In 1959 Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping included only a small fleet of ships, the Republika I, the Lidice, and the Dukla.
Ceskoslovenska namorni plavba was a state shipping agent company established in 1959 in Czechoslovakia and closed in 1992. The company owned 44 ocean going vessels. Until 1967, it controlled Chinese ocean ships. It was second-largest fleet owned by a landlocked country. 
