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sea and coastal passenger water transport

Italian Line

Dissolved 2002

Headquarters: Genoa
Founded: 1932
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

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

What Italian Line is

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Italian Line (from 1992 Italia Line, official name Italia di Navigazione S.p.A.), was a passenger shipping line that operated regular transatlantic services between Italy and the United States, and Italy and South America. During the late 1960s the company turned to running cruises, and from 1981 it became a global freight operator.

Quoted from Italian Line on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: sea and coastal passenger water transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Italy
Headquarters: Genoa
Formed in: Genoa
Founded: 1932
Dissolved: 2002
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 44.4072, 8.9339

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 2
Average vessel age: 71.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1952
Newest vessel on record: 1960
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
Average tonnage: —
Market share: —
Parent company: Finmare
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 Italian Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Ansaldo2

Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico1

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 · Passenger vessel

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
SS Cristoforo Colombo	5082285	Passenger vessel	Italy	1953	—	—	213.6 m	Ansaldo

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 Italian Line 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, Italian Line 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.

Italy is the country of registration for 40 commercial operators in this directory, among which Italian Line ranks 10th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 256 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Italy.

Founded in 1932, Italian Line is 94 years old. This directory holds 40 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.