HMM Launches World’s First 24,000 TEU Containership – gCaptain
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At 23,964 TEU, the HMM Algeciras is the world’s largest containership.
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HMM has launched its first of twelve 24,000 TEU containerships HMM Algeciras, the world’s largest containership.
The ship was officially named during a private ceremony at the Daewood Shipbuilding and Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea.
The HMM Algeciras measures 399.9 meters long and 61 meters in beam. With a nominal TEU capacity of 23,964, it will take the title as the world’s largest-capacity containership.
The vessel was ordered in September 2018 as part an order for twenty ultra-large containerships split among South Korea’s ‘Big 3’ shipyards – DSME, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Samsung Heavy Industries.
HMM Algeciras is the first of seven it is constructing for HMM. SHI is constructing the other five. All twelve are scheduled to be delivered this year.
HHI is constructing eight ships of 16,000 TEU to be delivered in the second quarter of 2021.
HMM Algeciras will be deployed on THE Alliances’s Far East Europe 4 (FE4) service with a port rotation starting at Qingdao, Busan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Yantian, Suez Canal, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp and London, followed by Singapore via the Suez Canal.
Delivery comes at a _less-than-ideal_time as the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on global trade.
