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HafjsuY niiB Aahnoo smtoedry
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As Haji yusuf Kanoo energized, deveoped and modernized his father Ahmed
Kanoo's business, so did Ahmed Ai Kanoo and Mohammed Jassim Kanoo
when they took over Haji Yusuf Kanoo's business by aggressive
deveopment and pioneering. Much pioneering was done in those interim
years by Ahmed and Mohammed. hipping had improved tremendousy
owning to the opening of the refinery at BAPCO, Furthermore, oi had been
discovered in the Eastern Province of audi Arabia. As there was no deep
water port unti the opening of Mina Abdua2i2 in 1951, cargo destined for
Dammam and A١ Khobar had first to be unoaded in Dammam and
transferred by ighterage fاeet, athough Kanoo sti had to fight off sti
competition from gay Mackenzie this was Contributing factor to Kanooﻴs
success and aowed to estabish itsef at an eary period in audi Arabia's
commercia growth. hipping was rapidy becoming the backbone of Kanoo
business. By 1948, they had won the agencies for the Krik Danish Maersk
Line and Nedoyd, the Dutch shipping company, n 1951, Nedoyd sent staff
to train Kanoo personnle in modern techniques for shipping companies.