''Tsingtao Express'' is owned by Hapag-Lloyd, one of the largest

container ship A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermoda ...

companies in the world. The ship is registered in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

Hull and engine

The ''Tsingtao Express'' is 335.47 m long, with a beam of 42.80 m, and draught of 14,610 m. This ship has a double bottom design giving it a capacity of 8749 TEU, 730 of which may be refrigerated containers. It was completed and christened on April 26, 2007. The ship is powered by a MAN B&W 2 stroke engine with 12 cylinders, capable of producing 93,323 hp driving open fixed pitch propeller. The ship was originally constructed with five auxiliary generators. Two 4,267 kW, one 2,454 kW, one 4,000 kW, and one 1,867 kW.

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