Orient Overseas Container Line

The Orient Overseas Container Line ( OOCL ) is a shipping company Orient Overseas International Ltd.. ( OOIL ) from Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. The listed company ( SEHK: 0316 ) was established in 1947 in Shanghai by CY Founded Tung and among the world's largest shipping companies. OOCL offers a global container transportation including various logistics services.

Today, OOCL is one of the world's largest shipping and logistics company with more than 280 offices in 58 countries around the world. There are approximately 4.6 million TEUs moved annually.

OOCL offers 78 liner services with a fleet of over 270 vessels serving the international market in the northern hemisphere, including the Grand Alliance members ships, feeder, OOCL -owned and self-managed ships. This includes ships of various classes with a capacity 2500-8063 TEU, plus ice - class vessels for extreme weather conditions.

Responsible for Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe, the Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd.. Germany branch, with headquarters in Bremen. In addition to the employed there about 90 employees busy OOCL ( Germany ) additional 40 sales offices in Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich.

Line services

OOCL currently offers 78 weekly scheduled services worldwide. These connecting Asia, Europe, North America, the Mediterranean, the Indian sub- continent, the Middle East and Australia / New Zealand. It provides transportation to all major Ost-West-Handels-/Wirtschaftsräumen. OOCL is one of the leading international transport companies that serve China and there offer the complete logistics and transportation service throughout China.

Conservation

OOCL was the first container shipping company in the world according to the "Safety, Quality and Environmental ( SQE ) Management System" certification (this included requirements ISM Code, ISO 9001.2000 and ISO 14001). OOCL held a 100 percent compliance with the " Port of Long Beach Green Flag program" in 2006 and 2007. OOCL donated the benefits achieved thereby in the amount of $ 140,000 to projects in the Long Beach area.

OOCL also corresponds to the " Qualship -21 " program, which examines the quality of the ship management of not sailing under the U.S. flag ships and holds the most rigid safety and environmental standards worldwide.

OOCL started in 2001 to a bunker - saving program by ( = fuel for ships ), which is an effective way (especially CO2) to reduce greenhouse gases. Initiatives to reduce fuel consumption, for example weather led route systems to shortest routes safely negotiating - to achieve on every ship the bestausgeglichenste charge distribution around a minimum of ballast water - fuel injection and optimizing the valve timing to achieve best effectiveness - Regular maintenance to specifically the hull to keep it clean from any mussel and algae plants that would friction in the water and thus increase fuel consumption. The maintenance includes polishing the propeller.

Security

OOCL participates in the " Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program" (C- TPAT ). This is a voluntary government -to- business initiative to build cooperative relations, which, together with the strengthening and improvement of logistic chains the increase in the security of U.S. borders. OOCL also complies with the requirements of the " International Ship and Port Facility Security Code ( ISPS Code ) " and the " Container Security Initiative ( CSI) " and the " U.S. Customs 24 - Hour Advance Cargo Manifest Declaration Rule".

OOCL Logistics

OOCL Logistics Ltd.. ( OLL ), the part of the OOIL group that deals with freight consolidation and logistics services, began in 1979. Their services extend from consolidation, customs clearance, warehousing through to logistics management of complete corporate processes.

History

OOCL was founded in 1947 by CY Tung as " Orient Overseas Line". With the advent of containerisation it was 1969, the " Orient Overseas Container Line " At OOCL was the first Asian shipping company, the containerized cargo transported across the Pacific, and thus the face of trade in the Asia -Pacific region had a substantial impact. CY Tung dreamed early on of the establishment of the first Chinese merchant fleet. 1947, fulfilled his dream as the first time a ship of its fleet, the Atlantic coast of North America and Europe reached, led by a Chinese pure Crew. Regular cargo and passenger routes emerged from it under the name " Orient Overseas Line".

At weddings, OOCL maintained a fleet of over 150 cargo ships with a capacity of more than 10 million tons and was one of the seven world's leading shipping companies. She owned the world's largest ship ever built, the tanker " Seawise Giant".

To change the name in the "Orient Overseas Container Line" in 1969 were ships of the " Victory -class" 300 TEU ( = 20 ' container) transport, a far cry from today's Post-Panamax ships that sail the world's oceans today. In April 2003, the then largest ship in the SX class with 8063 TEU OOCL was delivered to the " OOCL Shenzhen".

After the death of CY Tung in 1982, CH Tung took over for 14 years the management of Orient Overseas (International) Limited ( OOIL ), OOCLs parent company. In 1996 the line was then passed to CC Tung, since CH Tung was elected as Governor of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Ships

Since 1989, the name of the OOCL - owned or - operated vessels consist of the prefix " OOCL " together and another name.

In the years 2003-2007, the shipping with the twelve ships of the OOCL SX class by the South Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries their biggest units in service. These ships of the SX class were named in 2006 in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest container ships with capacity of 8063 TEU container declared.

Others

• The emblem of the OOCL is the " Plum blossom", represented the national flower of China's stylized.
• OOCL affiliates maintain or operate terminals in North America and Asia, including: Long Beach Container Terminal in California and KAOCT in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.