Later Years
Hamburg America Line lost almost the entirety of its fleet twice, as a result of each of World War I and World War II. During 1970, the company merged with longtime rival Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd) of Bremen to establish the current-day Hapag-Lloyd, which itself is owned by the corporation TUI AG.
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