Legend of Xiangjiang Tycoon

In 1969, Dong creatively transformed 7 old bulk Victory ships into container ships. All the containers had to be placed on the deck, and the center of gravity was unstable. Dong placed heavy objects on the bilge for balance.

The following year, OOCL was registered as a container shipping company to start a full-ship container business and sail to the west coast of the beautiful country on a regular basis.

Subsequently, Dong Haoyun ordered seven high-speed container ships in Japan. Dong Haoyun has a strong interest in new shipping technology, has a unique vision and a bold style.

At that time, the Chinese-American scholar Kapoqi designed a semi-submersible ship type, which only passed the laboratory ship pool test, and there was no precedent for shipyard construction and shipowner use. Dong boldly adopted the Kapoqi semi-submersible, and handed it over to the Sasebo Shipyard in Japan to build a 12,000-ton multi-purpose passenger and cargo ship, named Oriental Queen.

The trial voyage of the Oriental Queen has achieved very satisfactory results. It not only sailed to the west coast of the United States two or three days earlier than traditional ships, but also reduced fuel consumption by 30%.

Due to the success of the Queen of the East, the Kapouchi ship has attracted the attention of the world shipping industry, and many shipowners have ordered Kapauchi-shaped ships.

On the customized Pacific Glory, Dong Haoyun installed a large-capacity boiler in the chimney, using the exhaust gas at a high temperature of 400 degrees in the chimney as the boiler fuel source, generating a large amount of steam to drive the generator. Electricity can be used for oil pumps, water pumps and domestic electricity during sailing. The ship sails, saving 2.5 tons of diesel fuel every 24 hours.

In 1966, Dong Haoyun ordered six 227,000-ton oil tankers in Japan. The oil tankers adopted the latest "heavy heat" device developed by General Electric Company of the United States. The 6 oil tankers were named as: maintenance, movement, production, life, strength, and volume.

The last word of the ship's name is linked together, and it is a slogan: "motion generates power".

In 1974, the OOCL giant container ship "Hong Kong Container" was launched. The ship uses a large-caliber low-speed diesel engine, which is expensive and consumes less fuel. It is also equipped with an artificial satellite navigation device.

Dong Haoyun is the leader of the shipping industry entering the era of giant tankers.

In 1958, he ordered the general tanker Atlantic Confidence from the Japanese shipyard, and handed it over to the United States Steel Corporation for long-term charter.

By 1959, his other tanker, the Orient Giant, was launched, with a load of 70,000 tons, twice the size of the world's general tankers. The gross tonnage of the oil tanker owned by Dong was the same as that of the famous Greek ship king Onassis at that time.

On December 19, 1980, the Sea Giant was launched in Japan. It took the crown of the world's largest oil tanker with a load capacity of 565,000 tons and caused a sensation in the global shipping industry. So far, it is still the largest super-jumbo tanker in the world.

The old generation ship king in Hong Kong is Xu Aizhou. Since the beginning of the 1940s, Shanghai shipowners have rushed to Hong Kong, and the crowds have been in the sea, which is turbulent.

In 1957, the old ship king Xu Aizhou abandoned his boat and set up China Construction Enterprise Co., Ltd. to fully enter the real estate market. Chuanchang Shipping is still in operation and only maintains the original fleet size.

Some people say that Xu Shouzhou fled the shore after being attacked by the Shanghai boat gang.

It is a recognized fact that the reputation of the Shanghai ship merchants rose, and Xu Shichuanchang gradually fell silent.

Among Shanghai ship merchants, Dong Haoyun was the first to win a great reputation. Xu retreated to Dong Jin. In the late 1950s, Dong Haoyun replaced the old ship king Xu Aizhou and became a new generation of ship kings.

In the heyday of Dong Haoyun's career, he owned more than 130 ships with a total tonnage of more than 10 million tons, which was equivalent to more than half of the total tonnage of the merchant fleet of the entire Soviet Union.

Because Dong's company was registered in Wanbei, and I held a Wanwan ID card, I have not been awarded the title of the Royal Family.

But he maintains good relations with the royal family and the cabinet. In 1981, Dong Haoyun visited the United States and was received by Reagan. Tung is also the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Monaco in Hong Kong.

By the 1970s, Bao Yugang's Universal Group had risen rapidly. Bao's and Dong's are also listed as "the world's seven kings of ships" by the international shipping industry.

The US "New York Times" called Dong Haoyun "the world's largest independent shipowner". What did Dong Haoyun rely on to succeed? This is what he often said: "3/4 of the earth's surface is the ocean, and we should have the confidence to conquer the ocean."

Dong Haoyun, who has been in the shipping industry all his life, believes that "ships can not only carry goods, but also serve as a tool for exchanging ideas."

