Humboldt Express class
 The Isla de la Plata on the Elbe
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The Humboldt Express class was a class of two reefer container ships operated by the Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd .
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The two ships were built in berth in 1983/84 by the South Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries. They were full container ships with superstructures four-fifths aft above the machinery. Five of the cellguided holds were in front of the deckhouse and one behind it. The 33 hatches were closed with pontoon hatch covers. The container capacity was 2181 TEU, 125 Conair refrigerated containers and 125 conventional refrigerated containers could be supplied. Up until 2006 there was a mobile deck gantry crane in front of the superstructure in order to be able to carry out loading work in ports without their own infrastructure. The two chimneys standing on the outside behind the superstructure in which the exhaust lines of the main engine and the auxiliary engines are routed with the supply crane attached to their rear were noticeable in the exterior design of the ships.
The drive system consisted of a Hyundai diesel engine of the type 5L90GBE with a power of 14,600 kilowatts built under a B&W license . The engine acted directly on a fixed propeller and helped the ships to a speed of 18 knots .
The model ship of the class, the Humboldt Express , was delivered to the client on June 15, 1984, the sister ship Cordillera Express followed on November 12 of that year. The Cordillera Express was chartered to the partner shipping company Transportes Naveiros Ecuatorianos (Transnave) in December 1984 and renamed Isla de la Plata . In October 1989, Transnave acquired the entire ship.
The ships spent most of their careers in liner service between Northern Europe and the west coast of South America. At the end of 1996, Hapag-Lloyd bought Isla de la Plata back and renamed it Santiago Express . In the same year the shipping company placed both ships under the flag of Singapore . In 2006 the deck cranes were removed and the ship duo was then used in the shipping areas Northern Europe and Western Mediterranean to the west coast of North America to Vancouver in Canada.
Both ships were in recent years, a Singaporean subsidiary Hapag-Lloyd and were of Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Hong Kong bereedert . The Humboldt Express's last journey ended in Alang in February 2012, and the Santiago Express also arrived there in June to be canceled.
After the ships' radio systems were converted to the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS), the old Humboldt Express radio station was dismantled and rebuilt in the former Museum for Communication in Hamburg, where it had been on view since June 28, 2000.
The ships
| Humboldt Express class | ||||||
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| Building name | Shipyard / construction number | IMO number | Client | Keel laying / launching / commissioning | Renaming and whereabouts | |
| Humboldt Express | Samsung / 1025 | 8208270 | Hapag-Lloyd | July 15, 1983 / December 29, 1983 / June 15, 1984 |
Demolition from February 17th, 2012 in Alang | |
| Cordillera Express | Samsung / 1026 | 8208268 | Hapag-Lloyd | September 29, 1983 / April 2, 1984 / November 12, 1984 |
1984 Isla De La Plata , 1996 Santiago Express , scrapped in Alang from the beginning of June 2012 | |