New Recruits of Hong Kong Voluntary Observing Ship (up to Aug 2024)

During the past 12 months, a total of 19 vessels (including 18 container ships and 1 fishing vessel) joined the Hong Kong Voluntary Observation Ship (HKVOS) fleet and started contributing to marine weather observations. The new recruits are listed below:

Ship Name	Ship Company
Maersk Charleston Maersk Cincinnati Maersk Cleveland One Fantastic One Focus One Freedom One Friendship One Frontier One Fruition One Future One Readiness One Reliability ZIM Amber ZIM Coral ZIM Sapphire	Seaspan Ship Management Limited – Hong Kong (Seaspan)
OOCL Abu Dhabi OOCL Italy OOCL Zeebrugge	Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (OOCL)
魯榮遠漁320號	廣州京興航天技術應用有限公司

We warmly welcome the above new ships and thank Seaspan, OOCL and 廣州京興航天技術應用有限公司 for their support of the HKVOS Scheme.

Figure 1. Newly recruited HKVOS "One Frontier".

Figure 2. Newly recruited HKVOS “OOCL Zeebrugge” (Photo courtesy of Orient Overseas Container Line Limited).

Cheung Wing Kai, Chow Chi Kin