World’s 2nd Largest Container Ship Passes Through New Suez Canal
- medfuels
- Oct 26, 2020
- 1 min read
According to Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, the world’s second largest container ship passed through the Suez Canal in Egypt on Thursday.
The ship, HMM ST PETERSBURG, was built earlier this year and is sailing under the flag of Panama.
Her carrying capacity is 19,529 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) with a reported current draught of 14.8 meters, a length overall (LOA) of 400 meters and a width of 62 meters.
This news comes just months after the world’s largest container ship, HMM Algeciras, passed through the new Suez Canal in May. The vessel belongs to the Korean container line HMM and can carries a tonnage of 24,00 0TEUs.
Inaugurated in 2015, The New Suez Canal is a waterway that is parallel to the famous Suez Canal, with the aim of facilitating traffic in both directions and minimizing the waiting time for transiting ships. The project increased the role of the Suez Canal region in international trading and developed the three canal cities: Suez, Ismailia, and Port Said.
The Suez Canal now serves to link the Red Sea in eastern Egypt with the Mediterranean Sea.
