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Swedish American Line

Dissolved 1975

Headquarters: Gothenburg
Founded: 1915
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

31,289

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Swedish American Line is

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Swedish American Line (Swedish: Svenska Amerika Linien, abbr. SAL) was a Swedish passenger shipping line. It was founded in December 1914 under the name Rederiaktiebolaget Sverige-Nordamerika and began ocean liner service from Gothenburg to New York in 1915. In 1925 the company changed its name to Svenska Amerika Linien / Swedish American Line.
The Swedish American Line was among the first companies to build liners with provisions for off-season cruising, as well as the world's first company to build a diesel-engined transatlantic liner. Increased operational costs and stronger competition from passenger aircraft forced the company to abandon passenger traffic in 1975, but cargo operations continued until the 1980s.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Sweden
Headquarters: Gothenburg
Formed in: —
Founded: 1915
Dissolved: 1975
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 57.7075, 11.9675

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 64.8 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1953
Newest vessel on record: 1969
Largest vessel by tonnage: 28,891
Average tonnage: 15,645
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Swedish American Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Ansaldo1

John Brown & Company1

Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde1

Uudenkaupungin Telakka, Uusikaupunki, Finland1

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	—	4
2018	—	4
2019	—	4
2020	—	4
2021	—	4
2022	—	4
2023	—	4
2024	—	4
2025	—	4
2026	—	4

Vessel records

Ships on record · Cruise ship

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MS Kungsholm	6512354	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	1966	28,891	—	201.2 m	John Brown & Company
Explorer	6924959	Cruise ship	Liberia	1969	2,398	—	72.9 m	Uudenkaupungin Telakka, Uusikaupunki, Finland
Kungsholm	5197664	Cruise ship	Sweden	1953	—	—	182.9 m	Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde
MS Gripsholm	5136361	Cruise ship	Sweden	1957	—	—	192.4 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 Swedish American 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 4 vessels attributed to it here, Swedish American 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.

Sweden is the country of registration for 56 commercial operators in this directory, among which Swedish American Line ranks 5th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 90 vessels here. See every operator registered in Sweden.

Founded in 1915, Swedish American Line is 111 years old. This directory holds 53 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.