Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Commercial organisation Shipping company with origins in trade routes to Australia in the 1860s. Competing companies, the Orient line and P&O, were to finally merge in 1960. Name Alternate Orient Line {"name":"Alternate","target":"","target_text":"Orient Line","date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null} Alternate P&O {"name":"Alternate","target":"","target_text":"P&O","date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null} Type Commercial organisation {"name":"Commercial organisation","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null}
