page_title: Alkmaar Packet
section_title: Competition
hierarchical_section_title: Alkmaar Packet / Competition
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: De Alkmaar Packet 7, varend op de Zaan in WormerEnglish: The Alkmaar Packet 7 en route on the Zaan river in Wormer
context_page_description: Alkmaar Packet was a shipping company that operated scheduled passenger and freight services in the northern part of the Netherlands between 1864 and 1950. The services the company provided were a kind of beurtvaart, which at the time had become a forerunner of modern public transport. At its height Alkmaar Packet owned more than 20 ships.
context_section_description: While the company had a virtual monopoly on some lines, it faced fierce competition on others, mainly by other shipping companies operating (inland) steam liners. In 1902 some locals of the Zaan area established the Zaandamsche Stoomvaart Maatschappij because they were dissatisfied with price and performance of Alkmaar Packet. Later that year the Zaandamsche joined six other shipping companies to form Verschure & Co., which became a major competitor of AP, operating in mostly the same part of the Netherlands. The two shipping companies started a tariff war on AP's traditional route, which would last more than two decades.
  In 1907 islanders of Texel, also dissatisfied with Alkmaar Packet, established an association which the next year became the Royal TESO. A virtually complete boycott by the locals, in favour of the TESO ship, made Alkmaar Packet withdraw from the Texel ferry service in 1909.
caption: The Alkmaar Packet 7 on the river Zaan, around 1915
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