“Hong Kong Express”, a container ship with a capacity of over 13,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units), owned by the shipowner Hapag-Lloyd, docked at the DCT Gdansk quay on Tuesday, August 11th.
The first call of this vessel, operating on a Far East service, inaugurated the cooperation between DCT and the members of the G6 Alliance: APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Hapag-Lloyd, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL).
– Over the past five years, the DCT Gdansk terminal has built its position as the largest container hub in the Baltic Sea. The attractiveness of DCT in terms of handling the largest container ships, belonging to the ULCV (ultra large container carrier) class and arriving directly from the Far East, has been confirmed by the G6 Alliance, which extended one of its services – Loop 7 – and included Gdansk in it. We are extremely pleased to welcome all representatives of the G6 Alliance to Gdansk. We are convinced that this is just the beginning of our long and mutually beneficial cooperation – said Maciek Kwiatkowski, CEO of DCT Gdansk.
Loop 7 is a Far East, weekly service of the G6 Alliance, which calls at 6 consecutive European ports: Rotterdam, Hamburg, Gdansk, Gothenburg, Antwerp, and Southampton. After crossing the Indian Ocean, the service stops in Qingdao, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Yantian, and Singapore.