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Signatures facsimile. Orange seal stamp on vz. The South America Line (ZAL) was founded in Amsterdam on 10 July 1899. Various setbacks and fierce competition put the company in trouble. On the initiative and with the support of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij, this was resolved by starting a completely new but financially stronger company that would take over all activities of the South America Line. This was the NV Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd (KHL), which was founded on January 15, 1908. In the 1930s the KHL also had a hard time and on May 15, 1935, a moratorium had to be filed. Again a new company was established, now by Wm.H. Müller & Co in Rotterdam and the Royal Dutch Steamboat Company (KNSM) in Amsterdam. This company was incorporated on November 30, 1936 under the name NV to continue the Koninklijke Hollandschen Lloyd. The company's management was in the hands of Wm.H. Müller & Co. On July 1, 1970, Wm.H. Müller & Co withdrew from shipping and sold the KHL to the KNSM, which allowed the company to exist as a separate unit within the company. As part of the KNSM, the KHL was taken over by Nedlloyd in 1981.
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