02/05/2010

Naming ceremony of OOCL Luxembourg at Geoje Shipyard, Korea

On April 30th 2010, Jeannot Krecké, Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade attended the christening OOCL Luxembourg at Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje Shipyard.

The ceremony was hosted by CC Tung, Chairman and CEO of OOIL Group and guests of honour included Paul Steinmetz, Luxembourg Ambassador to Japan; I S Roh, President and CEO of Samsung Heavy Industries; and SY Bae, President and Shipyard General Manager of Samsung Heavy Industries.

With a length of 323 meters (3 football fields), the OOCL Luxembourg is the sixteenth in a series of sixteen 8,063 TEU vessels build at the shipyards for OOCL. The ship will be deployed in a loop between Asia and Europe, in response to the rapid recovery of demand on the Asia-Europe trade.

In his speech CC Tung said that the decision to give name the name of Luxembourg to the ship was taken in recognition of the assistance provided by Luxembourg administrations in a project to finance several ships of the 8063 TEU series.

After the ceremonies Jeannot Krecké was very satisfied with the event: “OOCL is a well known name in the logistics and transportation community and together with the new ship the name “Luxembourg” will travel to the largest ports all over the world. On the other hand ship financing has become an interesting diversification opportunity for the Luxembourg financial center.”

OOCL is one of the world's leading container transport and logistics service providers, with more than 280 offices in 55 countries. The company offers transportation services to all major east/west trading economies of the world. It is also an industry leader in the use of information technology and e-commerce to manage the entire cargo process. http://www.oocl.com/

Luxembourg delegation at the ceremony

(from left to right) Ambassadeur Paul Steinmetz, Younhee Kim (BED Seoul),

Ministre Jeannot Krecké, Jean-Claude Knebeler, Robert Biwer