Grand Alliance members in the Transpacific Trade - Hapag Lloyd, NYK, OOCL and P&O Nedlloyd - are announcing today, a temporary suspension of their FEX Transpacific service, with effect from the last week in January 2004.
December 22, 2003
OOCL signed an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries yesterday for two additional 8,063-TEUs SX Class vessels for delivery in 2007. This brings the total numbers of SX Class vessels ordered with Samsung to twelve.
December 12, 2003
OOCL won Best Main Line Operator at the fifth Lloyd's List Maritime Asia Awards ceremony, held in Shanghai on 4 December. Philip Chow, COO, OOCLL accepted the award on behalf of the company from Sandra Lee, Permanent Secretary for Economic Development and Labor, Hong Kong SAR, at the awards dinner which was attended by 450 top shipping executives.
December 05, 2003
The Port of Long Beach has presented its highest honor, the Honorary Port Pilot Award, to C. C. Tung, the chairman and chief executive of Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), for his significant accomplishments in international trade.
November 13, 2003
The Grand Alliance members in the Transpacific Trade - Hapag Lloyd, NYK, OOCL and P&O Nedlloyd - have announced the suspension of their bi-weekly all-water extra loader service. The service was introduced last June to meet customer demand for additional space during the peak shipping season in the Trans Pacific trade.
November 10, 2003
Orient Overseas (International) Limited ("OOIL") Group today announced a profit before taxation of US$88.7 million compared with US$4.1 million for the same period last year. After taxation and minority interests, the Group reported a profit of US$79.5 million, an increase of US$78.5 million from the US$1.0 million earned during the first half of 2002.
August 20, 2003
OOCL added pages in Japanese to its oocl.com website, today.Initially, “Sailing Schedule”, “Country Information”, and a new feature, “Shipping Announcement”, which constitute the most important shipping information required by customers, were made available in Japanese.
August 11, 2003
OOCL (India) Private Limited (OIPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of OOCL will be established as the general agent for OOCL in India with effect from 5th August, 2003. OIPL will have its India head office in Mumbai, and branch offices in New Delhi and Chennai.
August 04, 2003
OOCL Long Beach, the second of the ten 8,063-TEU SX Class vessel delivered to OOCL from Samsung Heavy Industries, arrived at Long Beach Container Terminal, USA, on 25 July, on its maiden port call at the Port of Long Beach. The vessel docked at Long Beach Container Terminal, at the Pier F facility leased by an OOCL subsidiary.
July 28, 2003
Mr. Courtenay Allan commenced his shipping career with Bristol City Line in February 1967, thereafter spending time with Dart Containerline before finally working for the Tung Group under the OOCL banner. In the early stages of his career, Courtenay built a solid industry foundation working in Documentation, Marketing and Sales before commencing his lengthy service in the Trans-Atlantic Trade.
July 11, 2003
OOCL has signed today a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for the construction of two more 8,063 TEU "SX", class vessels to be delivered in 2006. To-date a total of ten "SX " class vessels has been ordered with Samsung Heavy Industries Ltd. OOCL Shenzhen and OOCL Long Beach, had already been delivered to OOCL in April and June, 2003.
July 11, 2003
Effective 1st July 2003, Mr. Philip Chow, had been appointed to the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd ( OOCLL). He will oversee all the Company's territorial trade businesses and continue to be a member of the Executive Committee of OOCLL.
June 30, 2003
OOCL Sydney, a brand new container vessel of 2,762 TEU, on her maiden voyage, arrived today in Sydney, the city that she is named after. OOCL Sydney sailed from Koyo Shipyard in Japan ten days ago and had visited Shanghai, Chiwan and Hong Kong to load cargo bound for Australian ports.
June 05, 2003
OOCL is celebrating the European maiden calls of OOCL Shenzhen. OOCL Shenzhen, is a SX class vessel, with the largest declared capacity of the world at 8,063 TEUs.
