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HEUNG-A SARAH a lovely Korean cargo ship

The Korean container ship Heung-A Sarah sailed thru the Kanmon Straits on November 11, 2024. It was a nice day to see a nice ship that has been known to frequent the ports of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Busan.

Korean container ship Heung-A Sarah in Japanese waters
Korean container ship Heung-A Sarah in Japanese waters

Vessel Name: HEUNG-A SARAH
Length: 141.03 meters
Width: 23.00 meters
IMO: 9698379
Flag: Korea
MMSI: 440385000
Type: Container Ship
Call Sign: D7KO
Gross Tonnage: 9599 tons
Built: 2014

HEUNG A LINE container ship HEUNG A SARAH
HEUNG A LINE container ship HEUNG A SARAH

According to the Heung-A Line homepage:
"Heung-A Line is based on Heung-A Shipping, which was established in 1961, and has been writing a new history of the Korean shipping industry through integration with Sinokor Merchant Marine since 2020

Since the launch of the Korea-Japan liner container service in 1961, it has grown into the one of the largest intra-Asia liner shipping company with more than 1.2 million TEUs per year and is moving toward to a 100-year company as a win-win and trusted model by providing frequent and wide transportation services."

Korean cargo ship in the Kanmon Straits
Korean cargo ship in the Kanmon Straits

Hopefully the containers do not contain CD-Rs whose end user will be a pretend musician that releases one or two albums per week on a fake record label... Let us pray...