1872 Beancake
Category: Corporate, Marine ServicesThe rapid expansion of China Navigation was largely based on the profit from cargoes of ‘beancake’, which its vessels carried on the China coast. Produced in Manchuria as a by-product of the soybean oil industry, ‘beancake’ consisted of dried soybean husks compressed into large ‘cakes’ for shipment to South China, where they were spread on the land as a fertiliser.