That matters w made for mines. They contain a giant is on its way to its home court. More than thirteen thousand containers fit on how powered lawyers newest vessels theyre the pride and joy of this Long Established Company and its one hundred and seventeen year history. This hamburg based shipping line is seeking to catch up with the frontrunners and become a Global Player. But can its plans work out. The enormous cargo ship as an express is one of the companys largest vessels first officer tobias com and started his watch in rotterdam so hes been on board for just twelve. Ours but as the man in charge of the cargo he has to make sure the visit to the home port of hamburg is as quick as a pit stop. Here and see a few friends and we have lots of containers for him book where on loading roughly three thousand one hundred all that will be done in forty eight hours it will be a very busy period on board. To illustrate what that means the three thousand one hundred containers on trucks would form a queue around fifty kilometers long the first officers also the boss of the deck crew the hands all come from the philippines with the one. Ok a line was damaged in rotterdam but its needed for docking in hamburg what now. Oh no big deal we were just there. The other side would take me when i am booked and then there. We would take a load on the ocean there. They dont want any delays now together with the captain to be as has to make sure that the vessel arrives on the dot in hamburg. That Storage Space is expensive and our big clients expect us to deliver their cargo just in time where they need it i am going and thats clients like ikea b. S. F. They want a just in time turn around this year they want to be able to unload the container and have it processed immediately and i was the fact that kind of guys far better thought of ita far better value kunt if the ships not on time the customers get angry they could even switch their shipping company. Captain peter plane took over the vessel in rotterdam everything with the fire but then just before entering the narrow waters of the elbe he takes charge on the bridge until the ship reaches its moorings in the express isnt on or stronger from going to the right and for the river elbe is like the eye of a needle for this huge ship. Yeah in fact in here in a match we have it entering the outputs tricky because we have a draft of thirteen point eight meters which makes us dependent on the toilet as the door through which we have to enter on a high tide so we have enough water under the ship otherwise we wouldnt get through or hes on switched off the. Company headquarters together with the chillin companys c. S. A. V the city of hamburg is one of happy lloyds biggest shareholders hamburg has invested one point one five billion euros of taxpayers money in the company but in recent years its made nothing but losses c. E. O. All of how many ansen joined the company in mid two thousand and fourteen hes the boss of ten thousand employees around the world two thousand of them in hamburg he wants to make the Long Established Company profitable again this is holds if its a very impressive you can feel the tradition and the strength has always had you also feel a certain pride when youre allowed to work for this Company Officials for these internet ill buy that sort of. His test float in the company on the stock market. And i ultimately think my task is quite simple to try and improve business together with the employees we want to ensure that hartford will still be around in one hundred years telling us how part of a whole bunch of what i just. Happen thats the acronym of the how am i can assure packet fat acts in biz a shaft founded in eight hundred forty seven one hundred years ago it was the Biggest Shipping Company in the world this man. Was the one who made it big he was the son of a jewish family that had moved from denmark to germany he grew up near the port of hamburg he saw all the people who were leaving germany for america in their thousands and his business idea was to transport them in large comfortable vessels. His imperial majesty the kaiser was present at the launch of the impulse art or as the Worlds Largest ship at the time was called at his behest. Albert balin was allowed to call himself a friend of the kaiser it was a dream come true for the entrepreneur he had beaten his competitors from braman. North german lloyd was also making money from the emigrants. Its ships were often faster but because of their construction the passengers became seasick more easily. Another idea helped have had success the immigrants were looked after and housed before the crossing even medical care was included. For a small additional fare the passengers no longer had to travel in mass accommodation in steerage they could have their own cabins children paid half price which made happy attractive to families crossing the atlantic became a relatively comfortable journey. One thing that hasnt changed since then is the significance of the company for hamburg loyd and its partners are responsible for around forty percent of container turnover in the port of hamburg are biased to because of a couple of guys quite a big employer here in hamburg i think we stand for hamburg too we generate a lot of cargo for the port. Food in half or hopefully if in the hopefully one day well be able to pay some money back to those who invested in us with thoughts of unity or deficit of. The out invader Container Terminal apprentice net and bush is getting ready for her first trip as a crew member on board a container vessel. Shell be onboard for eleven weeks to china and back the essen express has almost reached its moorings but the biggest obstacle still lies ahead. He could land bridge. But other. Than their own fire station here fast forward to god. At high tide the ship will scrape the bridge itll only fit when the water level has dropped again. Via moment and we currently have a height to fifty two meters and twenty five centimeters about it and a lot of oil and you do crossing heights is fifty three meters so we have at least seventy five centimeters in plus the earth or a ts xpress safety margin so probably to meet on the sides by means of answers and. Its an exciting moment isnt it. I mean we did the calculation more times than we needed to but it would be most unfortunate if we rent the bridge or not. Because it will fit. But it still looks impressive. They said so whats its a movie but im not going. To bring it up. When it was inaugurated in one thousand nine hundred seventy four the bridge was a step into the future today its a traffic obstruction the latest generation of container vessels wont fit under it anymore. Yulia nettle bush who is training to become a ships mechanic has one trip under her belt already but that was on board a training vessel. Are you excited. Yes very much so. But. At the end of her first apprenticeship year shes on her own now she has to report to the first officer. The point that i was all going to go you know if i were you can stow her heavy bags at last then its time for the formalities she has to show her papers. You may overcome it thats what im here. For you. This is. One thing after that shell be shown to her cabin contacts that i was there i had severe medical or right thats become of what i said. The oldest c. The d. Deck the deck for the lower ranks her new home. Today. Its very. Thought this will be your home for the next eleven weeks. Thats the other stuff you do that get your bags and get changed and come up when youre ready to start all over to you all know wants and what not ok were not heres your key. On this paper as im used to being on board a ship with hardly any women this wont be anything new i think well all find our place thats other such as being here what you mean by that. Sometimes the attitude is we dont want women on board but as long as you can be straight with everyone and you get on it fine its nice thats. A. Good place. Shes now one of a crew of twenty six. Hamburg in the late thirtys its two Major Shipping Companies happy and lloyd had a new Majority Shareholder the third of. The shipping companies abate their new owner but the business of the previously International Companies stagnated there werent many foreign nationals willing to cross the atlantic in ships flying the swastika. The air but there was a lucrative nisha emigrants jewish citizens leaving germany on happy going lloyd ships refugees in search of a new home. On the thirteenth of may one thousand thirty nine six months after the night of broken glass the happy passenger vessel sent lewis departed hamburg with nine hundred and six jewish refugees on board it was headed for cuba. But when the ship arrived in havana the refugees werent allowed to disembark the reason they were told was because their visas were invalid and too many jewish immigrants had arrived in recent months. The ship was turned away in the United States too it was supposed to head back to germany but the german captain of all people found a different solution he negotiated with the belgians and the passengers were allowed to disembark in antwerp it saved the lives of many of his passengers. By the end of the war almost all of happy x. And lloyds ships had been destroyed or seized as reparations payments kaput had one seagoing ship left the st louis the burnt out wreck was used as a hotel ship it spent three years mordor the out on a piece and. The columbus kaiya in brame a half and big passenger ships departed from here to america up until the one nine hundred sixty s. On board were immigrants the families of allied soldiers business travelers but then air travel took over the transatlantic route passenger ships were now used for cruises. Lloyds spare parts warehouse in the port of hamburg the majority of the companys vessels a serviced in hamburg theres a shelf for every vessel. As of these bans urination is one of the inspectors its his job to make sure the ships he oversees a technically in order so thats what he keeps the spare parts for but. Its more expensive to see where youre going to have different thought because anything could break from the main engine to the smallest motor he was known in advance you have small motors for the ignition burner for example if you havent got that you cant ignite the boiler of and its a small cause but a big effect like a little motor like that costs maybe a hundred euros but its a big deal if you dont have one on board and. Bent a joint habit lloyd after germanys reunification before that he worked as first engineer on a factory fishing ship based in rostock the we knew about the company we thought highly of if we ordered something that didnt arrive we said what do you think we are lloyd inflation or this thing is i joined in one nine hundred ninety s. And now weve got everything offices. Today he wants to visit the essen express band knows this ship well he oversaw similar vessels during their construction. On the phone that i started with two hundred ninety four meters and four thousand two hundred containers these are the ships today are three hundred sixty six meters with thirteen thousand two hundred containers and if they have three times the capacity when the ship is fully laden a container on a ship that can transport sixteen thousand containers is much cheaper than on a ship that can carry four thousand because the overheads remain largely unchanged while youre transporting four times as much and that reduces the price per container and youre doing it. The s an express is a standard type that high on day bills off the shelf in korea pants job is like that of an inhouse Servicing Agency he has to check that the parts fitted by the shipyard a still working properly. So we have time problems too weve been here for two days everything has to be coordinated you can start working at twelve if you more that seven you have to stick to your schedule. Two days for a complete inspection thats how long it takes to load and unload a container vessel of this size. First officer tobias common is responsible for the loading plan he has to make sure the vessel remains balanced and that the Dangerous Goods containers remain easily accessible at sea. Is vice versa i know whats in the refrigerated containers and i know what Dangerous Goods and chemicals were dealing with in the states i dont know anything about irregular close continues and i says i cannot ask if i have a problem and goods other than that. Theyre just boxes a and b. That have to be loaded and unloaded on to the end of. The train driver needs one minute to unload two large containers in the past the same amount of cargo would have taken twenty workers an entire shift to be as commons working day is determined entirely by containers when saying if we didnt have containers the way we have them now and then the economy wouldnt run so fast we wouldnt be able to transport goods from a to b. So quickly or precisely you know warehouse time has been reduced products can be produced more quickly and different parts from all over the world can be assembled in yet another location feel a tie loss ill have unlimited onion and we owe all of that to continues on to sell us for the container the first officer is at the Container Terminal to check whether the out of gauge parts of the cargo thats too big for a container have been properly strapped its the only opportunity has to leave the ship for a brief moment. Man most so you have to be ok with being on the board the whole time night in our case eleven it twelve weeks if youre lucky youll be able to leave the ship twice during that time for five or six hours and dot com other than that its all about work all about the containers and driving the vessel the container on so far. In this case he gets fifteen minutes ashore or he sees of hamburg is a small section of the Container Terminal. Hes thirty four years old he spent the last thirteen at sea apart from some breaks to study. Even fire that im married i have a daughter who is almost full on theyve grown into this whole shipping thing. Im missing and my daughter doesnt know anything else seaton the saddest daddy goes to see me and comes back again. With the fountain of youth and its not always easy to leave but the return is older nicer as a result you know that will show you know that. Banty nations inspecting the vessel from the port authorities perspective if there were to be an unannounced inspection even the First Impression has to be a good one a switch on the crane is a bit stiff. And says it all if this hydraulics are delicate but they stop working it gets expensive its best to do a proper inspection to avoid paying for expensive repairs down the line. When band started working for in one nine hundred ninety the company had cut the crew size to sixteen to save money. Consequently necessary Maintenance Work didnt get done but nobody wanted to hear any criticism. At the time it was a company with a reputation everyone who worked at top uglow and was proud of that you showed that you were proud to work there is a good site as there were lots of employees who were a bit older and had worked for hop ugh lloyd for forty years and then i showed up as a young man and was supposed to tell them what to do they told me this wasnt the way it was going to work were the old guys youre a boy youre going to do what we tell you as an owner of us of. The crew is now twenty two thats just about enough. Telling them about if you stay on the ball you got no worries but if you fall behind its hard to catch up its a big ship and your crew small but if you give people instructions and you tell them what to do want to trip then you stay on the ball and it works quite well thats up to us but the proper timing of us. Hes going to inform the captain of the problems so that he has them fixed during the next trip. So pay their. Bill deutsch the city thats its own merit or the inspection didnt find very much the essen express is only two years old then only has a couple of minor issues to report. And the two met on a happy gloire chip twenty five years ago theyve been friends ever since. It was paid as work here forty years ive been here for twenty five years weve both decided to continue on this vessel until it has to return to the shipyard in three years and then well enjoy our well own retirement. Lets wait and see a lot of water will flow down the l. The for them over the border. Since peter only boarded the ship in rotterdam he hasnt had time to stow his belongings away. Hell spend the next eleven weeks in the captains cabin then another eleven weeks in a house with a garden in hanover. And from the real i started on the bavaria in july nine hundred seventy three and was on board for seven months the more noted i was at the bottom of the pecking order you know the old boys called us Conveyor Belt boys because wed graduated from high school and got places relatively quickly its moot as she didnt start as cabin boy. At first it was hard to be accepted by these people and hes an accepted. Now he is the boss hes come a long way from the days when he had long hair and was applying to be an officer. Is have a i was dealing with the captain on the bridge and the captain refer to me in the third person via the first officer he was to take this course and he was to close the top button on his shirt or not was very funny at seeing him kind of food and it was very strange to me back in one nine hundred seventy three and the incident at i unzipped six zero and before and. When captain pliant started his seafaring career happened in lloyd had just merged that was in one nine hundred seventy cargo ships were to be found on all the seven seas some of the goods were loaded using the ships own cranes. And a ship isnt in half and across the ship reached the harbor to face nam we need term and which gangways to set up and we had up to six gangways with eight to twelve people working on each one as meaning we had sixty seventy people on board the supervision order and then when the ship was loaded and unloaded through these hatches should be went and. Unlike today the crew back then knew what they were carrying germany exported machines Chemical Products and cars the ports in Central America and the far east exported Raw Materials and. The smells we came back with were tobacco and spices rubber oils and later it was quite impressive the ticks dust of sean sean bell and all. In those days a ship had a crew of forty five compared to todays cruise that was more people for less cargo often heading in here for the times we had in port were great and we were there for up to ten days in here or not it gave us the opportunity to go ashore and meet the locals counter and or you could be gone for a couple of days without your shipping operations collapsing like these only just a shift between its a zombie. You willian it and bush is in countering a completely different world. The chief engineer shows her her new workplace the engine room. This ship the burns through one hundred tons of fuel every day. I have a lot of respect for this engine its really really interesting im so excited that its. Her first task is to help unscrew the injection line theres a leaky seal. Just. To see. Her new tool a range size fifty not a fifteen like a bike tool would be. As she has to work with the big wrench the torque with which the screws are tightened this three hundred newton metres but. Thats not so easy for a delicate apprentice in her first year but shes not alone here and were all here to help. I do. You here is twenty years old she discovered her love of the sea and machines when she was sixteen during a work placement. At the time by ive always been interested in machine some delicate tronics ive always team could. Ask us and later i did some Work Experience on a ship that. Thats when i really i rediscovered my love for these things because of how i knew i wanted to work with big machines not just delicate things but he was i wanted to work with a machine so big i could stand on it two or three times over with steve canter was that right now this is something i really had to think about and understand how it works and he said so yes i was. The training to become a ships mechanic takes three years after that she can study i the ship operation engineering or nautical science. Forty five years ago women had a different role on board. Germanys shipping operators are throwing overboard a centuries old taboo against women on board this break with tradition is due to a lack of new applicants the women are to work as stewardesses to create good service and a better tone on german cargo ships at the latest in the seminar the future stewardesses will learn that female adventurers dont stand a chance at seen. Another revolution shook shipping in the late sixtys early seventys the container. System one can the first time i saw a container was on the bavaria dont board we had a contain on board when im on funk resorts at first it was just seen as another big box as minuses to dominic and we werent aware that this would be the future what is done with them just rotterdam was the first european port to react to this new development the first four hundred containers were processed there in one thousand nine hundred sixty six hamburg followed two years later happy again lloyd merged to finance the construction of container ships their first vessel the hamburg express carried three thousand containers. Members from behind to look twenty and so to continue was impressive on the guns and the sheer number of containers and the completely new ship design us. There were no masts anymore flat these ships were just loaded in a harbor and then they just set off to the next ports and dies even at my young age and fine years that this would be the future dusty and the old ships with their long turn over times the queerest thing of the past. In london the good side. And took different languages. The essen express was launched in two thousand and thirteen not in hamburg but in hong kong the far east has become the epicenter of global trade and German Shipyards have lost their edge made in germany is just too expensive now. This type of ship can hold thirteen thousand two hundred containers. Fizzing global feel of were a Global Player and when youre a Global Player you have to work as efficiently as possible so we need a few of these very large ships powerful zork as. You can say you wont do that anywhere in the world just because youve got this bridge in hamburg that you cant get through. The hub or of the over nifty of corpus. Since the shipping companies are undercutting each other freight rates in asia arent currently covering their costs lloyd has invested some of the money from a Stock Exchange flotation in new and more efficient vessels. Its three oclock in the morning the s an express departs it was a short night for union at and bush. The apprentice is part of the dick crew during docking and departure. Here. I think its because theyre a well oiled team when you join the matey you have to find your place and. Now she can lie down for two hours before normal business at sea. Next morning. Morning. You. Here has a new regular spot in the ships mess the filipino crewman keep to themselves they rice for breakfast the german crew members take up a different table they get served the traditional brick first a rolls and eggs the way they like them cooked. Some have breakfast is from half past seven until late lunches from noon until one at home lunchtime listening flexible then that sometimes even two or three depending when we got home from the school now its at twelve on the dot of the evening meal is earlier here it was at seven or eight at helms and here its at half past five thats a little bit different. Isnt us. A special task lies ahead for her today. Shes to report to the first officer on the bridge for navigation practice. President how much on the bridge. One follicle more going. To see. Development or wants to learn how to navigate the ship and she wants to do this in the su is canal too so its vital that she gets a bit more experience up front this isnt her first time though and she had some experience navigating on her training ship fisher and in the platform she takes her place at the helm to be as calm and gives her the lesson in english thats the language shell use in the suez canal to what is more of english just didnt show my friends was kind of them cost us two five to take over the wheel at five to matures. Ok steady on to five to city until five to ten on monday repetition and having a horse shouldnt large taken off well. Youve always got a different speed in the current and the wind changing factors and there are many other things that you have to practice that. The ship design is also has an impact on us. Yes i have a lot of fun its not as easy as driving a car i dont have a brake youre not allowed to steer is much here. Theres no headwind all wind from the side that you have to contend with as much as in a car this one as i did this and by text it was illegal. And theres another obstacle fog the driving lesson has to stop early an apprentice is only allowed at the wheel in good visibility. The how bad lloyd headquarters in hamburg realistic mio starts her day but a lot on. My as Sales Manager germany she has to make sure the ships make money. Over. All the hassles run on our shared youll see every week whether theyre full or empty but this ship incurs costs to we have to reduce these costs by loading the ships with as many containers as we possibly can. Get in container. I was. Once a week she meets with her top staff she wants to increase sales so. I dont mind this is whats on it is that the figures a currently stable despite a difficult market is good news but room for improvement. The problem is that the shipping companies are engaged in a ruinous price war there are excess capacity is on many routes. Where in a market that can be very aggressive these other Cargo Shipping Companies also want to fill their ships we have to compete with them its our daily job to communicate. Closely with our clients to deliver Excellent Service and stand out from our competitors that way but aside. Gabrielle or visits important clients personally today she wants to persuade a food importer to increase his volume of orders she wants him to order additional containers. To fill up what is your Sports Company is an important client for us and we want to keep it were in a field that has a large number of competitors some of our competitors also want to transport have port goods. A conversation has gone well for me when a client signals that he wants to expand our collaboration that makes me happy. And if so feel. The client has forty refrigerated containers full of bananas sent from peru to hamburg every week the transport costs alone amount to twelve Million Euros a year. But at the moment had lloyd only gets hot of that because this client ships the rest of his cargo with a different company. As people get pissed there are two services from peru using different routes and thats important in the event of a total outage if we use hop i go alone wed be in big trouble with our Food Retailers theyd look for other importers and then wed both lose out on the above two and a number by the fed on. They want to do is sample test to see whether the shipping companies are fulfilling their contractual obligations the temperature in the refrigerated container mustnt exceed fifteen degrees. Its income from us you can also input one fourteen point eight thats ideal for a new contract if. We sign annual contracts but will definitely talk about a new prize that the upcoming Contract Period im certain well reach an agreement thats our thought as it would if thats important because oil prices have fallen so of course i expect prices to drop substantially for the upcoming year im looking forward to my negotiations with you im sure well agree im certain well reach an agreement about them. Mustnt go down too much in price because the refrigerated contain a business with south America Needs to be profitable for how bad lloyd in the future too i mean given the instance in him of course some of these routes are profitable others less so. But our long term goal must be to achieve a profit every year to support and giving survival of all us she even though thats been tough in recent years we believe that were well positioned to be in the black in future. Investors are less confident with regard to container shipping how bad lloyds shares have fallen in price disappointing for the city of hamburg. Or even might have died. On the essen express the first officer explains the new job to his apprentice. Her most important task is to see that the refrigerated containers work flawlessly. Saw. That we have to check every refrigerated container on board twice a day and check whether the second point is correct during loading and that it matches this loading this and that and this that and that and. Id check in the office whether our loading list is in line with the loading money for us that mistakes can happen because the cargo is very delicate and thats why we have to stick to these temperatures that guy that special containers like this one will its hoped to bring in the profits of the future the company has already ordered more than ten thousand new refrigerated containers what do you think youll be doing in ten years time. I dont know yet my apprenticeship will show me. How about your life will be thirty. And a finish my start is and will be on a ship somewhere you know. One thing seems certain how working life will be determined by containers. At some point will reach a limit where it makes normal Financial Sense to increase the ship some ways even further but the numbers will keep going up for no good were going to transport more containers with fewer people. And were going to. Youre transporting a lot and to ship containers back and forth from. Southampton the first stop for you here its the start of an exciting adventure at sea for the shipping company its routine over the past hundred seventy years had Lloyds Business has changed from passenger shipping to general cargo to container shipping specialist containers will its hoped generate a solid turnover in the future if that succeeds hamburg will remain the home port for many container ships. In good shape. 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