MOL Releases Maiden Voyage Details for World's Largest Containership

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has shared the route that MOL Triumph will take on her maiden voyage after receiving the world's largest containership from shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries, which revealed pictures of the vessel and details of its construction earlier this month. MOL Triumph will set off on her maiden voyage from Xingang in April 2017 and will sail to Dalian, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian and Singapore. She will then transit through the Suez Canal and continue on to Tangier, Southampton, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Le Havre. She will then call at Tangier and Jebel Ali on the way back to Asia. MOL's newest vessel, the first of a fleet of six 20,000 TEU-class containerships for the company, was named MOL Triumph in a ceremony at SHI in South Korea on March 15, 2017.