UASC baptises ultra large container ship in Hamburg

United Arab Shipping Company increases its fleet with more 13,500 TEU vessels
 
The United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) named its first containership in Hamburg on 25 May – the AIN SNAN with 13,500 TEU capacity. The 366-metres-long and 48 metres-wide ultra large container ship is the second of a series of nine units of that size (loading capacity of over 145,000 DWT ‘dead weight tonnage’). During the course of this year seven more "Samsung 12500”-vessels will be delivered from the Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard in Korea, with whom the order was placed in July 2008.
 
The AIN SNAN container ship is deployed on the AEC8 Far East – Red Sea – Europe Service in since 2006. In this loop, CMA CGM and CSCL shipping lines are also partners. In addition, Yang Ming, Hanjin and since 2012 also COSCO have booked slots on this service. The port rotation is: Hamburg, Zeebrügge, Jeddah, Port Klang, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Hong Kong, Yantian, Port Klang, Jeddah, Le Havre, Rotterdam, Hamburg.
 
UASC invited around 100 customers, shipping company representatives, as well as the terminal operator Eurogate to the naming ceremony. What made it special was that the AIN SNAN was named with water from Zamzam spring in Mecca, Saudi-Arabia. These waters are said to rise from Paradise and have healing powers.

Quelle: LogEastics

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