AZUMA KAIUN K.K. (1)

The red charges on the funnel are circles.

Azuma Kaiun, also recorded as Azuma Shipping Co. Ltd., was formed on 1 December 1917. Its operations entered a wartime merged company in December 1942, dissolved in March 1949. Rosanoski considers that the business began as a freight forwarder and probably entered shipping with the purchase of Ryoyo Maru in August 1952; Lloyds initially gave 1952 as formation, later amending it to 1917. Mutsumi Shipping and Chuo Transport were merged in December 1969 to strengthen harbour transport, and subsidiary Eastern Marine System was established in Oita in October 1998.

United Orient Shipping and Agency was established in December 1969 as a venture with Soviet Far-Eastern Shipping and Yamashita-Shinnihon. A&K Shipping S.A. followed in October 1997 as a joint venture with Kambara Kisen.

Japan, Tokyo.