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Company type | Naamloze vennootschap |
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Industry | Passenger, mail and cargo shipping within the Dutch East Indies, and to and from neighbouring countries |
Founded | 1888 |
Founder | |
Defunct | 1966 |
Fate | Merged |
Successors |
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Headquarters | Amsterdam , Netherlands |
Parent | Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Unie ![]() |
Website | http://kunstbezitnedlloyd.org |
Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM, Dutch for Royal Packet Navigation Company), was a Dutch shipping line in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. It traded form 1888 to 1966. It was the dominant inter-island shipping line in the Dutch East Indies in the last half-century of the colonial era.[1]