Since the beginning of this year, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) surpassed Maersk to become the world's largest container shipping company, and has not stopped expanding, and purchased more shipping capacity within a year.
On December 27th, MSC Gemma, a giant ship ordered by MSC at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding , officially undocked. According to Hudong Zhonghua, the 24,100 TEU container ship is currently the largest container ship in the world.
And just today, as an ultra-large container ship of the 24,000 TEU class, Evergreen Shipping "EVER ACME" (Changchong) also completed the signing and delivery at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard.
According to news from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard, recently, the third 24100TEU container ship built by the company for Mediterranean Shipping Company was successfully undocked at No. 1 dock of Changxing Shipbuilding.
Source: Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard
According to reports, the ship was independently designed by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard, has completely independent intellectual property rights, and entered the DNV classification society. The ship has a total length of 399.99 meters, a molded width of 61.5 meters, and a -shaped depth of 33.2 meters. The deck area is equivalent to nearly 4 standard football fields, and the maximum number of stacking layers can reach 25, which is equivalent to the height of a 22-story building. It can carry more than 240,000 tons of cargo, and a record-breaking 24,116 standard containers can be loaded at one time. It is currently the largest container ship in the world. The ship integrates green, environmental protection, high efficiency, energy saving, economy, safety and many other highlights and features, and has become the latest design model of ultra-large container ships in the world.
It is understood that the ship is equipped with a mixed scrubber and desulfurization device, a small bulbous bow , a large diameter propeller and energy-saving pipelines. At the same time, the ship adopts a bubble drag reduction system, which reduces the total energy consumption and corresponding total carbon emissions by 3% to 4%.
Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard pointed out that these ultra-large container ships are also the first giant cargo ships to use shaft generators, which can effectively reduce fuel consumption, optimize EEDI energy efficiency indicators, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The shipyard said that the production cycle of and in the dock is very tight, and the construction team has carried out detailed planning for the hoisting of the whole ship, optimized the location of the general group site, improved the utilization rate of the gantry crane, kept one ring section forward every day, and further shortened the main hull Hoisting period, undocking on schedule under the premise of ensuring integrity.
At present, this ship type is the largest container ship type in the world, so it is called "new cargo king" by Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard.
MSC has ordered a total of 4 container ships of the same level in China
It is understood that MSC has ordered a total of 4 container ships of the same level in China, of which the first MSC Tessa was undocked in August this year, and the second ship was It will be released in October this year.
After overtaking Maersk as the largest liner in early 2022 with a capacity of nearly 4.3 million TEUs, MSC has extended its lead to more than 350,000 TEUs, or a total fleet capacity of nearly 4.6 million TEUs, according to Alphaliner.
Alphaliner calculates that MSC has acquired 263 vessels over the past two-and-a-half years, including 13 in the past two months. The acquired shipping capacity exceeds 1 million TEUs, which alone will be equivalent to the eighth largest shipping company. The newly acquired capacity represents almost a quarter of MSC's total capacity, according to Alphaliner, and is also the company'sowns half of the total fleet.
Today, Evergreen added another "Sea Giant" - "EVER ACME"
It will be put into operation tomorrow
Not only the good news from MSC, but also the "New Year's gift" from Evergreen Shipping itself.
On December 29, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hudong-Zhonghua"), a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, and China Shipbuilding Industry Trading Co., Ltd. jointly built the 24,000TEU ultra-large container ship "EVER ACME" for Evergreen Shipping. "(Changchong) signed and delivered. So far, Hudong-Zhonghua has completed the delivery target of 2022 ahead of schedule.
Source: Xinmin Evening News
"Changchong" is delivered to Evergreen after Hudong-Zhonghua delivered the project's first ship "Changyi" in June this year and the project's second ship "Changyun" in September. The third 24,000TEU class container ship for shipping.
This series of ultra-large container ships is also independently designed by Hudong-Zhonghua, has completely independent intellectual property rights, and is classified by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
This batch of ships above 23,992 TEU is classified as Evergreen A-class by Evergreen. And EVER ACME is one of its 13 Evergreen A-class container ships.
According to Evergreen, the "Changchong" will be put into operation on December 30 this year Far East to Europe routes. At that time, there will be a new "Green Big Mac" at sea.
Leading companies are increasingly preferring giant container ships?
At present, the two companies that have recently received giant container ships—MSC and Evergreen Shipping—are currently the world's largest and sixth largest container shipping companies respectively.
Source: Alphaliner
It can be seen that under the crazy purchase of giant container ships and the purchase of second-hand ships, the gap between the leading container companies and the latter is getting wider and wider, and the more leading shipping companies, the more they prefer giant container ships .
MSC's 2M alliance with second-ranked shipping company Maersk recently highlighted that it will also deploy new ultra-large vessels in its Asian and Nordic trades. “A series of modern, energy-efficient 23,500-plus TEU ships will replace smaller vessels,” they said. The ships will be Hapag-Lloyd new ULCVs built in South Korea, with deliveries expected to begin in April 2023. Ocean Alliance will also start deploying ULCVs next year as the OOCL (OOCL) begins deliveries of its new giants, the first of which was launched at China's NACKS shipyard in November.
Maritime Service Network CNSS
