- Colombo Express
"Colombo Express" is the one of the largest
container ship s in the world."Colombo Express" holds TEU|8,749|first=yes, 730 refrigerated (reefer) TEUs, is 1,099 feet (335m) long, and has a beam, or width, of convert|140|ft|m. She is owned by the German shipping company
Hapag-Lloyd , and operated by theHapag-Lloyd Container Line division. She is named forColombo , the largest city inSri Lanka , which the predecessor company, North American Lloyd, first called on in1886 . She is the first of eight proposed "Colombo Express" Class vessels, and is only slightly larger (approximately 4%) than her "Savannah Express" Class cousins, the TEU|8400 (700 reefer) ships "Savannah Express " and "Houston Express ". The "Colombo Express" weighs 103,800 dead-weight-tons (metric), and has a top speed of 25.0 knots. Built inKorea byHyundai Heavy Industries in2004 -2005 , she was christened on11 April 2005 , and herdiesel engine generates 93,500horsepower or 68,640kW of power.The "Colombo Express" operates out of the homeport of
Hamburg , and will mainly travel fromEurope toSoutheast Asia and back in 56-day round-trips.External links
* [http://www.hlcl.info/en/fleet/vessels_20468.html "Colombo Express" @ Hapag-Lloyd Container Line]
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