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OOCL was founded by C. Y. Tung in 1947 as the Orient Overseas Line. In 1969, OOCL was the first Asian -based shipping line to transport containerized cargo across the Pacific. Consequently, the company was renamed Orient Overseas Container Line. In those days its Victory-class vessels could carry 300 TEU, a far cry from today's post-Panamax ...
In 1974, Orient Overseas Container (Holdings) acquired a bulk freighter company from the Tung family's C.Y. Tung Group, for HK$43 million. [10] In 1976, the listed company acquired additional assets from the Tung family, including two container ships and 33% shares of another container shipping company, Dart Container Service. [11] [12]
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]
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LONDON/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -The world's three biggest container lines on Tuesday temporarily suspended cargo shipments to and from Russia in response to Western sanctions on Moscow following its ...
Maersk Line: 2013 194,849 Largest container ship until the completion of CSCL Globe in 2014. In service MOL Triumph: Triumph-class Marshall Islands Mitsui O.S.K. Lines: 2017 192,672 In service MSC Gülsün: Gülsün-class Panama Mediterranean Shipping Company: 2019 232,618 In service OOCL Germany: OOCL G-class Hong Kong OOCL: 2017 210,890 In ...
The G class is a series of container ships built for OOCL. With a maximum theoretical capacity of 21,413 TEU they were the largest container ships in the world when they were built and the first ships with a capacity larger than 21,000 TEU. [1] They took the title of largest container ships from Madrid Maersk (20,568 TEU).
OOCL Hong Kong was the largest container ship ever built at the time she [A] was delivered in 2017, [5] and the third container ship to surpass the 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) threshold. She is also the first ship to surpass the 21,000 TEU mark. [5] She is the lead ship of the G class, of which five other ships were built. [3]