Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) announced that has taken into management the first of the four ice class container feeder vessels, named “Eilbek”, by an investor group represented by the Schulte Group. The remaining three, Barmbek, Reinbek and Flottbek, will follow by mid-April, 2017.
The Eilbek class feeder vessels are the first ships constructed and adapted for operation in ice class conditions to be managed by BSM Germany. As there has been a change of ownership, the vessels have been re-flagged from Liberia to Cyprus and will maintain their current time charter employments with Unifeeder.
The ice class vessels were built in 2004 and 2005, at Meyer Werft, in Papenburg, Germany. Each vessel has a capacity of 1,600 TEU and service speed of up to 20 knots.
Jan Warmke, Managing Director of BSM Germany, stated: “Management of these four ships marks another important milestone in BSM’s continuing expansion into more specialist market segments, following entry into service of the highly sophisticated wind energy Service Operation Vessel, Windea La Cour, last June and the recent delivery of her sister vessel, Windea Leibniz.”
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