Sea Containers Ltd

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Sea Containers House on the River Thames.

Sea Containers Ltd. is a Bermuda registered company which operates two main business areas: transport and container leasing. In March 2006 the company sold its share of Orient-Express Hotels Ltd.

1 Transport
2 Containers
3 Other activities
4 Former Subsidiaries
5 External links

[edit] Transport

[edit] Ferry services

On March 24 2006 Sea Containers announced its intention to withdraw from the ferry business. These are:

SeaStreak – fast ferry services between New York and New Jersey.
SNAV-Hoverspeed – a joint venture with Italian ferry operator SNAV. Uses the former Seacat Danmark as Zara Jet.
Aegean Speed Lines – a joint venture in Greece with the Eugenides Group. The service uses the former Hoverspeed Great Britain as Speedrunner 1, which operated in the English Channel and held the Hales Trophy and Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the North Atlantic.

The following businesses have already been discontinued:

Hoverspeed English Channel services
SeaCat (Belfast-Troon).

[edit] Other

Related activities include:

Hart Fenton – a naval architecture and marine engineering company.
Sea Containers Chartering Ltd.

[edit] Rail

GNER – a British train operating company which operates high-speed express train services on the UK East Coast Main Line.

[edit] Containers

Sea Containers container leasing business is mainly conducted through GE SeaCo, a joint venture with GE Capital. GE SeaCo operates one of the largest marine container fleets in the world. Sea Containers also owns or partly owns five container depots, four container manufacturing facilities and a refrigerated container service business (PartCo International). In addition, it owns one container ship

[edit] Other activities

Sea Containers Property Services Ltd – property development, property asset management.
The Illustrated London News Group (ILNG) – publishing
Fruit farming – Sea Containers owns plantations in West Africa and South America.
Fairways & Swinford – UK-based business travel agency

[edit] Former Subsidiaries

Silja Line – fast and conventional services in the Baltic Sea. In June 2006 Silja Line was purchased by Tallink, a ferry company from Estonia. Silja Line is operated as a separate company at this time and continues to use the Silja Line name. As of 2006 Sea Containers still operates the Super Seacat service between Helsinki and Tallinn under the SuperSeacat brand name, competing against fast catamarans of Tallink.
Orient Express Hotels