The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia in 1712 due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. In an article published ...

Reinert, Sophus A., Paul M. Healy, and Robert Fredona. "The Dutch East India Company (VOC)." Harvard Business School Case 723-002, November 2022. (Revised October 2023.) ...

"With the sails on this ship we're expecting a yearly reduction ... It became compulsory a few years later for captains employed by the Dutch East India company on their way to the Netherlands ...

Virji Vora dealt with various goods, including opium, bullion, coral, cotton, pepper, ivory, and lead, and held a monopoly ...