Torrey Josef Mosvold (9 July 1910 – 18 October 1995) was one of

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's leading

shipping Freight transport, also referred as ''Freight Forwarding'', is the physical process of transporting Commodity, commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it h ...

and industrial entrepreneurs. Torrey Josef Mosvold was born in

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in the county of

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. He was the son of Nils Martin Mosvold (1876-1956) who founded the Mosvold Shipping Group in 1910. Torrey married Gudny Langeland and they had 6 children. Gudny died in 1954. After Martin Mosvold died 1956, the original company interests were split between his sons. Torrey Mosvold was director of the Norwegian Shipowners' Association (''Norges Rederiforbund'') as well as of several companies with which Mosvold Shipping Group was associated. He was a member of the national board of the Mission Covenant Church of Norway. He was a patron of the Mosvold Hospital in

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, in the

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. He was proclaimed Commander of the

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in 1971.''Mosvold: A Norwegian Name for Quality in Ethiopia'' (Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis Ababa)
Torrey Mosvold has 31 grandchildren.

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Facebook-group for Torrey Mosvold´s grandkids
1910 births 1995 deaths Norwegian businesspeople in shipping People from Farsund {{Norway-business-bio-stub