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Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
The China Navigation Company
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Description area
Dates of existence
1872 - present
History
Shipping Company now based in Singapore. Originally established by British entrepreneurs to operate paddle seamers on the lower Yangtze, the company grew to become a large shipping company run out of Shanghai and Hong Kong that operated vessels between the China coast and Philippines, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan, and the far east of Russian. After the communist victory of the Chinese revolution in 1949, the company management was consolidated in Hong Kong and then relocated to Singapore. China Navigation Company is the shipping arm of the Swire Group. It is a major operator in shipping in the Southeast Asia.