Monte Verde (ship)

Monte Verde 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 Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea in 2005. Originally owned by Reederei Monte GmbH & Co KG, a subsidiary of Hamburg Süd, she has had three owners and been registered under two 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 Verde had its keel laid down on 27 December 2004 at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea. 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 (5,552 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 HSD Engine Co. Ltd. 8RTA96C-B main engine, which drives a controllable-pitch propeller. The 8-cylinder engine has a Maximum Continuous Rating of 45,760 kW with 102 revolutions per minute at MCR. The cylinder bore is 960mm. The ship also features 4 main power distribution system auxiliary generators, 3 at 4100 kW, and 1 at 2700 kW. The vessel's steam piping system features an Aalborg CHB 5000 auxiliary boiler.

Construction of the ship was completed on 9 August 2005.