Tenth MPC joins Rickmers’ fleet

Built at the Jingling yard in Nanking, China, the new vessel is the first in a series of four superflex heavy MPC vessels that are being long-term chartered to Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) for a period of eight years. They will operate a new HMM service linking the Far East with the Middle East.

The naming of

Rickmers Masan

and her renaming as

Hyundai Masan

recently took place in the port of Masan, Korea. At just over 190m in length and with a deadweight capacity of 30,000 tonnes, the newbuilding is similar to the Rickmers fleet’s Hamburg class ships, a type of vessel that has been deployed with success in Rickmers-Linie’s Round-The-World Pearl String Service since 2002. She is equipped with two 320-tonne cranes capable of twinning for a maximum load of 640 tonnes.