‘OOCL Brisbane’ named at Samsung yard

Baird Maritime

Published:21st Jul, 2009 at 5:50 AM

OOCL held a christening ceremony for the 'OOCL Brisbane' on July 17 at Samsung Heavy Industries' Geoje yard.

The vessel is the eighth Panamax-class boxship in a series of 16 4,500TEU vessels ordered from the South Korean builder.

(from left to right) Dick Honan, Chairman of the Manildra Group; Samantha Honan, sponsor; Philip Chow, Chief Executive Officer of OOCL; SY Bae, President and Shipyard General Manager of Samsung Heavy Industries

The new vessel was christened the 'OOCL Brisbane' by the ship's sponsor, Samantha Honan, the daughter of Dick Honan, Chairman of the Manildra Group, an Australian processor of wheat and an OOCL customer in Australia.

The vessel was named after the Port of Brisbane in Australia.

Group photo at the naming ceremony of the 'OOCL Brisbane', held at Geoje Shipyard, Korea on July 17, 2009

The 'OOCL Brisbane' will be deployed on the Asia-Australia AEA 2 service.

The port rotation is: Yokohama – Osaka – Busan – Shanghai – Ningbo – Hong Kong – Kaohsiung – Melbourne – Sydney – Brisbane – Yokohama on a 35-day round trip.