CONTSHIP CONTAINERLINES LTD.

Website images show a very dark, almost black field; NZ Shipping Gazette confirms a dark-blue funnel while advertisements give a royal-blue flag field. Jan Mertens saw an actual flag outside the Antwerp office in December 2003, and a Wellington CentrePort photograph dated 17 October 1996 also confirms flag use. Contship Vision confirms the funnel. On Contship Borealis, an apparent white funnel base is actually superstructure, leaving little blue above and below the red bands. Contship Champion has no conventional funnel and displays the logo as a panel on white superstructure.

The Contship Containerlines brand was established in 1987. Australian services formerly marketed as Ocean Star and Eagle were reorganised under that name, although both service names persisted in later sources. Canadian Pacific’s purchase was announced in August 1997 and completed on 29 October through CP Ships. Register formation dates for the company vary between 1968 and 1986. The brand’s retirement into CP Ships was announced in April 2005; the new logo introduced in 2004 was replaced in January 2006 after failing to gain public recognition. TUI acquired CP Ships in late 2005, and integration into Hapag-Lloyd followed in mid-2006.

Australia in the cited service account.