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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.


TRANSPORT



Ferry services

On March 24 2006 Sea Containers announced its intention to withdraw from the ferry business. These are:
  • SeaStreak – fast ferry services in New York .

  • Silja Line – fast and conventional services in the Baltic Sea .

  • 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:


Other

Related activities include:
  • Hart Fenton – a naval architecture and marine engineering company.

  • Sea Containers Chartering Ltd.



Rail

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



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


OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • Sea Containers Property Services Ltd – property development, property asset managment.

  • The Illustrated London News Group (ILNG) – publishing

  • Fruit farming – Sea Containers owns plantations in West Africa and South America.

  • Fairways & Swinford – UK-based travel agency



EXTERNAL LINKS

  • http://www.seacontainers.com

  • http://www.gner.co.uk

  • http://www.containeronlineshop.com - world largest virtual marketplace for container trade