MAERSK TO NAME 10TH 6,600-TEU SHIP

   Maersk Line, the Danish shipping line owned by Denmark’s A.P. Moller group, will name another new large "S-class" containership of about 6,600-TEU on Saturday (Nov. 13).
    The ship, built by the Lindo shipyard owned by the A.P. Moller group, is the 10th in a series of 13 vessels of the same design and capacity. The 6,600-TEU vessels are among the largest containerships afloat.
    Following its christening, the new vessel will be delivered to Maersk in early December.
    Maersk said that the S-class ships’ capacity is 6,600-TEU, but the actual figure is widely believed to be closer to 7,100-TEU.
    The S-class series complements the earlier "K-class" series of six 6,000-TEU containerships that started with the Regina Maersk in 1996.
Maersk’s plan is to deploy 13 of the big ships in its AE5/TP6 "pendulum" loop serving Long Beach and Tacoma on the U.S. West Coast, Asia and northern Europe.