A container giant is on its way to its home port. More than thirteen thousand containers fit on how pad lloyds 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 s n express is one of the companys largest vessels first officer told b s come and started his watch in rotterdam so hes been on board for just twelve hours 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. 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