Chapter 233 The Four Internationally Renowned Shipping Giants!

Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa.

Study on the third floor.

Mai Lisi, Ma Shimin, Wei Li, Wei Peter, Bao Fuda, Kayla, Tang Shilian, Lin Xiuzhi, finished dinner together at the Yang family villa.

They knew that the boss had been to Yanjing for more than half a month, but they didn't know when the boss would come back.

Now, Lin Xiuzhi called them in advance to inform them to come to the Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa.

Now these people are all the most important members of the Empire Group.

"Boss, are you going to the mainland this time?" Ma Shimin asked curiously.

This time, Yang Ming and more than 30 other Chinese representatives from Hong Kong were invited to Yanjing to participate in the National Day ceremony, and they were reported by newspapers one after another.

Yang Ming was the most special one, staying in Yanjing for more than half a month.

They only learned from newspapers that Mr. Yang sent a large sum of money to the country, that is, the news about donating 100 million Hong Kong dollars to the country as a student aid fund every year.

"I went to Yanjing this time and returned with a lot of money. In the future, the benefits will increase."

Return with a lot of money?

In the future, the benefits will increase?

Lin Xiuzhi, who had been with Yang Ming to Yanjing for such a long time, was afraid that she could not see it.

Yang Ming asked them to come this time not to discuss these things.

The purpose of Yang Ming calling them this time.

That is to establish the First Shipping Group.

"This time I called you here to form the First Shipping Group under the Empire Group."

The First Shipping Group?

Except for Mai Lisi, Ma Shimin and others were a little surprised.

In Hong Kong, even in the world, who doesn't know that Bao Yugang is the world's shipping king.

Before the 1950s, Hong Kong's shipping was almost completely controlled by foreign businessmen headed by the British-owned Jardine Matheson and Jardine Matheson.

At that time, Chinese businessmen only had dozens of small cargo ships.

After the 1950s.

Bao Yugang started to establish Global Shipping and began to develop rapidly by leasing large shipping ships to the East for a long time.

He even persuaded Sanders, who was then the director of the accounting department of Huifeng Bank, to break the precept that Huifeng Bank could not lend to shipping companies and obtain loans.

With the support of Huifeng Bank, Global Shipping developed faster.

In the early 1960s, Sanders began to serve as the head of Huifeng Bank. At that time, Huifeng Bank had determined the policy of supporting a group of local Chinese businessmen. Sanders chose Bao Yugang because of his cooperation with Bao Yugang in the 1950s and began to vigorously support Bao Yugang's Global Shipping.

In the 1960s, Bao Yugang's Global Shipping developed more rapidly, and his maritime kingdom began to take shape.

It was also at that time that Huifeng Bank and Global Shipping formed shipping companies such as Global Shipping Bermuda Company and Global Shipping Bahamas Shipping Company through cross-shareholding.

In 1973, Bao Yugang owned 57 large ships with a total tonnage of 9.6 million tons. Even the total tonnage of ships of the then M country shipping king Lu Wei and the Greek shipping king Onassis was increasingly different from the total tonnage of Bao Yugang's Global Shipping.

Since 1957, in addition to Global Shipping becoming the head office of Bao Yugang Group, there are more than 200 companies registered in coastal cities around the world.

Among them, the most famous ones are Global Bahamas Shipping, Global Shipping Investment, Global Wheelock Shipping, Asian Shipping, and Long Fung International.

Among them, Long Fung International was originally a subsidiary of Wheelock & Co., and in the 1960s, it was controlled by Bao Yugang and held a 20% stake in Asian Shipping.

Now this company has 16 large ships with a deadweight of 1.66 million tons.

Historically, Bao Yugang successfully acquired Wharf through Long Fung International.

The fastest growing company under Global Shipping is Asian Shipping, which was established in 1941 and listed in 1948. Bao Yugang has been focusing on it.

After gaining control in the 1960s, it now has 38 large ships, from 390,000 tons in the early 1970s to 4.96 million tons now.

In 1978, Bao Yugang's shipping empire was already at its peak, with a total tonnage of more than 20 million tons, making him the world's well-deserved world shipping king.

In Hong Kong.

In addition to Bao Yugang.

Another shipping tycoon who has made it into the world class is Dong Haoyun.

Dong Haoyun started to get involved in the shipping industry in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, he established the China Shipping Trust Company in Hong Kong.

During the 1940s and 1950s, due to the complex international environment, Dong Haoyun's shipping industry suffered a great blow, but he finally survived with difficulty.

