Gülsün-class container ship
The Gülsün class is a series of container ships built for Mediterranean Shipping Company. The largest ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 23,756 twenty-foot equivalent units. They were the largest container ships in the world when they were launched in 2019, surpassing . They have since been surpassed by other ships like the . The ships were the first container ships to feature 24 containers wide on deck.
Orders and history
In 2017, MSC confirmed the order of 11 container ships with a capacity of at least 22,000 TEU. Six of them were to be built by Samsung Heavy Industries and the remaining five would be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. The first ship to be delivered was in July 2019.In 2019 MSC reportedly ordered five additional container ships from DSME as part of the original order. These ships are expected to start delivery by the end of 2021.
On 28 July 2019 MSC Gülsün set a new container loading record by departing from the port of Tanjung Pelepas with 19,574 TEU of containers on board. Previous records were held by with 19,284 TEU and with 19,190 TEU. The record has since been beaten by which carried 19,621 TEU from Yantian, China to Rotterdam.