Archive of Press Releases 2002
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07 Nov 2002 "Naming of the "Hong Kong Express" - A superlative ship"
The "Hong Kong Express", one of the world's largest containerships, was named today in the Chinese city of Hong Kong. The patron was Kerstin Larsson, wife of the Executive Board Chairman of Schenker AG, Hakan Larsson.
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04 Oct 2002 New liner service encircles the globe
From November onwards Hapag-Lloyd along with five other shipping lines will be offering improved shipment facilities between Europe, North America and Australasia. The partners will be deploying 22 ships altogether.
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08 Aug 2002 Grand Alliance - Focus on China
The Grand Alliance carriers, Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Line, OOCL and P&O Nedlloyd, are introducing a new service covering Central and Northern China ports to and from U.S. PSW gateways in the form of a slot charter agreement with COSCO Container Lines
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02 Aug 2002 Hapag-Lloyd to join C-TPAT
Hapag-Lloyd has submitted its application to join the recently announced U.S. Customs initiative, Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism
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11 Jul 2002 Hapag-Lloyd Container Line - New north-south service
Hapag-Lloyd is expanding its liner network in Latin America with a service linking the east coast of South America with Mexico and the US coast on the Gulf of Mexico. The first departure is scheduled for late August 2002
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28 May 2002 Offer to buy shares from VTG-Lehnkering shareholders
Hapag-Lloyd AG plans to increase its stake in VTG-Lehnkering AG
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29 Apr 2002 Hapag-Lloyd Group in 2001 - Another successful financial year
In 2001, Hapag-Lloyd Group improved on its already very good result for the previous year. Liner shipping, VTG-Lehnkering and Algeco in particular achieved gratifying profit increases. Despite the only slow recovery of the world economy, Hapag-Lloyd expects to put in another satisfactory performance in 2002.
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06 Apr 2002 Ship naming ceremony in Hamburg's sister city
"Shanghai Express" joins fleet