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Former British transport company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ocean Group plc was a major British transport business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The company was founded by Alfred Holt and Philip Holt, as the Ocean Steamship Company, to provide a steamship service known as the Blue Funnel Line, between the United Kingdom and China.[1] It was generally known as Holts and had a trademark blue funnel on its ships.[1] For many years it used Swire Group as it shipping agents.[1] In 1947, it formed Malayan Airways.[1]
It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1965.[1]
In 1969, it joined forces with British & Commonwealth Holdings, Furness Withy, and P&O to form Overseas Containers Limited to exploit the introduction of containerization.[1]
In 1972, it acquired William Cory, a major shipping agent, and the following year, it changed its name to Ocean Transport & Trading.[1]
In 1986, it withdrew Overseas Containers Limited and in 1990 it renamed itself Ocean Group.[1]
A major restructuring exercise occurred in 1967 whereby all of the Ocean Steam Ship Company's fleet operations were divided amongst four companies, each of which answered to the main board of the Ocean Steam Ship Company. The four fleet operating companies were: -
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