{"id":973,"date":"2023-03-31T09:21:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/port-of-hong-kong-welcomes-record-24000-teu-vessel\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:21:47","slug":"port-of-hong-kong-welcomes-record-24000-teu-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/port-of-hong-kong-welcomes-record-24000-teu-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Hong Kong welcomes record 24,000+ TEU vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA) has welcomed the 24,188 TEU <\/p>\n

containership, OOCL SPAIN, on its maiden voyage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Port<\/p>\n

This is the largest vessel ever to call at the Port of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) introduced the OOCL SPAIN, its first <\/p>\n

24,000 TEU vessel, to its fleet in February 2023.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The vessel is deployed on OOCL\u2019s Asia-Europe service LL3 with a port <\/p>\n

rotation of: Shanghai \u2013 Xiamen \u2013Nansha \u2013 HongKong \u2013 Yantian \u2013 Cai Mep \u2013 <\/p>\n

Singapore \u2013 Piraeus \u2013 Hamburg \u2013 Rotterdam \u2013 Zeebrugge \u2013 Valencia \u2013 Piraeus \u2013 Abu <\/p>\n

Dhabi \u2013 Singapore \u2013 Shanghai.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Under Secretary for Transport and Logistics, Liu Chun San, joined the <\/p>\n

management teams of Modern Terminals and OOCL to go on board the vessel to greet <\/p>\n

the ship master and his team.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very pleased to know that the OOCL SPAIN, one of the largest <\/p>\n

container vessels with the most advanced eco-friendly and intelligent <\/p>\n

technologies, has called the Port of Hong Kong on her maiden voyage,\u201d said Chu <\/p>\n

San.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The OOCL SPAIN has been awarded three \u201cSmart Ship\u201d notations by the <\/p>\n

American Bureau of Shipping in recognition of its use of intelligent technology <\/p>\n

to optimise operations, helping to improve fuel efficiency, structural health <\/p>\n

monitoring, and long-term navigational safety.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Kenny Ye, Chief Operating Officer of OOCL Ltd. said: \u201cOOCL SPAIN is <\/p>\n

extremely significant for our group. She is the first new vessel we have had <\/p>\n

delivered to us in five years, and the first vessel we have built since joining <\/p>\n

the COSCO SHIPPING Group.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cHer design includes several technological and structural breakthroughs, in <\/p>\n

terms of size and capacity, and in terms of eco-friendly features.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This announcement comes in the same week that Chinese shipbuilder, <\/p>\n

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, handed over a 24,116 TEU ultra-large containership <\/p>\n

to China\u2019s Bank of Communications Financial Leasing to join MSC\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This past week has also seen Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Trust announce <\/p>\n

the deployment of 5G technology at the container terminals under its Hong Kong <\/p>\n

operations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA) has welcomed the 24,188 TEU containership, OOCL SPAIN, on its maiden voyage.This is the largest vessel ever to call at the Port of Hong Kong.Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) introduced the OOCL SPAIN, its first 24,000 TEU vessel, to its fleet in February…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hj_lang":[3],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"hj_lang","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hj_lang?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}