The Vienna Express Begins her Career, The Next Generation of Large Freight Vessel, car shipping, overseas shipping companies

There's a new generation of city-size freight vessels being designed for overseas shipping companies by ship builders around the world at the moment. Ships with engineering designs and ship components and systems designed to improve the environmental characteristics of the vessels that will be plying the trade routes in the years ahead. The next generation of super-sized freight vessels will have to be versatile in order to do the job of moving ocean freight. The freight industry has shown signs lately that it can shift quickly and the equipment international car shipping firms use to conduct car shipping services needs to be able to handle a variety of jobs. The vessels they use to move ocean freight also needs to be versatile enough in their abilities to be usable for a large and changing variety of strategies that might be employed at various times to do the job and meet problems that might arise in their business. This has been shown recently in the shifting to low-steaming strategies and the emergence of new fast-freight services to handle a niche service that appears to have been at least partially created by the implementation of the slow-steaming policy.

One overseas shipping company that just took delivery of a next generation freight vessel designed with the latest thoughts on making this generation more compatible with the environment and reducing the carbon propeller-print of the ocean freight industry is Hapag-Lloyd. The Vienna Express is over 8000 TEU and includes systems designed to help Hapag-Lloyd implement their current strategy of a controlled speed strategy on their routes. A vessel with a length of 335 metres and width across the deck of 42 metres, the Vienna Express's home port is currently the Port of Hamburg and flies a German flag when she's at sea.

Hapag-Lloyd currently has over 110 containerships in its fleet that are busy taking cargo of all size and shape to destinations around the world at all times of the day. The arrival of the Vienna Express is an event for sure, but Hapag-Lloyd invests in ships of this type on a regular basis in order to keep their business healthy and the level of their freight services current. In fact, investment in vessels and ships is probably the biggest bill firms like Hapag-Lloyd will pay in order to keep the ships moving to destination. This cost has certainly gone up with the changing environmental standards of ship building and freight movements in the world and it's likely to continue to increase as we head further into the century of the environment.

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