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Light blue flag with a hexagonal blue and white emblem in the middle.
Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002
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 &a