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Kyoto Express is a container ship of the Colombo Express class of ships owned and operated by Hapag-Lloyd AG. Registered in Monrovia, Liberia, the vessel has been in operation since 2005. Registered in Monrovia, Liberia, the vessel has been in operation since 2005.
Her first steel was cut on 5 September 2011, the keel was laid on 1 March 2012 and she was launched on 6 July 2012. On 29 April 2013, the vessel was handed over to Hapag Lloyd, with Wolfgang Flägel, managing director of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and Laurent Castaing, general manager of STX France, signing the takeover protocol. [3]
Yard number IMO number Delivery Status ref Hamburg Express: 2241 9461051 5 Jul 2012 In service [2] New York Express: 2242 9501332 28 Sep 2012 In service [3] Basle Express: 2243 9501344 15 Nov 2012 In service [4] Hong Kong Express: 2244 9501356 28 Feb 2013 In service [5] Yantian Express: 2245 9501368 26 Mar 2013 In service [6] Essen Express ...
On September 1, 1970, Hapag-Lloyd was formed by the merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG), which dated from 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd (known in English as North German Lloyd), which was formed in 1857. [1] Hapag had withdrawn from passenger service in 1960, while Norddeutscher Lloyd was ...
Since its formation, Hapag-Lloyd has seen changes among its shareholders and has also undergone a number of mergers with other companies. For instance, Hapag-Lloyd was completely acquired by, and became a subsidiary of TUI AG in 1998. This transition was followed by TUI selling a majority stake of Hapag-Lloyd to private investors in Hamburg in ...
Osaka Express (built in 2007) is a container ship operated by the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd. This vessel has a capacity of 8749 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) and 103,800 tonnes deadweight (DWT). It can achieve a speed of 25 kn. It belongs to the Colombo Express class of ships. [1]
Hapag-Lloyd Express was established in 2002 and began operations in December 2002 – two months after Germanwings, its direct German competitor at Cologne Bonn. Despite starting its service later and serving fewer routes, HLX gained a higher name recognition and a better reputation through its category-defining campaign "Fly for the price of a ...
The Valparaiso Express class is a series of 5 container ships built for Hapag-Lloyd. The ships were built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries in South Korea and have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 11,519 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [1]