Subscribe to RSS feedValles Steamship boss Koo dies
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Keith Wallis, Hong Kong
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Mar 29, 2010 01:15 PM
HONG Kong’s shipping community is mourning the loss of one of its most venerable figures following the death on the weekend of Koo Kou-ming, head of Hong Kong and Vancouver-based tanker/bulker operator Valles Steamship.
The octogenarian was the last representative of the group of Shanghai and Ningbo shipowners, who fled mainland China for Hong Kong and Taiwan before the communists took control in 1949. One friend said Mr Koo was “the last of...
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