The Ben Line or Ben Line Steamers, Limited was a Scottish shipping company based in Leith, Scotland founded in 1825 which was primarily involved in the Far East to Europe trade. A private company, it
The Signet and The Ben Line ship Wanderer left Scotland in late 1852 for Australia, arriving in early 1853
The Bencleuch launched in Alloa in April 1853
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the largest shipping companies in the world and the largest tanker owning and operati
Ben Line Agencies
…tons, were delivered. These ships operated within the 17 strong fleet of a three-nation consortium (the Trio Group) made up of Ben Line, Hapag-Lloyd, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Overseas Containers Ltd (OCL) all engaged in the Far East trade. The company also entered the bulk trades by…
MOL headquarters in Toranomon, Tokyo
O.S.K. Line's travel brochure "The Inland Sea," c. 1932
Steamship brochure "Japan and Round the World, O.S.K. Line," c. 1933
The MOL Enterprise container ship in 2004