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The China Navigation Company Limited (CNCo) is a London-based holding company of merchant shipping companies Swire Shipping Pte Ltd and Swire Bulk Pte Ltd, both of which are headquartered in Singapore. [1] [2] [3] The Swire flag is also the house flag of CNCo. CNCo is part of the Swire group and wholly owned by John Swire & Sons Limited.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]
The Fijian Drua (currently known as the Swire Shipping Fijian Drua for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby union team based in Fiji that competes in the Super Rugby. The team was created by the Fiji Rugby Union and launched in August 2017, shortly before the 2017 National Rugby Championship . [ 1 ]
John Samuel Swire (24 December 1825 – 1 December 1898) was a British businessman. He grew his family business, the Swire Group , and expanded the cotton and sugar trade with China . He established the Taikoo Sugar Refinery in Hong Kong and The China Navigation Company on the Yangtze river.
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The Bank Line was a British commercial shipping line that was established in 1905 by Andrew Weir. The company was sold to the Swire Group in 2003, eventually ceasing operations in 2009. Initially a tramp operator of sailing vessels, it developed into a major company operating shipping lines all over the world.
Swire has served on the board of directors of John Swire & Sons Ltd since January 2015. [4] In 2019, Swire became chairman of Swire Shipping and Swire Bulk. [6] [7] From 2015 to 2023 he was a director of both Swire Pacific and Cathay Pacific Airways. [8] [9] Swire is chairman of the Swire Charitable Trust and the Swire Chinese Language Foundation.