OOCL Panama christened

OOCL Panama christened    Orient Overseas Container Line on Thursday named a 4,500-TEU Panamax vessel in honor of the Panama Canal at Samsung Heavy Industries' Geoje shipyard in South Korea.
   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.