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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.
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