Swire Group Co., Ltd., headquartered in London, is the parent company of Swire and maintains close ties with constituent stock companies all over the world. Swire Group is responsible for formulating overall policies for Swire and providing a wide range of management services and central support functions.
Swire Company, a subsidiary of Swire Group in Britain, is a listed company headquartered in Hong Kong, and its business is mainly concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in China Mainland and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. British Swire Group not only participates in Swire's business, but also occupies a very important share in the refrigeration market in Australia and the United States, and its business portfolio in Australia is increasing day by day, including road transportation and distribution services, as well as agriculture and animal husbandry. Swire Group of the United Kingdom also controls Steam Shipping Trading Co, a major trading group in Papua New Guinea, and has major agricultural operations in Africa and Sri Lanka through London-based James Finley. Swire steamers under the British Swire Group trade all over the world, but their liner services are mainly concentrated in the Western Pacific and Australasia.
Swire Steamship Company Limited (Swire Steamship)
Swire Steamship Co., Ltd. is an ocean shipping company wholly owned by British Swire Group Co., Ltd., which is registered in Britain and has set up representative offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, India and the United States.
Swire steamship has seventeen multi-purpose ships and a Panama-class bulk carrier. The liner service operated by this company charters all 17 ships of Swire Steamship Company and another 27 multi-purpose ships.
The liner service managed by Swire Steamship provides services to more than 20 ports around the world/KLOC-0, and develops diversified dry bulk cargo transportation business, including Cape of Good Hope ship transportation and bulk cargo logistics business.