Hong Kong receives world’s largest container vessel

The Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA) has received the HMM Gdansk, the world’s largest container vessel, on its maiden call to Hong Kong at Kwai Tsing Container Terminal 7.

As part of THE Alliance’s Far East Europe 3 service, the vessel departed Busan in late June before calling at Ningbo, Yanghsan, Xiamen, Kaohsiung and then Hong Kong. It will soon visit Yantian, Suez Canal, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, London, Jebel Ali and Singapore.

The ship is one of 12 mega-vessels of HMM with a capacity of 24,000 teu, featuring a length of 399.9 m, a width of 61.18 m and a maximum capacity of 23,964 teu.