Atlantic Container Line is an American, previously Swedish,

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company owned by the Italian

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. The company operates large

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(RORO)

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between Europe and North America.

History

ACL was formed in

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in 1965 by Olof Wallenius who created a consortium of four shipping companies, Wallenius Lines, Swedish America Line, the Rederi AB Transatlantic and Holland America Line. These were joined by Cunard and CGT in 1967. In 1976 ACL took over the Care Line, its ships, ''Mont Royal'' and ''Montmorency'', and its direct route to

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. During the

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the British registered and were requisitioned by the

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. ''Atlantic Conveyor'' sank on 25 May 1982 after being hit by two Argentine Exocet missiles. She is the only British flagged merchant ship to be sunk by missile.

Fleet

Current ships

The new Generation 4 ships, introduced in 2015, are faster and more fuel efficient than their predecessors. They are still

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, combination roll-on/roll-off (RORO) and container, ships but with the accommodation in the middle of the ship rather than at the stern as in the previous generation.

Previous ships

References

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History

Fleet

Current ships

Previous ships

See also

References