Companhia colonial de navegação: a trajetória de uma empresa sob um regime imperial e autoritário

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the history of the Companhia Colonial de Navegação (CCN), a portuguese shipping company founded in 1922 and extinguished in 1974, when it was acquired by Companhia Portuguesa de Transportes Marítimos (CPTM). The article is divided into five topics: 1) a brief introduction on the prisons of time, space and individual freedoms in the trajectory of companies; 2) a systematization of the debate on the “problem” of the Portuguese merchant navy published in manifestoes of specialists of the naval sector between 1903 and 1939; 3) the formation of the colonial agrarian-mercantile complex oppressor, whose participation of the CCN was fundamental in the structuring of the transport network; 4) the CCN trajectory presenting the following data: evolution and renewal of the fleet, opening of lines, commercial movement, financial results and composition of the capital stock; 5) Finally, the exchange of favors between the CCN and the corporatist state that guaranteed access to financial benefits.