The two container ships that passed Langeoog on Saturday both had the same destination in Hamburg, but brought cargo from very different regions of origin. while the OOCL KOBE in the Mediterranean Athens, the capital of Greece, three ports of Turkey, the Israeli Haifa and Alexandria in Egypt had called CREEK crossed the Atlantic and stopped overseas at Norfolk in Virginia, Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and New York in New Jersey.
The 300 meter long TORRENTE was built in 2011 at the Samsung Shipbuilding Heavy Industries shipyard for Hapag Lloyd. Four years earlier was the OOCL KOBE launched at the same shipyard for the Orient Overseas Container Line.
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