OOCL announced on November 5, 2009 the christening of the tenth Panamax class vessel in its line of sixteen 4,500-TEU vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries. ”Dalian is a vibrant economic hub in North Eastern China. The port of Dalian is China’s eighth largest by container volume, with a throughput of 4.5 million TEUs in 2008,” said Mr. Andy Tung, Chief Operating officer of OOCL, speaking at the vessel’s christening ceremony in Korea.
