This year marks the 120th anniversary of the founding of the well-known Ellerman Lines, which went on as the Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Company to form the short-lived Canadian City Line service in cooperation with its North American agent, McLean-Kennedy of Montreal, during the early 1970s. Both firms had maintained trade links with India, Pakistan and Ceylon prior to World War II, and the new line was to renew this link using conventional breakbulk tonnage sailing via South Africa, the Suez Canal having been closed by hostilities
