Musk’s Starlink Beams to Container Ships So Crews Can Web Surf
- Hapag-Lloyd to add Starlink service on ships it owns, manages
- Activation of the service will start in early 2024, HL says
A Hapag-Lloyd AG container ship sails out of the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai.
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Elon Musk’s satellite internet service is heading deeper into one of the world’s oldest and vast economic frontiers: the high seas.
Hapag-Lloyd AG, the biggest container shipping line based in Germany, said Thursday it will install SpaceX’s Starlink service aboard the ships it owns and manages after a pilot program involving four vessels proved successful. Charters won’t receive the service under the current plan. According to Alphaliner data, 122 of the 259 ships that Hapag-Lloyd operates are company-owned.