Bibby Line
The Bibby Line is a British shipping company with headquarters in Liverpool, which ran a passenger airline service to Burma / Myanmar.
History
The origins of the shipping date back to the days of sailing ships. 1801 John Bibby co-owner of the sailing ship Dove and 1805 the first own sailors is purchased. Initially operated by scheduled flights to the Mediterranean, these services will be expanded later to South America, India and East Asia.
1850, the Company purchased its first steam ship, which occur in the Mediterranean - line service to use. 1859 is the Bibby Line, the first shipping company are the new buildings at the shipyard of Harland EJ in order. From this shipyard was later the world famous shipyard of Harland & Wolff Ltd.. be. 1873 all shipping activities at the long-term partner Frederick Leyland be transferred, who, with his shipping company F. Leyland & Co. Ltd.. his own business. The Bibby family moves temporarily back from the shipping industry.
1889 reverses the Bibby family with the founding Bibby Bros. & Co. Ltd.. in the shipping business back, and operates a regular service to the Far East. The typical route ran from Liverpool via Gibraltar, Malta, Suez Canal, Aden, ( Bombay ), Colombo, (Madras ) and ( Calcutta) to Yangon. The ships were identifiable by a yellow ocher chimney with black cap and were named after an English county, with the typical ending on Shire.
In 1891 the name of the shipping company Bibby Steamship Company Ltd.. renamed. The company begins more and more to get involved in the transport of British colonial troops, a good and stable source of income for the shipping company. 1931 was again renamed, this time in Bibby Line Ltd. ..
With the independence of Burma in 1962, began the economic problems. The troop transport stopped and the demand for passenger and cargo shipping from Britain to Burma declined markedly. In 1965, the scheduled passenger services were discontinued and the shipping company moved into the charter business in which it is still active today.