E.R. Schiffahrt introduces latest giant boxship

The Hamburg based shipping company E.R. Schiffahrt has put another container ship into service. The “E.R. Toronto” is a super-post-Panamax newbuilding with a container capacity of 8,204 teu. This is part of the planned continuation of the newbuilding programme and by 2008, there will be a further 13 vessels with a total of 60,000 teu, all of them built at Hyundai in South Korea.

The “E.R. Toronto” will operate under the charter name “CMA CGM Don Giovanni” on the “North China Express Service” for the French company CMA CGM, linking the China with Europe. End of July, she will change the service to the “French Asia Line” (FAL), linking the Asia-Pacific region with Europe.

The “E.R. Toronto” is the sixth in a series of newbuildings. E.R. Schiffahrt has placed orders for a total of nine units of this size. All nine vessels are for long-term chartering to leading shipping lines, three going to Cosco Container Lines and six to CMA CGM.