Japanese container delivery business Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has actually taken distribution of the MOL Triumph, the brand-new ‘world’ s greatest containership’ and also the initial ‘megaship’ to pass the 20,000 TEU limit.

The MOL Triumph was provided Monday by Samsung Heavy Industries in Geoje, South Korea, where the vessel has actually been unfinished because January 2016– simply 15 months back. The vessel was called throughout an event at the shipyard held March 15.

At 400 meters in size and also 58.8 meters in light beam, the MOL Triumph is currently formally the globe’s biggest containership with capability to bring a tremendous 20,150 twenty-foot containers (TEU). She is the initial of 6 20,000 TEU-class Ultra-Large Container Vessels (ULCVs) MOL purchased from SHI back in February 2015.

The MOL Triumph will certainly operate THE Alliance’s Asia to Europe profession by means of the FE2 solution. Beginning in April she will certainly trigger on her initial trip from Xingang, cruising to Dalian, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian and alsoSingapore The vessel will certainly after that transportation via the Suez Canal and also continue to Tangier, Southampton, Hamburg, Rotterdam and also Le Havre, prior to calling at Tangier and also Jebel Ali on her back to Asia.

“The MOL Group is honored to unveil this new vessel, which is the largest containership in the world,” commented Junichiro Ikeda, President and also CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of MOL.“The vessel is equipped with various new sustainable technologies to provide more efficient fuel consumption and improved environmental performance.”

The brand-new 20,000 TEU-class containerships are geared up with numerous extremely sophisticated energy-saving modern technologies, such as reduced rubbing undersea paint, high performance prop and also tail, “savor stator” as a stream fin on the hull body, and also an enhanced penalty hull kind, which with each other can even more minimize gas intake and also carbon dioxide discharges per container relocated by regarding 25-30% when contrasted to 14,000 TEU-class containerships, according to MOL. The vessel has actually likewise been developed with the retrofit choice to transform to LNG sustained ship in the future as the International Maritime Organization’s brand-new policy to restrict SOx discharge in aquatic gas comes right into result in 2020.

MOL will certainly take the distribution of the 2nd 20,000 TEU-class vessel in May 2017. Eventually there will certainly be 6 of the 20,000 TEU-class containerships, which will certainly be phased in progressively on the existing profession courses of MOL.

MOL Triumph takes the title as the “world’s largest containership” from the 19,224 TEU MSC Oscar and also her 3 sibling ships. The 4 vessels were provided to Mediterranean Shipping Company in 2015 by South Korea’s DSME. They procedure 395.4 meters in size and also have a beam of light of 59 meters.

MOL Triumph Vessel Particulars

• Length: 400m
• Breadth: 58.8 m
• Depth: 32.8 m
• Deadweight Tonnage: 192,672 MT