Hamburg Süd announces christening of the “San Clemente” in Singapore
Hamburg Süd celebrated the christening of a further container ship in its “San” class. The official naming ceremony of the “San Clemente” was held at the Marina Bay Cruise Center in Singapore, with customers and business partners. The new container ship’s Sponsor is Wietske Willemijn Wage, wife of Niels Wage, Vice President of Marketing Freight & Potash at our company’s customer BHP Billiton. The naming ceremony was attended by Hamburg Süd Executive Board member Peter Frederiksen, the company said in its press release.
The “San Clemente” is one of Hamburg Süd’s series of three “San” class new builds constructed at the Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan. Like her sister ships, she has a container slot capacity of 9,034 TEU and 1,370 reefer slots.
Like the “San Christobal”, which was christened in August, the “San Clemente” is operating on the service between Asia and the East coast of South America. Hamburg Süd took delivery of the third new build, the “San Vicente”, last week.
Technical Data for the “San Clemente”:
Capacity 111,700 tdw
Container capacity 9,034 TEU
Reefer slots 1,370
Length overall 300.00 m
Length between perpendiculars 287.00 m
Width 48.20 m
Draught max. 14.50 m
Speed 22 kn
Main engine output 36,440 kW