KUWAIT's United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) named its ninth and last in a series of newbuilds from Samsung Heavy Industries to be deployed on its Far East/Red Sea/Europe service, AEC8 or FAL 2/AEX 7.

The ninth vessel in the series of ultra large container ship (ULCS) took nine-months to build and is to be named Ain Snan. It has a 13,500-TEU capacity at 366-metre-long and 48 metre-wide ultra large container ship (ULCS) with a load capacity of over 145,000 dwt and more than 800 reefer slots.

The vessel will join a service partnered with CMA CGM and CSCL and slot-shared by Yang Ming, Hanjin and Cosco, calling at Hamburg, Zeebrugge, Jeddah, Port Klang, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shenzhen-Shekou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Yantian, Port Klang, Jeddah, Le Havre, Rotterdam and back to Hamburg.

The naming ceremony was held in the port of Hamburg with guest terminal operator Eurogate, deputy harbour master Andreas Brummermann as well as Captain Nazr Ul Islam and UASC vice president Europe Bjarne Ehlig-Jensen.