Chipolbrok (), Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

(Chińsko-Polskie Towarzystwo Okrętowe S.A. w Szanghaju, 中波轮船股份公司, Zhongbo Steamship Co. Ltd.) - established in 1951 in

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...

and

Gdynia Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and ...

as a "Chinese-Polish Enterprise of Shipbrokers" on the basis of an agreement between

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

in order to establishing a connection by sea between Chinese and Polish ports. The role of shareholders is fulfilled by the governments of Poland and China, represented by the ministers of transport of both countries. Chipolbrok is the oldest Chinese deep-sea shipowner and the first enterprise with foreign capital in the People's Republic of China. Its creation enabled the development of a transport network isolated from China, connecting it with the world trade and services market.Jerzy Drzemczewski: ''Chipolbrok 1951-2011'', Porta Mare Gdynia 2011

Subsidiaries

* Sinepol Shipping & Agency BV,

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(1992-) * Chipolbal Shipping Pte Ltd.,

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(1993-) * Chipol International Shipping Agency, Shanghai (1994-) * Shanghai Chipol International Logistics Co. Ltd., Shanghai (1996-) * Chipol Real Estate (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (1998-) * POLBROK – Agency and International Forwarding Ltd., Gdynia (1999-) * Chipol Real Estate (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Gdynia (1999-) * Chipolbrok-Investment Sp. z o.o., Gdynia (2001-) * Chipolbrok America Inc.,

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(2004-) * Chinese-Polish (Beijing) International Forwarding Co. Ltd.,

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(2009-) * CENTRUM Sopot Sp. z o.o.,

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Headquarters

The first headquarters was in Tianjin in the area of "

Five Great Avenues Five Great Avenues (五大道; Wǔdàdào; Wudadao, literally "The Five Avenues") is a tourist and up-scale residential area in Heping District, Tianjin, China. Wudadao is located in the south of the downtown Tianjin, parallel streets from east ...

" (五大道, Wǔ Dàdào) at Ma Chang Dao 158 () (1951-1953), then at Chongqing Rd. 23 () (1953-1962). After moving the headquarters to Shanghai, it was first located in a building reminiscent of the Renaissance style (designed by Palmer & Turner), the former headquarters of

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() from 1922 at

The Bund The Bund or Waitan (, Shanghainese romanization: ''Nga3thae1'', , ) is a waterfront area and a protected historical district in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road (East Zhongshan Road No.1) within the former Shang ...

, official address - Chung Shan Rd 18 (), and in 1998 in the building Gong Shang Lian (floors 26–28), also called Heng Ji Plaza (恒积大厦), at Yan An Rd. E. 55 ().

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