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COSCO names 9,500-TEU ship

COSCO names 9,500-TEU ship

   COSCO Wednesday named in the Chinese port of Ningbo its second in a series of five 9,500-TEU containerships built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea.

   The “COSCO Ningbo” is owned by Greek ship owner Costamare and is chartered out to COSCO for deployment on the weekly Asia/Mediterranean/north Europe Loop 1/NCX service of the CKYH alliance.

   German classification company Germanischer Lloyd said the vessel is the largest it has ever classed.