(Pix & video by Indika Handuwala)
The world’s biggest container ship ‘Ever Ace’ has docked at Colombo Port returning from her maiden voyage, the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) said.
Evergreen’s Ever Ace is the first in the line’s 23,992 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) class container ships, said local agents Hemas Holdings PLC.
The A-type vessel is around 400 m in length and 61.5 m wide, has a design draft of 14.5 m and can cruise at speeds up to 22.6 knots. With a nominal carrying capacity of 23,992 TEU, Ever Ace is one of the largest container ships in the world.
It was delivered on 28 July and deployed on Evergreen Line’s CEM service in Asia-Europe trade, calling at Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Taipei Port, Yantian, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Felixstowe on her maiden voyage. The vessel was built at the Korean shipyard, Samsung Heavy Industries.
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