She was originally built for the Swedish East Asiatic Co. which was a division of the Brostrom Group and was their contribution to the Scandutch (Europe/Far East) consortium - the other partners being Nedlloyd, CGM and Wilh Wilhelmsen later joined by MISC of Malaysia. In the early 90's SEAC and Wilhelmsen sold their share to EAC together with the Nihon and Wilhelmsen's Toyama. Following the disbandment of Scandutch, EAC teamed up with the UK's Ben Line to form the UK-headquartered "EACBen" which operated a single Asia/Europe string. Ben Line later sold their share and their three 3,000 TEU boxships to EAC who in turn sold out to AP Moller around 1993. The Nihon became the Ladby Maersk until sold in 1996 to Mediteranean Shipping Co to become the now infamous MSC Carla. Undertand the Nihin still holds the record for the fastest ever round-the-world voyage by a cargo ship which she made in the mid-1970's.