Heap Eng Moh Steamship Co
Formerly | NV Kian Gwan |
|---|---|
| Industry | shipping |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Founder | Oei Tiong Ham |
| Headquarters | Singapore, Singapore |
Key people | Oei Tiong Ham |
| Owner | KPM 1928-?? |
Heap Eng Moh Steamship Co. was a shipping line owned by Majoor Oei Tiong Ham, a Chinese Indonesian businessman.
History
The company was founded by Oei Tiong Ham under the name "NV Kian Gwan" in 1905. His first ship was the Giang Bee (built as Reijnierz in Rotterdam in 1908, later as HMS Giang Bee and sunk by Japanese 1942).
The company was renamed as the Heap Eng Moh Steamship Company in 1909. Lee Hoon Leong (the grandfather of Lee Kuan Yew) worked on some of their ships as a purser and eventually became managing director of the shipping Company.[1]
Oei died in 1924 and company was sold by the Oei family in 1928. The majority of the shares were purchased by KPM, a Dutch Indonesian shipping company.[2] KPM was subsequently sold to Nedlloyd which was later taken over by Maersk lines.[3]
Records
Some records of Heap Eng Moh Steamship Company are held in the National Archives of Singapore.[4]
References
- ↑ Lee Kuan Yew (2000). From Third World to First. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish.
- ↑ Campo, Joseph Norbert Frans Marie à (2002). Engines of Empire : steamshipping and state formation in colonial Indonesia. Hilversum: Verloren. pp. 331–332. ISBN 90-6550-738-8.
- ↑ tri Sulistiyono, Singgih (2 July 2006). "The Expulsion of KPM and its Impact on the Inter-island Shipping and Trade in Indonesia 1957 - 1964". Cambridge journals / Research journals Leiden. 30 (2). Retrieved 14 July 2018.
- ↑ "HEAP ENG MOH STEAMSHIP CO LTD". nas.gov.sg. Retrieved 2015-12-24.