|
Danaos Corporation Receives "Ship of the Year" Award at the Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards 2012
ATHENS, GREECE, Dec 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Danaos Corporation ("Danaos") (NYSE: DAC), a leading international
owner of containerships, was presented the prize for the "Ship of the
Year" at the annually held Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards that
took place in Athens on December 7, 2012. The prize was awarded for
vessel "Hyundai Ambition", a 13,100 TEU containership built at
Hyundai Heavy Industries and delivered to the Company on June 29,
2012. Hyundai Ambition is the last of a series of five 13,100
container vessels delivered to Danaos Corporation this year and
chartered to Hyundai Merchant Marine for 12 years and are the largest
cellular containerships ever built and controlled by Greek interests.
The vessel is fitted with an electronically controlled main engine in
compliance with Tier II IMO Nox emissions standards and the phase II
IMO EEDI INDEX, equipped with turbocharger cut-out measures, and is
capable to super slow steam down to 10% of maximum engine load. It is
equipped with an advanced performance monitoring system with on line
analysis for power measurement and multi-stations alarm monitoring
controls. The vessel has undergone extensive trim optimization tests
to enhance its performance and is coated with the latest silyl SPC
coatings.
Hyundai Ambition also has state of the art IT, Communication and
Entertainment Systems on board, wired and wireless network offering
Internet and Entertainment Systems to all Crew Cabins and messrooms,
centralized video and music centre offering private selection of
movies and music onboard, as well as satellite TV at crew public
spaces.
Iraklis Prokopakis, Senior Vice President and COO of Danaos
Corporation upon receiving the award commented:
"We are very proud to receive this recognition. This vessel is a
typical example of the Danaos Corporate Mentality. She reflects the
very early views of John Coustas that the future of the Container
Industry will be in the ultra large container vessels.
"Additionally, the Hyundai Ambition and her sister vessels are the
result of the joint effort of all of us at Danaos but primarily of an
excellent team of young people, who participated in the design of the
ship, supervised her construction and now look after her operational
and technical management.
"The Hyundai Ambition and her sister vessels are manned with highly
trained and qualified crews, specially selected from our long term
pools on whom we have relied upon for the growth of our company."
About Danaos Corporation
Danaos Corporation is an international
owner of containerships, chartering its vessels to many of the
world's largest liner companies. Our current fleet of 64
containerships aggregating 363,049 TEUs ranks Danaos among the
largest containership charter owners in the world based on total TEU
capacity. Danaos is one of the largest US listed containership
companies based on fleet size. The Company's shares trade on the New
York Stock Exchange under the symbol "DAC".
Visit our website at www.danaos.com
For further information please contact:
Company Contact:
Evangelos Chatzis
Chief Financial Officer
Danaos Corporation
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210 419 6480
E-Mail: cfo@danaos.com
Iraklis Prokopakis
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Danaos Corporation
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210 419 6400
E-Mail: coo@danaos.com
Investor Relations and Financial Media
Nicolas Bornozis
President
Capital Link, Inc.
New York
Tel. 212-661-7566
E-Mail: danaos@capitallink.com
SOURCE: Danaos Corporation
mailto:cfo@danaos.com
mailto:coo@danaos.com
mailto:danaos@capitallink.com
[ Satellite Spotlight's Homepage ]
|
