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LEGENDS & MILESTONES

Named after the small town of Sved-
borg in which Maersk was founded in
1904, the “Svendborg Maersk” was
the company’s first containership.
Built in 1974 by the Ishikawajima-Ha-
rima shipyards in Japan, this highly
automated vessel would signal a new
era for the Danish shipping company.

The “Litva,” a Soviet passenger ship entering the harbour of Venice.
As mentioned in the 1 August 1963 issue of Naftika Chronika, this “highly-modern” vessel was built in East Germany in 1960
as part of the Soviet Union’s attempt to gain a commercial presence in the Mediterranean Sea.

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