MSC to receive the 14,000-TEU Savona on charter hire

MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company (MSC) is preparing to take in the MSC Savona, the sixth containership to be built as part of 26 vessel programme, with ships ranging in size from 13,798-14,000 TEU that are to be delivered by Samsung and DSME.

The 14,000-TEU MSC Savona is the third of the DSME vessels and is built to a design quite similar to that of the Samsung ships, said Paris-based Alphaliner.

The MSC Savona is chartered from German ship owner Claus Peter Offen and follows the MSC-owned MSC Camille in the DSME series, it said.

The MSC Savona is expected to be deployed in the Asia-North Europe Silk Service, replacing the 9,200-TEU MSC Lisbon, which Alphaliner said is the smallest of the 11 ships used to run the service that uses ships with a capacity of up to 14,000 TEU.

The MSC Lisbon will be instead deployed on the carrier's Asia-North Europe Lion Service, the newsletter added.

(Source: www.schednet.com)