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2001
Company Profile
2001
​​​Milestones - 2001

November

  • Freightliner officially named one of its new class 66 diesel locomotives 'OOCL Express ' to symbolize the dedication of a daily train service to its ten-year contract with OOCL.
October

  • OOCL launched the Chinese-language option of its Web site on the 1 October 2001, China National Day. It was launched to better communicate with customers in China all the important international transportation, supply chain logistics and terminal operations information OOCL offers.
September

  • OOCL announced the appointment of Hanza Forwarding as the new agent in Latvia. Hanza Forwarding is well established in Latvia and will strengthen OOCL's presence in the growing Latvian market.
  • OOCL announced the appointment of Baltic Group Limited as its agent in Lithuania.  OOCL serves the Lithuanian market by utilizing its own  feeders via Klaipeda.  The appointment of Baltic Group Limited in Lithuania represents another step in OOCL's development in the Baltic States.
August

  • OOIL announced its 2001 interim results. It recorded a profit before taxation of US$54.7 million compared with US$35.2 million for the same period last year. After taxation and minority interests, the Group reported a profit of US$49.1 million, an increase of US$24.9 million from US$24.2 million in the first half of 2000.
  • OOCL and MISC announced a new European Coordinated Service, known as Iberia Scan Express (ISX). MISC will provide two vessels of 736TEU each, whilst OOCL will contribute one, with a carrying capacity of 600TEU. As part of the cooperation, MISC and OOCL will exchange slots on the three vessels.
  • OOCL and UK rail freight operator, Freightliner, signed an historic contract to provide OOCL with a dedicated round trip train for ten years. The train will run a round trip service between Southampton and Manchester five days a week. The route was chosen as Southampton is called at by OOCL's deep-sea vessels to and from Asia and the USA, whilst Manchester is a natural inland rail hub for OOCL's extensive customer base in the North of the UK.

July

  • OOCL celebrated the christening of OOCL France on 29 June 2001, in Shanghai.  It is a 5,500TEU container vessel which was deployed in the China/Europe Express service of the Grand Alliance's Asia-Europe service.
May

  • For the third time in seven years, OOCL and Canada Maritime, long-term partners in the St Lawrence Coordinated Service, agreed that they will each commission new tonnage to be built simultaneously for deployment in the trade between North Europe and North America, via Montreal.
  • CargoSmart signed a significant three-year agreement with Hewlett-Packard. CargoSmart will outsource its data hosting to Hewlett-Packard who will act as a neutral party to ensure that CargoSmart's multiple-carrier customer data is kept completely proprietary.
  • OOCL appointed Adamis Shipping Agency Ltd as its Agent in Greece. The appointment will help to further develop the Greek market to and from Asia and North America.

April

  • OOCL expanded its China office network in Shantou by the appointment of Shantou Ping Ye International Freight Corporation Ltd as its general agent.
March

  • OOCL, China Shipping and Zim Line jointly announced a new Australia-East Asia service, covering Australia and the Greater China markets of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
  • On 16 March 2001, Orient Overseas (International) Ltd announced a profit after taxation and minority interests of US$111.9 million for the year ended 31 December 2000, a 67% increase over the US$67.2 million recorded for the corresponding period in 1999.  The Directors recommended a final dividend of US3 cents (HK23.4 cents). Together with the interim dividend of US1 cent (HK7.8 cents), this represents a dividend for the year of US4 cents (HK31.2 cents), an increase of 33% over that for 1999.
  • OOCL announced an expansion of its weekly Scan Baltic Express service. Since April 1999, two dedicated ice-class ships have been deployed, currently these are the 600TEU OOCL Neva and OOCL Nevskiy.
  • OOCL celebrated the christening of OOCL Germany in Bremerhaven, Germany on 24 March 2001, a post-Panamax container vessel ordered by the company under a long-term charter agreement with the Hamburg, German based company, Nordcapital.

February

  • OOCL announced a new dedicated service between South Korea and North China using a 300TEU vessel. The service begins in Pusan, followed by Dalian, before heading to Xingang in North China.
January

  • CargoSmart, the most advanced common carrier portal for the container transportation industry, added an interactive Sailing Schedule to its suite of "smart" applications. This further distinguished CargoSmart from the competition.