Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping after the Second World War: from the first ideas to the "own" merchant fleet (1949-1959)
2022
Abstract
The text focuses on the key moments of the Czechoslovak merchant fleet development after the Second World War. The starting point of the study are the first initiatives that began to appear after February 1948 and especially after 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded.
Maritime business in the former Czechoslovakia developed precisely in close cooperation with communist China. The excursion to the period when Czechoslovakia purchased the first seagoing ships that made the first voyages from Europe to the Far East concludes in 1959, when the independent enterprise Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping was founded - in fact, a secret form of a joint Czechoslovak-Chinese business in the field of maritime navigation.