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OOCL is a large integrated international container transportation, logistics and terminal company [2] with offices in 70 countries. OOCL has 59 vessels of different classes, with capacity varying from 2,992 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) to 21,413 TEU, including two ice-class vessels for extreme weather conditions.
In 1980, Orient Overseas Container (Holdings) acquired a British shipping company, Furness, Withy & Co. [13] Shortly before the death of Tung Chao-yung in 1982, [13] Tung Chee-hwa, his eldest son, succeeded to be the chairman of Orient Overseas. [12] In 1983, Orient Overseas Container (Holdings) Limited, was renamed to Orient Overseas (Holdings ...
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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]
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).
Pages in category "Ships of the Orient Overseas Container Line" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ]
By 1982 OCL was Europe's largest container through transport operator with a fleet of 20 containerships and more than 60,000 container units. It served more than 50 major ports and, in 1980, transported more than a quarter of a million container loads of import and export cargo on a route network linking locations throughout four continents.