The container ship new building “Cosco Guangzhou” chartered by the Chinese shipping company Cosco Container Lines Ltd. docked in the Port of Hamburg on 27 March 2006 for the first time. Loaded with export goods for Northern-Europe the world’s largest container vessel started its maiden voyage on 25 February 2006 in Shanghai.
Cosco is using the ship on its liner route AE 1 between the Far East and Europe via Dalian, Qingdao, Singapore, Rotterdam und Felixstowe to the Port of Hamburg, Europe’s most important sea port for Far East and China cargoes.
HHLA-Containerterminal Tollerort (CTT) took over the discharging and loading of containers for the so far biggest container ship being dispatched in the Port of Hamburg.
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