Rio Blanco (ship)

Rio Blanco is a container ship owned by A.P. Moller Singapore Pte. Ltd. and operated by Maersk Line AS. The 286.45 m long ship was built at Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania in 2009. Originally owned by Rio Blanco GmbH & Co KG, a subsidiary of Hamburg Süd, she has had two owners and been registered under three flags.

The vessel is one of three ships of the Rio class built for Hamburg Süd by Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in 2009.

Construction
Rio Blanco had its keel laid down on 5 May 2008 at Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania. Its hull has an overall length of 286.45 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 (5,908 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 73,899. Its net tonnage, which measures the volume of the cargo spaces, is 39,673. Its total carrying capacity in terms of weight, is.

The vessel was built with a Doosan Engine Co. Ltd. 8RTA96CB 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 at 3800 kW each. The vessel's steam piping system features an Aalborg CH 8-500 auxiliary boiler.

Construction of the ship was completed on 3 June 2009.