In September 1970, Dong spent $3.2 million to buy the retired luxury cruise ship Queen Elizabeth. Subsequently, it invested 6 million US dollars in interior decoration and changed it into a "sea school" jointly managed by UNESCO.

On January 9, 1972, when the renovation project was about to be completed, the 38,000-ton ship moored in the Hong Kong harbour unfortunately caught fire and was destroyed and sank.

The water was then salvaged and dismantled to be sold as scrap iron. The ship has been insured, and Dong uses the insurance premiums as shares to become the major shareholder of the British insurance company.

The death of the maritime school, Dong was heartbroken, but his ambition to invest in education was not lost. After that, he purchased a 10,000-ton cruise ship, the Atlantic, in the beautiful country, and transformed it into a "universal school".

The University of Pittsburgh is affiliated to the University of Cosmos, and the Dong Education Foundation provides scholarships, and OOCL is in charge of operations.

Dong is the chairman of the board of directors of the Cosmos Institute. The professors come from famous universities in 40 countries, and the students are outstanding students selected from universities in Asia.

The Cosmos Institute travels around the world, helping students to broaden their horizons and strengthen cultural exchanges with various countries. There are about 500 students in each term, specializing in arts and sciences.

On June 23, 1980, Dong Haoyun won the Golden Disc Award from the American Achievement Institute.

In Hong Kong, Dong Haoyun has two things that are the most sensational: one is the destruction of the sea school - Queen Elizabeth in a fire; the other is an open letter from Dong to the Hong Kong media, and the public opinion circles "Dong Haoyun and Bao Yugang, who is the real world? "Ship King" was in a frenzy.

In the 1960s and 1970s, when the world's public opinion talked about world-class ship kings, they all turned their attention to the big ship merchants in Greece and Norway. The United States, Britain, Japan and other countries also have super-large shipping companies, but they are not independent shippers, but reduced to public companies.

Talking about the world-class ship king, Onassis of Greece is the first. People's interest in Ostrich, peach news is more than shipping itself.

Ao's frequently changed glamorous girlfriends, especially when he married Jacqueline, the widow of the late Kennedy, like a nuclear explosion in the world's media.

Austrian's brother-in-law, the Greek ship king Niagos is also comparable, married the daughter of the American car tycoon Ford as his wife, famous for a while.

European and American media have always ignored Chinese people, especially Chinese ship kings such as Bao Yugang and Dong Haoyun who do not produce peach-colored news, and are naturally neglected by Western reporters.

In the autumn of 1971, in the first-class carriage of the train from London to Plymouth, a British gentleman sat opposite Bao Yugang.

The gentleman asked if Mr. Bao was Japanese? Pao said he was Chinese, or to be more precise, he was Chinese in Hong Kong.

The gentleman immediately showed great interest and chatted with Bao. When he learned that Pao was in the shipping business, he asked how many ships the Pao had. Bao said: "There is a little bit, the exact number is not very clear."

The gentleman was stunned for a moment. He was very surprised. He couldn't remember clearly. Isn't there a lot? In such a small place in Hong Kong, there will be such a large Chinese ship merchant? "Are there as many as Mr. Onassis?" he asked.

Bao said: "Probably, there may be two brother-in-laws of Niagos and Onassis that add up to the same amount."

The British gentleman looked like he had discovered the New World, stared at Bao Yugang, and exclaimed: "The real world ship king is in Hong Kong, not in Greece!"

In 1973, an article in the US "Newsweek" said: "Bao Yugang's 800 million US dollar merchant fleet sailing the world has earned him the nickname of "Oriental Onassis".

New ships have joined the Bao's fleet one after another, and the expansion has been rapid. It is quite possible that Onassis, the only largest ship owner in the world, may soon become the 'Bao Yugang of the West'. "

In 1977, Gibson Ship Brokerage Company ranked the world's top ten ship kings that year: ship merchant/company gross tonnage

Bao Yugang.. 13474757

Japan Sanko.. 5940302

UK then.. 5238800

Japanese steamship.. 5065656

American Lu domain.. 4868546

NYK 4658379

Dong Haoyun.. 4522276

Onassis.. 4483463

Sharan.. 4191964

Bergson.. 4091830

The rankings show that the ship of "Oriental Onassis" Bao Yugang is nearly three times that of Onassis. At the same time, Mr. Pao left Hong Kong veteran ship king Dong Haoyun far behind.

Just like the rich list, each source of materials and calculation methods are different, and there will be a big deviation in the ranking of the rich.

For example, in the 1980s, several authoritative economic magazines in Japan listed the richest list without Yoshiaki Tsutsumi's name.

In 1987, the American "Forbes" magazine dug up the business hermit Yoshiaki, and estimated that Yoshiaki's net worth was US$21 billion. Such a huge deviation is a joke in the Japanese media industry.

