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The Chen Family Business History |
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| Ching Fu Shipbuilding is the head of three generations of the Chen Family's almost 40 years of innovation and success in Taiwan's fishing, shipbuilding and trading industries. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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In 1965, after carefully studying the already successful Japanese fishing industry, Shui-Lai Chen, the first generation of Chens, began his own one ship company in his hometown of Kaohsiung, which at that time was an emerging port city in southern Taiwan. The resulting company, Fong Kuo Fishery Co., Ltd., was immediately profitable and quickly leaped forward to guide the newly begun Taiwanese fishing industry into success in the world market. This achievement led directly to Shui-Lai Chen's creation of Fong Kuo Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., later that same year. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Shui-Lai Chen (right) pictured with Former Taiwan President Lee Tung-Hui (left). | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Today, Fong Kuo Shipbuilding specializes in building fishing vessels up to 1000 tons and reefer vessels up to 3000 tons. This shipyard alone, in its over 40 years of business has built over 400 vessels. In fact, over one-half of the fishing vessels functioning in and out of the waters of Taiwan have been built by Fong Kuo Shipbuilding. Fong Kuo Fishery also continued to grow, adding many new vessels, built by Fong Kuo Shipbuilding and Ching Fu Shipbuilding, to its fleet over the years and to this day is still one of the largest and most powerful tuna purse seiner companies in Taiwan. |
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| Second Generation of Chens | |||||||||||||||||||||
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