Meanwhile, Captain Robert Dollar, purchased his first ship marking the beginning of his shipping empire.

His interests were far-flung, including a shipping empire, banking, and interests in mines in Wales and the north of England.

Cuffee built a lucrative shipping empire and established the first racially integrated school in Westport, Massachusetts.

He increased my trust fund by a pittance and he leaves her a shipping empire.

This tired old rust bucket became the foundation for Qin Shang's shipping empire.

Mr. Haji-Ioannou, an heir to a Greek shipping empire who founded EasyJet in 1995, and his family own 58.5 percent of the company's stock.

Using his father's company as a base, Samuel Cunard launched his own shipping empire after his father's death which eventually became the famous Cunard Line.

But it was the branch of the Hong Kong operation that Mr. Tung focused on, building it into one of the world's largest shipping empires, eventually reaching 150 ships.

The World Prodigy is part of the shipping empire controlled by Stavros Spyros Niarchos, according to Lloyd's Registry.

To help his fur trade with the Indians, he built a shipping empire, competing with the Boston Brahmins for a lucrative slice of the infamous opium trade with China.