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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 .
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]
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 M class is a series of 10 container ships built for OOCL with a maximum theoretical capacity of 13,208 TEU. The ships were built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea . Construction started in 2012 and the first ship was delivered in 2013.
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.
Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them. In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), and one with a capacity greater than ...