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Company type | Joint venture |
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Industry | Shipping, transportation |
Founded | 1871 |
Defunct | 1935 |
Fate | Assets sold |
Successor | Holland America Line |
Area served | Transatlantic |
The Red Star Line was a shipping line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium. The company's main ports of call were Antwerp[1][2] in Belgium, Liverpool and Southampton[1] in the United Kingdom and New York City[1] and Philadelphia[3] in the United States.