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Sea Containers Ltd. was a Bermuda-registered company which operated two main business areas: transport and container leasing. The company filed for bankruptcy on 16 October 2006. In 2009 its maritime container interests were transferred to a new company SeaCo Ltd, with the winding down and liquidation of the remainder of the group continuing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sea Containers Implements Plan of Reorganisation )〕 ==History== Yale University graduate and retired United States Navy officer James Sherwood founded ''Sea Containers'' in 1965, with initial capital of $100,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sea Containers Ltd. - Company History )〕 Over 40 years, Sherwood expanded Sea Containers from a supplier of leased cargo containers, into various shipping companies, as well as expanding the company into luxury hotels and railway trains, including the Venice-Simplon Orient Express and the Great North Eastern Railway franchise from London to Edinburgh. Although valued with a net worth of £60million in the 2004 Sunday Times Rich List,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sunday Times - Rich List )〕 as Sea Containers hit financial troubles, he resigned from each of his companies in 2006. In March 2006 the company sold its share of Orient-Express Hotels. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sea Containers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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