FounderDuels

Foss Maritime vs Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft is the older of the two, founded in 1847 — 42 years before Foss Maritime.

Foss Maritime
Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft
Founded
1889
1847
Status
Active
Closed 1970
Headquarters
Seattle
Hamburg, Germany
Industry
water transport
water transport
Founders
Thea Foss
Ferdinand Laeisz, Carl Woermann, Adolph Etienne Godeffroy
Legal form
Not recorded
Aktiengesellschaft
Website
foss.com
Not recorded

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Foss Maritime and Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft.