CSCL Names Second 19,100teu Container Ship

China Shipping (Group) Company and Hyundai Heavy Industries have held a naming ceremony for the second 19,100 TEU container ship CSCL Pacific Ocean.

CSCL Pacific Ocean is the second in a series of five ships ordered by CSCL in May 2013, and it will join the first, CSCL Globe, on the Far East—Europe route. 

The vessels are currently the largest capacity container ships in operation and measure 400m in length, 58.6m in width and 30.5m in depth.

CSCL Globe and CSCL Pacific Ocean feature a single 77,200 bhp electronically controlled main engine, the MAN B&W 12S90ME-C Mark 9.2. These engines are claimed to be the largest marine engines ever built.

With the installation of the high efficiency engine, the containerships will burn 20 percent less fuel per TEU than 10,000 TEU containerships. Hyundai Heavy Industries built the world’s first 10,000 TEU containerships in 2010, and since then it has built 82, the most number of containerships carrying more than 10,000 containers in the world.

CSCL Globe took the title of world’s largest capacity container ship from Maersk’s 18,270 teu Triple-E class. Now the CSCL vessels will be joined in the global fleet by even larger vessels. MSC recently announced that a 19, 224 TEU MSC Oscar will enter operation in January 2015. Measuring is 395.4m long and 59m wide, the 197,362 dwt MSC Oscar was built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering and is classed by DNV GL.