Tihama

Never before has one of our company’s vessels taken so much cargo on board: In late October, Hapag-Lloyd’s “Tihama” set a new record: 18,609 TEU – or 20-foot standard containers. The ship, which operates in Hapag-Lloyd’s “Far East Loop 2” (FE2) service, had gradually taken on this enormous number of containers at several ports in Asia. All the cargo had the same destination: North Europe. The record of the “Tihama” is all the more astonishing as its declared capacity – 17,500 TEU – is well below this mark. However, declared capacity is a theoretical, purely mathematical figure that takes a large number of factors into account. Among the limiting factors are draft restrictions and the capabilities of the container gantry cranes in ports of call.