(SCL) provides passenger and freight transport and marine container leasing.
It operates in four segments: Ferry, Rail, Container, and Leisure.
Ferry segment provides passenger and freight ferry services in the northern Baltic Sea between Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Germany, and Russia; in the English Channel between England and France; and in the northern Irish Sea between Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It also owns a commuter ferry service operating in New York harbor, and a 50% interest in a ferry service in the Adriatic Sea.
Rail segment offers passenger rail transport services through Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) in Great Britain between London and Scotland.
As of December 31, 2003, GNER operated a fleet of 42 trainsets totalling 488 cars and locomotives.
Container segment’s operations are principally conducted through SCL’s GE SeaCo SRL joint venture with General Electric Capital Corporation.
It offers services to liner ship operators, road and rail operators, forwarders, and exporters.
Leisure segment engages in the ownership or part ownership and management of hotels, restaurants, tourist trains, and river cruiseship through Orient-Express Hotels, Ltd.
The company also owns, or part owns container repair and storage depots in Houston, Charleston, Singapore, Santos, Melbourne, and Auckland which service SCL's and GE SeaCo's fleets, as well as containers owned by others.
In addition, SCL engages in property development, perishable commodity production and trading, and publishing.
The company is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
