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Flag horizontally divided yellow-red-yellow with a white star in the
middle of the red stripe. Image after a photo of an actual flag, from
Joseph Nüsseʼs
website.
Ivan Sache, 24 Aug 2002

The company website is at
http://www.csav.cl.
Dov Gutterman, 15 Jan 1999
The 1933 german sticker album [llz33] says (my translation):
377. Compania de Vap. Sud-Americana - ValparaisoA white flag with a red saltire. S, C, A, V, in blue, in the four quarters, respectively.
Shipping lines: Chile - Peru - Ecuador
Cargo and passenger steamboats: 9
Tonnage: ca 31,200 Regt. brutto.
CSAV, Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores (South American Steamship
Company), is a Chilean publicly traded shipping company, presently
the largest in Latin America. CSAV, one of the oldest shipping
companies in the world, was founded in 1872.
quoted by Phil Nelson, Sep 99

The logo includes a flaglike wavy drawing like this flag.
Jorge Candeias, 08 Jan 1998
A contemporary logo which is certainly much nicer than many…
Jan Mertens, 29 Oct 2003
Only one Chilean firm in the 1930 Larousse Commercial house flag
pages [hok30]: Cia SudAmericana de Vapores,
Valparaiso. The author made a mistake and shown under this name the flag of
the Sud Atlántica Sociedad Anónima
de Navegación, of Buenos Aires (well, the company names are
similar).
Jan Mertens, 29 Oct 2003 and 01 May 2004

This Chilean shipping company was founded in 1953. Its house flag is
white with two horizontal thin blue stripes near the bottom of the flag
and a letter S in blue flanked with two blue stars in the middle of the
field. (Source: Somarco website)
Ivan Sache, 03 Jul 2002

White flag divided by a yellow-blue saltire and with a yellow disc
charge with a blue T placed over the saltire in the middle of the flag.
Image after a photo of an actual flag, from
Joseph Nüsseʼs
website.
Ivan Sache, 24 Aug 2002