Guests at the naming ceremony for the OOCL Panama were Alberto Alem'n Zubieta, Panama Canal Authority administrator and chief executive officer, and his wife Ana Matilde Arias de Alem'n.
| At the OOCL Panama christening (from left): G.H. Lee, executive vice president, Samsung Heavy Industries; his wife; Alberto Alem'n Zubieta, chief executive officer of the Panama Canal Authority; Ana Matilde Arias de Alem'n, honorable sponsor of the OOCL Panama; Harriet Tung; and C.C. Tung, chairman and CEO of Orient Overseas International Ltd. |
'We are very honored to name our newest vessel after such a fascinating and historically important part of the world,' said C.C. Tung, chairman and chief executive officer of OOIL, parent of OOCL.
The vessel will initially be deployed on the Asia-Australia AEA2 service, which has a port rotation of Yokohama, Osaka, Busan, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and back to Yokohama in a 42-day round trip.
