MAERSK TO NAME 10TH 6,600-TEU SHIP
Maersk Line, the Danish shipping line owned by Denmark’s
A.P. Moller group, will name another new large "S-class" containership of about
6,600-TEU on Saturday (Nov. 13).
The ship, built by the Lindo shipyard owned by the A.P. Moller group,
is the 10th in a series of 13 vessels of the same design and capacity. The 6,600-TEU
vessels are among the largest containerships afloat.
Following its christening, the new vessel will be delivered to Maersk
in early December.
Maersk said that the S-class ships’ capacity is 6,600-TEU, but the
actual figure is widely believed to be closer to 7,100-TEU.
The S-class series complements the earlier "K-class" series
of six 6,000-TEU containerships that started with the Regina Maersk in 1996.
Maersk’s plan is to deploy 13 of the big ships in its AE5/TP6 "pendulum" loop
serving Long Beach and Tacoma on the U.S. West Coast, Asia and northern Europe.