Royal Rotterdam Lloyd was a Dutch shipping line that was established in Rotterdam in 1883 as Rotterdamsche Lloyd (RL). It became "Royal Rotterdam Lloyd" in 1947. RL mainly operated scheduled passenger and mail services between Rotterdam and the Dutch East Indies. Its independent existence ended in 1970, when KRL merged with four other Dutch shipping companies to form the Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Unie (NSU). In 1977 NSU became Nedlloyd.
Painting by WJ Hoendervanger of Willem Ruys
1899 painting by Edouard Adam of Gedé, built for Rotterdamsche Lloyd in 1892
Ophir, with the Dutch flag, her name, and port of registration painted along her side to show her neutrality
Baloeran in the Suez Canal in 1935
Nedlloyd was a Dutch shipping company, formed in 1970 as the result of a merger of several shipping lines:Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland (SMN)
Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd (KRL)
Koninklijke Java-China-Paketvaart-Lijnen (KJCPL)
Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschappij (VNS)
MS Indrapoera was completed in 1925 and was KRL's first diesel-powered passenger liner.
The Nedlloyd Bangkok at Lyttelton, New Zealand (1987)
The Nedlloyd Hollandia in the port of Hamburg (1986)
The Nedlloyd Seoul outbound on the Nieuwe Waterweg (1985)
