Publisher's Synopsis
150 years on the Worlds Oceans. When Hamburg Sdamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft was founded on 4 November 1871, the shipping company had only three steamships of less than 4,000 GRT. But due to the dynamic economic development in the still young German Empire, liner shipping between Europe and the major ports on the South American east coast offered enormous opportunities. While more and more raw materials and plantation products were being transported to Germany, countless emigrants used Hamburg Sds steamships to make their way to the New World. In both the freight and passenger trade, the Hamburg shipping
