MOL Triumph - the world’s largest containership

The MOL Triumph.

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has just held the naming ceremony for the world’s largest containership, the MOL Triumph.

She is classified as an ultra-large container ship (ULCS) - 400 metres in length, 58.8m wide, a draft of 32.8m, and a capacity of 20 150 TEUs.

Triumph will be delivered on March 27, after finishing preparations for her maiden voyage.

She is the first of four sister ships ordered by Japan’s MOL in February 2015, and was built in the Geoje shipyard in South Korea.