Monte Azul (ship)

Monte Azul is a container ship owned by A.P. Moller Singapore Pte. Ltd. and operated by Maersk Line AS. The 272 m long ship was built at Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania in 2007/2008. Originally owned by Monte Azul GmbH & Co KG, a subsidiary of Hamburg Süd, she has had two owners and been registered under three flags.

The vessel is one of ten ships of the Monte class built for Hamburg Süd by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries between 2004 and 2009.

Construction
Monte Azul had its keel laid down on 6 August 2007 at Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania. Its hull has an overall length of 272 m. In terms of width, the ship has a beam of 40 m.  The height from the top of the keel to the main deck, called the moulded depth, is 24.2 m.

The ship's container-carrying capacity of (5,568 20-foot shipping containers) places it in the range of a Post-Panamax container ship. The ship's gross tonnage, a measure of the volume of all its enclosed spaces, is 69,132. Its net tonnage, which measures the volume of the cargo spaces, is 34,823. Its total carrying capacity in terms of weight, is.

The vessel was built with a Doosan Engine Co. Ltd. 8RTA96C main engine, which drives a controllable-pitch propeller. The 8-cylinder engine has a Maximum Continuous Rating of 45,765 kW with 102 revolutions per minute at MCR. The cylinder bore is 960mm. The ship also features 4 main power distribution system HSJ7 907-10F auxiliary generators by Hyundai Heavy Ind. Co., Ltd. EES, 2 at 4342.4 kW, and 2 at 3257.1 kW. The vessel's steam piping system features an Aalborg CH 8-500 auxiliary boiler.

Construction of the ship was completed on 10 October 2008.