House Flags of Hong Kong Shipping Companies 6

Last modified: 2003-08-09 by phil nelson
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• Wah Tung Shipping Agency Co.
• Wallem Services Limited, Shipping Investment Division
• Wing Tak Shipping Agency Ltd.
• Yick Fung Shipping Enterprises Co. Ltd.

See also:

• Hong Kong Maritime Shipping Companies

by Ivan Sache

Light blue flag with ab hexagonal blue and white emblem in the middle.

Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002

by jorge candeias

Originally based in Shanghai and Hong Kong, Wallem Services shows corporate offices in Hong Kong as well as Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, Japan, USA, United Kingdom and Vietnam. The Shanghai office was reopened in 1987.

The name and flag originated with the Norwegian Haakon J. Wallem in 1898 who later traded through separate companies based in Bergen and Hong Kong. Around the 1970s a series of takeovers began resulting in the current Wallem Group Ltd. based in Hong Kong and operating their shipping through Wallem Shipmanagement Ltd. The Norwegian Wallem shipping interest did survive however as the Norwegian branch of Wallem & Co. A/S changed name 1956 to Wallem, Steckmest & Co. A/S who use a variation of the original flag by widening the blue band and bulging it in the middle to form an undefined circle bearing a white "S". The white still separated red from blue but the respective widths of the three colours are uncertain with Brown 1978 and 1982 differing in their portrayals.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 January 2003

by Ivan Sache

Blue flag with a big red W.

Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002

by Ivan Sache
Red flag with two white stripes in the upper and lower edges and a yellow Y in the red stripe, touching the white stripes.

Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002