Maersk Edinburgh-class container ship

The ships of the Maersk Edinburgh class, Pearl class internally to the shipping company, are among the world's largest post-Panamax container ships.[1] They are about 10% smaller in TEU count or displacement than the Maersk E-class, which were the largest container ships ever constructed until 2012.

Maersk Edinburgh class
Container ship Maersk Elba at Gdańsk Deepwater Container Terminal in 2011
Class overview
Builders: Hyundai Heavy Industries
In service: 2010–present
Completed: 13
General characteristics
Type: Container ship
Tonnage:
  • 125,480–140,580 tonnes DWT
  • 59,800 NT
Length: 366 m
Beam: 48.2 m
Draft: 14.50–15.50 m
Propulsion:
  • Hyundai-Wärtsilä 12RT-flex 96C two-stroke Diesel (68,640 kilowatts (92,050 hp))
  • Bow thrusters (2x1,800 kilowatts (2,400 hp))
Speed: 24.3 knots (45.0 km/h; 28.0 mph)
Capacity:

History

The series was ordered from the South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2007/08 and delivered starting July 2010. The client of the series is the Hamburg-based Rickmers Group.[2] As a charterer, the shipping company Maersk Line from Copenhagen occurs. The ships of the CMA CGM Christophe Colomb-Class or the MSC Daniela-Class, delivered to the CMA CGM shipping line from the end of 2009, are also based on the same basic concept, but are both broader.

Five ships of CMA CGM's 13,830- TEU series will commence operations with CMA CGM Christophe Colomb beginning in early June, as well as five other nearly identical 13,092 TEU vessels operated by Maersk, a so-called slow steaming[1] container service begins from Europe to the Far East. The beginning of the service with the abbreviations FAL 5 and AE8 was already planned for the summer of 2009, but was unrealized due to the Financial crisis of 2007–2008. It will run through the ports of Le Havre, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Port Kelang, Singapore, Ningbo, Shanghai, Shenzhen-Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Kelang and back to Le Havre. As of 2010, the ships of the Maersk-Edinburgh class were introduced to the FAL5 / AE8 Far East Europe service.

Records

Maersk Edinburgh-class ships set records when Maersk Elba visited Gdansk on May 11, 2011, becoming the largest container vessel ever handled by a Baltic Sea port,[3] and in 2017 when the same ship visited Port of Haifa to set a record for the largest ship to dock in Israel.[4]

Technology

The double-hulled ships rank among the largest container ships in the world. The class includes innovations and details such as a deckhouse, unlike the majority of conventional container ships, located far forward, which allows for an improved sight beam and thus a higher front deck load. Below the structure, among other things, the bunker tanks are arranged to comply with MARPOL 73/78 regulations. Another feature is the powerful drive system with the two-stroke diesel main engine type Hyundai-Wärtsilä 12RT-flex 96C (Sulzer design) arranged as far as possible aft. For electric power supply, there are five diesel generators of 2,700 kW each and an emergency generator with 300 kW available. The hold of the ships are closed with pontoon hatch covers. The vessels have a maximum container capacity of 13,092 TEU, with an average container weight of fourteen tons, the capacity is reduced to 9,080 units. There are also 800 connections for integral refrigerated containers.

Ships
Maersk Edinburgh class
Name as builtBuilder's numberIMO numberIn service dateBuyerRenamed
Pearl Rickmers21509456757July 2010RickmersMaersk Edinburgh
Ruby Rickmers21519456769July 2010RickmersMaersk Emden
Aqua Rickmers2152945677116 August 2010RickmersMaersk Eindhoven
Coconee Rickmers21539456783August 2010RickmersMaersk Essen
Leo Rickmers2170945803018 February 2011RickmersMaersk Edmonton
Scorpio Rickmers*2171945807810 March 2011RickmersMaersk Elba
Tauro Rickmers*217294580801 June 2011RickmersMaersk Evora
Libra Rickmers*2173945809222 July 2011RickmersMaersk Essex
Maersk EdisonS433946301112 January 2011Zodiac Maritime-
Maersk ErvingS43494630232 March 2011Zodiac Maritime-
Maersk EubankS435946303530 March 2011Zodiac Maritime-
Maersk EnfieldS43694630474 May 2011Zodiac Maritime-
Maersk EffinghamS437946305915 June 2011Zodiac Maritime-
* = Shipping company's internal name only

See also

References
  1. "Four new big ones for Rickmers", Marine cafe (blog), July 2, 2010
  2. Rickmers "Pearl" class" (PDF) (datasheet flyer), Rickmers Group, 2010, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-30
  3. "Rickmers container vessel breaks all records as she sails into the Baltic", American Journal of Transportation, May 19, 2011
  4. Eric Haun (February 2, 2017), Maersk Ship the Largest to Ever Call in Israel
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