Alianca Christens New Containership

Alianca has christened the second of four identical new container ships for its cabotage fleet, the “Fernão de Magalhães”. The naming ceremony was held on 26 September at the container port of Porto Chibatão on the Rio Negro in Manaus.

The Sponsor of the ship is Dionéia Thomas, the wife of Julian Thomas, who is General Manager Region South America East Coast of Hamburg Süd and Aliança.

With the container ship “Fernão de Magalhães” the Hamburg Süd subsidiary Aliança is continuining to modernise its cabotage service fleet. Like the “Sebastião Caboto”, which was named in Santos in May, the newbuild is one of four ships from the so-called “explorer series” built by the Shanghai Shipyard Co. Ltd. With a slot capacity of 3,800 TEU the newbuilds have almost twice the number of container slots as the previous Aliança ships employed on this service.

The “Fernão de Magalhães” carries the name of the famous Portuguese explorer who in 1520 discovered the long-sought passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific between the South American continent and Tierra del Fuego. This passage was later named after him as the Magellan Straits. The last two ships in this series will also carry the names of important South American explorers.

Technical data of the “Fernão de Magalhães”:

Capacity 52,065 dwt

Container capacity 3,800 TEU

Reefer plus 500

Length overall 228.0 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

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Press Release, September 27, 2013