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Class overview | |
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Builders | Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering |
Operators | HMM |
In service | 2016–present |
Planned | 6 |
Completed | 6 |
Active | 6 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Container ship |
Tonnage | 110,632 GT |
Length | 324 m (1,063 ft) |
Beam | 48.4 m (159 ft) |
Draught | 15.5 m (51 ft) |
Capacity | 10,077 TEU |
The Earth class is a series of six container ships built for Zodiac Maritime and chartered to HMM for a period of 12 years. [1] [2] The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 10,077 TEU. [3] The ships were built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in South Korea.
Ship | Previous names | Yard number | IMO number | Delivery | Status | ref |
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Hyundai Earth | Hyundai Earth (2016–2017) MSC Earth (2017–2020) | 4290 | 9725110 | 21 January 2016 | In service | [4] |
Hyundai Mars | Hyundai Mars (2016–2017) MSC Mars (2017–2020) | 4291 | 9725122 | 26 February 2016 | In service | [5] |
Hyundai Jupiter | Hyundai Jupiter (2016–2017) Maersk Suzhou (2017–2020) | 4292 | 9725134 | 21 March 2016 | In service | [6] |
Hyundai Saturn | Hyundai Saturn (2016–2017) MSC Saturn (2017–2020) | 4293 | 9725146 | 16 May 2016 | In service | [7] |
Hyundai Neptune | Hyundai Neptune (2016–2017) Maersk Shanghai (2017–2020) | 4294 | 9725158 | 29 June 2016 | In service | [8] |
Hyundai Pluto | Hyundai Pluto (2016–2017) Maersk Shenzen (2017–2020) | 4295 | 9725160 | 6 July 2016 | In service | [9] |
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