Hong Kong - Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. (“OOCL”) is pleased to announce the naming of its first brand new 16,828 TEU container vessel, the “OOCL Bauhinia”, at a ceremony held today at the Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (“DACKS”) shipyard. This vessel is the first of ten new 16,000 TEU container ships ordered by OOCL and represents the company’s first "NeoPanamax" class vessel in the latest decade*.
As a first for OOCL, this series of vessels are named after flowers. The choice of bauhinia, the city flower of Hong Kong, as the . . .
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