Chief Container Service

During the 1990s, China Navigation’s liner trades expanded rapidly, but the focus of management activity moved away from its head office in Hong Kong. Management of New Guinea Pacific Line [NGPL] moved from Hong Kong- via a three-year joint venture with Bank Line and Columbus Line in Singapore – to...

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Date(s) of creation: 1979-1980
Level: Sub-collection
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.16.4
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber JSS/16/4
callnumber_txt JSS/16/4
callnumber-sort JSS/16/4
prefix_number 4
title Chief Container Service
scb_date_creation 1979-1980
scb_level Sub-collection
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 1 box
format Archive
description During the 1990s, China Navigation’s liner trades expanded rapidly, but the focus of management activity moved away from its head office in Hong Kong. Management of New Guinea Pacific Line [NGPL] moved from Hong Kong- via a three-year joint venture with Bank Line and Columbus Line in Singapore – to be consolidated with that of Chief Container Service [CCS] in the Swire Shipping Offices in Sydney in 1993. With the initiation of a trans-Tasman service in 1999, Swire in Sydney became a natural focus for management of this trade too. CCS consisted of three partners, Papua New Guinea Shipping Corporation on behalf of PNG Government, New Guinea Australia Line and Australia West Pacific Line.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSS
hierarchy_sequence JSS.0016.004