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Hamburg Süd was a major German container shipping line, now fully integrated into Maersk.

➡️ Company basics
🔹 Full name: Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft A/S & Co KG
🔹 Founded: 1871 by Hamburg merchants
🔹 Headquarters: Willy-Brandt-Straße 59-65, Hamburg, Germany
🔹 Founded: 1871 | Defunct: 2023 as independent brand
🔹 Fate: Acquired by Maersk Line in 2017, brand phased out in 2023

➡️ Scale & fleet
🔹 Employees: ∼6,301 in 2016, ∼1,775 current
🔹 Vessels: 130+ container ships operated, ∼70 owned
🔹 TEU capacity: 625,000 TEU fleet, 590,000 TEU slot capacity

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MSC PALOMA is a 14,000 TEU Suezmax container ship in MSC’s fleet.

➡️ Vessel specs – IMO 9441001
🔹 Type: Container Ship / Suezmax
🔹 Built: 2010 by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Okpo, South Korea
🔹 Launched: 29 May 2010, delivered 19 Aug 2010, yard no. 4139
🔹 Flag: Panama
🔹 Port of registry: Panama City

➡️ Size
🔹 Length: 365.49 m / 1,199 ft
🔹 Beam: 50.0 - 51.28 m / 168 ft
🔹 Depth: 29.9 m
🔹 Draft: 16.0 - 17.5 m max
🔹 DWT: 165,564 - 190,343 tonnes
🔹 GT: 153,092

➡️ Capacity
🔹 TEU: 13,200 - 14,000 TEU nominal

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