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Company profile - CSAV shipping
Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) was founded in Chile in 1872 and has been traded on the Santiago Stock Exchanges ince it opened in 1893. The company initially concerned its elf s olely with coas tal shipping , but this soon grew to include the whole wes t coas t of South America. This was later extended to include services to the United States , then Europe, followed by the Far Eas t, South-Eas t As ia and the eas t coas t of South America. Today CSAV is the larg es t s hipping company in the Americas , offering s ervices trans porting containers , dry bulk, fresh and frozen products and vehicles to five continents . The Chilean carrier has the right specification of ship for carrying these varying cargoes , either owned by CSAV or chartered. CSAV has a larg e number of fixed itineraries through which it is able to provide year-round deliveries to various ports , and has in recent years introduced intermodal services , combining different modes of trans port to provide a door-to-door packag e. This intermodal element is provided by CSAV's s ubs idiaries , Sudamericana Agencias Aéreas y Marítimas (SAAM), a cargo s hippingag ency, and COSAN, a container terminal in Santiago.