Aliança: Second flagship of cabotage fleet launched

With the launch of the new container ship "Vicente Pinzón" Aliança has completed the expansion and modernization of its cabotage fleet. Aliança is a Hamburg Süd subsidiary and has introduced a total of six new ships for cabotage transport, in the past two years. Four of those ships have a capacity of 3,800 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) each and two ships of 4,800 TEU. All new ships introduce new standards in terms of capacity and sustainability in the Brazilian coastal shipping trade.

Martin Susemihl, Julian Thomas, sponsor Maria do Rosário Fischer, captain Ormindo de Paula Coelho, Frank Smet and José Salgado (from left to right).

The ceremonial launch took place at the Terminal Marítimo de Passageiros in the port of Santos with around 500 guests on June 20. Port of Santos is the busiest port in South America, and it is the number one in the global network.

The "Vicente Pinzón" and her sister ship "Bartolomeu Dias", launched in April, with a capacity of around 4,800 TEU (including 600 connections for refrigerated containers) are Aliança’s largest vessels for Brazil's coastal traffic. The ship is named after the Spanish sailor and explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón who reached the coast of Brazil on 26 January 1500 and went ashore in today's Pernambuco.

The sponsor of the ship is Maria do Rosário Fischer, daughter-in-law of the late Carl Fischer, the Aliança-founder who died in 1980. Frank Smet, member of the executive board of Hamburg Süd, and the regional management of the shipping group of South America East Coast Region attended the launch.

Specifications of "Vicente Pinzón":

▪ Capacity: 57,818 tdw (deadweight tonnes)

▪ Container capacity: 4,848 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit)

▪ reefer plugs for refrigerated containers: 600

▪ Length over all: 255.0 m

▪ Length between perpendiculars: 242.0 m

▪ Width: 37.3 m

▪ Max. draught: 12.5 m

▪ Speed: 21.5 knots

▪ Main engine output: 26,160 kW

Source: www.hamburgsud.com