K Line

Japanese shipping company
Organization business Q425880
K Line
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K Line

Summary

K Line is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (357 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • K Line was a member of CKYHE Alliance[3].
  • K Line was a member of DKB Group[4].
  • K Line is in the country of Japan[5].
  • K Line is in the country of FR[6].
  • K Line's instance of is recorded as business[7].
  • K Line's instance of is recorded as enterprise[8].
  • K Line's founder is recorded as Kōjirō Matsukata[9].
  • K Line's headquarters location is recorded as Iino Building[10].
  • K Line's child organization or unit is recorded as K Line Offshore AS[11].
  • K Line's Commons category is recorded as K Line[12].
  • K Line's stock exchange is recorded as Tokyo Stock Exchange[13].
  • K Line's industry is recorded as water transport[14].
  • April 5, 1919 marks the founding of K Line[15].
  • 1997-01-01 marks the founding of K Line[16].
  • K Line's separated from is recorded as Kawasaki Shipyard[17].
  • K Line's official website is recorded as http://www.kline.co.jp[18].
  • K Line's official website is recorded as https://www.kline.co.jp/[19].
  • K Line's topic's main category is recorded as Category:K Line[20].
  • K Line's legal form is recorded as kabushiki gaisha[21].
  • K Line's legal form is recorded as 6CHY[22].
  • K Line's owner of is recorded as SS Raifuku Maru[23].
  • K Line's owner of is recorded as International Transportation Service[24].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 9695000BTFCCAK8B1U20[25]

  • Registered legal name: K. Line[26]

  • Legal jurisdiction: FR[27]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[28]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 6CHY[29]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[30]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[31]

  • Entity created: 1997-01-01[32]

  • LEI first registered: 2017-12-13[33]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-01-10[34]

  • LEI next renewal: 2025-01-10[35]

  • Managing LOU: 969500Q2MA9VBQ8BG884[36]

  • Registration authority: RA000189[37]

  • Authority entity ID: 410032460[38]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[39]

Body

Founding

K Line's founder is recorded as Kōjirō Matsukata[9]. Recorded inception include April 5, 1919[15] and 1997-01-01[16].

Operations

K Line's headquarters location is recorded as Iino Building[10]. Its child organization or unit is recorded as K Line Offshore AS[11].

Industry

K Line's industry is recorded as water transport[14].

Ownership

K Line's stock exchange is recorded as Tokyo Stock Exchange[13].

Why It Matters

K Line ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (357 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [13] . wikidata.org.
  10. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [25] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [26] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [27] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [35] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [36] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [37] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [38] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [39] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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