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Company type | Division |
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Industry | Container shipping |
Founded | 1946 |
Defunct | 2020 |
Fate | sold to Maersk; part of Maersk Line |
Headquarters | Cape Town, South Africa |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | David Williams (CEO) |
Parent | Maersk Line |
Safmarine, short for South African Marine Corporation, and latterly South African Marine Container Lines, was a South African shipping line, established in 1946, which offered freight transport services with cargo liners and container ships. It was bought by Maersk Line in 1999, and was fully integrated into that company in 2020. It also operated passenger vessels and specialised cargo ships.