< San Clemente > christened in Singapore

Hamburg Sud recently celebrated the christening of a further container ship in its 'San' class . The official naming ceremony of the < San Clemente > was held at the Marina Bay Cruise Center in Singapore, with customers and business partners. The new container ship's Sponsor is Wietske Willemijn Wage, wife of Niels Wage, Vice President of Marketing Freight & Potash at the company's customer BHP Billiton. The naming ceremony was attended by Hamburg Sud Executive Board member Peter Frederiksen.

The is one of Hamburg Sud's series of three 'San' class new builds constructed at the Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan. Like her sister ships, she has a container slot capacity of 9,034 TEU and 1,370 reefer slots.

Like the < San Christoba l>, which was christened in August, the < San Clemente > is operating on the service between Asia and the East coast of South America. Hamburg Sud recently took delivery of the third new build, the < San Vicente >.

   

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