Editing Swire (section)

==History==
The Swire Group's privately owned parent company is London-based ''John Swire & Sons Limited''.<ref>The Archives of John Swire & Sons are held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/</ref> The Swire Group, started by John Swire (1787–1847) in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest [[Liverpool]] import-export company based mainly on the textile trade.<ref>The archives of John Swire & Sons Ltd are held at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], London, http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/</ref>

''Swire Pacific Offshore Holdings Limited'' (SPO), was a wholly owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific, supplying chartered vessels that supported the offshore oil and gas industry worldwide. It owned a fleet of 69 offshore vessels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swirepacific.com/eng/ir/reports/ar08.pdf|title=Annual Report 2008|publisher=Swire|page=39|access-date=4 October 2009|archive-date=29 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929233346/http://www.swirepacific.com/eng/ir/reports/ar08.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Tidewater entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO), a subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited, for approximately $190 million in early March 2022. Tidewater announced the completion of its acquisition of Swire Pacific Offshore on Friday 22 April 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.offshore-energy.biz/tidewater-adds-50-vessels-to-its-fleet-after-taking-over-singapore-operator/ | title=Tidewater adds 50 vessels to its fleet after taking over Singapore operator | date=25 April 2022 }}</ref>