happen because the cargo is very delicate and that s why we have to stick to these temperatures that s a guy that s our special containers like this one will it s 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 you ll be doing in ten years time. i don t know yet my apprenticeship will show me. how about your life will be thirty. and a finish my studies and we ll be on a ship somewhere. that. one thing seems certain a working life will be determined by containers. at some point will reach a limit where it makes normal financial sense to increase the ships always even further but the numbers will keep going up for no good we re going to transport more containers with fewer people. and we re going to contin. you re transporting
million euros a year. but at the moment lloyd only gets hot of that because this client ships the rest of his cargo with a different company. or spit work interest there are two services from peru using different routes and that s important in the event of a total outage if we use hop our go alone we d be in big trouble with our food retailers they d look for other importers and then we d both lose out on the above two and a number by if i don t. they want to do is sample test to see whether the shipping companies are for filling their contractual obligations the temperature in the refrigerated container mustn t exceed fifteen degrees. its income on them thus you could also have to put one fourteen point eight that s ideal for a new contract if. we sign annual contracts but we ll definitely talk about
it s best to do a proper inspection to avoid paying for expensive repairs down the line. when band started working for it in one nine hundred ninety the company had cut the crew size to sixteen to save money. consequently necessary maintenance work didn t 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 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 wasn t the way it was going to work were the old guys you re a boy you re going to do what we tell you as an owner of us of. the crew is now twenty two that s just about enough. telling them about if you stay on the ball you
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. lloyd s spare parts warehouse in the port of hamburg the majority of the company s vessels a serviced in hamburg there s a shelf for every vessel. as of these bans urination is
one of the inspectors it s his job to make sure the ships he oversees a technically in order so that s what he keeps the spare parts for but. it s more expensive to see where you re going out into the lot because i was anything good break from the main engine to the smallest motor he was know in advance you have small motors for the ignition burner for example if you haven t got that you can t ignite the boiler of and it s a small cause but a big effect it s like a little motor like that costs maybe a hundred euros but it s a big deal if you don t have one on board and. bent a joint how big lloyd after germany s 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 didn t arrive we said what do you think we are lloyd inflation or this thing is i joined in one nine hundred ninety and now we ve got everything offices. today he wants to visit the essen express band kn