After the 1960s, he began to develop vigorously, and at that time he already had the largest ship in Asia, which was over 70,000 tons.

After the 1970s, Dong Haoyun's Orient Overseas Container Group was successfully listed, and began to attribute other fleets and subsidiaries to Orient Overseas Company.

Among them, Orient Overseas Industrial spent a huge amount of money to acquire the largest shipping group in Country Y, Funasi Shipping Company, in 1980. The total tonnage soared from hundreds of thousands of tons to 1.2 million tons, making it the largest subsidiary of Orient Overseas Group.

In addition to this one, in 1980, the total tonnage of ships of all its companies had reached 11 million tons.

Its shipping industry is also spread all over the world.

Yang Ming knew that Dong Haoyun was also very important in Hong Kong and even in the global shipping industry.

Historically, Dong Haoyun, like Wheelock & Co. boss Ma Deng, made a desperate bet and invested a lot of money to expand his shipping group, but later encountered a big crisis.

In history, Wheelock & Co. was swallowed up by Bao Yugang's family.

As for Dong Haoyun, he handed over Orient Overseas to his eldest son and owed more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars in foreign debt before his death.

Moreover, Yang Ming knew that Dong Haoyun was most famous not for his shipping company, but for his eldest son.

When Yang Ming attended the National Day ceremony in Yanjing, Dong Haoyun also visited Yang Ming in person.

Yang Ming's feeling for Dong Haoyun may be better than Bao Yugang.

Although Dong Haoyun is usually low-key and only focuses on the shipping industry, he is the second of the four major Chinese shipping tycoons in the Hong Kong shipping industry and one of the top ten world ship kings.

In addition to these two.

Next is the third largest Chinese shipping group in Hong Kong.

Huaguang Shipping!

The founder of Huaguang Shipping is Zhao Congyan. In the 1940s, Huaguang Shipping Company was established. Considering his own lack of ability, he sent his eldest son Zhao Shipeng to study at the Shipbuilding University of Country Y. Later, he also interned and worked at the famous Gothenburg Shipyard in Switzerland, the Rand Brothers Financial Company of Country Y, and the Lloyd's Ship Inspection Company, laying the foundation for returning to Hong Kong to manage Huaguang Shipping in the future.

When he returned to Hong Kong in the 1960s, he began to take over Huaguang Shipping from his father.

At that time, Huaguang Shipping had only four ships.

The most successful place of Zhao's Shipping Industry and Zhao Shipeng was in the early 1960s, when the world shipping industry was in recession and a large number of old ships in Europe were abandoned in major ports.

There were more than 300 ships in the Port of Aden.

At that time, it only took 60,000 US dollars to buy a 10,000-ton ship, of which 40,000 US dollars could be borrowed from the bank.

When Zhao Congyan and his son learned of this news, they immediately felt that this was a good opportunity. Zhao Shipeng immediately went to Greece and the Port of Aden to investigate and found that the news they received was true.

They began to buy a large number of old ships in the port of Aden, some of which were incorporated into the Huaguang Shipping Industry of the Zhao family, and some were directly dismantled and sold as scrap metal, making the Zhao family a lot of money.

In the early 1960s, the famous Lloyd's Insurance Company of Country Y announced a substantial increase in the insurance premiums for shipping goods on old ships, which had the greatest reaction at the time, and it was Dongyang.

At that time, Dongyang shipyards and shipbuilding industries occupied half of the global market.

In order to maintain its own shipbuilding market, Dongyang encouraged all Dongyang to buy new ships around the world. They only needed to pay a 20% down payment, and the remaining 80% could be loaned from Dongyang banks at an annual interest rate of 5%.

At that time, Bao Yugang and Dong Haoyun in Hong Kong began to shift from operating old ships to ordering new ships. In 1965, Zhao Shiguang, the fourth son of Zhao Congyan, went to Dongyang on behalf of Huaguang Shipping to order new ships. Only 6 ships were ordered, but it further promoted the development of Huaguang Shipping.

After the 1970s, Huaguang seized the opportunity and cooperated with Heng Ti Bank to list its New World Shipping. After raising 140 million Hong Kong dollars, Huaguang Shipping also began to go public, and Huaguang Real Estate also went public.

The three companies went public and raised a total of 800 million Hong Kong dollars.

With these funds, the Zhao family began to buy more ships around the world, including a 227,000-ton supertanker.

