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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
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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Sado Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (佐渡汽船株式会社, Sado Kisen Kabushiki-gaisha) is a marine transportation company based in Sado, Niigata, Japan, it was founded as Sado Shosen on February 3, 1913. In 1932, the modern version of the company was established through the merger of three ferry companies; Sado Shosen, Etsusa Shosen and Niigata Kisen into Sado Kisen as a joint public-private venture. This was the first example of this kind of joint public-private venture in Japan. On March 31, 2022, 66.54% of this company's shares were transferred to Michinori Holdings, transferring overall ownership to that company.
Corporate profile
Vessel records
No individual ships attributed to this company yet
The company is on record, but no vessel in the registry currently names it as operator or owner. Nothing is invented to fill this space.
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.
Japan is the country of registration for 69 commercial operators in this directory, among which Sado Steam Ship ranks 48th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 153 vessels here. 2 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Japan.
Founded in 1913, Sado Steam Ship is 113 years old. This directory holds 37 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.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q11383305, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Sado Steam Ship on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
9 on record · est. 1949