The ''Edinburgh'' class (also known as the ''Pearl'' class) is a series of
post-Panamax container built for
Rickmers Group
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and
Zodiac Maritime
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Zodiac was involved in the MSC Napoli ...
and were chartered to
Maersk
(), also known simply as Maersk (), is a Danish shipping company, active in ocean and inland freight transportation and associated services, such as supply chain management and port operation. Maersk was the largest container shipping line a ...
The ships were built by
Hyundai Heavy Industries
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History
HHI was founded in 1972 by Chung Ju-yung as a division of the ...
.
History
The series was ordered from Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2007 to 2008 and delivered starting July 2010. The client of the series is the Hamburg-based
Rickmers Group
The Rickmers Group was an international provider of services for the maritime industry, a vessel owner and an ocean freight carrier. The group's head offices are located in Hamburg and Singapore. The group of companies is divided in three segme ...
and were chartered to
Maersk
(), also known simply as Maersk (), is a Danish shipping company, active in ocean and inland freight transportation and associated services, such as supply chain management and port operation. Maersk was the largest container shipping line a ...
. The and are also based on the same design, but both broader.
The ''Maersk Edinburgh'' class, along with the Explorer class were designed for a
slow steaming container service from Europe to East Asia. The beginning of the service with the abbreviations FAL 5 and AE8 was already planned for the summer of 2009, but was not realised due to the
financial crisis of 2007–2008
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. It will run through the ports of Le Havre, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Port Kelang, Singapore, Ningbo, Shanghai, Shenzhen-Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Kelang, and back to Le Havre. As of 2010, the ships of the Maersk Edinburgh class were introduced to the FAL5 / AE8 Far East Europe service.
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Records
The ''Maersk Elba'' visited Gdansk on May 11, 2011, becoming the largest container vessel ever handled by a Baltic Sea
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The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
port, and then visited Port of Haifa
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in 2017 to set a record for the largest ship to dock in Israel.
Ships
See also
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References
External links
Ship information from Rickmers Group (13.000 TEU Class)
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Container ship classes
Ships of the Maersk Line
Maersk Line
Ships built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Group