Photos: World’s Largest Container Ship ‘Ever Ace’ Visits HHLA
On Wednesday night, the 24,000 TEU mega-carrier “Ever Ace” of the Taiwanese delivering firm Evergreen berthed at HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) on its first trip.
The newbuilding, which was gone for the South Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries at the end of July, is presently the globe’s biggest container vessel with a size of 400 metres as well as a size of 61.5 metres.
The “Ever Ace” is the very first ship in a collection of twelve newbuildings that will certainly be provided to Evergreen by 2024. She runs in a normal lining solution in between the Far East as well as Northern Europe.
At Burchardkai, the mega-carrier discharges as well as lots greater than 8,800 typical containers (TEU). Up to 6 container gantry cranes deal with the ship at the very same time.
In current years HHLA has actually planned for the enhancing ship dimensions in container delivery with an entire plan of procedures.
These consist of a 3rd mega-ship berth with 5 brand-new container gantry cranes at CTB. HHLA has actually therefore developed added capabilities for managing ultra-large container vessels with a freight quantity of 24,000 TEU as well as even more.
Reference: hhla.de