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Neptune Orient Lines Limited ( NOL) was a Singaporean container shipping company. It was founded in 1968 as Singapore's national shipping line, but was later sold as a subsidiary to French shipping company CMA CGM in 2016. [3] [4] On 1 October 2020, NOL was restructured into a regional hub and was renamed to CMA CGM Asia Pacific Limited.
Mandarin Oriental, Singapore is a luxury hotel located in Marina Centre next to Marina Square Shopping Mall and near Suntec City, home to one of Asia Pacific's largest convention centers – the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, and the city's financial district. The hotel includes 527 rooms and suites, 6 ...
The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger luxury train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the length of continental Europe, with terminal stations in Paris in the northwest and Istanbul in the southeast, and branches extending service ...
The Eastern & Oriental Express is a luxury cruise train that carries passengers between Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand . The train is operated by Belmond Limited. As of 2024, only two seasonal routes are operated between Singapore and Malaysia. Fares on the Singapore to Malaysia train in 2024 (four days, three nights) start at US$3,140.
The Orient Steam Navigation Company, also known as the Orient Line, was a Britishshipping company with roots going back to the late 18th century. From the early 20th century onwards, an association began with P&Owhich became 51% shareholder in 1919 and culminated in the Orient Line being totally absorbed into that company in 1966.
In the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians, the main characters stay in Raffles Hotel when they arrive in Singapore. [24] Raffles Hotel was the subject of the Carlton Television series Paul O'Grady's Orient. Raffles Hotel featured in episodes of the BBC/ABC co-production Tenko, with the majority of Series 3 taking place in the hotel.
SS Orontes was a passenger ship owned by Orient Line . The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England . Its sister ships were Orama (II), Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto (II). Orontes was the last of the "Orama" Class and great effort was taken to make the public rooms of Orontes the best of this class.
The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the continent of Asia – loosely classified into Southwest Asia, Southeast ...