Heap Eng Moh Steamship Co

Heap Eng Moh Steamship Co. was a shipping line owned by Majoor Oei Tiong Ham, a Chinese Indonesian businessman.

Heap Eng Moh Steamship Co.
FormerlyNV Kian Gwan
Industryshipping
Founded1905
FounderOei Tiong Ham
HeadquartersSingapore,
Singapore
Key people
Oei Tiong Ham
OwnerKPM 1928-??

History

The company was founded by Oei Tiong Ham under the name "NV Kian Gwan" in 1905. His first ship was the Giang Bee built as Reijnierz in Rotterdam in 1908, later as HMS Giang Bee. The ship was sunk in the Banka Strait on the 13th of February 1942.[1] The company was renamed as the Heap Eng Moh Steamship Company in 1909. Lee Hoon Leong (the grandfather of Lee Kuan Yew) worked on some of their ships as a purser, and eventually became managing director of the shipping Company.[2]

Oei died in 1924 and the company was sold by the Oei family in 1928. The majority of the shares were purchased by KPM, a Dutch shipping company.[3] KPM merged with the Java China Japan Lijn and eventually became Koninklijke Java-China Paketvaart Lijnen (known as Royal Interocean Lines). In 1970 RIL became part of the Dutch Nederlandse Scheepvaart Unie and was merged with Nedlloyd Lijnen in 1977.[4]

Records

Some records of Heap Eng Moh Steamship Company are held in the National Archives of Singapore.[5]

References
  1. "The Ships – The Palembang and Muntok Internees of WW2". muntokpeacemuseum.org. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  2. Lee Kuan Yew (2000). From Third World to First. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish.
  3. Campo, Joseph Norbert Frans Marie à (2002). Engines of Empire : steamshipping and state formation in colonial Indonesia. Hilversum: Verloren. pp. 331–332. ISBN 90-6550-738-8.
  4. tri Sulistiyono, Singgih (2 July 2006). "The Expulsion of KPM and its Impact on the Inter-island Shipping and Trade in Indonesia 1957 - 1964". Itinerario. 30 (2): 104–128. doi:10.1017/S016511530001398X.
  5. "HEAP ENG MOH STEAMSHIP CO LTD". nas.gov.sg. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
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