Thalatta is fitted with an exhaust gas cleaning system that reduces sulfur emissions to below 0.1 percent and removes 70 per cent of particulate matter, which also significantly reduces nitrogen oxide emissions. New scrubber-based technology generates a steam-based release at berth instead of diesel exhaust.
Thalatta can carry up to 8,000 standard vehicle units (SVUs). The ship measures almost 200 meters/656 feet long, 36.5 meters/120 feet wide and features five liftable car decks, which allows for multiple configurations and a wide variety of customer cargo. According to WWL, the wider neo-Panamax beam adds 2,000 SVUs to the ship’s capacity.
Thalatta is the second HERO-class ship to enter service. A sister ship, M/V Themis, is scheduled to call Hueneme in September. The eighth and final HERO-class ship is due for delivery in 2017.
"We appreciate the business ethic of our customers as they strive to green their fleets and build market share for our Port, thereby achieving environmental benefit coupled with the creation of good jobs," said Port CEO Kristin Decas. "We are proud that the high caliber customer of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines calls Port Hueneme home."
Philadelphia Docks Its First Neo-Panamaxer
Thalatta can carry up to 8,000 standard vehicle units (SVUs). The ship measures almost 200 meters/656 feet long, 36.5 meters/120 feet wide and features five liftable car decks, which allows for multiple configurations and a wide variety of customer cargo. According to WWL, the wider neo-Panamax beam adds 2,000 SVUs to the ship’s capacity.
Thalatta is the second HERO-class ship to enter service. A sister ship, M/V Themis, is scheduled to call Hueneme in September. The eighth and final HERO-class ship is due for delivery in 2017.
"We appreciate the business ethic of our customers as they strive to green their fleets and build market share for our Port, thereby achieving environmental benefit coupled with the creation of good jobs," said Port CEO Kristin Decas. "We are proud that the high caliber customer of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines calls Port Hueneme home."
Philadelphia Docks Its First Neo-Panamaxer
The 8,819 TEU MSC Sophia Celeste is the largest container ship to call Philadelphia and the first in her class to be deployed in a new service linking the West Coast South America, East Coast North America and Northwest Europe.
Photo/Philadelphia Regional Port Authority
The first of a new class of neo-Panamax container vessels called the Port of Philadelphia on August 3, launching a new phase of transport along the Delaware River. MSC Sophia Celeste, an 8,819 TEU vessel operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company, docked at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia.
"This new service comes as a direct result of the opening of the Panama Canal Expansion," said David Whene, president of Greenwich Terminals LLC, operator of the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal under lease from the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. "Coupled with the near completion of the Delaware River Deepening Project, the Port of Philadelphia is poised to capitalize on this new service line as the only direct U.S. east coast port of call between the west coast of South America and Europe."
The largest ship ever to call Philadelphia, Sophia Celeste is 300 meters/984 feet long, 482 meters/158 wide, has a deadweight capacity of 110,039 metric tons and is equipped with 1,462 reefer container plugs. She is the first to trade in MSC’s newly reconfigured South America West Coast/USA/Northwest Continent service, which makes port calls in Chile, Peru, Ecuador and the Bahamas before continuing on to Philadelphia and Rotterdam.
Holt Logistics projects the service will boost Philadelphia’s import trade with South America and attract Midwestern U.S. cargo bound for Northwest Europe.
"With many major improvement projects on the horizon and now this record-size vessel calling the port, so much is occurring to help us assure that the Port of Philadelphia fulfills its vast potential," said PRPA Chairman Gerard Sweeney. "We commend our partners at Holt Logistics and the ILA for their expert handling of the Sophia Celeste, which, in addition to its record-size cargo, also inaugurates a reinvigorated Northern European service at the port."
"This new service comes as a direct result of the opening of the Panama Canal Expansion," said David Whene, president of Greenwich Terminals LLC, operator of the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal under lease from the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. "Coupled with the near completion of the Delaware River Deepening Project, the Port of Philadelphia is poised to capitalize on this new service line as the only direct U.S. east coast port of call between the west coast of South America and Europe."
The largest ship ever to call Philadelphia, Sophia Celeste is 300 meters/984 feet long, 482 meters/158 wide, has a deadweight capacity of 110,039 metric tons and is equipped with 1,462 reefer container plugs. She is the first to trade in MSC’s newly reconfigured South America West Coast/USA/Northwest Continent service, which makes port calls in Chile, Peru, Ecuador and the Bahamas before continuing on to Philadelphia and Rotterdam.
Holt Logistics projects the service will boost Philadelphia’s import trade with South America and attract Midwestern U.S. cargo bound for Northwest Europe.
"With many major improvement projects on the horizon and now this record-size vessel calling the port, so much is occurring to help us assure that the Port of Philadelphia fulfills its vast potential," said PRPA Chairman Gerard Sweeney. "We commend our partners at Holt Logistics and the ILA for their expert handling of the Sophia Celeste, which, in addition to its record-size cargo, also inaugurates a reinvigorated Northern European service at the port."