Giant Container Ship in Maiden Voyage

The Marit Maersk, a giant container ship built for Maersk Line at Odense, called at the Port of Hamburg for the first time on its maiden voyage. The ship's length of 367 m makes it 15 m longer than any container ship that has ever called at the Port of Hamburg in the past. Ships with a slot capacity of up to 11,000 TEU are increasingly being put into service in international shipping, and increasing numbers of them are also coming to Hamburg.

The “Marit Maersk” was handled at the Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg (CTH).

The “Marit Maersk” is 42.80 m wide, and according to data issued by the shipping company has a load capacity of 7,000 TEU, as well as 544 connections for refrigerated containers).

The “Marit Maersk” visited Hamburg on the occasion of a one-off transfer trip in Maersk’s AE-1 service between Europe and the Far East. The ship proceeds from Hamburg by way of the Suez Canal to Southeast Asia. It is expected to arrive in Singapore on 9 March. After that, the ship will continue its operations in the transpacific service between Asia and North America.

Source: Sea News