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In brief
Toyo Kisen Kaisha (東洋汽船, Tōyō Kisen; TKK, "Oriental Steamship Company") was a Japanese shipping company, headquartered in Tokyo.
In 1896 Asano Sōichirō created the company, with the plan to have a shipping line to San Francisco.
Starting in 1905 it operated passenger ships for the routes from Japan to South America, and the company transported low income East Asian immigrants to South America. The Japanese government funded the company via the National Far Western Shipping Route Subsidizing Act.
In 1926 the company decided to stop operating passenger ships due to competition from ships operated by American and British companies and due to a reduction in immigration. Nippon Yusen took the ships that TKK operated.
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 Toyo Kisen Kaisha 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 1896, Toyo Kisen Kaisha is 130 years old. This directory holds 41 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
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14 on record · est. 1885
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9 on record · est. 1949
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
8 on record · est. 2004
K Line
7 on record · est. 1919
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7 on record · est. 1964
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5 on record · est. 2005
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q11527663, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Toyo Kisen on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.