Wah Kwong Maritime Agency Company Limited
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Ship Management
Ship Owning
Australasia
Latin America
Middle East
North America
Northeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Western Europe
Mainland China
Headquartered in Asia’s maritime centre, Hong Kong, Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings Ltd (Wah Kwong) is one of the city’s largest privately owned shipping companies, operating a modern fleet of twenty seven wholly or jointly owned tankers, bulkcarriers and LPG carriers.
Established in 1952 by T.Y.Chao, the modern Wah Kwong is one of a handful of Hong Kong shipping companies who can trace their roots back to Shanghai, where T.Y.Chao had originally started his career as a lawyer. Today, Wah Kwong remains under the ownership and control of the Chao family, with the third generation of the family at the helm under the leadership of T.Y.’s grand-daughter, Sabrina Chao.
The Wah Kwong fleet currently consists of 14 bulk carriers, 3 crude oil tankers and 10 LPG carriers. The fleet trades worldwide, chartererd to some of the leading companies engaged in the supply of raw materials to industry. The company’s bulkcarrier fleet is engaged in the transport of iron ore, coal, grain and other bulk commodities, with the raw materials needed to fuel China’s dominant steel industry a prime source of cargo. The companies’ three Very Large Crude Carriers are primarily engaged in the long haul transport of crude oil from the Middle East and West Africa to Asia. With LPG an increasingly significant feedstock for the petrochemicals industry, the modern fleet of ten small LPG tankers trade in Europe and Asia on charter to leading oil companies and traders.
