4. Please describe how you are connected to the German flag.

Traditionally, Hapag-Lloyd has had a close relationship with the German Flag. By now, we have been a shipping company with its head office in Hamburg for more than 170 years. Of course, many ships of our fleet fly the German flag – currently 40 vessels. As managing dierctor of the fleetmanagement, I am responsible for them as well as all of the other ships we own.