A Hapag-Lloyd owned container ship heads north from Seattle (partially obscured by rain on the horizon) on its way out of Puget Sound via Admiralty Inlet.
The Hapag-Lloyd name is an amalgamation of two 19th century shipping companies Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag / Hamburg-American Line) and North German Lloyd (NDL) that merged in 1970. They are one of the largest container shipping companies in the world with over 130 freighters in operation carrying over 5.5 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) of cargo a year.
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