In 1974, Huaguang Shipping took advantage of the low stock market at the time and acquired New Century Shipping by exchanging shares. The fleet also increased to 29 ships, with a deadweight of more than 1.08 million tons.

Historically, in the 1980s, Huaguang Shipping continued to expand its scale, increasing to 70 large ships with a deadweight of more than 5 million tons, becoming the third largest shipping company in Hong Kong.

In addition to these three Chinese shipping companies.

There is also Wanbang Shipping of the Cao family.

Cao Wenjing was born in a shipping family on the Huangpu River in Shanghai in the 1920s.

In 1949, all members of the Cao family immigrated from Shanghai to Hong Kong. Cao Wenjing began to rent a small ship to transport goods back and forth between Hong Kong, Weihaiwei, and Dongyang.

In the 1950s, influenced by the international environment, Cao Wenjing saw an opportunity and began to buy old ships to form the Wanbang Fleet.

When he was in Dongyang, he competed with Dongyang shipping companies for shipping business, and accumulated a lot of funds and reputation in Hong Kong, Dongyang, and even the world.

Next, he began to gradually eliminate the old ships and replace them with modern fleets.

In 1972, Cao Wenjing officially registered Wanbang Shipping Investment Company and successfully listed in Hong Kong in October of the same year.

In the mid-1970s, it already had 10 large ships with a carrying capacity of more than 332,000 tons.

However, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as he and Bao Yugang expected, the global shipping industry would suffer a great blow, and he began to gradually give up the shipping industry.

However, in history, it had exceeded 1.57 million tons in the 1990s.

In addition, Wanbang Group is involved in all walks of life.

Even, its business is spread all over Nanyang.

In addition to the four most famous Chinese shipping companies in Hong Kong, there are also many other Chinese shipping companies in Hong Kong.

In fact, there are still many other Chinese shipping companies in Hong Kong.

For example, Huo Yingdong developed shipping in the early days, transporting goods back and forth between China and Hong Kong, and even Haojiang. Especially in the 1950s, when the international economic blockade was imposed on China, Huo Yingdong was quietly transporting things to China, laying a deep foundation for his later relationship with China.

Later, Huo Yingdong had developed his industry in the real estate sector and basically gave up shipping.

In addition to Huo Yingdong.

There is also the Xu Shixun family, a shareholder of Huifeng Bank.

His father, Xu Aizhou, was the first generation of shipping tycoon. He was engaged in shipping and oil business before World War II. In the 1940s, he moved to Hong Kong as a base. In 1957, he established China Construction Enterprise in Hong Kong, engaged in infrastructure, aviation, real estate development and investment. Its main properties include China Construction Building, Asia Bank, Zhongyi Building, Xia Ning Building, and Kwai Chung Container Terminal. Xu Aizhou died in 1966, and his family business was re-divided. The eldest son Xu Qibo was in charge of shipping, the second son Xu Shifen was responsible for mining, and Xu Shixun was in charge of real estate.

In addition to the Xu family, which was once the shipping tycoon in Hong Kong.

The early comprador family, Guo's Wing On Group, and Li Xiaohe's family Li Hysan Group and other Chinese capital, actually involved in shipping.

These shipping companies are too small, or gradually give up these businesses, and cannot be compared with the four major shipping industries.

In Hong Kong.

In addition to the four major Chinese shipping groups and other small and medium-sized Chinese shipping companies.

Before this, the real monopoly of Hong Kong's shipping industry was the four major foreign companies in Hong Kong.

Including Jardine Matheson Shipping, Wheelock Shipping, even Swire Shipping, Hutchison Shipping, and Wharf Shipping.

These companies, except for the real estate and other industries, if it were not for the rise of Chinese shipping giants such as Bao Yugang and Dong Haoyun.

These British foreign companies have always monopolized Hong Kong and global shipping.

Among them, the total tonnage of Wheelock Matheson is now nearly 1.4 million tons.

The scale of Jardine Matheson Shipping, Hutchison Shipping, Swire Shipping, and Wharf Shipping is similar to that of Wheelock Matheson.

It is precisely because of that that the current British foreign companies, even Jardine Land and Hutchison Whampoa, before they were acquired by the Empire Group, their shipping was really far behind Bao Yugang's Global Shipping and Asian Shipping.

Especially the two major shipping groups under Bao Yugang.

One is the first in Hong Kong, and the total tonnage of Global Shipping exceeds more than 10 million tons.

One is the second largest in Hong Kong, with a total tonnage of nearly 5 million tons in Asian shipping.

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