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shipping line
Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
67,830
Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
The Norwegian America Line (Norwegian: Den Norske Amerikalinje), was a shipping line, originally an operator of ocean liners and cargo ships. Founded in 1910, the company ran a regular transatlantic service between Norway and the United States, and later included a route to East Africa as well. Primarily due to competition from air travel, transatlantic passenger voyages were slowly discontinued during the years.
After the Great War, the company was one of Norway's largest shipping lines, owning a fleet that included 19 vessels, several of which were for commercial cargo transport.
After the Second World War heavy ships losses were overcome by the building of new vessels, however the reduction in the passengers’ traffic by sea shifted the company’s focus mainly to the cargo business, including container and bulk shipping from the 1970s.
In 1980 the last two passenger liners were handed over into a new joint venture company (Norwegian American Cruises) with Leif Höegh & Co,
and finally sold to Cunard Line in 1984.
During the 1990s NAL main business were the Roll-on/roll-off operations and sea carriage of cars, through the NOSAC brand (Norwegian Specialised Autocarcarriers), with a fleet of nearly 20 vessels, then acquired by Wilh. Wilhelmsen in 1995.
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Norwegian America Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By flag state
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
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 | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 4 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6416043 | Cruise ship | Norway | 1965 | 24,528 | — | 188.9 m | Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée | |
| 7214715 | Cruise ship | Norway | 1973 | 24,492 | — | 191.1 m | Swan Hunter | |
| 5042120 | Passenger vessel | Norway | 1956 | 18,595 | — | 176.3 m | Swan Hunter | |
| 5135977 | Bulk carrier | Norway | 1923 | 215 | — | — | Framnæs Mekaniske Værksted |
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
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 4 vessels attributed to it here, Norwegian America Line is the 213th 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.
Norway is the country of registration for 150 commercial operators in this directory, among which Norwegian America Line ranks 45th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.
Founded in 1910, Norwegian America Line is 116 years old. This directory holds 42 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.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q4353782, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Norwegian America Line on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.