Hyundai Heavy Industries accepting 13,000-TEU mega-ship orders

Hyundai Heavy Industries accepting 13,000-TEU mega-ship orders    Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) today displayed its design for a 13,000-TEU mega-containership at the Container Forum in Hamburg, Germany.
   German classification society, Germanischer Lloyd, said it has approved the design, which includes two main 45,000 kilowatt engines and two propellers. The ship’s design is 382 meters (1,253 feet) long and 54.2 meters (177.8 feet) wide, with a draught of 13.5 meters (44.3 feet). The design includes space for 6,230 containers below deck, stacked 10 high and 19 wide, while the 7,210 on-deck containers will be stowed 21 across. The vessel’s anticipated speed is 25.5 knots.
   HHI is now accepting orders for the containership, which will have a production period of nine to 10 months. HHI said that owing to its current workload, delivery of the ship would not be possible before 2009,
   The 13,000-TEU ship will easily surpass Hapag-Lloyd’s 8,750-TEU “Colombo Express,” also built by HHI, which has the world’s largest declared capacity. However, the 103,000 tons deadweight of the “Colombo Express” puts it behind the largest Maersk Sealand ships (104,750 tons), using this measurement of size.
   COSCO has the largest containerships on order, with four 10,000 TEU ships ordered from HHI and another four of the same size from COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co. Ltd. (NACKS).