The first of two new container vessels of Eimskip was launched in Weihai in China last Sunday. The launching went well and it’s expected that the vessel will be delivered in the beginning of January 2014, and that she will call her home port in Iceland the second quarter 2014, the Company said in a press release.
The second vessel is expected to be delivered in second quarter 2014.
The vessels are sister-ships, designed and built based upon a German design and adjusted to meet Eimskip’s requirements. Each vessel’s size is 875 TEU, thereof containing 230 reefer plugs . Deadweight of the vessels are approximately 12 thousand tons. They are 140.7 meters long and 23.2 meters wide and equipped with two container cranes and therefore well suited for transport in Eimskip’s market area in the North Atlantic. The vessels are each powered by 9,000 kW machine and with both bow and stern thrusters.
Eimskipafélag Íslands (The Icelandic Steamship Company) was founded on January 17th 1914, making it the oldest shipping company in Iceland. Eimskip has from the beginning emphasized on shipping transport to and from Iceland, today offering total transport solutions around the world. Eimskip has offices in 18 countries worldwide as well as agents in other strategic locations.
Eimskip’s goal is to provide its customers with all round transport services built on our dependable and efficient transport system in the North-Atlantic and transport forwarding around the world – forming an unbreakable transport chain from the shipper to the receiver.
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