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Christened two new portacontainer of the OOCL and the APL
They have respective an ability pairs to 13.208 teu and 9,200 teu
October 7, 2013
Today in the ship yard of the Geoje Island of the South Korean Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) it is christened eighth of ten portacontainer by 13.208 teu ordered by the Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL) of Hong Kong. The ship is called NYK Hyperion and is rented the Japanese Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) that it will introduce it in the service Loop 7 that connects Asia with Europe. The NYK Hyperion, of 143.521 gross capacities in tons, is long 366,5 meters and wide 48,2 meters.
While friday slid in the port of Los Angeles has carried out the ceremony of baptism of the APL Savannah, a portacontainer from 9.200 teu that it is fifth of a series of 12 ships of the same ability that is entering to take part of the company of navigation APL of the group Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) of Singapore. The portacontenitori, constructed from the South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), will be introduced in the transpacifico service South Asia Express (SAX) that it connects Asia with the United States.
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