Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides marine cargo transportation services. The company maintains, leases, and sells old vessels, containers and chassis; and acts as a shipping agent and manages ships owned by others. The company also engages in the building and operation, terminal operation and stevedoring and warehouse operation of Kaohsiung harbor intercontinental container center. Significant Events Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation has set up a joint venture (JV) company with its Turkish shipping agent EGEKONT Container Transport S.A. The JV would be based in Turkey and has been named Yang Ming Anatolia Shipping Agency S.A. The transaction would expand the global container shipping business of Yang Ming Marine Transport. History Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation was founded in 1972.