ZIM Israel Navigation Company Fleet List
Fleet List of the ZIM Israel Navigation Company Showing Ownership, Nationality, Name of Ship, Year Placed in Service, and Gross Tonnage. Gross tonnage equals cubic feet of all enclosed space divided by 100. Notations Regarding the Ship (if any), Such as Previous Name or Renaming, are shown after the Gross Tonnage.
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ZIM Israel Navigation Company Ltd.
(Israel)
ZIM was founded on June 7, 1945, as the ZIM Palestine Navigation Company Ltd by the Jewish Agency, the Israel Maritime League, and the Histadrut (General Federation of Laborers in the Land of Israel). After the State of Israel was established in 1948, the company was renamed ZIM Israel Navigation Company Ltd. During its first years, its main task was transporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the emerging state.
- Aliya (1913) 11,015 ex-Jerusalem
- Artsa (1930) 3,213
- Israel (1955) 9,831
- Jerusalem (1913) 11,015 ex-Bergensfjord
- Jerusalem (1957) 9,920
- Negbah (1915) 5,544
- Shalom (building) 23,000
- Theodor Herzl (1958) 9,914
- Zion (1956) 9,855
Smith, Eugene W., Passenger Ships of the World: Past and Present, Boston: George H. Dean Company, 1963.
