On August 22, OOCL celebrated the christening of a 21,413 TEU newbuilding, constructed by Samsung Heavy Industries. Named as OOCL Germany, the mega containership is the second of the six 21.000 TEU class vessels on order at the shipyard.
The ship and her sister vessels are designed with many advanced green features that can help meet future environmental requirements. For instance, the energy efficiency of these containerships not only satisfies the current Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) baseline requirement, but is 48% better than the EEDI level required by the IMO in 2025.
“As a ship owner, meeting environmental requirements are important considerations when working with the shipyard to ensure that we can make the vessel as ‘future proof’ as possible, particularly how we are seeing environmental standards and requirements becoming more and more stringent in the industry over the years”, said Mr. Andy Tung, Chief Executive Officer of OOCL.
The OOCL Germany will be serving the Asia-Europe trade lane on the LL1 service and her port rotation is: Shanghai / Ningbo / Xiamen / Yantian / Singapore / via Suez Canal / Felixstowe / Rotterdam / Gdansk / Wilhelmshaven / Felixstowe / via Suez Canal / Singapore / Yantian / Shanghai in a 77-day round trip.
