Tricontinental Company
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| Industry | Shipping, transportation |
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| Founded | 19 May 1865 (as the Tricontinental Line) |
| Headquarters | Bastón Rojo, Cerdanya |
Area served | Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans |
| Products | Container shipping and terminals, logistics and freight forwarding, ferry and tanker transport, semi-submersible drilling rigs and FPSOs, shipyards, store retail |
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Tricontinental Company (Baliscano: Compañía Tricontinental) is a Baliscan shipping company, active in ocean and inland freight transportation and associated services, such as supply chain management and port operation.
History[edit | edit source]
1865-1900[edit | edit source]
The company traces its history back to the Trans-Atlántido shipping company founded in 1865. The company inaugurated Balisca's first passenger liner service, with a route from Barcelona to Alessandria; in that same year, the company name was changed to Trans-Atlántic Mail Steamship Company.
The merged company had a fleet of 58 steamships and expanded its operations rapidly, first to other Latin American ports and then worldwide, with a line service to Kotabumi established in 1888 and to London in 1889.
The company's SS Hesperia was used by Chinese Muslims to travel to Singapore on their way to Makkah for the Hajj in 1925. From there, the company had the pilgrims travel on board other Baliscan steamships to Suez and then to Makkah. The company promised to take responsibility for all the necessary formalities and helped contact other local transportation agencies that could take the pilgrims to Makkah. Chinese pilgrims were promised a 20% discount for their tickets. A third-class ticket that sold for £5/10/0 would be £4/8/0, while a second-class ticket sold for £14/0/0 would be sold for £11/5/0.
1900-1945[edit | edit source]
The majority of Baliscan merchant ships, tankers, and liners sailed under the Tricontinental banner in this period. Regular services linked Alessandria and Concepción with Sanyan, Lagos, Batavia, Melbourne, and Cape Town, with frequent crossings to Barcelona and Lisbon. Other routes connected local Baliscan cabotage vessels on the South American coasts and upper Rio de la Plata.
The busiest routes were from the east, making stops in Kotabumi (Kartasugih) or Cape Town. These routes connected Balisca with South and Southeast Asia and the Levant through the Suez Canal, and also included the China coasts, and India and the Indian Ocean.
Local sea routes connected 78 home seaports (38 open to foreign trade). Alessandria, Concepción, Macaio and Aigües had the greatest importance for trading with Balisca. These ports had the third, fourth, and eighth place in net tonnage registered in the world. Importantly, coal passed from Calatañazor to Alessandria and Concepción, while hemp, cotton, salt, and minerals represented other important parts of these transport transactions.
From 1924, all new cargo ships for Tricontinental were motor ships. Trincontinental introduced its first passenger motor ships in 1929, but continued to buy a mixture of steam and motor passenger ships until 1939.
In World War II, Tricontinental provided military transport and hospital ships for the Confederal Army and Navy. Many vessels were lost to German U-boats.
