The M class is a series of 10 container ships built for

OOCL Orient Overseas Container Line, commonly known as OOCL, is a container shipping and logistics service company with headquarters in Hong Kong. The company is incorporated in Hong Kong as Orient Overseas Container Line Limited and separately inc ...

with a maximum theoretical capacity of 13,208 TEU. The ships were built by

Samsung Heavy Industries Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. ( Korean: 삼성중공업) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Daewoo). Geoje (in Gyeongsangnam-do) is one of the lar ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

. Construction started in 2012 and the first ship was delivered in 2013. The original order was for just 6 ships and was signed in April 2011. Two months later it was announced that four additional ships would be ordered. They would be chartered to

NYK Line Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan Mail Shipping Line), also known as NYK Line, is a Japanese shipping company and is a member of the Mitsubishi ''keiretsu''. The company headquarters are located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It operates a flee ...

for a length of three years. After the charter ended the ships were renamed and they have since become a part of the OOCL fleet.

List of ships

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Container ship classes Ships built by Samsung Heavy Industries Ships of the Orient Overseas Container Line {{Ship-type-stub

List of ships

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