Video: Launching of Eimskip’s New Containership

The first of two Eimskip’s new container vessels was launched in Weihai, China last Sunday. The vessel is scheduled for delivery in the beginning of January 2014.

The vessels are sister-ships, designed and built based upon a German design and adjusted to meet Eimskip’s requirements. Each vessel’s size is 875 TEU, thereof containing 230 reefer plugs. Deadweight of the vessels are approximately 12 thousand tons. They are 140.7 meters long and 23.2 meters wide and equipped with two container cranes and therefore well suited for transport in Eimskip’s market area in the North Atlantic. The vessels are each powered by 9,000 kW machine and with both bow and stern thrusters.

The second vessel is expected to be delivered in second quarter 2014.

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Press Release, September 2, 2013