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It has commissioning before the new ships of the second generation of the class "Triple" of Maersk Line
The portacontainer, of the ability to 20.568 teu, they will be employed on the Asia-Europe route
May 2, 2017
The company of Danish navigation Maersk Line has announced that past thursday Madrid Maersk, before own the 11 new portacontainer of the second generation of the class "Triple" that have a cargo ability pairs to 20.568 teu, has carried out the first port of call, to the port of Tianjin, in the course of its maiden voyage on the Asia-Europe route.
Madrid Maersk is the first unit to enter in service of the 27 portacontenitori ships that the company has ordered in the 2015, between which ten unit of the second generation of the class "Triple", nine unit from 15.226 teu and seven from 3.596 teu, ships that will be taken in delivery within the next year.
These 27 new ships, than will join to the 284 portacontainer of properties that currently take part of the fleet of the Maersk constituted Line altogether give beyond 600 ships, will be all employees on the routes between Asia and Europe with the exception of the seven portacontainer feeder from 3.596, consistent ones to the standards Ice Class, that employees in the Baltic Sea will come. The 11 ships from 20.568 teu will be used in the services that reach the nordeuropei ports, while the nine units from 15.226 teu will navigate on the routes that give Asia reach until the ports of the Mediterranean.
That of Madrid Maersk is moreover the first delivery of a portacontainer of new construction to the Maersk Line from July 2015. At the same time to the breaking in fleet of the new ships the company will send to demolition ten portacontainer.
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