Businessmen who built shipping companies and fleets, from Cunard and Vanderbilt to Onassis, Maersk and the inventor of the shipping container. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person a shipping magnate, shipowner, business magnate or businessman who built a shipping business. It excludes ship designers and submarine inventors. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Malcom McLean
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Malcolm "Malcom" Purcell McLean (November 14, 1913, May 25, 2001) was an American businessman who invented the modern intermodal shipping container, which revolutionized transport and international trade during the second half of the twentieth century.
Wikipedia: Samuel Cunard
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Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787-28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America.
Wikipedia: Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794, January 4, 1877), nicknamed "the Commodore", was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.
Wikipedia: Aristotle Onassis
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Aristotle Socrates Onassis (, US also ; Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced [aristoˈtelis oˈnasis]; 20 January 1906-15 March 1975) was a Greek and Argentine business magnate and shipping tycoon.
Arnold Peter Møller (Wikipedia)
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Arnold Peter Møller (2 October 1876-12 June 1965), better known as A.
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