Shanghai to New York Via the Panama Canal in an Amazing 34 Days!!

Barber Wilhelmsen was one of the smaller shipping lines sailing out of Shanghai in the 1930s and early 1940s. The Norwegian company dates back to the nineteenth century (there’s a company history here). The company was primarily a tanker operator through to the 1960s. The company still exists as Wilhelmsen Ship Management. Anyway, here they are in 1940 offering Shanghai to New York in an amazing 34 days (via the Panama Canal) – actually quicker I think to jump of at LA and catch a cross country train to New York I think. But hey, who’s rushing!