Giant container ship ONE FRIENDSHIP on its first voyage arrives at Damietta Container Terminal ||Jun 2023


(DCHC) Damietta Container and Cargo Handling Company received the giant container ship ONE FRIENDSHIP of the Japanese shipping line Ocean Network Express (ONE), which is one of the largest container shipping operators in the world, and the ONE FRIENDSHIP ship is a modern ship that was built during this year 2023 by the shipbuilding company Imabari in Japan and carries the flag of Hong Kong, and this is its first voyage coming from Asia heading to Europe through the Suez Canal and was entered on the quay of the Damietta Container Terminal coming from the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and then heading to the port of Barcelona in Spain, where the ship was anchored on container berth No. (1-2) on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, was handled with 6 giant quay cranes and 3090 containers were unloaded and shipped, and the dimensions of the ship ONE FRIENDSHIP are 366 meters length, 50 meters width, draft 15 meters, and its maximum load is 15,000 TEUs, which is one of the latest container ships of the ONE shipping line. It is worth mentioning that Damietta Container & Cargo Handling Co. has completed the implementation of a giant project to strengthen and deepen the container berths so that it can receive giant container ships in service, which have a draft of up to 17 meters and a load of more than 20 thousand TEUs, and also the application of the modern information system NAVIS N4 to manage and operate the container terminal electronically, which reflects positively on the performance rates and efficiency of the terminal, thus confirming the terminal's readiness to compete as the strongest container handling terminals in The Eastern Mediterranean region, in line with the policy of the Egyptian state to make Egypt a global logistics center. With the continued influx of giant ships to the Damietta Container Terminal, π€ππ¦π’π«πšπ₯ 𝐃𝐫. π‘πšπŸπ’π€ π†πšπ₯𝐚π₯ - Executive Managing Director of Damietta Container & Cargo Handling Co. thanks and appreciates all the company's employees in all sectors for their sincere efforts and dedication to work to raise the status of the company, and also many thanks to the Damietta Port Authority headed by π€ππ¦π’π«πšπ₯ 𝐌𝐫. π€π‘π¦πšπ π‡πšπ°πšπ¬π‘ for the full coordination between Damietta Container and Cargo Handling Company and the Damietta Port Authority.