Lloyd Triestino

The Fleets

This page covers Lloyd Triestino, Società di Navigazione Lloyd Triestino, Società Anonima di Navigazione Lloyd Triestino, Lloyd Triestino di Navigazione SpA.

Lloyd Triestino was formed in 1919 as the successor to Lloyd Austriaco following the incorporation of Trieste into the Kingdom of Italy on January 3rd 1919. At the end of World War I the Lloyd Triestino fleet – which before the war was composed of 62 ships totalling 236,000 - underwent a drastic reduction with the outbreak of the First World War. By 1930, the company had recovered its potentialities and could count on 45 vessels operating 14 lines on 19 sea routes linking the Mediterranean with India, the Far East and Africa. But the real strengthening of the fleet began in 1936, the Company's centenary, when, with the reform of the merchant navy and the creation of four shipping companies controlled by the Finmare Institution, Lloyd Triestino began to operate with 75 ships and 17 services in the Asian, African and Oceania markets.

Services to the Far East and Australia were reorganised in the 1960s when two new passenger vessels, the Galileo Galilei and the Guglielmo Marconi, were put into service. The 1970s saw a revolution in shipping with containers taking the place of bulk transport and passenger sea lines gradually being replaced by airlines. Lloyd Triestino was a pioneer in the containerization on the Europe-to-Africa, Asia and Australia trade lanes. These were the times of new strategic alliances with the main international shipping companies. By the late 1980s, the time had come to renew the company fleet again by putting more high-tech vessels with greater capacity into service.

In 1993, Lloyd Triestino started a positive and ever-growing cooperation with the Taiwanese Evergreen Marine Corporation by commencing the MEDWAY service, which – changing its name in 1997 into FEM service - still represents the most important container service between the Mediterranean and the Far East. Five years later, under a privatisation scheme, Lloyd Triestino passed from Finmare to Balsam Estate, thereby entering the Evergreen Group family. This perfect combination – of Italian tradition and Taiwanese organisation – marked the beginning of an era of service quality and quantity never before seen in Lloyd Triestino's history.

Soon after joining the Evergreen Group in 1998, Lloyd Triestino began in 1999 a direct weekly service between Europe and China, which the company has been serving since 1880. The recent service calls – other than Hong Kong – deliver goods at the following Chinese ports with very competitive transit times: Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian. Lloyd Triestino has further continued to expand its service network by successfully re-entering the trade lanes between the Far East and Europe to North America, serving both Canada and the US East and West Coasts. Meanwhile the fleet is being re-tonnaged with new, faster and larger vessels, to be deployed especially on the Europe-to-China and the transpacific routes.

The dawn of the new millennium saw the launch of three new “U Type” container vessels, LT Usodimare, LT Unica and LT Universo. With a length of 285 metres and a capacity of 5,652 TEUS, these container ships were and still are the biggest in the Italian shipping community. More capacious, faster and better suited to Lloyd Triestino's future challenges, these vessels significantly boosted the company's profile in the industry and have proved themselves to be an incisive presence in even the most competitive markets. Exponential growth in cargo volumes has been accompanied by the restoration and development of Lloyd Triestino's extensive network of routes, services and agencies.

Today, the company is present on five continents connected with its 22 services, giving it local access to all of its customers. This invaluable reach makes Lloyd Triestino an undisputed front-runner in the evolution of shipping. Lloyd Triestino's connections with East Asia are complemented by transpacific services that cover the US West Coast and Canada and, through the Panama Canal, the US East Coast. These comprehensive networks open up a variety of opportunities in strategic markets in the New World. Lloyd Triestino also links the Mediterranean with the great ports of Northern Europe through a direct weekly service.

In 2003, Lloyd Triestino made its debut on the transatlantic routes. Traditional connections such as those between Australia and South-East Asia and between Northern Europe and South Africa, also continue. On March 1st 2006, the company name Lloyd Triestino, changed to Italia Marittima S.P.A.

Many thanks to Ted Finch for his assistance in collecting this data. The following list was extracted from various sources. This is not an all inclusive list but should only be used as a guide.

Routes

• Trieste, Venice, Fiume, Patras, Calamata, Piraeus, Volo, Salonica, Cavalla, Dedeagatch, Constantinople, Samsun, Trebizond, Batum.
• Trieste, Venice, Fiume, Bari, Brindisi, Piraeus, Rhodes, Alexandria, Port Said, Jaffa, Haifa, Beirut, Tripoli, Alexandretta, Mersina, Larnaca, Limassol.
• Trieste, Venice, Brindisi, Port Said, Suez, Massowah, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama.
• Genoa, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Dakar, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban.
• Genoa, Naples, Messina, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Djakarta, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney
• Trieste, Venice, Brindisi, Port Said, Suez, Massawa, Aden, Mogadishu, Mombasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Beira, Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London
• Trieste, Venice, Brindisi, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Djakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong
Genoa, Naples, Messina, Malta, Tenerife, Cape Town, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Suva, Tahiti, Acapulco, Balboa, Cristobal, Curaçao, Lisbon, Malaga, Malta, Piraeus, Messina, Napoli, Genoa

Ships