record: 1938
Largest vessel by tonnage: 14,150
Average tonnage: 14,150
Market share: —
Parent company: Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Unie
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified1

By flag state

Kingdom of the Netherlands1

By shipbuilder

Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding1

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	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Ruys	5302635	Unclassified	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1938	14,150	—	164.5 m	Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding

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 Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij compares

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

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij is the 492nd 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.

Netherlands is the country of registration for 78 commercial operators in this directory, among which Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij ranks 20th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 151 vessels here. See every operator registered in Netherlands.

Founded in 1888, Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij is 138 years old. This directory holds 43 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.