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taking some 1,600 metric tonnes of fuel and 2,400 containers beneath the waves. There have been no confirmed reports of oil leakage at this stage. MAERSK MC-KINNEY MOLLER DELIVERED Maersk Line, the world's largest shipping line, has received the new Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, the world's largest containership and the first in a series of twenty 18,270teu jumbos. Built by South Korea's DSME shipyard, the giant vessel class has been designated as Triple-E by Maersk Line, to stress the design focus on energy efficiency, economies of scale and environmental friendliness. The world's largest containership, Triple-E class Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller The triple-E class vessels feature a fully redundant twinengine, twin propeller and twin rudder propulsion system. Two MAN B&W 8S80ME-C 9.2 engines with an MCR of 29,680kW will drive the ships at a moderate service speed of 22 knots. Two exhaust gas economizers have also been installed. Five generator sets will provide 19,200kW of electric power. In addition, two 3,000kW shaft generators can convert main engine propulsion power into electricity when the ship is steaming at sea. Using 10-11kW per reefer container as a rule-of-thumb, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller would be able to supply up to 1,800 temperature controlled containers with electricity. Even though the new jumbo vessels are not particularly reefer-oriented, their sheer size could thus make then the world's second highest capacity reefer container ships after Hamburg Süd's Cap San Nicolas series with 2,100 plugs. The 399m long and 59m (23 rows) wide EEE-ships are only two metres longer and one row wider than Maersk Line's Odense-built 15,500teu Emma Maersk class. Apart from the increased beam, their intake advantage comes from a bulkier hull form, which is more U-shaped than V-shaped, and from the twin-island design, which not only reduces the amount of space taken up by the propeller shaft, but also allows more layers of containers to be stacked without impairing visibility from the bridge. The lower sailing speeds needed in today's eco-steaming environment allowed Maersk Line to opt for the bulkier hull shape. At only 59,000kW, compared to the EMMAtype's 80,000kW (close to 100,000kW when electric boosters are operational), the triple-E also needs much less space for engine rooms and bunker tanks. The lead ship of Maersk Line's new vessel class is named after Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, the son of Arnold Peter Moller Leda Maersk visits the newly-deepened northern berth at Auckland's Fergusson container terminal who founded the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group in 1904. Mr Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller held the position of chairman of the Group until 2003, when he stepped down after 63 years with the company. He passed away in 2012 at the age of 98. The ship was christened two weeks ago at the DSME yard by Ane Maersk Mc-Kinney Uggla, the youngest daughter of Emma and Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller. After an off-schedule trip to Vostochny, Russia, for bunkering, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller will phase into the AE10 (#4) Asia-Europe-Baltic loop of Maersk Line in mid-July. She is to replace the 9,661teu Butterfly, which itself is a temporary replacement ship for the damaged Emma Maersk. The AE10 normally employs a fleet of eight 15,500teu Emma Maersk-classes and four 13,000teu neo-panamax ships. Following an engine room flooding of Emma Maersk in February, the ship is presently out of service. Originally, Maersk Line had planned to have the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller replace the 13,092teu Maersk Eubank. The carrier however changed its plans and deferred the new building's phase-in by two weeks. On the whole, Maersk Line is believed to plan to phase the first four of its triple-E classes into the AE10, where they will successively replace 13,000teu units. In 2014, the Danish carrier might then restructure its network to create a dedicated EEE-Asia to Europe service with 10 identical ships. Details of the shipping line's future Asia-Europe network are still sketchy though: Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM have already announced the launch of the new P3 alliance. This new partnership of the word's topthree carriers is bound to lead to service mergers and loop consolidation and the exact structure of the carriers' joint network has yet to be determined. MAIDEN CALL TO AUCKLAND Hamburg-Sud's 228m new build, the 3765-teu container ship CAP Campbell made her maiden call at Auckland July 14. Built by Zhejiang Shipbuilding of Ningbo, China, she was delivered to XT Management of Israel in late June. The 43,015grt, 51,599dwt vessel is believed to be nearly identical to the other SDARI 3800 class ships Pedro Alvares Cabral and CAP Cortes. CAP Campbell replaces the 3,586teu HS Berlioz on the Japan/ China to New Zealand service, the service jointly provided by NYK, MOL, Coscon and Hamburg-Sud. BERTH COMPLETE A two and a half year project to deepen the northern berth of Auckland's Fergusson Container Terminal has been completed, allowing two large vessels to be worked simultaneously. The berth has been deepened to a depth of 13m from its previous 11.7m. Ports of Auckland recently won back Maersk's Southern Star service from the port of Tauranga and will see the largest container ships to visit New Zealand using the newly deepened Fergusson Wharf berth from July 17 when Leda Maersk (built 2001/63,200dwt) arrived from Brisbane, Australia. FIRE ON HANSA BRANDENBURG The 1,740teu German container ship Hansa Brandenburg on charter to Pacific International Line caught fire recently in the Indian Ocean, 200 nautical miles northeast of Mauritius. The ship, which visited Auckland in 2003 while sailing under the name Maersk Auckland, caught fire forward of the bridge on July 15 while en-route from Singapore to Durban. www.skipper.co.nz September/October 2013 Professional Skipper 71