HMM Atlantic Express

HMM Atlantic Express, is a fictional container cargo ship built by Mitsui heavy industries for the Ocean Network Express group (Happag Lloyd, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, and K Line) and operated by Hyundai Merchant Marine.

HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE (HMM)

HMM Company Limited (Korean: 에이치엠엠 주식회사; RR: Eichi Em Em Jusik Hoesa), formerly known as Hyundai Merchant Marine, is a South Korean container transportation and shipping company.

Together with Ocean Network Express, they are very interested to learn more about HMS Elizabeth Swann, even though the trimaran design would be a huge departure from traditional large monohulls, that every large carrier in the world has adopted.

The Alliance is struggling to meet the clean air requirements of the IMO. But, as Commander John Storm is only too willing to explain, the real problem in transitioning to particulate free hydrogen as a fuel, is the support infrastracture, coupled to the ability of the growing forest of offshore wind turbines, to produce the green electricity for the land based electrolyzers to covert to hydrogen - thence to ammonia or methanol.

HMM moves the largest portion of South Korea's exports, becoming the number one Korean national container carrier, especially since Hanjin Shipping was declared bankrupt and ordered to be liquidated.

The company's office network is composed of four international headquarters, 27 subsidiaries, 76 branches, five overseas offices and 10 liaison offices.

On the domestic market, HMM transports strategic materials such as crude oil, iron ore/coal and diverse special products as well as import/export goods. Earnings are eight trillion Korean won per year.

As of 2020, HMM has built and launched the world's two largest container ships in terms of TEU capacity, the HMM Algeciras with a maximum TEU capacity of 23,964, and the HMM Copenhagen with a maximum capacity of 23,820 TEU.

HMM CO. LTD - 2020s

On 9 March, Hyundai Merchant Marine board decide to re-brand the company as HMM Co., Ltd.

Then on 29 April, HMM held the naming ceremony for the newly constructed 23,964 TEU-class container ship HMM Algeciras, the world's largest container ship at the time of her launch.

OCEAN NETWORK EXPRESS HOLDINGS (ONE)

Ocean Network Express Holdings, Ltd. (ONE) is a Japanese container transportation and shipping company jointly owned by the Japanese shipping Lines Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, and K Line. Launched in 2017 as a joint venture, ONE inherited the container shipping operations of its parent companies, corresponding to a combined fleet capacity of about 1.4 million TEU.

ONE was founded in 2016 as a joint venture between Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), and K Line. The company was formed as part of a larger process of consolidation that was occurring in the container shipping industry at that time, affected by poor profits and surplus capacity. It merged the container shipping divisions of the three companies, forming the sixth-largest container shipping company in the world at that time. NYK controls a 38% stake of the joint venture, while MOL and K Line own 31% each.

After starting corporate and sales activities in October 2017, the company began trading in April 2018, with headquarters in Japan, business operation headquarters in Singapore and regional headquarters in United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong, and Brazil, and local offices in 90 countries.

On 2 April 2018, ONE Minato (ordered by K Line, and originally named Minato Bridge) was launched from Imabari Shipbuilding as trial. The vessel has a capacity of 14,000 TEU, and has been re-painted in magenta.

On 15 May 2018, the first magenta painted vessel was delivered and added into the fleet. ONE Commitment (formerly known as MOL Commitment, built in 2013), started her maiden voyage at Singapore and reached Yantian International Container Terminals in China. Sailing under Japanese flag, the vessel operates on THE Alliance PN2 service calling Japan, China, US and Canada with a total capacity of 8,560 TEU.

On 12 June 2018, the newly built ONE Stork was delivered and launched from Hiroshima, Kure Shipyard in Japan. This vessel was originally intended as NYK Stork, as part of the 8 Bird-class container ship sister ships, ordered and owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and chartered to ONE. The ship has a capacity of 14,000 TEUs and is magenta painted. The first deployment was instructed towards North America East Coast, after calling several loading ports in China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

On 7 July 2018, ONE Competence made fast at the Port of Oakland. The vessel was built in 2008 as MOL Competence, to carry over 8000 TEUs. She has recently been repainted in magenta, following the intended plan to rebrand over 240 vessels in the fleet.

In August 2018, ONE ordered more than 14,000 refrigerated containers.

In December 2018, ONE and PSA International signed an agreement to form a joint venture at Pasir Panjang Terminal in Singapore to conduct container operations in the terminal, starting in the first half of 2019.

On 30 November 2020, the container ship ONE Apus lost an estimated 1816 containers overboard during severe weather while traveling from Yantian in China to Long Beach, California, USA. Among these were 64 containers of dangerous goods. Removing collapsed containers from the deck took 3 months after the ship docked in Kobe, Japan.

On 14 April 2021, ONE is added to ISO9001 certification registry of ClassNK.

On 19 April 2021, ONE has announced the formation of a new Green Strategy Department, that will be involved in environmental sustainability projects, such as the successful trial of bio-fuel to power the MOL Experience container ship.

HMM Atlantic Express, has been the name of a number of Hyundai's fleet, along the same route.

THE ALLIANCE

Along with Hapag-Lloyd, HMM Co. Ltd., and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation, ONE is a member of THE Alliance. THE Alliance is a group of container shipping companies intended to provide 34 shipping services, directly calling at 81 different ports around the world on a monthly basis.

THE FLEET

At establishment, the fleet counted 240 container vessels, including 31 container ships with a capacity of around 14,000 TEU or higher, of which 6 have 20,000 TEU capacity. As a result of the merger, it also inherited container ship orders from its predecessors, with one ultra-large 20,000 TEU vessel and twelve 14,000 TEU vessels due to be delivered (the Millau Bridge-class container ships). A tonnage review was scheduled to happen within 18 months from the operations beginning, in order to be competitive on all services by using the most recent, technological and efficient ships available to be built.

THE STOWAWAY

'King-Kong,' the Sectasaur, jumps ships into the freezing South Atlantic ocean, and eventually hitches a ride as a stowaway onboard the HMM Atlantic Express. John already has an inkling what might have happened, though he cannot quite believe it. He has seen some unbelievable things in his time. He suspects that the alien previously onboard KoolArctic, is somehow, a dinosaur giant insect. With the help of Hal and low level satellites, they are able to guess with some degree of certainty, that King Kong may have boadred HMM Atlantic Express.

Commander John Storm RN, hails the 'KoolArctic' British Antarctic survey ship from the helm of the Elizabeth Swann. John, Dan and Charley, are adjusting to the sub zero South Pole temperatures, by dressing in warmer gear. John has always been a fan of the famous explorers: Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Scott.

SECTASAUR CAST