Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij

NV Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij
Company typeNaamloze vennootschap
IndustryPassenger, mail and cargo shipping within the Dutch East Indies, and to and from neighbouring countries
Founded1888
Founder
Defunct1966
FateMerged
Successors
Headquarters
Amsterdam
,
Netherlands
ParentNederlandsche Scheepvaart Unie Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttp://kunstbezitnedlloyd.org

Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM, Dutch for Royal Packet Navigation Company), was a Dutch shipping line in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. It traded form 1888 to 1966. It was the dominant inter-island shipping line in the Dutch East Indies in the last half-century of the colonial era.[1]