OOCL Christens Panamax Vessel

OOCL christened the OOCL Dalian on Thursday, the tenth Panamax vessel in its line of 16 4,500-TEU ships ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries at its Geoje Shipyard in South Korea.

OOCL will deploy the new ships on its Intra-Asia China, Pakistan Express service.

The port rotation is: Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Singapore, Karachi, Mundra, Nhave Sheva, Penang, Port Kelang, Singapore, Hong Kong and back to Shanghai in a 35-day round trip.

Contact Peter T. Leach at pleach@joc.com.

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