Yang Ming's largest container ship calls SCT on maiden voyage

The ‘YM Uberty’, an 8,200TEU newbuilding, called at Shekou Container Terminals (SCT) in Shenzhen, China, on her maiden voyage recently.

The new vessel is the largest among those of Yang Ming that have ever berthed SCT. Yang Ming has been in strategic partnership with SCT for more than ten years, and now, there have been ten services of Yang Ming calling SCT. The ‘YM Uberty’ and seven other sister vessels are being deployed on Yang Ming's AES3 service to replace four existing 4,500TEU vessels, the statement said. SCT has been seeing steady growth of box volume in recent years and that of the first quarter doubled in the first quarter of this year. Capacity of the container terminal is still expanding and the No. 8 and No. 9 berths will be completed in the next two years.
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