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Seaspan, Cosco Agree to $1.9b Lease

According to Bloomberg, Seaspan Corp., will lease eight container vessels to a unit of China Cosco Holdings Co. for $1.9b. Cosco Container Lines Co., will pay a daily fee of $55,000 a vessel during the 12-year contract, Seaspan said. The Seaspan vessels are designed to carry 13,100 standard containers measuring 20 ft. in length, among the largest ships of their kind. They are scheduled for delivery in 2011. Source: Bloomberg

Five Newbuildings for Hapag-Lloyd in 2007

In 2007, Hapag-Lloyd will integrate three newbuildings each capable of carrying 8,750 standard containers (TEU) as well as two vessels each of 4,250 TEU capacity into its fleet, enabling it to keep pace with the expected growth in global container transport. With the combining of services in the context of the integration of CP Ships, acquired at the end of last year, as well as the cascading of vessels in the various liner services

Hapag-Lloyd Names New Mega Containership

The Hanover Express, which is capable of carrying 8,750 containers, is one of the world’s largest containerships. The newbuilding was recently named in Hamburg. The patron was Gabriele Frenzel, wife of TUI’s CEO and chairman of the supervisory board of Hapag-Lloyd, Dr. Michael Frenzel. Naming ceremonies for large containerships are still something special even in Hamburg, and nearly 300 guests from business and politics – including the Mayor of Hamburg Ole von Beust and the Mayor of

World’s Largest Containership Named

Colombo Express, the world’s largest containership at 1099 ft. (335 m) long, 141 ft. (43 m) wide, and able to carry 8,750 containers, was recently named. The patron of the new Hapag-Lloyd flagship was Christiane Krumnow, wife of the supervisory board chairman of TUI AG, Dr. Jürgen Krumnow. “Global container transport remains a growth market,” said Michael Behrendt, chairman of the executive board of Hapag-Lloyd AG. “Today’s volume of 71 million standard containers is forecast to grow to

Crowley to Launch New Haiti Service

Crowley Liner Services announced today that beginning September 12 it will launch weekly, fixed-day service from Port Everglades, Fla., to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Vessels will depart from Port Everglades every Friday, call Rio Haina, Dominican Republic, every Tuesday, arrive in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, every Wednesday, and return to Port Everglades every Friday. Crowley will use the Lift On / Lift Off (Lo/Lo) ship, Olympos, and offer customers the

Container Ship Docks at the Port of Hamburg

At the beginning of September the new flagship of the Chinese shipping company COSCO Container Lines Ltd. docked at the Port of Hamburg for the first time. The Cosco Asia with its slot capacity of 10,062 TEU, is the largest container ship to have entered the Port of Hamburg to date. The unloading and loading of the containerized cargo was handled by HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT). This container giant with a length of 1,145 ft. is deployed by COSCO

Marit Maersk Visits Port of Hamburg

Having been constructed and christened at the Danish shipyard of Odense, the Marit Maersk, a giant container ship built for the Maersk Line shipping company, called at the Port of Hamburg for the first time on its maiden voyage. The ship's length of 1,204 ft makes it 49 ft longer  than any container ship that has ever called at the Port of Hamburg in the  past. Ships with a slot capacity of up to 11,000 TEU (20 ft standard  containers) are increasingly being put into service

Internal Waterway Shipping 2008 Results

Now at 12.2 million tons, the volume of goods carried between the Port of Hamburg and the hinterland by inland waterway vessel in 2008 exceeded all previous levels. This marked a 1.5 percent increase on the operating results of the previous year. In Germany as a whole, the shipment of goods by inland waterway vessel in 2008 dropped by 1.6 percent. The most important goods categories were mineral oil products, gases, coal and agricultural and forestry products

Oceanteam Shipping Order PSV/CSC Carousel

Oceanteam order a new 2000/4000 ton modular carousel for offshore applications. Carousels are used for storage during transportation and installation of flexible pipe, umbilicals, risers and other products for offshore applications. The new patented OTS carousel series are designed for flexibility and quick mobilisation on standard modern PSV/CSV type vessels with limited deck load capacity for this type of equipment.

Hapag-Lloyd Ship Named

The long-established Hamburg shipping line Hapag-Lloyd named a containership in Malaysia for the first time. The patron of the 336m long “Kuala Lumpur Express” is Ursula Adrion, wife of Adolf Adrion, member of the executive board of Hapag-Lloyd AG. The “Kuala Lumpur Express” can carry 8,749 TEU and is the second ultra-modern training ship on which Hapag-Lloyd trains its nautical and technical personnel, following the identical