New Times Shipyard (NTS) delivered the last vessel in a series of 10 container ships commissioned by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), which are dual-fuel liquefied natural gas (LNG) propelled and began to be launched from the end of 2024.
In line with what was reported by Alphaliner, the matter relates to the MSC Senegal. All the ships in the order bear names of African countries, such as Togo, Cameroon, Ivory Coast or Ghana and, for this reason, these types of units are sometimes referred to as the MSC Africa class.
The MSC Senegal, designed by SDARI, is an ultra-compact vessel with a length of only 260 meters and a beam of 45.6 meters (18 rows). It is equipped with a large wrap-around wind deflector on the forecastle.
It has a deadweight of around 102,000 tonnes with a draft of 15.8 meters and is propelled by a MAN B&W 7G80ME-C10-coEGR main engine that gives it a maximum speed of 21 knots.
The MSC Senegal is scheduled to join the recently relaunched Far East-Middle East (Clanga) service, an independent MSC operation that deploys a mixed fleet of vessels between 8,000 and 14,000 TEU.
“MSC commissioned the ten 8,496 TEU ships (initially announced as 8,300 TEU) in mid-2022, along with ten 11,400 TEU ships. The larger ships can be considered an elongated variant of the same basic SDARI design,” the consultancy noted.
“Four of the larger units are already in service and the other six are scheduled through April,” it concluded.
