2,700 TEU Container Ship Launched at HDW-Gaarden
Press Release
Hamburg / Kiel, February 15, 2008
The launching and christening ceremony for the second of a series of five 2,700 TEU container ships took place on February, 15 in Kiel at HDW-Gaarden – a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. The MARUBA MAXIMA officially got her name from godmother Dominique Virdis Yerly, the wife of Michael Yerly, President of AMS Alpine Maritime Services in Fribourg, Suisse. Just as her sister ship MARUBA EUROPA, delivered in September 2007, the MARUBA MAXIMA was ordered by GEBAB in Meerbusch and will be operated by the shipping line NSB Niederelbe Schiffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Buxtehude. The remaining three ships will be delivered by the end of 2008.
The 2,700 TEU ships are a success within the shipbuilding group of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems and, in addition to HDW-Gaarden, Blohm + Voss (2 ships) and Emder Nordseewerke (8 ships) have contributed to the success.
The container ship has been built in compliance with the rules and regulations of Germanischer Lloyd and the main characteristics are as follows:
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Length overall |
215.47 m |
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Length between perpendiculars |
205.28 m |
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Moulded breadth |
29.80 m |
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Moulded depth |
16.50 m |
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Strength draught |
11.55 m |
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Design draught |
10.10 m |
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Deadweight (D=11.55 m) |
37,950 t |
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Container capacity |
2,702 TEU |
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Propulsion 100% MCR |
21,770 kW at 108 rpm |
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AG, with its head office in Hamburg, Germany, is part of ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG within the ThyssenKrupp Group. Since 2005 it has been the umbrella organisation for eight European shipyards – Blohm + Voss, Blohm + Voss Repair, HDW-Gaarden, Hellenic Shipyards, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Kockums, Nobiskrug, Nordseewerke – and various marine engineering companies. With its technological competence, extensive portfolio and continuous innovations the corporate group, employing around 8,700 staff, is one of the leading systems houses in European shipbuilding.
