Aliança’s new container ship ‘Sebastião Caboto’ was christened recently at the Terminal Maritimo de Passageiros in the port of Santos. The Sebastiao Caboto, built by Shanghai Shipyard Co., Ltd., is the first of a series of four identical container ships which each have a slot capacity of 3,800 TEU and are each fitted with 500 reefer plugs.
The vessel’s sponsor is Deise Krause, wife of Luis Augusto Krause, Director Logistics, Sales and Marketing of the Aliança customer Josapar. All four newbuildings will be deployed by Aliança in the Brazilian cabotage service.
The vessel is named after the Venetian seafarer and discoverer Sebastião Caboto (1472 to 1557), who explored the Brazilian and South American coast.
Technical data of the Sebastião Caboto:
Capacity: 52,065 tdw
Length overall: 228 m
Length between perpendiculars: 217.5 m
Width: 37.3 m
Draught max.: 12.5 m
Speed: 19.5 kn
Main engine output: 22,890 kW
[mappress] Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, May 17, 2013; Image: alianca