24,188 TEU OOCL Spain shouldn’t be solely huge, however good with three ABS “Smart Ship” notations
Hong Kong’s Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) on Thursday formally named the primary 24,188 TEU mega vessel in its fleet OOCL Spain, in a ceremony on the Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (NACKS) shipyard in Nantong, China.
OOCL Spain is the primary of a collection of six 24,188 TEU vessels ordered by OOCL at NACKS in 2020 and, aside from being huge, can also be good, with three ABS “Smart Ship” notations. OOCL says its use of the most recent clever expertise onboard, along with huge information acquisition, will optimize the operations of the OOCL Spain, enabling gas effectivity enhancements, good points in structural well being monitoring, and long-term navigational security.
OOCL Spain will be part of OOCL’s Asia-Europe service LL3 from March. Her port rotation is: Shanghai / Xiamen / Nansha / Hong Kong / Yantian / Cai Mep / Singapore / Piraeus / Hamburg / Rotterdam / Zeebrugge / Valencia / Piraeus / Abu Dhabi / Singapore / Shanghai in an 84-day spherical journey.
Kenny Ye, Chief Operating Officer of Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd., mentioned that the brand new vessel OOCL Spain is of nice significance to OOCL: “OOCL Spain is not only the first newbuilding that has been delivered to us in over five years, but it is also OOCL’s first vessel with a capacity over 24,000 TEU. More importantly, she is the first newbuilding received by OOCL since the company joined the COSCO Shipping Group, and so it is the first vessel jointly created by OOCL and other sister companies. I would like to thank NACKS, who, using their own R&D and technological capabilities, have designed this mega vessel, equipped with the most advanced eco-friendly and intelligent technologies.”
At 24,188 TEU the OOCL Spain is a tad bigger than Evergreen Marine’s 24,024 TEU Ever Alot, presently seen because the holder of the “world’s largest containership” title by way of nominal carrying capability. Both ships are 399.99 meters lengthy, however at 61.3 meters beam the OOCL Spain is only a hair narrower than the 61.5 meter beam Ever Alot. Bigger than both, although are MSC Shipping’s MSC Irina and MSC Loreto, which have a reported capability of 24,636 TEU. Both have been floated out at Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group on October 29, final 12 months, and have a size of 399.9 meters and beam of 61.3 meters. MSC Irina reportedly began on sea trials, February 10. Depending on who, if anybody, retains the “official” file of such issues, at that time she might have taken the “world’s largest” title.
