Companies that operate merchant or passenger vessels as a commercial service. Belongs here: named shipping lines such as Cunard Line, White Star Line and Maersk. Does not belong here: shipbuilders such as Harland & Wolff, grouped under vehicle and equipment manufacturers, because building vessels is a different function from operating them, or the International Maritime Organization, a regulatory body rather than a carrier.
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1. Wikipedia: Black Ball Line
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Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet), a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool and New York, the first scheduled trans-Atlantic service, founded in 1817
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