Chipolbrok – Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company was founded on 15th of June 1951 under the governments of China and Poland bilateral agreement – as a first ever Sino-foreign joint-venture set up after proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. Its head office is located at Shanghai, China and European base at Gdynia, Poland. In 2011 Chipolbrok celebrates its 60th anniversary being today the world’s leading project cargo ocean carrier offering their shipping services Round-the-Globe in both directions: eastbound and westbound.
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This pioneer, equally shared, partnership enterprise arose out of 6 ships contributed by each contracting party. Assigned to provide the sea transportation link between Polish and Chinese ports for carriage of investment goods and other commodities necessary for both countries development – over 60 years period Chipolbrok has voyaged through different, sometimes tough political and economical times. However, activities did not remain limited to trade between China and Poland. Meanwhile, the company has been continuously and flexibly adjusting its services and fleet capabilities according to altered international trade exchange challenges. At present, modern and multipurpose fleet of 19 heavy crane geared triple-deckers with total DWT over 470,000 suits perfectly for transportation of project cargo, plant materials, heavy pieces, overdimensional units and all kinds of general cargo. Already eight of those 19 vessels have been equipped with cranes able to lift pieces weighing up to 640 tonnes. Those heavy duty vessels have supported liner service as from 2003 and enabled Chipolbrok to call at many ports including outports en-route, where heavy cranes are unavailable. The advantage for safe cargo handling is Chipolbrok rich experience gained over the years in carriage of awkward and overdimensioned packages, heavy lifts, transformers, metro wagons, locomotives, trunk building machines, crane parts, vehicles, steel products besides the different sort of regular commodities. In the year of 2011 next 2 innovatively designed ships of this type will be delivered ex Dalian shipyard (mv Kraszewski and mv Chipolbrok Cosmos). This investment will only
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strengthen company`s world leading market position. Apart from that Chipolbrok management decided to convert 7 ships which were built between 1991 and 1998 to be up-graded. All of those were equipped with new cranes allowing lifting of heavy units up to 300ts pieceweight. Today, the shipping services offered by Chipolbrok are building the bridge linking many ports between three continents: Europe, Asia and America. The regular liner sailings offered to the customers are scheduled in both worldwide directions: eastbound and westbound from: For customers convenience – a net of professional agencies in all countries within sailing routes has been set up. Besides the main locations in Shanghai and Gdynia, the Company has its own offices in Houston, Singapore,
Rotterdam and Beijing. Additionally, in order to assist the customers with their business requirements, the set of subsidiary forwarding & agency companies have been established in both China and Poland. Needless to mention, that customers’ transportation needs and requirements are the guide line and always take top priority in Chipolbrok business philosophy. The company, being the world’s leading project cargo ocean carrier, with professional and experienced staff guarantees a very high standard of services, which was confirmed by awarded in 1999 Lloyd’s Register certificates of compliance to ISO 9002 Standards and ISM Code. Apart from shipping business, Chipolbrok is also involved in other activities like real estate and financial capital investments, shareholding in other companies. ::