Sea-Land Service, Inc
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Sea-Land Service, Inc (sometime cited as Sea-Land Services (pl), also known as Sea-Land Corporation, or sometimes SeaLand, etc) was a pioneering shipping and containerization company founded by American entrepreneur Malcom McLean in 1960, out of the operations of the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, which McLean acquired in 1956. It existed under various changes of ownership (passing from R. J. Reynolds to CSX Corporation, until it was acquired by, and formally incorporated into, the operations of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group in November, 1999.
Sea-Land would later become notable for its instrumental of the U.S. military in the Vietnam conflict, delivering as many as 1,2000 containers a month to the Indochina peninsula; total revenues from the U.S. Defense Department would amount to $450m between 1967 and 1973.[1]. Later, it drew attention for being the registrant of the ill-fated SS Mayagüez, whose seizure by Khmer Rouge forces on May 12, 1975 provoked the last armed confrontation of the Vietnam War.
[edit] Notable personnel
- Malcolm McLean, founder.
- Alex J. Mandl, CEO 1989-1991. Later with In-Q-Tel, Teligent, Gemplus International and Gemalto.
Several people at Sea-Land Service / Maersk Sealand would eventually make their way to DP World – in fact, as of late 2006, all the non-UAE principals at DP World were from SeaLand:
- Ted Bilkey (U.S.), COO
- George E. Dalton (U.S.), SVP, General Counsel.
- Matthew Leech (U.S.), SVP Business Development.
- Joost Kruining (Netherlands), SVP Operations
- Michael Moore (U.S.) (a different one, apparently)
- Anil Wats (Indonesia), Executive VP, operations.
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