MSC Venice in the port of Antwerp | |
Class overview | |
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Builders | STX Offshore & Shipbuilding |
Operators | Mediterranean Shipping Company |
In service | 2014–present |
Planned | 6 |
Completed | 6 |
Active | 6 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Container ship |
Tonnage | 176,490 GT |
Length | 399 m (1,309 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 54 m (177 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 16 m (52 ft 6 in) |
Capacity | 16,652 TEU |
The London class is a series of six container ships built for Zodiac Maritime (4 ships) and Eastern Pacific Shipping (2 ships). The ships are charted to Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). [1] The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 16,652 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [2] The ships were built by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding in South Korea.
Ship | Yard number | IMO number | Delivery | Status | ref |
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MSC London | 1527 | 9606302 | 10 Jul 2014 | In service | [3] |
MSC New York | 1528 | 9606314 | 20 Oct 2014 | In service | [4] |
MSC Istanbul | 1529 | 9606326 | 15 Jan 2015 | In service | [5] |
MSC Amsterdam | 1530 | 9606338 | 15 Apr 2015 | In service | [6] |
MSC Hamburg | 1551 | 9647461 | 26 Oct 2015 | In service | [7] |
MSC Venice | 1552 | 9647473 | 25 Jan 2016 | In service | [8] |
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