Second flagship in Alianca's cabotage fleet christened

With the christening of the new container ship <Vicente Pinzon>, the Hamburg Sud subsidiary Alianca has momentarily completed the expansion and modernization of its cabotage fleet. In the past two years, Alianca has launched a total of six newbuildings for its cabotage services, four of which feature a slot capacity of 3,800 TEU each and two with 4,800 TEU each. All newbuildings have set new standards in the Brazilian coastal routes in terms of their capacity and environmental friendliness.

The christening took place on June 20th in front of some 500 guests at the Terminal Maritimo de Passageiros in the Port of Santos. This port is not only by far the most important for the shipping group in South America in terms of the number of transports, Santos is also the No. 1 in the worldwide liner network.

The <Vicente Pinzon> and its sister ship <Bartolomeu Dias>, which was christened in April, are the largest vessels to ever be deployed by Alianca in its Brazilian coastal routes - with around 4,800 TEU each (including 600 reefer slots). The ship is named after the Spanish seafarer and explorer Vicente Yanez Pinzon, who reached the Brazilian coast on January 26th, 1500 in what is today Pernambuco.

The ship's sponsor is Maria do Rosario Fischer, the daughter-in-law of Alianca's founder Carl Fischer, who died in 1980. Frank Smet, Member of the Executive Board of Hamburg Sud, and the shipping group's regional management for Region South America East Coast took part in the christening.
 

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