Hapag-Lloyd announced on 10 March 2022 that it has signed an agreement to acquire the container shipping business of Deutsche Afrika-Linien (DAL), subject to regulatory approvals. (Updated : Hapag-Lloyd announced on 1 June 2022 that the acquisition has been finalised after securing the approval of anti-trust authorities.) The Hamburg headquartered DAL owns a single 6,589 teu container ship DAL KALAHARI and operates a container fleet of 17,800 owned and leased container which will be taken ov
Hapag-Lloyd will launch a new express service connecting Dachan Bay in South China with Hamburg from April 2022. The service will deploy 8 ships on a 56 day rotation using its own tonnage. (Update 8 April 2022 : The service was launched with the 3,586 teu NORDSPRING at Dachan Bay but the rotation has been revised to Dachan Bay, Le Havre, Wilhelmshaven as the severe port congestion in Hamburg forced Hapag-Lloyd to omit the planned Hamburg call) The new service will partly compensate for the te