Which shipping company was co-founded by a man whose biography was written by James Scurlock?
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James Scurlock James Duncan Scurlock (born September 15, 1971) is an American director, producer, writer and financial adviser. He is probably best known for his critically acclaimed documentary "Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders" and his award-winning book, "Maxed Out: Hard Times in the Age of Easy Credit". His most recent book, "", is a biography of Larry Hillblom.
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Larry Hillblom Larry Lee Hillblom (May 12, 1943 – May 21, 1995) was an American businessman, and a co-founder of the shipping company DHL Worldwide Express.
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CP Ships CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships from Europe to Canada. The sinking of the steamship RMS "Empress of Ireland" was the largest maritime disaster in Canadian history. The company provided Canadian Merchant Navy vessels in World Wars I and II. Twelve vessels were lost due to enemy action in World War II including the largest ship sunk by a German U-Boat.
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Willem Usselincx Willem Usselincx (1567–1647) was a Flemish slave owner, slave trader, merchant, investor and diplomat who was instrumental in drawing both Dutch and Swedish attention to the importance of the New World. Usselincx was one of the founding fathers of the Dutch West India Company (Dutch: "Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie").
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Henry Sturgis Morgan Jr. Henry Sturgis Morgan Jr. (August 10, 1924 – May 6, 2011) was a United States Navy Rear Admiral and maritime lawyer. His father, Henry Sturgis Morgan Sr., was the co-founder of Morgan Stanley and his great-grandfather was J. P. Morgan, founder of J.P. Morgan & Co.
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Eastern Steamship Lines Eastern Steamship Lines was a shipping concern created through successive mergers by Wall Street financier and speculator Charles Wyman Morse. It built numerous ships for the United States government in World War I, and served as operator of a large number of vessels on behalf of the War Shipping Administration in World War II.
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Samuel Gardner Wilder Samuel Gardner Wilder (June 20, 1831 – July 28, 1888) was an American shipping magnate and politician who developed a major transportation company in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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James Wilson (businessman) James Wilson (3 June 1805 – 11 August 1860) was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded "The Economist" weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to form Standard Chartered.
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Charles E. Moore Charles Edward Moore (21 April 1894–19 June 1953) was an American industrialist who is best known for his contribution to the maritime shipbuilding industry during World War II.
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Thomas Eustace Smith Thomas Eustace Smith (1831–1903) was an English shipping magnate and Liberal Party politician.
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Alexander Balfour Alexander Balfour (2 September 1824 – 16 April 1886) was a Scottish merchant and founder of the Liverpool shipping company Balfour Williamson.
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Robert Braithwaite (engineer) Robert Braithwaite, CBE, DL (born May 1943), is a British entrepreneur, marine engineer and Founder and President of the luxury powerboat manufacturer, alongside John Macklin, Sunseeker. Born in Otley Moor, Yorkshire, Robert Braithwaite left school at 14 with no qualifications and moved to the Hampshire coast where his parents became proprietors of a village store near Christchurch.
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Star Shipping Star Shipping was a shipping company based in Bergen, Norway that in 2008 operated 60–70 vessels with a total of 3 million deadweight tonnes. It was founded in 1961 a joint venture between Grieg Group and Masterbulk. The main area of co-operation was in industrial transport of forest products with 50 open hatch ships. It also operated 20 handysize and handymax bulk carriers as well as two container ships, and was the operator of Squamish Terminals in British Columbia, Canada. The ships were owned by the two parent companies.
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Adelaide Steamship Company The Adelaide Steamship Company was formed by a group of South Australian businessmen in 1875. Their aim was to control the transport of goods between Adelaide and Melbourne and profit from the need for an efficient and comfortable passenger service. For the first 100 years of its life, the main activities of the company were conventional shipping operations on the Australian coast, primary products, consumer cargoes and extensive passenger services.
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Australian United Steam Navigation Company The Australian United Steam Navigation Company (AUSNC) was an Australian shipping company from 1887 to 1961. It was formed by the merger of the Australasian Steam Navigation Company and the Queensland Steam Shipping Company and their fleets in 1887.
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Bob Clifford Dr. Robert "Bob" Frederick Clifford AO, (born in Tasmania, Australia), and now living in Surrey, England, is an Australian shipbuilder, entrepreneur, and businessman, best known for his success in building his Incat catamaran building company into an international brand that sells wave piercing catamaran ferries all over the world including to the US military and many European ferry operators.
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Edward Conor Marshall O'Brien Edward Conor Marshall O'Brien (3 November 1880 – 18 April 1952) was an intellectual, Irish aristocrat, republican, nationalist, pioneer in modern maritime theory, and owner and captain of one of the first boats to sail under the tri-colour of the Irish Free State. He was born in England. He was well educated, being able to read and write in both English and Irish. He was a grandson of the Fenian William Smith O'Brien. He was a ship builder and designer, and his notable boats include the "Kelpie" (used for gun running in 1914), the "Saoirse" (in which he circumnavigated the globe) and the "A. K. Ilen" (a Falkland Islands service ship, undergoing restoration).
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Robert Bowne Minturn Robert Bowne Minturn (born New York, 16 November 1805; died New York, 9 January 1866) was one of the most prominent American merchants and shippers of the mid-19th century. Today, he is probably best known as being one of the owners of the famous clipper ship, "Flying Cloud".
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George Fried Captain George Fried, (August 10, 1877 – July 25, 1949) a sea Captain with service in both the US Navy and Merchant Marine, is best remembered for his valiant rescue of the crews of the British steamship "Antinoe" in 1926 while captaining the luxury liner SS "President Roosevelt" and three years later the Italian freighter "Florida" while in command of the luxury liner USS "America". Both of the ships he captained during the rescues were owned by the large United States Lines. Fried became familiar to thousands of Americans when his syndicated column "My Thirty Years at Sea", which chronicled his life and ocean adventures, was featured in hundreds of major newspapers beginning in 1929.
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China COSCO Shipping China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, also referred to as the China COSCO Shipping Group or China COSCO Shipping, is a Chinese business conglomerate and state-owned enterprise headquartered in Shanghai. The group is engaged in a variety of business sectors, with a focus on integrated logistics, shipping, finance services, and equipment manufacturing. The company was formed by the merger of the COSCO Group and the China Shipping Group in January 2016. The merger was precipitated by an ongoing downturn in the containerized-ocean-freight and break bulk shipping industries that stymied the profits of both groups and motivated them to unite and endure the decline together. The merged entity is composed of several business clusters each of which is managed by one or more subsidiaries. Its core business cluster is container, dry-bulk, and petroleum shipping services.
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Robert Gray (sea captain) Robert Gray (May 10, 1755 – "circa" July, 1806) was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region. In the course of those voyages, Gray explored portions of that coast and, in 1790, completed the first American circumnavigation of the world. Perhaps his most remembered accomplishment from his explorations was his coming upon and then naming of the Columbia River, in 1792 while on his second voyage.
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Adam E. Cornelius (ship, 1908) The Adam E. Cornelius, launched by the American Steamship Company, was named after one of the firm's two founding directors.