E.R. Martinique commissioned

Another container ship for the Hamburg shipowner E.R. Schiffahrt was officially named at the Hyundai Mipo shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. The ?E.R. Martinique? is a 2,824 TEU sub-Panamax class newbuilding that will go into service under the charter name ?CMA CGM Anemone? for the French liner company CMA CGM. It will link the Asia Pacific region with the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal, in “BEX2” service.

This latest newbuilding is continuing the expansion course of the Hamburg based Nordcapital Group and increases the operating fleet to a total of 67 container ships, with a container capacity of about 315,000 TEU. By spring 2009, eight Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) will be added, and another eleven container ships with more than 30,000 TEU.