Significant growth in traffic South-America - Europe
2012 04 19
- Details
The Hamburg Süd shipping company was established in 1871 and from the beginning focused on the South American market, primarily the east coast. In the post-war period, the scheduled services between Europe and the South American east coast were resumed by the 'Santa Ursula' in 1951. This was the beginning of the first series of six 'Santa' vessels. Until now there have been two other series, in which there has always been a 'Teresa'. Looked at together it gives a good idea of the scale increase in shipping that has taken place over the past 60 years.
Vessels
The first 'Santa Teresa' (1953 - 1961)
- 11,710 tonnes dead weight
- 146 metres in length/ 18.7 metres in the beam
- speed: 14 knots
- crew: 54
- Europe - South American east coast scheduled service
The second 'Santa Teresa' (1976 -1982)
- 14,900 tonnes dead weight
- 141 metres in length/ 20.7 metres in the beam
- speed: 15 knots
- crew: 31
- Tramp shipping services
The third 'Santa Teresa' (2012 - )
- 93,430 tonnes dead weight
- 7,109 TEU
- 299.9 metres in length/ 42.8 metres in the beam
- speed: 22.2 knots
- crew: 16
- Europe - South American east coast scheduled service
Development
In this period, vessel size increased eightfold, vessel speed increased by a little more than half, and the trip is now possible with a third of the crew. The increased speed and quicker processing times in the ports mean that a ship can make many more trips per year, so that the effective production increase per year is much more than 800%.
Hamburg Süd is pioneer in the containerisation of the Europe-South American east coast traffic. This started in 1980 with two 750 TEU vessels. Thirty years later there has been a tenfold increase in service capacity and it is expected that the next step for the shipping company, which has been under complete ownership of the Oetker family since 1961, will be to use 9,000 TEU vessels.
Source Port of Rotterdam International
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