作者：Howard Dick and Stephen Kentwell
出版社：HKU PRESS
出版年份：2026
語言：English
ISBN：9789888900848
頁數：456



Content Description 內容簡介

Shanghai-born and later Hong Kong–resident shipowner TUNG CHAO-YUNG (1912–1982) is remembered worldwide as a champion for Chinese shipping, founding the companies Chinese Maritime Transport and Island Navigation, and pioneering container shipping for Asia in Orient Overseas Container Line/OOCL. Despite coming from a humble background, by the time of his death he controlled a huge fleet of passenger liners, bulk carriers, tankers, and container ships, while also being diversified into port terminals, dockyards, banks, and prime real estate. This business biography sets out his pathway from a junior executive in the early 1930s to one of the world’s leading private shipowners. The authors argue that Tung achieved his desire to develop Chinese ocean shipping through his ability to learn, innovate, network, and devise strategies through decades of rapid technical and organizational change. He also earned respect for his generous philanthropy. After his death, sons Tung Chee-Hwa and Tung Chee-Chen were able to navigate a financial crisis, and restructure the Group in the face of intensifying competition in the 1980s, grow the Group through the challenges and opportunities of globalization and advancement in supply chain management and technology within the industry in the 1990s through 2010s. OOCL became one of the most competitive liner companies in the industry until divestment in 2017. Eight decades since their establishment, privately owned Island Navigation and, now independently, Chinese Maritime Transport continue to trade globally in dry-bulk and tanker markets. The book concludes with an overview of the emergence of the state-owned PRC fleet and brief histories of other multi-generational family companies.



Authors Description 作者簡介

Howard Dick, an honorary professorial fellow in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia, studies the economic and business history of East Asia.

Stephen Kentwell is a retired Australian diplomat and senior Asia analyst who has been closely observing East Asia’s merchant shipping since the 1950s.



Table of Contents 目錄

List of Tables viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiv
Conventions xvii
Abbreviations and Glossary xix
1. Child of the Revolution, 1912–1928 1
2. Steam Shipping in China, 1841–1937 19
3. Starting Out: Shanghai and Tianjin, 1928–1936 45
4. War and Survival, 1937–1945 74
5. New Realities, 1945–1948 89
6. Exile and New Horizons: Hong Kong, 1949–1952 112
7. Building a Business: From Tramps to Bulk Carriers and Tankers, 1953–1982 138
8. Diversification: Cargo Lines, Passenger Ships, and Dockyards, 1961–1982 176
9. Orient Overseas Container Line, 1969–1982 229
10. Farewell 256
11. Legacy: OOCL and the Tung Group since 1982 285
12. The Chinese Merchant Marine since 1949 309
Epilogue 343
Appendix: Fleet List 351
References 385
Index of Ships 403
General Index 408