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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 ...
OOCL Hong Kong was the largest container ship ever built at the time she [A] was delivered in 2017, [5] and the third container ship to surpass the 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) threshold. She is also the first ship to surpass the 21,000 TEU mark. [5] She is the lead ship of the G class, of which five other ships were built. [3]
Pages in category "Ships of the Orient Overseas Container Line" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... OOCL G-class container ship; OOCL Germany;
In 1980, Orient Overseas Container (Holdings) acquired a British shipping company, Furness, Withy & Co. [13] Shortly before the death of Tung Chao-yung in 1982, [13] Tung Chee-hwa, his eldest son, succeeded to be the chairman of Orient Overseas. [12] In 1983, Orient Overseas Container (Holdings) Limited, was renamed to Orient Overseas (Holdings ...
Between 1969 and 1970 OCL took delivery of its first ships, a fleet of six vessels of 27,000 gross register tons (GRT) and 1,900 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) capacity for the UK/Europe to Australia route. Initially operating from a set of offices in Bevis Marks, London, OCL later moved to custom built offices on Braham Street, a few ...
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.
The G class is a series of container ships built for OOCL. With a maximum theoretical capacity of 21,413 TEU they were the largest container ships in the world when they were built and the first ships with a capacity larger than 21,000 TEU. [1] They took the title of largest container ships from Madrid Maersk (20,568 TEU).
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 ...