June 04, 2003
OOCL Montreal was delivered to OOCL from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Engineering Co on 19 May, 2003. OOCL Montreal is a 4,402 TEU Ice-Strengthened vessel to be phased in Gateway Express (GEX) loop 1 service on 30 June, 2003, with 3 sailings per week plying between Port of Montreal and major European ports via the St. Lawrence River Gateway. OOCL Montreal will become the largest ice-class container vessel ever to sail into the St Lawrence River.
May 28, 2003
OOCL is this week celebrating the 5th Anniversary of its Scan Baltic Express (SBX) services. The service has grown steadily to meet customer demand and is now regarded as the leader in service quality in the region.
May 15, 2003
ACE Consortium (China Shipping and OOCL) and ANL Container Line Pty Limited (ANL) today announced that they have entered into a long term alliance agreement. The new alliance will exchange slots on the new "ACE" service which was announced last week between China Shipping and OOCL and on ANL’s NAX service covering Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
May 14, 2003
OOCL Shenzhen, the largest vessel of the OOCL container fleet at 8,063 TEUs, sailed into Yantian Terminal, Shenzhen today on her maiden voyage to Europe.
OOCL Shenzhen was christened in Korea on 30th April, 2003 by Mrs Irene Chang, wife of Mr TR Chang, CEO of Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd.
May 14, 2003
OOCL celebrated the christening of "OOCL Shenzhen" at Koji Island, Korea today. "OOCL Shenzhen", is a "SX" class vessel, with the largest declared capacity of the world at 8,063 TEUs. It is also the largest vessel ever built by Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
April 30, 2003
OOCL has celebrated the 5th Anniversary of its Scan Baltic Express (SBX) service. The service has grown steadily to meet customer demand and is now regarded as the leader in service quality in the region.
April 28, 2003
OOCL, with our commitment to provide quality services to customers, is taking every precautionary measure against the risk of SARS infection at offices and aboard our vessels. We have also formulated and implemented contingency plans to ensure that our services will not be interrupted in case of SARS infection at our offices or vessels.
April 24, 2003
A completely new service, The "Australia China Express" (ACE) service will be inaugurated by China Shipping and OOCL starting from the 2nd week of May 2003 replacing the COZ service in serving customers’ transportation and logistics needs between China and Australia.The new ACE service will deploy five container vessels with capacity of 2,500 TEUs each, including two new buildings from OOCL namely "OOCL Sydney" and "OOCL Melbourne".
April 16, 2003
Orient Overseas Container Line is to launch a new China / Straits Service (CSS) to enhance its service network for China. This is in direct response to the growing needs of customers in the transportation of cargo between China and Southeast Asia, which has outgrown the existing capacity OOCL is providing to the trade.
March 25, 2003
Orient Overseas (International) Ltd ("OOIL") today announced a profit after taxation and minority interests of US$51.7 million for the year ended 31st December 2002, a 16% decrease against that recorded for the corresponding period in 2001. The Directors are recommending a final dividend of US2.5 cents (HK19.5 cents).
March 14, 2003
Hapag Lloyd, OOCL and P&O Nedlloyd announced today the start of a fast new dedicated Intra-Asia service called the JTV (Japan-Thailand-Vietnam) service. This new service offers fixed day weekly direct services between Japan, Thailand , Taiwan and Vietnam and has some of the fastest transit times in the market.
March 10, 2003
Mr. C. C. Tung, Chairman and CEO, of Orient Overseas (International) Ltd (OOIL), parent Company of OOCL officially opened OOCL House in Levington, UK. on February 19, 2003.The building, purchased and occupied by OOCL since 1990, has been completely upgraded and refurbished to OOCL’s global building standard of hi-tech, user friendly and efficiency which caters especially for the requirement of advanced e-commerce and information technology operations.
February 24, 2003
OOCL Xiamen, the first of the 4 chartered-in vessels of OOCL in 2003, arrived Hong Kong yesterday from port of Ningbo and berthed at MTL, Kwai Chung. The vessel will be first deployed in China Middle East Service (CMS) and will phase in the Kanto Taiwan South China Express (KTX) service in early April.
February 20, 2003
