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Hapag and NDL continued to compete until they established a joint-venture container line. The "Hapag-Lloyd Container Line", founded in 1967 and operating from 1968 onward, was established to share the huge investments related to the containerisation of the fleets. The two companies finally merged on 1 September 1970, under the name Hapag-Lloyd. [4]
Colombo Express is a container ship. When launched in 2005, she was claimed by her owner to be the world's largest container ship , [ 2 ] a title she held until Emma Mærsk was launched in 2006. Colombo Express holds 8,749 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), 730 refrigerated (reefer) TEUs, is 335 metres (1,099 ft) long, and has a beam , or ...
Status ZIM Rotterdam Liberia ZIM: 2014 116,499 In service Axel Mærsk: Maersk A-class Denmark Maersk Line: 2003 93,496 In service Chicago Express: Colombo Express-class Germany Hapag-Lloyd: 2006 91,020 In service Clementine Maersk: Maersk C-class Denmark Maersk Line: 2002 91,921 In service Colombo Express: Colombo Express-class Germany Hapag ...
The Chicago Express is a fully cellular container ship built in 2006 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., in Ulsan, South Korea.Her gross tonnage is 91,020, her net tonnage is 100,000, and her deadweight is 103,890.
The vessel, which is operated by German shipping company Hapag Lloyd Container Linie has a capacity of 13,092 TEU and 800 reefer plugs for carrying of refrigerated containers. The ship has an overall length of 366.50 m (1,202.4 ft), beam of 48.20 m (158.1 ft) and a maximum draft of 15.50 m (50.9 ft).
Houston Express is a cargo ship owned by the Hapag-Lloyd company of Hamburg, Germany, completed in 2005. The ship is capable of transporting up to 8,400 containers at any one time. The Deadweight Tonnage is 107,000 metric tons and the maximum speed of this ship is 25 knots (46 km/h).
In 2012, Northern Europe was the point of origin or final destination for 46.8% of the containers moving through the port, followed by the Mediterranean (19%), Asia (13.7%), the Middle East (7.4%), Latin America (5.9%) and Africa/Oceania (4.0%). Domestic cargo accounted for 3.2% of the port's containerized cargo traffic.
ISO 6346 is an international standard covering the coding, identification and marking of intermodal (shipping) containers used within containerized intermodal freight transport by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [1]