The MV Kooringa was built by a company formed by a group of businessmen in what year?
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MV Kooringa MV Kooringa was the world's first fully cellular purpose-built container ship and was built by Australian company, Associated Steamships Pty. Ltd. in partnership with McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co and commissioned in May 1964. It was built at the New South Wales State Dockyard at Dykes Point, Newcastle as a "custom-designed cellular container ship to handle 20-ton containers".
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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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Danish East India Company The Danish East India Company (Danish: "Østindisk Kompagni" ) refers to two separate Danish chartered companies. The first company operated between 1616 and 1650. The second company existed between 1670 and 1729, however, in 1730 it was re-founded as the Asiatic Company (Danish: "Asiatisk Kompagni" ).
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Nesskip Nesskip hf. is an Icelandic shipping company based in Reykjavík. Founded on 27 January 1974 by Captain Gudmundur Asgeirsson, it is one of Iceland's largest bulk transporting firms. According to Bloomberg it "provides a range of shipping-related services as ship owners, ship brokers, port agents, and transport and chartering consultants", and serves "cruise liners, seismic-research vessels, reefers, tankers, and dry cargo vessels and foreign deep sea fishing ships" as a port agent. The company exports oil in their tankers "MV Freyja" and "MV Frigg", but also deals with the shipping of fishmeal, steel products, construction materials, cement, timber, pumice, cement, coal, gravel, ferrosilicon, and salt. It is a member of the international shipping organization Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO). In 2006, Norwegian shipping company Wilson EuroCarriers acquired a majority share in Nesskip; their working relationship dates back to 1977.
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Denholm Group Denholm Group is a British maritime company based in Glasgow, United Kingdom. It was founded by John Denholm of Greenock in 1866 and today has an annual turnover of over £250 million. It employs over 3,000 people around the world.
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STX Finland STX Finland Oy, formerly Aker Yards Oy, was a Finnish shipbuilding company operating three shipyards in Finland, in Turku, Helsinki and Rauma, employing some 2,500 people. It was part of STX Europe, a group of international shipbuilding companies owned by the South Korean STX Corporation.
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Ronald Chagoury Ronald Chagoury (born 8 January 1949) is a Nigerian businessman, the co-founder (with his billionaire brother Gilbert Chagoury), and CEO of the Chagoury Group.
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De Norsemen Kclub of Nigeria De Norsemen Kclub of Nigeria is a Nigerian confraternity, founded at University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria by students with the nicknames of "Risenangel De Chamelus" "Fons et Origo", "Captain Trupence Njamena" and "Eric the Red". The group was founded in 1985 and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) of Nigeria as a social charity.
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Kari-Finn Kari-Finn Oy is a Finnish family-owned company. It and Muovisto Oy are subsidiary companies of KFR Hollola Oy.
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Bidvest Group The Bidvest Group Limited is a South African services, trading, and distribution company. The Group was founded in 1988 by Brian Joffe and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1990. The Group owns or has significant holdings in over 300 companies. The Bidvest Group Limited has a corporate office in Johannesburg, South Africa, and employs approximately 114,000 people.
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Eniram Eniram Oy, founded in 2005, is a Finnish clean-tech software engineering company which specializes in marine energy management products and services for ship-owners and operators of commercial vessels, ranging from cruise ships, bulk carriers, container ships, LNG carriers and tankers.
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Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited (often simply called the "Bombay Burmah Trading Company") was formed in 1863 by the Wallace Brothers. The Corporation was originally formed as a public company to engage in the Burmese tea business by taking over the assets in Burma of William Wallace. It is India's second oldest publicly quoted company.
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ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems of Germany (often abbreviated TKMS) is a group and holding company of providers of naval vessels, surface ships and submarines. It was founded when large industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp acquired Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft on January 5, 2005.
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Navayuga Group The Navayuga Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Visakhapatnam, with diversified portfolio that includes public infrastructure in roads, bridges, metro rail, marine works, IT/ITES companies, ports, power projects and steel units. It was founded by Mr C. Visweswara Rao in the year 1986.
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Haugesund Mekaniske Verksted Haugesund Mekaniske Verksted (HMV) was founded in 1900 as a shipyard in the city centre of Haugesund. The shipyard was moved to the western side of Risøy in 1912. From around 1970 the business has been towards the offshore market, with the construction of modules, maintenance of ships and oil and gas offshore installations.
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The Wadhwa Group The Wadhwa Group is a real estate development and construction company established in 1969 and located in Mumbai, India. "The Economic Times" has described the company as instrumental in building world-class structures.
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Charoen Pokphand The Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) (Thai: เจริญโภคภัณฑ์ ; ) is a Thai conglomerate company located in Bangkok. It is Thailand's largest private company and is one of world's largest conglomerates. It consists of three core businesses that operate in agribusiness and food, retail and distribution, and the telecommunications industries with investments in over 20 countries. Founded in 1921, the CP Group currently employs, through its subsidiaries, over 500,000 people with offices and factories worldwide.
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Fred. Olsen &amp; Co. Fred. Olsen & Co. is a shipping company based in Oslo, Norway. The company was founded by Petter Olsen in 1848. Today it is the holding company that controls the Olsen family's interest through Bonheur and Ganger Rolf.
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Habib Group The Habib Group is a prominent Bangladeshi industrial conglomerate. Founded in Chittagong in 1947, it employs over 20,000 people and has various interests in textiles, aviation, cement, steel, real estate, insurance and banking. It is the parent company of Regent Airways, a Bangladeshi private airline, and Regent Power Limited, a power generating company.
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Royal Arctic Line Royal Arctic Line A/S (RAL) or Royal Arctic is a seabourne freight company in Greenland, wholly owned by the Government of Greenland. It was formed in 1993 and is headquartered in Nuuk.
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Norddeutscher Lloyd Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) (North German Lloyd) was a German shipping company. It was founded by Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann in Bremen on 20 February 1857. It developed into one of the most important German shipping companies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was instrumental in the economic development of Bremen and Bremerhaven. On 1 September 1970, the company merged with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) to form Hapag-Lloyd AG.
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Stroytransgaz OAO Stroytransgaz (Russian: Стройтрансгаз ) is a Russian engineering construction company in the field of oil and gas industry. The company was founded in 1990. It was originally a subsidiary of Gazprom, but now controlled by Gennady Timchenko though his Volga Group SICAV SIF SA fund.