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"Singapore Express" enters service - Hapag-Lloyd expands its fleet

28.08.00

"World container transport will continue to grow by six to eight percent annually, and we are orienting our capacity planning accordingly. We will be commissioning a total of seven containerships this year," stated Günther Casjens, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd Container Line, on the occasion of the delivery of the "Singapore Express". The newbuilding will enter service on a long-term charter basis in Busan (Korea) on August 28th 2000. She is 294m long, 32m wide, has a capacity of 67,000t and can carry 4,890 TEU. The vessel has a maximum speed of 24 knots and, like her sister ships, was built at Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan (Korea). Another newbuilding in this series, the "Rotterdam Express", will be named in Rotterdam on September 18th 2000.
The "Singapore Express" will be deployed in the weekly Pacific-Atlantic express service ("PAX") of  the Grand Alliance. This service links Europe with the North American East and West Coast as well as Asia and is operated with a total of 13 ships.
In its worldwide liner services Hapag-Lloyd offers weekly seven sailings between Europe and Asia as well as nine on the Pacific between Asia and North America, not to mention eleven weekly services on the North Atlantic. It also offers links with Latin America (twice weekly), Australia/New Zealand and the Indian subcontinent (four a week in each case). These extensive liner services are supplemented by a comprehensive feeder network with many thousand of links annually.
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