{"id":6830,"date":"2020-03-26T01:49:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/covid-19-hapag-lloyd-adds-100000-teu-of-capacity-to-keep-goods-moving\/6830\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T01:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:49:57","slug":"covid-19-hapag-lloyd-adds-100000-teu-of-capacity-to-keep-goods-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/covid-19-hapag-lloyd-adds-100000-teu-of-capacity-to-keep-goods-moving\/6830\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Hapag-Lloyd Adds 100,000 TEU of Capacity to Keep Goods Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"

German container shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd has on-hired over 100,000 TEU of additional equipment across the globe to keep the supply chain flowing amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the carrier, many ports in China have so far returned to normal operations, and scheduled sailings and bookings ex-China are gradually increasing.<\/p>\n

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As explained, the company is doing \u2018everything in its power\u2019 to maintain uninterrupted service, with no significant disruptions to work productivity or customer service.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur vessels are today operating as usual and our service structure is largely unchanged,\u201d <\/em>Rolf Habben Jansen, Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s CEO said in a COVID-19 update.<\/p>\n

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To help prevent the disease from spreading, the company has introduced a number of measures for its onshore and offshore employees. This includes additional safety measures being implemented onboard Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s boxships. Moreover, the company\u2019s crews are currently not changing ships in high-risk areas.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo far the crisis has had only limited impact on our business, but we expect a significant effect of the virus on global container traffic in the months to come, and if this happens we will have to make some adjustments to the network,\u201d<\/em> Jansen noted.<\/p>\n

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In 2019, Hapag-Lloyd managed to significantly improve its profitability and reduce debt<\/a> more than planned. The company has now taken additional precautionary financial measures to assure that even if the crisis persists longer than expected, Hapag-Lloyd will be able to offer the required services and products.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOver the coming weeks, we will continue to navigate these unchartered waters and move as close as possible to \u2018business as usual,’\u201d<\/em> Hapag-Lloyd CEO further said.<\/p>\n

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Read more:<\/p>\n

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Coronavirus Crisis: Hapag-Lloyd Prepares for a Difficult Year Ahead<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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German container shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd has on-hired over 100,000 TEU of additional equipment across the globe to keep the supply chain flowing amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.\u00a0 According to the carrier, many ports in China have so far returned to normal operations, and scheduled sailings and bookings ex-China are gradually increasing. As explained, the company …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1200,2483,1154,1216,1230,2065,324],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-adds","tag-capacity","tag-covid19","tag-goods","tag-hapaglloyd","tag-moving","tag-teu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}