Following the release of the "Jipson World's Top 10 Ship Kings List", several American media have joined forces to list the "World's Top 7 Ship Kings". They are: Bao Yugang, Dong Haoyun, Livanos, Onassis, Bergson, Sha Lan, Niagos, these are independent ship merchants.

Among them, the two Chinese ship kings ranked first and second respectively.

Bao Yugang owns more than 13 million tons of ships, and Dong Haoyun owns more than 8 million tons. Bao Yugang won the championship again.

Dong Haoyun, who was addicted to boats, was no longer willing to remain silent. He wrote to the media that evaluated the ranking of the ship kings, pointing out that the calculation method was wrong and that the company-owned ships should not be confused with privately-owned ships.

Dong Haoyun did not directly complain about his grievance, but commented on the calculation method. The Hong Kong media, with a keen sense of smell, have sniffed out the meaning of a drunkard from the lines of Dong's words, and have conducted a more in-depth investigation of the total amount of the Pao and Dong's ships and the source of funds.

The author of "Dong Haoyun's Biography" said in the article: "In the 1980s, there were seven great ship kings in the world, but two Chinese people were the top ones: Bao Yugang and Dong Haoyun.

"Who exactly belongs to the leader of the alliance? Some newspapers and magazines often compare these two people. Some say that Bao Yugang's fleet has 13 million tons, while Dong Haoyun only has 8 million tons.

For this report, Dong Haoyun once wrote a "Letter to the Editor", explaining that the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation owns half of the equity in the fleet under the name of Bao Yugang, so Bao Yugang actually only has a ship with a capacity of 6.5 million tons.

Newspapers have also reported: Dong Haoyun is the real world ship king, and even the US "New York Times" also called him 'the world's largest independent shipowner'.."

Guo Feng pointed out in the article "Looking at the Iceberg from the Tip of the Iceberg": "At the beginning of the month, major newspapers in Hong Kong published a press release.

The main meaning of this draft is: At present, the 'real world ship king' is Dong Haoyun. The Tung Group currently owns more than 110 dry cargo ships, container ships, oil tankers, passenger ships and bulk carriers, with a total deadweight of more than 10 million tons.

It is said that most of these ships are owned by the Dong Group, and the ships that have cooperative relations with others are only 200,000 tons, so they are the world's largest shipowners worthy of the name, that is, the 'Ship King'.

"Before this time, people thought that Bao Yugang was the 'world ship king'. In the early 1970s, the 'Global Group' led by Bao Yugang developed very fast. Coupled with the exaggeration of the publicity media, Bao Yugang was recognized For the 'Ship King'.

However, those who have a deep understanding of the shipping industry know that Bao Yugang has a very close relationship with HSBC. In fact, many ships under Universal are still jointly owned with other consortia, and Bao Yugang only accounts for half of them. "

Bao Yugang remained silent on this debate, and Dong Haoyun also kept silent after throwing out the open letter. An authoritative person disclosed the latest information, saying that the tonnage of the ships owned by the Pao Global Group is not 13 million tons, but 20 million tons!

The battle for the king of ships has reached a new climax, and various media have different opinions and disagreements.

In terms of the tonnage of the ships under the controlled group, the Pao is the world's largest ship king; in terms of independent ownership, Dong Haoyun may be ranked first in the world.

The two Chinese ship kings of the Bao family and Dong family were roughly tied. Due to the large scale of the Pao's fleet, the momentum is still better than that of the Dong's. Mr. Dong is secretly competing, and wants to be the world's ship king who can be sincerely spoken by the world's shipping and media circles - this is something that will come later.

As a veteran ship king, Dong Haoyun will naturally not be willing to take the seventh place. He vows to compete with the Pao family, and UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com pours money to expand the fleet.

What was the world's shipping industry like at that time? The ship disaster has not yet happened, but the shadow of the shipping depression is forming, and it is beginning to hang over the world.

The oil crisis was triggered by the war in the Middle East and the implementation of price alliances by oil-exporting countries. The rise in oil prices and the emergence of new energy sources have caused the importing countries to tighten oil imports.

The discovery and exploitation of oil in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico has greatly shortened the distance between oil production and land use. The North Sea is close to Western Europe and Northern Europe, and the Gulf of Mexico is located between North and South America. Huge oil tankers of hundreds of thousands of tons are not useful, and medium-sized tankers of about 100,000 tons are also idle by 1/4.

In 1980, a 565,000-ton-class giant oil tanker crashed into the water in Japan. The owner of the tanker named Sea Giant is the ship king Dong Haoyun.

This is still the world's largest supertanker, which has won great honor for Dong's family, and will carry a heavy burden for Dong's descendants in the future.

In this year's gold list of the world's seven largest ship kings, Dong Haoyun jumped to the second place with a fleet of 8 million tons, and the first is still Bao's with a 13 million ton fleet.

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